Brain Seed

''This plant towers almost as tall as a half-giant, with a thick central stalk and a spray of descending roots and quivering tendrils. A pulsating bulb sits at the center of the stalk, pumping clouds of glistening spores through the top of the stalk and into the air around you.''

Combat
A brain seed plant sends thousands of seeds each week into the air, forming a nebulous cloud around itself. Whenever a seed encounters living flesh, it takes hold and begins gestation. Although some targets are able to withstand the infection, many soon find themselves with a live seed connected to their nervous system. The seed then provides a telepathic conduit for the parent plant to begin using its psionic abilities on the target.

The plant prefers to target lone individuals or small groups of only three or four members. It will attempt to dominate one or more targets and turn these on their fellows, using its life drain power to assist and finish off any survivors. The plant reserves special hatred for defilers, as it is particularly susceptible to their radius of destruction and makes concerted efforts to destroy or drive off any that it encounters.

If physically threatened, the plant will use its tendrils, striking with any three of these in a single round, and attempt to protect itself with its natural armor and displacement powers.

Description
The brain seed is an exceedingly rare intelligent plant that uses its airborne seeds to establish psionic control of its prey. With a respectable spread of psychic abilities, the brain seed is able to dispose of its victims in a number of ways, but ultimately subsists on the life energies of living creatures.

Brain seed plants are strange, solitary creatures that will even drive dominated prey to destroy other brain seed plants. Their intelligence is keen, and a brain seed plant will often specifically identify and destroy defilers should it suspect that such spellcasters are nearby.

An average brain seed plant stands up to 10 feet tall. It has a thick central stalk with a skirt of roots and a fat seed pod at the midpoint of the stalk with coiling tendrils spreading outward along its length. At the tip of the stalk sits a mouth; however, this is not a feeding organ but rather an outlet for the plant's seeds.