Writhing icy bush

Writhing icy bush Level 36 Family Bush family creatures Body Type Plantlife Classification(s) Corporeal undead Area(s) Found Frozen Bramble BCS Yes HP 360 Speed

Attack Attributes Physical Attacks small glistening thorn 260 AS Stinger (attack) 220 AS Combat Maneuvers thorn fling

Defense Attributes Armor Brigandine Armor (natural) ASG 12N Defensive Strength (DS) Melee 162 244 Ranged Bolt Unarmed Defense Factor UDF 226 280 Target Defense (TD) Bard Base Cleric Base Empath Base Paladin Base Ranger Base Sorcerer Base 117 to 147 Wizard Base Minor Elemental 123 to 153 Major Elemental Minor Spiritual 111 to 141 Major Spiritual Minor Mental

Treasure Attributes Coins Gems crystallized blue berry Magic Items Boxes Skin blood-stained leaf Other

Description

When planting a garden or a yard, often one will plant these to prevent unwanted guests and prying eyes.  If that was the case for these, they apparently have taken their job a bit too seriously.

Assess

The icy bush is medium in size and about three feet high in its current state.

Hunting Strategies

Writhing icy bushes are immune to cold elemental damage.

Combat Messaging

Stinger (attack)

A writhing icy bush spits a thorn towards you!
  AS: +216 vs DS: +798 with AvD: +29 + d100 roll: +99 = -454
   A clean miss.

Multi-thorn thrown attack

[SMR result: -215 (Open d100: 28, Penalty: 10)]
A writhing icy bush spins and flings a slew of pointed thorns towards you.  With grace and panache, you perform a perfect pirouette and waltz out of danger!

Other Information

Appearance

You see a fairly typical icy bush.
It appears to be in good shape.
It has nothing at this time.

Spawning

A writhing icy bush ambles in.

Entering

A writhing icy bush hops in and plants its roots.

Leaving

A writhing icy bush uproots itself and hops east.

Death

You hear a sound like a child weeping as a white glow separates itself from the icy bush's body and rises into the heavens.
A writhing icy bush collapses to the ground, shakes one last time and dies.

Decay

A dead icy bush collapses in on itself and turns to mulch.

Search (success)

You tentatively rummage through the icy bush in an attempt to find something of value.
A crystallized blue berry falls from the icy bush.  You quickly grab it.

Search (failure)

You plunge your hand into the icy bush and fish around, but only end up empty-handed.

Other Messaging

A writhing icy bush sinks its roots in deeply and prepares itself for the possible coming conflict.

A writhing icy bush moves slowly about, its roots searching thirstily for lifegiving water.

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