Bloodvine

A sinuous vine wrapped around the trunk of an agafari tree, this plant seems innocuous enough, but your hackles soon rise when you spot the desiccated corpse lashed to the trunk of the tree by the vine's length.

Combat
Bloodvines are attracted by warmth, particularly that of a living creature. They move only at night.

The bloodvine attacks by injecting its roots into its target. The plant approaches prey at night, catching it unawares and using its sap to keep it that way; the bloodvine‘s melee snipe lets it remain in hiding.

Description
The bloodvine is a danger to anyone who travels in the Crescent Forest. It is a parasite, dangerous primarily to those weak with hunger or thirst or to sleeping victims. These parasitic plants consume the blood of those they capture, and travelers report finding skeletons of fairly sizable creatures lashed tight to agafari tree trunks by these potent vines.

Bloodvines live on the bark of the agafari tree and are found only in the Crescent Forest. Growth begins at ground level and winds its way up the tree. Agafari trees that have been completely surrounded by bloodvine can be found in the central portions of the forest. Such vines represent a tremendous threat to travelers, as there are literally hundreds of feet of bloodvine in such infestations. Bloodvines live on the fluids they extract from insects and small mammals. They can live for as long as three months on nothing but rain, extracting nourishment from the agafari bark. After a month of such deprivation, however, the bloodvine loses the ability to move, and after three months the bloodvine dies. Each bloodvine is inextricably attached to the tree, which is its host.

Bloodvines cannot be transplanted from one tree to another, nor will a bloodvine grow anywhere but on an agafari tree. How bloodvines reproduce is a mystery, but it is impossible to eradicate them completely; kill every bloodvine on an agafari tree and within a month new bloodvines will again sprout.