#sessile

[imbrith]

Almost done with the leaves. Need to get to fast knitting time!

[owls-n-elderberries]

Autumn falls by James Mills Via Flickr: Peak District, UK Jamesmillsphotography.com

[usgsbiml]

Not a bee flower.  This is Trillium sessile.  See that color maroon?  That means it is not interested in bee, but interested in flies and beetles, flowers smell bad too.  Pictures and specimen from Helen Lowe Metzman

[er-cryptid]

Mastigophora

[tropipopart]

more dnd oc art! also featuring my new oc ‘Dust on the Road’, a chaotic neutral tabaxi rogue! (but he’s really just a cowboy)

I’ll make a proper ref for him later

[reishidreams]

A strong season for sessile reishi.

[teratoscope]

War Elemental VII: Strategist

It hurts to look at, partly because of the sickening pale green light that spills from every opening in its trypophilic frame and partly because when you squint, you can see how all the parts of its blasted, gnarled, sessile body might line back up into a recognizable form. Nestled in its central mass, a withered head lolls on the end of a rigid, arching spine. Its jaw works up and down, desperate to sync with the voice burning in your mind. Light lances from its body and strikes a kneeling grenadier; it punches a hole in him that runs deeper than he can contain, devouring him and spitting out a memorial engine loaded for bear. HD 13 MV 20’ AC plate AT baleful gaze (line of sight cone, 8d8, save for half) Special appoint tactician, penetrative awareness, castling

appoint tactician—once per day a Strategist may choose a single humanoid target of fewer hit dice than itself at half hp or less and turn it into a Tactician. It gains all of the Tactician’s special abilities and listed scores, if those scores exceed its natural scores. penetrative awareness—a Strategist’s consciousness piggybacks on everything it sees. This piggybacking makes it privy to the thoughts, memories, and sensory input of any conscious creature it has seen, at any distance. It is also capable of two-way telepathic communication along these connections. castling—as a free action, up to three times per round, a Strategist may swap the positions of any two targets it is allied with and whose positions it is aware of, no matter the distance. The Strategist can target itself with this ability.

It is possible that surviving for long enough on the Front turns you into a Strategist. Others claim that the Strategists are the immutable gods of the Front, and though their bodies are mortal, so long as the Front exists they will always return. Yet other stories suggest that the alien light that gives them their power is something cultivated by secret rituals that they keep to themselves, and that the ultimate goal of their eternal war is waged to consolidate their secrets under a single master in order to perfect the technique. It scarcely matters. The Strategists are the architects of the Front. They dictate what matters, and they do not reward curiosity. Certainly, they are capable of human pettiness, human rage, and human greed, but whether they were human once, chose to mimic them, or picked up bits of humanity from pure proximity, there is nothing else human about them. Every Strategist has a singular concrete, long-term aim; everything it does or thinks is calibrated to produce the most optimal, most thorough version of that aim. Lath Dhaun, the Strategist presiding over the Ascendant League, is morally opposed to flat surfaces; every member of the League is trained in stonemasonry and earthworks, so that as they claim territory they leave a tessellating field of 45-degree slopes behind them. Where they get these fixations, no one can say.

[imbrith]

I finished the leaf chart! Woohoo!