Vampiric Blossom

I fear I will not make it back home. This jungle is much more hostile than we'd anticipated. At night, shadows lurk and howls are heard. It is hard to get any sleep. We saw a castle nestled along the side of a mountain. No one goes to or from it, and yet at night we see lights flickering in the windows. It is enough to drive even our rational minds mad.

The daylight, however, brings little reprieve. There is a flower here that is beautiful to the eye but deadly in proximity. I saw my fellow scholar, Jonathan, impacted by a dart shot from this flower's mouth. No sooner had he collapsed than vines rushed from the blossom and dragged him toward it. Myself and Annalise tried to free him. Annalise went down to another blossom, this one growing as part of a cluster on a ravine. I was barely able to get away, and I watched in horror as, like vampires, the flora drank the blood of my fellow scholars.

I hide now in our makeshift camp. I have burned away every plant within a radius. It is not enough, though, is it? Those vines could reach far. I am not safe.

I am not safe.

I am not safe.

Journal entry found in an empty campsite from researcher Volos Kyman Vampiric blossoms thrive in dense jungle and tropical environments. Vampires enjoy using them as a way to easily catch prey around their manors. These plants have a thirst for blood that has led many unwary travelers to their death.

Vampiric blossoms shoot small darts from inside their petals. These darts embed into the skin of their prey and stun them. Once their prey is down, the vines of these plants slither out to draw the body close. The plant will drink up the blood for nutrients. If there is a cluster of vampiric blossoms in one location, they may drink a body dry within an hour.