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Cave Troll's Shelf
Rank: "C"
Type: Common, Small, Fungus
Effect: A simple fungus, small in size that has no use.
Special: Preparation: —; Duration: —
Drawback: ---
Description: A small shelflike fungi that is a brilliant blue to deep red with no notable markings. It grows in troll inhabited caves within the underworld. Though quite interesting to look at, there are no known uses for a cave troll's shelf. It is said, however, that trolls do indeed make use of these hardened fungal growths as a means of storing their personal possessions. Cave Troll's Shelf can be found in clusters of 20d10, and each plant produces 1 cup of material.
Availability: Year Round; Region: Underworld; Identification:Average; Cultivation: Average
Limit: Must know Botany for Underworld Regions. 70% chance in finding.
Cost: 10 Ryo per Plant; 50 Ryo per Cup of Material

70% Chance (possible 20d10 cluster)
Lore, Plant (Underworld): 37
Cultivation (Underworld): 53

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Valerys had been walking through the Land of Earth for a long time, and along the way she had met several people and travelers that had taught her new and useful skills. Every place offered something but it was Gilbert, her old mentor, that really taught her most of her skills. Even if he had been a little mad in the end. As Valerys was coming around a bend from a large rock, she noticed a small tunnel leading beneath the stone. A perfect opportunity, Valerys thought and took it as a sign that she should explore. Lately she had been learning to identify and harvest plants from this region and needed to put her new skills to use. Her body was just small enough to fit through the tunnel, so Valerys did not have to alter her appearance with the help of her bloodline. As she squeezed through the narrow opening, Valerys maneuvered her way down until the dirt opened up beside the giant stone. A wonder it hasn’t collapsed, Valerys thought to herself and shook the thought out of her head. No need to be worried about something like that. Inside of the chamber was more stone, but it seemed to lead into a system of catacombs that Valerys very much wanted to explore.

There were few plants but some scattered throughout, and humidity clung to the walls and airs like something evil. I could find enough here, Valerys determined looking around at the structures and atmosphere. She got down on her hands and knees immediately to inspect the ground and what plants lied right at the entrance. There were a few clovers and lichens, plus the soil was rich and moist. It would be a good environment to search within. Valerys pulled out her LED flashlight and shined it down the corridors. Her red shirt and shorts clung to her body as she inspected all of the plants in her vicinity. It was late summer but not many of them seemed affected, uninfluenced down her by the light on the surface. There were many plants that Valerys had never even seen before. Some of them seemed to even let off light colors in a faint glow, giving an atmosphere to the chamber. Valerys got down on her knees and began to inspect the plants. Her polearm pushed against her back and her butt bag weighed heavy on her filled with fifty senbon as she dug through herb after herb, identifying what little she could.

[Nekomata Minh]

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Cave Troll's Shelf
Rank: "C"
Type: Common, Small, Fungus
Effect: A simple fungus, small in size that has no use.
Special: Preparation: —; Duration: —
Drawback: ---
Description: A small shelflike fungi that is a brilliant blue to deep red with no notable markings. It grows in troll inhabited caves within the underworld. Though quite interesting to look at, there are no known uses for a cave troll's shelf. It is said, however, that trolls do indeed make use of these hardened fungal growths as a means of storing their personal possessions. Cave Troll's Shelf can be found in clusters of 20d10, and each plant produces 1 cup of material.
Availability: Year Round; Region: Underworld; Identification:Average; Cultivation: Average
Limit: Must know Botany for Underworld Regions. 70% chance in finding.
Cost: 10 Ryo per Plant; 50 Ryo per Cup of Material

70% Chance (possible 20d10 cluster)
Lore, Plant (Underworld): 37
Cultivation (Underworld): 53

As Valerys moved forward, she noticed that there were two pathways — one leading right and one leading left. She finished looking through all the plants in the first chamber and decided to make her way down the right corridor. Before she left, however, Valerys used her Kedoin bloodline abilities to craft a lesser homunculi in the shape of a young child. The girl was short, about two feet, and had long brown hair and an innocent gaze. “Hello Child,” Valerys said, “Go down the left corridor for me and see if you can’t find me any Cave Troll’s Shelf. I need this plant for my collection. I’ll meet back up with you later to collect what you know.”
“Yes Master,” the homunculi said and took off running down the left hallway.
As the girl ran off, Valerys started her own conquest down the right corridor and kept her eyes peeled for any plants that appeared to be worth cultivating. The closest that she came was the discovery of a few glowing mushrooms sprouting from the walls, but even these were not worth taking.

After a solid distance Valerys began to feel some other energy, or presence, around her. She wondered what it could be and sought to analyze it, wondering if it were a spirit or demon that could lead her to the herbs she desired. Whatever it was, the energy did not feel particularly good to her as she had gathered through certain soulcaster practices. From somewhere far in front of her Valerys heard the sound of dry crumbling and rocks falling to the floor. Although she wanted to find the plants, Valerys was becoming distracted with all of the sights and sounds. She forced herself to look back to the earth and pay attention to the plants — hoping to blue fungus that she had seen in Gilbert’s illustrated herbalism books. When she saw them for herself in his grove, they had appeared in large clusters. Valerys wasn’t sure if that would happen here but she kept her eyes peeled. How could one miss such are a large batch of blue on the walls of these underground caverns anyways? But surely it would come in smaller varieties, and sometimes the most potent herbs were the smallest plants.


Techs Used:

Craft Lesser Homunculi
Rank: B-ranked
Skill: Taijutsu
Effect: The user creates a homunculi from their own body to do their bidding.
Special: ---
Drawback: Crafting a single Lesser Homunculi consumes 2 of the users movements over 2 seconds. Lesser Homunculi cannot mold chakra and take 50% more damage from Ninjutsu based techniques. The amount of Homunculi the user may craft is capped at 15 per day. They last for one day before melting away. Going farther than their functioning ranges causes them to melt.
Description: The pinnacle of flesh manipulation for the Kedōin Clan. Through utmost skill and mastery of the blood lines abilities and traits, the user can create an autonomous being to do their bidding. By amassing a myriad of cells, the user can craft and bring forth a "homunculi" (literally: little being) into this world. A homunculi is an organic construct derived from the user's own body. The homunculi bubbles off the skin of the user, and detaches from the body there after. The homunculi can also be formed within the body, and pushed out from a mouth if the user wishes to craft the creature in secret. This creature is granted its own nervous and muscular system; capable of operating as its own living organism for all intents and purposes. It can speak, interact with others, and think for itself. A Lesser Homunculi is granted the following stats:

A base movement speed that of the user, minus two (-2).
A Choice size between 30 cm and 100 cm tall (1-3 feet).
Physical fortitude 1 rank below the users own Class level (EX: A B-class user allows a lesser Homunculi to survive 1 C-rank attack)
Homunculi deal damage 1 ranks less the users own rank
A functioning range of 100 meters.

Homunculi are perfect for espionage, as they can gain access to places the user cannot. Since they are derived from the user's body, they can be crafted to appear as the user desires, similar to the user's own altering abilities. Homunculi have been crafted to appear as small children, babies, dogs, etc to aid in fooling foes. If a Homunculi is consumed by the user, they gain the knowledge and memories obtained by the Homunculi. If killed, they turn into a mass of cells and the user does not gain any memory. The user may craft 3 Homunculi when first learned. Relearning this technique as a "B-ranked technique" allows the user to craft 2 more homunculi.
Limit: Kedōin Clan. Must know "Warped Visage: Flesh Architect"

[Madame Loki]

Found 107 Troll Thingers

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Webcap
Rank: "C"
Type: Rare, Tiny, Fungus
Effect: The byproduct of this plant during consumption sets into motion several symptoms relative excessive dehydration.
Special: Preparation: Immediate; Duration: Special
Drawback: ---
Description: The Webcap and some of its relatives produce orellanine, which poisons with an extremely long onset period of 3d6 days. Intense, burning thirst and excessive urination are the first symptoms. Nausea, headache, muscle pain, spasms, chills, and loss of consciousness often follow. This fungus has enough 25ml doses equal to 2.
Availability: Autumn; Region: Underworld/Jungle; Identification:Difficult; Cultivation: Average
Limit: Must know Botany for Jungle/Underworld Regions. 11% chance in finding.
Cost: 6,570 Ryo per Plant. 3,285 Ryo per Dose.

11% Chance of finding
Lore, Plant (Underworld): 37
Cultivation (Underworld): 53

As Valerys moved further through the caverns, she was able to find several of the Cave Troll’s Shelves which were stacked on the walls and grew close to the ceiling. Valerys had to find a way to get up there, and used her soulcaster abilities to fly up higher and take a look. As she was cultivating some of the plants her eyes were always focused on the area around her. From up here she could get a better vantage point to look down upon the caves and the herbs that were growing along the walls. Lots of them she did not immediately recognized and wondered about their potency. As she was searching, she decided that it would be good to look for a plant that had just come into season — the webcap. It was a fungus, in some ways similar in appearance to the blue wall fungus that she now possessed, but much more dangerous. She’d have to be much more careful after cultivation this time.

Valerys knew the fungus to be small and grew high, so she looked into some of the cracks and crevices that formed near the roof of the cave. She hoped that her homunculi was also having success, and began searching deep into the cracks. No sign greeted her for a long time. She flew on down the hall and wondered to herself why all of this had been built? And how had all these herbs got here? It was a plentiul area for harvest for sure — but had someone made it this way? As Valerys was considering this, she felt like she was being watched and whipped around to see what may be around her. As she did, she saw what she thought to be some webcap up in one of the corners. She hurriedly flew over, her polearm in her hands after the strange feeling that had overcome here, and prepared for the long journey of cultivation on this poisonous plant if it were truly there.

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As Valerys flew over to the shelf she would find several plump specimen of the fungus she thought she found. The bright shelf like cap was matured and ready for harvest.

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Webcap
Rank: "C"
Type: Rare, Tiny, Fungus
Effect: The byproduct of this plant during consumption sets into motion several symptoms relative excessive dehydration.
Special: Preparation: Immediate; Duration: Special
Drawback: ---
Description: The Webcap and some of its relatives produce orellanine, which poisons with an extremely long onset period of 3d6 days. Intense, burning thirst and excessive urination are the first symptoms. Nausea, headache, muscle pain, spasms, chills, and loss of consciousness often follow. This fungus has enough 25ml doses equal to 2.
Availability: Autumn; Region: Underworld/Jungle; Identification:Difficult; Cultivation: Average
Limit: Must know Botany for Jungle/Underworld Regions. 11% chance in finding.
Cost: 6,570 Ryo per Plant. 3,285 Ryo per Dose.

11% Chance of finding
Lore, Plant (Underworld): 60
Cultivation (Underworld): 53

Valerys was shocked to find that her trick had worked, and indeed she found some of the fungi growing up in some of the cracks near the ceiling. She left herself float down and inspect them, cultivating them with care, and then placing the doses in her bag. She looked around the area, doing a quick scan to determine if there were anymore close by. There were several different types of stone scattered throughout the area, and Valerys took to lifting them up and looking under and around them for clues. It was now more apparent to her that the herbs grew in more confined spaces in this herbiary, as she had noticed with the first batch. Valerys got down on her hands and knees and invested all the crooks and crannies. None so far.

She stood up and made her way to the end of that tunnel, knowing that no more webcap could be found in this area. As Valerys trekked her way to a new section of the chamber, she rumenated on who might have been here and what this place might have been used for. An old lodging for suspicious characters, perhaps? Or an ancient tomb? It was unclear, but whoever they were they had need of quite a few herbs. The plant life had begun to grow wild in these further sections and it was hard to tells weeds from valuable plants. It took many minutes to scan all of the area, checking behind small plants to identify smaller plants. The mushrooms and fungi grew without end, meaning that Valerys had to examine each and every one. The work has tedious and left her hands and body raw from stretching into odd positions and looking at fine details. She hoped that this would all be worth it and that she would find another of the webcaps.

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Once again the ninja's luck would be amazing. She would find herself the plant she was looking for among the finer points for her webcap.

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Scorpion, Hell
Rank: "A"
Type: Rare, Medium, Vermin
Effect: A scorpion whose sting not only kills but also stuns to make these critters even more dangerous than the giant variety of scorpions.
Special: Preparation: ---; Duration: 1d6 rounds;
Drawback: ---
Description: Scorpions are vicious predators that can live in almost any environment, although they favor desert conditions. Scorpion colors range from black to yellow. The bitter smell associated with them probably comes from the venom. They make an unnerving scrabbling sound as they scurry across dungeon floors. All Scorpions have two things in common: a poison sting and an acerbic wit. Scorpions of all sizes use the same strategy: sting an opponent until it stops moving. Those who can speak scorpion will also hear it make several sarcastic remarks as it stings its victims to death. The Hell Scorpion can grab victims with its tail pincher and strike them with its poison tail automatically. The sting stuns an opponent for 1d6 rounds. Hell Scorpion poison is Class "F" (Save vs poison or die immediately). Scorpions are non-intelligent, so their acerbic wit is not actually all that biting. Each lair has a 20% chance of 5-20 eggs. Scorpions hate all living things, including other Scorpions, and are 95% likely to attack anything near their lair (or far away for that matter). Hell Scorpions will drag prey back to their lairs to feast. These insects are food for Purple Worms, and other subterranean creatures that like poison. Alchemists and assassins hunt scorpions to harvest their poison. Scorpions can really ruin a camping trip.
Yields: Hell Scorpion can produce 1 thumb-vial of poison per day, but can only carry up to 16 thumb-vials. Hell Scorpions can either be milked or their 2 glands can be removed having enough poison equal to 16 thumb-vials minus the stings used for that day. Hell Scorpion's exoskeleton can be fashioned into chitin armour, shields, or bracers. Hardness: 5; Armour Points/Inch: 10; Armour Class: -2. Hell Scorpions produce 2,000 Ryo of Chiten material cost for items. Purchasing Chiten items cost 1/4 normal price.
Diet: Carnivore; Intelligence Non; Activity: Any; Alignment: Neutral; Organization: Swarm; Number Appearing: 1-4; Region: Desert/Mountain/Rural/Underworld; Identification: Difficult; Cultivation: Difficult; Skills: ; Innate Abilities: Darkvision 20 meters. Tremorsense 20 meters. Natural Armour +4. Poison Sting.
Limit: Must know Creature Lore for Desert/Mountain/Rural/Underworld Regions. 15% chance in finding.
Cost: 32,000 Ryo per Medium Creature; 25,000 Ryo per 1 thumb-vial of poison; 2,000 Ryo per Medium Vermin (Material).

15% Chance of Finding
Lore, Creature (Underworld): 125
Cultivation (Underworld): 53

Valerys tracked deeper into the tunnels and what great luck! She found another one of the webcaps just as she had suspected. Now that she had found quite a few plants, Valerys turned her attention a little more toward the animals that would be living down here in the underworld. The rock and weed covered terrain made her hesitant to just rush in and start looking for wildlife, as she could not see them that easy in the underbrush, but she wanted the power that they possessed. She had not yet obtained any samples of the underground animals herself, but relished the opportunity to collect some of the ingredients that she knew they kept within their bodies. Her homunculi would be doing its own experimentation right now, and Valerys began to skulk around the tunnels -- gaining as much ground as possible. She had found the best way to track this animals was to become one with the environment, crossing the land in stealth and wide breadth.

About a half a mile up the way, Valerys began to hear scratching coming throughout the walls that surrounded her and wondered what sort of vermin might be hiding inside of there. It sounded like a repetitive clicking sound, possibly the legs of some bug? She wasn't sure and couldn't get through the wall right now, so she moved on leting fate take her deeper into the caves. As she got further, Valerys began to see a light up ahead. It was faint but detectable. She rushed toward it, forgetting all reason, and almost fell of the edge of a cliff when she came to the opening. There was no floor -- just wide open air. And another few steps and Valerys would have ate it on the ground beneath. About 100 meters down. She turned her attention to the walls around her, they were beginning to pick up with sound. Creatures crawling all over the place now. Valerys prepared herself for whatever might come and looked up. ABove the cliff and all the rock walla and openings, was the sky and sunlight pouring through a small hole.

[Kinzoku]

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As Valerys determined that she had finished exploring as much of the underground here as she could, she grabbed her things and started heading out -- never having found the elusive spider but webcaps and other plants were a nice addition to her inventory. As she grabbed her things, Valerys wondered if she would ever be back here, or if this was all she would see of the abandoned outcropping under the earth. Nothing was forever she determined, and made her way out of the earth and to the air. Then she took leave. There were other places that she needed to reach... Like the Land of Sound.

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