The Ember Grasslands

• NPCs
  • Bala, fungus scavenger
• Animals here take refuge in the cool shade of the tall grasses
• The ambient temperature is a scorching 200deg F during the day
• There are also vampyres here, spirits of the sun, who prey upon the living (sunwalkers)
  • The moon turns them to ice
  • They appear to always be engulfed in flame, but they can move invisibly. They look like a shimmer of gas or heat when they’re cloaked in this way.
  • Don’t suck blood, they suck all the hydration from their victims leaving them dessicated
• Plants
  • Sparkweed

    A blue and yellow flower. Usually grows in bunches in fields, grasslands, and clearings. Carries a small electric charge to ward off predators. When cultivated carefully and dried in the sun, they can be eaten safely. Dried sparkweed creates a gentle popping sensation when it comes in contact with moisture.

• d10 random encounters
  1. 1d4 vampyres
  2. 1d4 fungus scavengers

Spark tables

• Adjectives: toadstool, spore, rotting, corrupted, infested, slime, mushroom, fermenting
• Places: farm, forest, spore-field, giant cap
• Antagonists: mycologists, fungusfolk, harvesters, cultists
  • (NPCs will come from the above)
• Things: world-stool, spores, juice/extract, truffles
• Situations: infestation, hallucination, feast, rot