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[Detoxicated]

You take up the thorn and walk out of the room. You blacken out, abut quickly you wake up again in your original position. You see the elven enemies surrounding you. Angered by their viciousness, and disgusted by the fact that they are butchering your friends you decide to fight. In an astounding uproar you growl in a deep alien voice. Your growl awakens the ground, as thorny bushes begin to grow quickly. Surrounding the enemies. Trapped in their cages, you realize you have gathered new powers. Your skin seems to be slighty green toned, and you have small nobs growing out of it.

The behemoth of a tree speaks to you:
"Now sapling, go out and expand my territory, and become a treeduke yourself. There is mighty elemental forces trying to get into our forests, and the humans don't make the task easier.
Take this Owl with you. Name the Owl however you want.
Do you have any questions?"

[MidnightJaguar]

Name the owl Bramble. Ask why we were brought here.

[Detoxicated]

Bramble says: "You were brought here by the unworthy elves of Pecklewood to appease your master, the Archtree of this Section. They were to slay you and chose one amongst them to become sapling. Turns out they were beaten by a human child. Interesting."

[MidnightJaguar]

Start expanding Mr. Treefaces territory then.

[Lermfish]

Start expanding Mr. Treefaces territory then.

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[Detoxicated]

"So let's go expand Mr. Treeface's territory then." you say in a different voice than before, much deeper. Also it sounds a bit like leaves moved by the wind.

"Just not yet. You see you don't know anything about the world. Neither do I, yet. But I can tell you about yourself. You are a sapling still. Right now there is others like you in the forest, they are hunting, and they are gathering troops as we speak. You must do so as well. You have the thorny powers at hand. Close to your master your very powerful, you can use powers intuitively and without hesitation, but out in the forest, in neutral territory, you are on your own. So you must learn the skills of the thorn.

Now, in the world of ours there is neutral teachers. They exist to teach the likes of yours. Since you are the Thorny sapling of Gargamedis you should be wise in your decisions.

There is three different paths I can think of right now.

At the spring river of Lalameyn you can find the wise troll Ashkoth. He is wise, but a troll, easy to anger and very strict. His strength can break the mountains and he knows a thing or two about wrestling. His deep knowledge of the unknown is a mystery to me.

At the caves of Welegnis you can find the giantess Xamane. She knows the names of all plants, and animals. Little is known about her, but she is very picky about her students.

Husmuth lives in the Treemaze. The Satyr of Shapeshifting is insane, yet extremely valueable as wisdom source."

You see Bramble hesitating.

"What is it Bramble?"
"Well, you can also go into the woods to search for a guru yourself. It is dangerous, but it would bring glory to Gargamedis if you chose the Path of the Unknown and came out living. Great power can wait at the hand of a fearless adventurer."

[MidnightJaguar]

The path of the Unknown, we are a thorn, we will break before we bend.

[Detoxicated]

"We shall go into the unknown Bramble."

"I feared you would say that. Well then, I must tell you that we must be very careful then, and once we crossed a certain border we enter a realm beyond the regular capacities of the physical world. Things go weird deep in the forest. Gargamedis wants more of this raw land for himself, as it gives him a greater importance in the infinity."

You begin wandering into the forest. Within few minutes you encounter a beautiful archaic rainforest of raw nature. Everything seems to move and stands in perfection. Trees whispering their words into the winds, amongst animals that play and hunt one another. You can sense the freshness of a small spring not so far from here, and the olifactory picture the different flowers and fruits bring upon you. You are emdazzled in the beauty of nature.

You follow the small spring, after drinking from it which refreshened you deeply. As you come across a part of the river that has a few sunny spots you can feel the pulse of energy coming to you from the sun. It seems that water and sunlight refreshened you, as your feeling of tiredness diminishes after a few minutes of walking in the sun.

You come across a small waterfall. From up here you can look over a piece of land.
On your left you can see a hillside leading to the mountains. Following the spring would lead you deeper into the forest. As you gaze upon the right side, you realize that the colouration of the trees changes to a slight blueish hue in that direction.
While pondering over in which direction to go, Bramble mentions something to you, "You see, I can feel that it must be quite awe inspiring to be experiencing the world with your eyes for the first time, but I feel you should set a task at your head while going anywhere, less you will be lost in the woods, miraging every beautiful thing you see. The hunters, my friend, in this world are the shepherds."

[Lermfish]

> TO THE MOUNTAINS!

[MidnightJaguar]

> TO THE MOUNTAINS!

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[helmacon]

> TO THE MOUNTAINS!

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[Detoxicated]

You decide to walk towards the mountainside. After all you have never seen any mountains your entire lives, and you don't know where else to go. Quickly the paths become more difficult to follow, as the land has become rockier. Also the slopes of the hills have become steeper and the complicated rootwork of the trees inhabitting your path. After a tiring two hours of walking you decide to rest at a small clearing on a tree stump. Suddenly the trump is hit by a pretty huge club and breaks in two, as it was mossy. You fall on your back and turn around on the floor.

You look into the eye of a snarling gnoll, dressed in wolven fur. He wields the pretty huge club menacingly. He begins to cackle as he is aproaching you. He charges and smashes almost into you, if Bramble hadn't distracted him by flying at his head.

"Sapling, you must do something quickly. Maybe use your thorns, or run, or anything. Act ent damnit."

[Asgarus]

Entangle the gnoll's feet with your thorns, trying to make him fall over.
If that is successful, try to bind his hands with your thorns.
Then talk to him.

[MidnightJaguar]

Entangle the gnoll's feet with your thorns, trying to make him fall over.
If that is successful, try to bind his hands with your thorns.
Then talk to him.

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[Detoxicated]

In a flash of a moment you remember what you have done close to Gargamedis. You concentrate on the floor beneath the gnoll's feet. A slight sentiment of panic rushes through you as nothing seems to happen. You concentrate harder. Bramble was right, your power is less than before, and not knowing what you are doing does not help either.

Boom!!!
Suddenly some slender vines come from the floor beneath the gnoll. The gnoll is caught by the vines but imediately starts to remove it. You have enough time to stand up and make your move.

You stand face to face with the gnoll who is grinning evilishly stupid at you. Sweat drops fall of his fur.