From:	Wildfire Wildfire@*************.com
Subject:	the Revenge of Poison Ivy (Re: Astral Defences)
Date:	Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:22:11 -0400

Okay, 'nother plant idea after last night's observation of a person's first
lesson in the Chinese Finger Trap...

Anyone remember those little sticky pods and burrs you'd pick up in the woods
that stuck to your socks like crazy? What about an Awakened version, that stuck
and didn't let go? The vine kinda reacts like a Chinese Finger Trap, the more
you pull on it to get it off, the tighter it holds on. You step around a bit to
try and pull harder, and step into another patch of it, and now both legs are
stuck, etc. It wouldn't have to eat things, maybe drain essence very slowly, but
mostly it could just be a severe annoyance and significantly hinder progress.
You grow it outside your compound, someone tries to sneak up to a window, and
realizes after several minutes of trying to step AWAY from the window, that they
can't move more than 2 feet. Maybe it can latch on that way in astral, too?
<funny mental image of a mage trapped in the stuff, kinda like a fly on fly
paper>

As always, haven't MitS, so have no clue if I'm duplicating something already
done, but it sounded good...

Wildfire