Strange Pollen

Today is the eleventh of September and I am writing this report from our clinic in Booty Bay.

I work for the Curative Concern and we help to heal people that are in need. This means we need fresh herbs daily. When we left Silver Moon City two days ago, I had brought a load of herbs. But after our fight last night, we used up all our reserves. So this also means we have to get more.

During the day me and my partner went out to gather some fresh herbs for our company. So far we did not encounter any more of the infected goblins, nor did we encounter any living vegetation.

What we did find were a strange set of pollen stuck upon a branch of Bruiseweed. Gently I took out a set of weeding gloves and a large vial. I cut down the bruiseweed straight to its roots and let it slip in too the large vial I had. After I had done this I would close the vial with a stopper. My partner was looking strangely at me and I shook my head. I told him we had to go back to Booty Bay and sat up a small lab to check out the strange pollen.

Once they arrived back in Booty Bay, the first thing I did was to separate some of the pollen into separate vials. I left about 10 pollen onto the branch. When I showed the Matron and the Counselor these pollen. They told me to watch the pollen and to write a report about it.

So here are my findings:

At the first sight one would see a branch of bruiseweed covered with small irregular pollen. They seem strange, like they are not from this world. If watched closely the pollen seem the expand and shrink slightly. After looking at the pollen for about an hour it seem to be dieing. So what we can conclude is that these pollen are not from this world. They seem to be alive but are slowly dieing without any sustenance.

So I tried to find out what type of source would give it sustenance.

Sustenance 1: I dropped two drops of water on top of the pollen on the weed.

Result: The pollen seemed to come alive, but nothing really changed.

Sustenance 2:I dropped some fresh herbs on top of the pollen./em

Result: The pollen would attach themselves to the new weeds and all of the sudden a adapted amalgamation of the drash bruiseweed would be seen.

Sustenance 3: I dropped two drops of boar blood onto the amalgamation./em

Result: The mutated amalgamation would consume the blood, sucking it into its biomass. It seemed to produce a brown colored substance. What we think might be some fertiliser of some sorts. After carefully watching the amalgamation for another hour, it seemed to consume the brown substance.

Sustenance 4: I dropped two drops of troll blood onto the amalgamation/em

Result:"The mutated amalgamation would consume the blood again, sucking it into its biomass. It seemed to produce even more of the brown colored substance.

Sustenance 5: I dropped a small bit of Ram liver onto the Amalgamation./em

Result: The amalgamation would consume the flesh, growing slowly almost tearing it apart as it wraps around the meat.

So what we can conclude out of this is that water does nothing to it. It would grow into an abomination when given a fresh host, it would consume the added blood and produce some brown substance and it would grow when given flesh.

What are these pollen and how did they come here? It is a question that I can not answer right a this moment. I hope to find out more after more careful testing of these pollen.

Author - Apprentice Luxah Brightstar of the Curative Concern.

Approved by - Counselor Noaen Sorrowsong of the Curative Concern.