FLORA & FAUNA.

[erkumods]

FLORA & FAUNA.

The flora and fauna of Erku are quite bizarre, often springing up overnight as part of an Augur request or as the unintended consequence of an Auspicious Act. Here's some of what you might find. Flora ☼ Fauna Cryptids ☼ Player-Added ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 🞃 flora Love darts may shoot at characters who come too close, dosing them with enough aphrodisiac to make them little more than zombies driven by lust. Orgasm clears the mind. Passionfruit inspires feelings of jealousy and clinginess, bordering on yandere (cw: blood) tendencies. No amount of contact can stop it. The effects wear off on their own within 24 hours. Tentacle plants have vines that trap unsuspecting adventurers. There's even a mysterious fruit that generates sweet, lubricating fluid. Sunflowers now grow in abundance. You can buy one for your sweetheart from a little flower cart that's sprung up on one of the main streets. Grape-producing vines have been spotted here and there. Lotuses now grow in a large lake on the outskirts of the city. Medicinal plants and herbs can be found in the interior mountains, known as Harpy Hills. Marijuana has been added to the greenhouse! A small orangery has been added to the greenhouse with five (5) navel orange trees and three (3) mikan orange trees. Apple trees have arrived! One (1) Red Delicious, one (1) Granny Smith, and one (1) Fuji tree have been planted in the greenhouse’s budding orchard. A rose garden has been planted outside the House of Worship. Two of the bushes are normal roses of different colors (red, pink, peach) that have no effect. The other three bushes are one color each and may carry some effects, but only to those who pick flowers from them and smell them up close. Yellow: Yellow Roses create a sense of soft joy, fondness and admiration. You want to pamper someone and show them affection. You feel happy and want to share that happiness with others. Being pricked by a thorn will cause the opposite reaction. Sadness, anger and a desire to get revenge on some unknown slight. Purple: Purple Roses create a sense of lust and passion toward whoever you see after smelling them. Lust at first sight. You want them, they want you, and it can build into a frenzy of needing to express that passion as quickly as possible. Being pricked by the thorns will cause the opposite reaction and you will feel immediately repulsed by the first person you see and desire to be as far away from them as you can Blue: Blue creates a sense of the unattainable. Of pining and wishing for someone to look at you the way you do them. But you pine from a distance, hoping you might get to confess. Being pricked by a thorn will have the opposite reaction. You will desire and covet to the point you see someone as yours and you will do anything to make sure they know they belong to you. These effects will last for up to four hours or until the completion of an auspicious act. Lemon trees, sugar maples, green tea shrubs, blueberries, and strawberries have also arrived! The strawberries are a juicy aphrodisiac, the rumors say, especially when eaten with chocolate they may make someone feel particularly aroused and in the mood for carnal delights. Five peach trees are eternally blossoming by the Unclean Realm. The Venus Gleetrap Gardens is a botanical garden filled with a massive variety of plants from across all the worlds Islanders may have visited. In addition to the trees and flowers that Islanders might recognize from their homes, please enjoy these exotic beauties: Venus Gleetraps, whose mischievous, toothy grins will occasionally reach out to playfully nip the fingertips or bums of Islanders who aren't looking - especially if those Islanders happen to be traveling with a companion who might take the blame. The glowing honeybulbs fluoresce spectacularly at night, but occasionally burst to cover the observer in a sweet and sticky sap, which also glows in the dark. On the bright side, the sap tastes just like orange blossom honey! Many animals might find it very enticing. Consider yourself lucky if you're able to catch the rare bloom of the Midnight Delight, a flower native to Erku which has inspired ancient legends due to its captivating beauty - as well as its hypnotic perfume, which is said to be an incredibly powerful aphrodisiac. The flower blooms for a single night each month! Potato and wheat fields, as well as a flour mill, have sprung up to feed the masses. 🞃 fauna Highly dangerous aphrodisiac-releasing bees are now part of your world. A few types of fish reside in a small pond and in the ocean. Chocobos reside in the stables and can be found at the racetrack, stretching their legs and warking around. In the summertime, pinching crabs inspire feelings of friendship on the beach while beautiful luminescent jellyfish sting a powerful aphrodisiac into unsuspecting waders. The octopi are grabby, but otherwise harmless. Please enjoy the return of butterflies! Cats, dogs, and geese can be found roaming the island en masse. Cherub Dragons have returned! These dragons cannot be domesticated as they have strong minds of their own, but they can take a liking to someone and decide to spend their time with that person. Welcome Your Feathered Friends as more birds have been returned! Owls, Crows, Doves, Hawks, Turkeys, and Swans will now begin to be seen again throughout the Island. Reindeer, rabbits, boars, red fox, and lynx have returned to the island! Chickens and cows might be spotted on farmland. The Doom-summoning Harbinger Bugs have awakened from their cocoons. Please be warned that being touched by a male or female (or BOTH) can have adverse effects. The caterpillars of this species also have potential effects. 🞃 cryptids Monsters from the depths of your nightmares - awful bestial things with tough skin and sharp claws - now roam the depths of the expanse outside the city. Don't be surprised if you recognize a creature or two from home! (Or if you happen to receive a tentacle steak at the diner.) Beware of harpies and don't forget your kitty ears while exploring the peaks of Harpy Hills! The Mothman may be spotted in the dense forest at the hours closest to dawn and dusk. 🞃 player-added Often, creatures and plants from characters' home worlds will mysteriously glitch into the wilderness of the Island. Post the plants and animals that other Islanders may encounter from your character's universe below! Please use "FLORA" or "FAUNA" as your subject line. <b>Name of plant/animal:</b> <b>Description:</b> <img src="IMG URL"> ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● N A V I G A T I O N

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[vegalthon]

(Here's a big grab-bag of D&D plants from open game license backgrounds. Feel free to pick and choose as you wish!)

Names of Plants
Assassin Vines are more dangerous versions of the tentacle plants found in Harpy Hills. They produce sweet, blackberry-like fruit that ferments into rich, sweet wine.

Bitter Tree a ghostly tree twisted to fit Erku's standards: it grows fruit vaguely the size and shape of a human head. When eaten, these fruits (or anything made of them) can charm the consumer to do the tree's bidding, slowly corrupting them into infernal creatures if they continue to eat of the fruit. The Bitter Tree is a masterful spell-caster, creating illusions, sharing thoughts between its charmed creatures, and dominating their consciousness in order to perform whatever intimate acts the creature might have been wanting subconsciously.

Bog Creepers are roughly human-sized logs that spray a sticky, lubricating fluid when threatened.

Cavelight Moss grows in the most shadowed areas of the forest and in caves. Its feathery tendrils are prehensile, and it acts like other tentacle plants in Erku. It provides dim illumination that leaves luminescent marks on anything that it touches, harmless spores that can be cultivated for natural light.

Forest Nymphs are waif-like guardians of the trees and can be negotiated with for food and resources. They viciously attack those that would harm their homes.

Gloomflowers are tiny ebony flowers on thorny bushes. In the wild, they can cause sudden frightful images to bombard a victim. When harvested and distilled, they can be made to suppress all fears for up to four hours.

Jinmenju are huge trees bearing white apples, each of which chuckles, giggles, or howls in laughter. Eating of the fruit causes joyful dreams the next night, and all experiences for the next 24 hours are funnier than they'd normally be.

Mandragora are demonic little plant-people with vine-whipping attacks. Their sap can be used in powerful scrying spells when properly refined.

Pixie's Umbrellas are small fungi named as they're shaped. When they sense danger, they puff up and float, spinning lazily and showering slowing spores in self defense.

Treants are peaceful, tree-sized cultivators of forests. They herd the larger flora of the forest to avoid dangers or migrate to better sources of light and water.

Witchgrass is a bushy, purple grass that inhibits magic. Its burrs, which are tiny and difficult to remove, have a similar effect.