Planted

I stumbled from the cave of reeking burning death into the cave of slightly less nasty smells (unfortunatley it was the only exit for the burning remains, so it too smelled awful). The cave was narrow and had a low ceiling but thankfully I was hunched over from being weak and trying to avoid the stench so I didn't hit my head on anything.  I was thinking at least I'd dealt with the plant creature stupidly until I exited the cave into a larger really wide open cave that had the bulk of it still (I should have known there was more of the damn thing since I hadn't seen the additional sucker helpers in my section of the cave, but I was tired and nautious from fumes!)

The creature was huge, just a large mulching cylinder of sucker tentacles and spikes.  I didn't see eyes, but as a plant I don't know if plants have eyes? I did see hundreds of dried out corpses lining the walls, tenatcles still sucking what little life they might have had left. Next to the creature itself was a sort of pit with a blackish fluid, in the fluid were bones that appeared to be in different states of decay.  Whatever else I could say of the creature it at least appeared to be thrifty with the bodies of its victims.

I thought for a moment I'd just let it go.  Let it keep mulching things and I'd move on with my life, but before I could even start on my way out of the stupid cave tentacles detached from dehydrated bodies and started to make their way towards me, which was not what I wanted. Ordinarily I'd just burn them, slice them, or run away from them (look I'll admit sometimes bit of a coward... I know you totally didn't ever see that before).  But instead I didn't have a fight or flight response, I had a "Oh crap oh crap oh crap" panic and stay in place response. Humoursly this lead to the tentacles all crashing into each other instead of attacking me (ha take that plant creature!). I took a guess and launched a small bit of fire (my super big display earlier on top of being weak put me way way to close to corruption town) at the pool of black goo underneath the plant and it ignited like the combustible fuel it had to have been (anything that can melt bone is most likely going to be flammable, most likely I mean there can always be some weird melty thing that is not susceptible to fire, but I doubt that).

The tentacles writhed in the burning agony and I made my way out of the huge cave as fast as my weakened body could carry me.  I realized someone in there might have still been alive and I just left them to die to smoke inhilation, but I've said multiple times I'm a terrible terrible person.  I did find my gear amongst a huge treasure trove of supplies near the mouth of the cave (from the looks of it the plant had been around a long time, I didn't take anything... that wasn't money I stole the crap out of the money). I was still pretty weak upon leaving the now smoking cave, but thankfully my horse had been left to graze there (probably for another meal for the plant creature at some point).  I mounted my steed and with considerable effort managed to leave the general area before finding a wooded area and passed out.  I still smelled awful, and felt worse, but I was alive and the plant creature was dead, well mostly... Look I have to leave you something to read tomorrow don't I?