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From: quinton@ih-nxt04.cso.uiuc.edu (Benjamin Jud Quinton)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.archives
Subject: RESOURCE: monster, Blooming Creeper
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Date: 19 Oct 1995 15:21:48 -0400
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Blooming Creeper
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climate/terrain: temperate forest
frequency: very rare
organization: solitary
activity cycle: nocturnal
diet: blood
intelligence: 1
treasure: none
alignment: neutral
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number appearing: 1
armor class: 8
movement: 3
hit dice: 4
THAC0: 17
number of attacks: 2-7
damage per attack: 1-3
special attacks: blood drain
special defenses: none
magic resistance: nil
size: S (2' diameter)
morale: 18
experience points: 420
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Apperance: Blooming creepers look much like any other forest vine
or bramble, growing in small clumps about 2' around.
Combat: The Blooming Creeper can move its tentacles quickly enough
for melee combat, but this is not its preferred method. A
tentacle can be severed by 5 damage from an edged weapon.
Once the special blood draining thorn hits, it will remain in
the wound and cause blood loss of 1 hit point per round after
detatched from the tentacle. Removing the thorn causes a
further 1 hit point of damage. The creeper manufactures a
powerful anesthetic that causes the initial penetration of the
thorn to be painless and very hard to notice.
Habitat/Society: Blooming Creepers function only as predators.
Ecology: Creepers hunt at night, slowly moving around looking for
sleeping prey. When found, it will attatch its tentacles
to the target and start draining its bodily fluids. A hunting
creeper will attack almost any sleeping thing, but it will
leave alone anything larger than small size. It is afraid of
fire and will not come within 10 feet of one, even though it
has no special susceptability to it. The name Blooming Creeper
comes the fact that after it feeds, it sprouts a number of
small crimson blooms that fall off and grow into new ones.
They have value to many alchemists or wizards or even assassins
because of the powerful anesthetic they contain.