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:Unfortunately, Assassin Trees are hard to pick out in a vegetated setting. Their bark and leaves can grow in any of several ways, sometimes even on a single plant, meaning that up close it is hard to be certain you are looking at one. If you can see one from a good distance, it is easy to spot that they look like a pair of long, narrow trees that have grown together in the center of their slender trunks. They have two root balls at the ends of woody 'legs', a central trunk, and then two or three distinct leafy crowns. The entirety of their massive bulk is unnaturally flexible for such a wooden creature, and they move with startling speed. | :Unfortunately, Assassin Trees are hard to pick out in a vegetated setting. Their bark and leaves can grow in any of several ways, sometimes even on a single plant, meaning that up close it is hard to be certain you are looking at one. If you can see one from a good distance, it is easy to spot that they look like a pair of long, narrow trees that have grown together in the center of their slender trunks. They have two root balls at the ends of woody 'legs', a central trunk, and then two or three distinct leafy crowns. The entirety of their massive bulk is unnaturally flexible for such a wooden creature, and they move with startling speed. | ||
:When they attack, which is almost always when they sense anything warm or moving nearby, they stride close on their wooden 'legs' and then smash the ground below with deadly force. | :When they attack, which is almost always when they sense anything warm or moving nearby, they stride close on their wooden 'legs' and then smash the ground below with deadly force. They are terribly poisonous, the merest brush of their leaves or bark raising painful weeping welts. If they are successfully attacked, by heroes able to withstand their attacks or by town guard with siege weapons, they shatter before their final destruction into a jagged mass of debris, which is still horribly animate. Worst of all, if you shatter one but fail to finally put it down completely, the mass of debris will eventually sprout into dozens of new assassin trees. | ||
:Assassin Trees do not seem to be directly related to assassin vines, although there are obvious parallels between the two creatures. | :Assassin Trees do not seem to be directly related to assassin vines, although there are obvious parallels between the two creatures. | ||