'Hai, it's me. I found the flower.'
- Vicious, G.G.---Just kidding. Even I have standards and that's just way too short to qualify as a report. But still, I did find the flower. It's missing a petal, but that's because I ate it, and boy am I glad that I did.
See, I was already on the way back to Gelderholm anyway and night had just fallen, so I figured I'd do a little searching before I popped back into the city proper. Started at one end of the Blood Fields, ran all the way to the other end and timed myself while doing so. Then ran back and paused at the rough halfway mark---the centre of the fields.
Like, I dunno if it always works like this, but when you got stuff needed to be found and a place to find it, the rarer stuff always seems to be found closer to the centre. So I did just that and started in the middle.
Now the inhabitants were a tad tricky batch, gotta admit. And as one would expect, all of them had some pretty nasty poison to hunt and protect themselves with. But as with the case when the food chain isn't always one-way, each type of monster seemed to keep to an unseen territory. By paying some close attention, it's not too difficult to avoid getting into unnecessary fights.
Now, how did I find the flowers? A little critter led me to them, and I'm not even kidding. Tiny blue thing basically guided me every step of the way.
And if you ask me why the little creature did that, I honestly have no concrete answer, because befriending animals isn't my thing. I do have a theory that might hold water, though; so I might have previously talked about an ex-colleague of mine, who was basically an expert in poisons---a good girl by all means, just be careful not to carelessly touch her stuff...anyway, she was real fond of those tiny fellas. Poison dart frogs if I remember the name correctly.
Anyway, I did help out once or twice when she was at the healer's for a checkup and stuff, so I did make some contact with those tiny creatures. Got poisoned a fair bunch too, but since I'm still alive to write this report, no harm done. I'm also guessing that the little treat I gave the little fella gave me some points in his book, because it then jumped on m...y bat. Thank god, and better hope I remember to wipe the handle clean later.
But yeah, there's a problem. I already turned in the pretty-intact Bloodbane Blossom (boy, that's a mouthful) to the dwarves and warned them about it as well, but to keep things short---
It's not a cure. It's just deadlier poison.
Now, from what I've been told, the Bloodbane venom is rather fast acting and induces a fatal response mere hours after it has entered the body, giving a victim just about enough time to write a will and make peace with the world. It travels through the body real quickly, and once it gets to the heart, they're gone.
The flower? It takes all those things and makes it worse. I'm not too worried about poison myself so I popped a petal of it in my mouth to chew it over, and found myself in need of fresh water immediately after. Stronger poisons always leave a kick in my mouth, and this one tasted like a habanero.
To give it some credit, however, the Bloodbane Blossom does indeed 'cure' Bloodbane Venom in a way. The stronger toxin eradicates the weaker one, and spreads itself throughout the victim's body. It's a very slow acting one, so instead of dying shortly to Bloodbane venom, the victim dies about three to six months later from the flower's own toxin. But then again, I guess that it technically counts as allowing Bloodbane victims to live a bit longer, which is why I warned the dwarves about it before passing the flower over to them.
Whether to use it or not is up to those unfortunate souls suffering from Bloodbane Venom. I can only hope that they don't suffer too much in their final moments, because my colleague was right about this: it's too cruel to die of agony from deadly poison.'
- Vicious, G. G.
