Drainberry Bush
Level 7Attacks
Abilities
The drainberry bush can use Diplomacy to Make an Impression on and make very simple Requests of animals and plant creatures.
The drainberry bush must drain blood from living creatures for sustenance. This causes clusters of bright red berries to grow among its branches.
Each cluster of berries lasts for 1 day, and a drainberry bush typically has when encountered. When consumed, a cluster restores (2d8+10)[healing] Hit Points. This effect has the healing, necromancy, and primal traits.
A creature can pluck a cluster of berries with a successful unarmed Strike or Thievery check against the bush's AC.
The bush draws nourishment from one cluster of blood berries, regaining (2d8+10)[healing] Hit Points. That berry cluster wrinkles and dies.
Requirements The drainberry bush has at least one living creature Grabbed with one of its vines
Effect The bush squeezes all creatures it has grabbed, its hollow thorns piercing flesh and siphoning blood. Each creature must succeed at a DC 25 fortitude save or take (2d8+10)[piercing] damage and become Drained 1 (double damage and Drained 2 on a critical failure). For every creature damaged this way, a cluster of blood berries immediately grows along the bush's branches.
The drainberry bush makes up to four vine Strikes, each against a different target. These attacks count toward the bush's multiple attack penalty, but the multiple attack penalty doesn't increase until after the bush makes all these attacks.
Drainberry bushes are floating bushes that originate from the First World, with long, thorny vines and dense clusters of bright-red berries. Their hollow thorns quickly siphon blood, which is how the carnivorous plants feed, and they rapidly turn consumed blood into fresh batches of delicious berries. They exude a faint white glow that's a result of stored vitality energy.
Drainberry bushes exhibit unusually high intelligence and have an astute sense of value. When creatures attempt to harvest their berries, they typically become insulted by the lack of bartering. Creatures that attempt to converse with drainberry bushes find the plants telepathically convey only short and simple phrases: most commonly, "Money please," "Deal good," "Deal no good," "Want that," (with a gesture toward an item it covets), "Thank you, customer," and if necessary, "No refunds." Though a drainberry bush considers the market value of its berries to be 25 gp, it greatly prefers interesting art objects as payment—even ones of significantly lower value.