Curing Eldergrove

The moving mass of water resembles stories of Water Elementals. Not evil but simply a force of power and the element that can be very powerful and destructive under the command of an evil mage or aid ships and construction under the control of benevolent ones. Wild ones are unpredictable as their thoughts are nearly impossible to understand.

As Barly lights the torch you see several of the plants nearby react. Some retract and close their flowers, others open up pods or begin producing thorns. The elemental reaches over and snuffs the torch shaking its head. As the gloom returns it takes a bit longer to see as the plants are slow to begin glowing and it takes a while for your eyes to re-adjust.
Rhidon can see normally but Vaun and Barley have disadvantage on any rolls to see/discover thing that rely on sight.

The elemental shoves open the door and enters the room but then returns and turns south. Looking in Rhidon can see a door on the east way that has long been grown over sealing it shut by roots over a foot thick. Again he hears the sound of something scrambling away into the deeper darkness of the tree/building.

The southern door is made of stone and also requires the elemental to force it open to reveal another dimly lit room covered in roots, moss, and fungi. Sliding over the rough floor the elemental crosses to the far SE corner and through a doorway partially blocked by vines, roots, and branches. It easily slides through and around the plants tangle but you are forced to stop and hack your way through. As you do so Rhidon pauses for a moment staring into the next room confused at the glimpse of a face staring back at him from the gloom beyond but it quickly vanished.

Another room and then another. But this one has a floor that is smooth with tilework creating a mosaic picture that is oddly clear of any plant growth or detritus.



The elemental pauses at the clear tiles then moves across the tiles. However as it moves through the middle of the mosaic you hear a pop sound from above then a splashing sound as you see what looks like a rain of seeds the size of your fist fall into the elemental and the floor around it. Almost instantly the seeds within the elemental alls spout and begins growing inside of it and within it. The twisting sprouts begin binding together and the elementals movement slows.

Rhidon slashes at the plants but fails to have much effect while Vaun manages to cut through several of the roots that extend from the elemental and seek to anchor into any nearby surface. Though this does not stop the spread of the plants it does limit their effectiveness. The elemental flows away from any seeds on the floor and begins swirling its mass to clump the plant mass into a single location but fails to remove the growing mass from its form.

The mosaic looks like a picture of the city you are in, though not overgrown. Nature and buildings combined to encompass the river with the great tree in the center of it all.

The plants tendrils instantly sink into the ground and merge with the other roots that crisscross the floor. The now anchored elemental struggles as the plants grow stronger and stronger and spread throughout its body. It's whirling mass is able to keep portions of itself free of the invasive plant mass but now that the plants have an anchor the elemental is unable to move as more roots in the area sprout tendrils that stretch out to bind it further.