Writhing icy bush

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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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