« Reply #107 on: July 11, 2015, 02:53:09 PM »
Ruth takes a careful look at the swamp and mushrooms. These look familiar, don't they?
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Accounts of the Fey'el Bog are incredibly rare - as stated before, most who enter these woods during a full moon do not return. One of the very few explorers who
did return, a man by the name of Quesaeus, later took up residence in the Winterbole Forest, and passed on his written account of the Bog on to a young girl who lived nearby and had an interest in magical phenomena. To such a girl, a firsthand account of a site in the Feywild was sure to remain treasured.
The Fey'el Bog itself is a swamp filled with a substance thought to be totally unique to the area: an orange sludge containing compounds very similar to lactic proteins and enzymes. One whiff at the present moment confirms it - this stuff's practically cheese. The presense of this substance, named Quesaeu for the man who discovered it, has had clear effects here. The area has naturally attracted a huge population of rodents. Additionally, the local fungus has been noticeaby changed by growing in this uniquely nutritive sludge. Most of the mushrooms here have grown to enormous size, though they have little unique properties besides that. A certain species of tuber that grows just under the surface of the earth, though, has a tendancy to absorb the compounds in the Quesaeu to an extreme extent without a relative increase in size, making them dense in nutritional value and unique flavor. These are the "Queselium" tubers, highly coveted in many regions of the natural world.
Usually Queselium can only be found by animals with an accutely tuned sense of smell, but it appears a chunk of it has somehow emerged from the ground and is sitting in plain sight [the brightly-colored object on the left].
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