Metamorphasis Alpha

The Death Tree (cherry tree): Formerly this tree contained fruit that was tasty, but now it has
berries that are radiated and upon contact unleash a terrible radiation at the 15th intensity. It is
able to manipulate its branches and cast 3-18 of these berries up to 20 feet. The tree is fruitful all
year except for 4 weeks of every year when the berries turn into normal seeds. It is able to sense
life in a 40 feet radius by means of life energy detectors in the main trunk of the tree. Many small
quick flying creatures nest in its branches, as the tree will not cast seeds within 10 feet of itself
and the birds fly too fast for the senses of the tree to react to them.
The Sword Bush: This former fern is fully intelligent and has many mental and physical
powers. It is able to teleport itself, has precognition, can mentally control, is able to generate a
force field, and is forced into stasis when it is dark on the ship. Physically the large plants have
18 metallic leaves that are much more like swords than leaves. The plant can move, has life
energy detectors (effective for a range of 50 feet at the top of the plant stalk), has 3 manipulative
tentacles, and a maw like a small venus fly trap with dissolving enzymes. It has been known to
use ancient devices and to travel up and down the levels by using color bands.
Passion Weed: This very rare, very small weed, makes a strange enzyme that upon contact with
flesh causes the contacting creature to be enraged beyond all reason. The affected creature will
try to kill any other creature around, and, in the absence of living things, kill itself. Nothing
works as an antidote for the enzyme.
Red Stinger: This plant is a thorn-bearing bush with a variable size. The thorns bear a deadly
poison (intensity level 17) and the berries have the ability to give temporary resistance to all
forms of radiation if taken in large enough amounts (over 90 berries). The bush is always bright
red and grows very near areas of high intensity radioactivity.
The Mirror Oak: This oak tree looks in all respects normal, but is able to reflect any type of
energy directed at it or near it (within 5 feet) with a 100% efficiency. This feature makes it the
home of many of the less powerful creatures of the woods.
The Dark Fungus: This fungus spore, when massed in large concentrations (over 10 pounds), is
able to form a mass mind with intelligence and considerable mental power. The parasite has the
powers of illusion generation, telepathy, force field generation, and is mentally defenseless.
When in its intelligent state, its only concern is increasing its mass, which is able to gain
sustenance from any living matter. Its growth rate is much slower than most fungus types and
requires more than one type of protein for growth. Touching it does 10 dice of damage.
The Death Growth: A relatively small concentration of this parasite fungus forms a symbiotic
attachment to any warm blooded creature in a matter of 2-20 seconds. Only the instant
application of extreme heat can stop the takeover (75% chance of killing the creature). When the
parasite is in command, the being acts with its fun powers for a period of 2 weeks after which
that body decomposes and the parasite is stationary on the spot where the body dies, until it can
infect a new host. The fungus is unaffected by any mental attack because the attack only works
on one of the billions of spores. Attachment is by touch and the spores can shoot themselves in
mass a distance of 5 feet when sensing a new host.