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A Vine-Knotted Structure
Incautiousdriver
Category Story Event
Type Story
Data ID 297452

A Vine-Knotted Structure is a Discovery in Albion, located near the the Clockwork Sun

Log Entries[ | ]

Incautious Driver: "There! That old building! That's where the Verdant's fragment is hiding."


A Vine-Knotted Structure[ | ]

Whatever this place was intended to be, its inhabitants are long gone. The entire building seethes with overgrown vines, burrowed deep into the foundations and climbing high enough to smother the roof in an inescapable embrace.

Interactions

Actions Requirements Effects Notes
Escort the Incautious Driver
The Driver is drawn to something deep in the structure.
An impossible quest
The Driver follows a trail of fungal vines deep into the bowels of the building, stopping at a bulbous mass that takes up much of what was originally a cellar. They approach it, letting its thorns rise up, wrap around them, draw blood. "I'm here to take you home," the Driver tells it, though it seems unlikely the Verdant Fragment has any interest in something as simplistic as human speech. The Driver winces as it digs its thorns in deeper. When it finally lets go, the Driver looks miserable. "It won't come with us," they force out, wincing at the sting of fresh iodine on their wounds. "It prizes its freedom too much to give up and just become part of its primogenitor. I don't know what to do."
Look for traces of the Verdant
Something might remain.
Withering away
The Verdant Fragment's consciousness has gone. The only evidence of plantlife remaining are a few vines that are barely clinging to rotten wooden supports, already decaying.
Attempt to communicate with the Verdant
It communed with the Driver. Why not you?
Silence
The Verdant Fragment pulses slowly, showing no interest in your attempt to communicate.
Threaten the Verdant Fragment
It fears death? Your locomotive is loaded with it.
Failed event
A silent resistance
A round of shots into the Verdant's fleshier mounds proves ineffective. It withdraws its vines, wrapping its central core for protection. The Driver looks uncomfortable. "Maybe we could try again later? Come on. I don't want to stay here any more."
Successful event
A successful rout
The Verdant Fragment may or may not understand words, but a quick round of shots from the train into its fleshier mounds makes the point pretty carefully. It withdraws its vines. The Driver steps forward with a knife, carefully severing the central core from the rest. Together, you carry it onto the train, ready to be delivered to the Nature Reserve.
Offer yourself as a host
You will take it back, but part of it will always live inside you. It will take something too.
A passenger
The vines shift from the Driver's arms to your own flesh, digging in for the Verdant Fragment to taste your blood and get your measure. It appears to find it acceptable. The main mass of growth erupts into a single large flower that sprays spores into your face and withers away. As you help the Driver cut the central mass free, something in the back of your head whispers to you in the language of flowers and butterflies. You can now return the renegade fungal mass to the Nature Reserve.


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