Robert Plant on Led Zeppelin Classic "Achilles Last Stand"
"For that alone it was almost worth it." "For that alone it was almost worth it." Guys. Guys. It was almost worth it to fall down and end up in excruciating pain just to see Jimmy dash to his rescue.
Robert. Robert you nerd. You starry eyed lovesick little dweeb. You swooning princess. You're adorable.
I bet there's a bunch of trees around Bron-Yr-Aur that have big hearts that say "R+J 4ever" carved into their trunks.
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Me being vulnerable to my friends about my phobia: I have vorarephobia, fear of being eaten. I also have phagophobia. Fear of swallowing. I have a hard time watching films or shows that have that. Like Attack on Titan. I can't watch Meg because even the thought of people getting eaten scares me. I can't watch Pan's Labyrinth because of the Pale Man. Even none horror stuff like Moana. I had to build the courage to watch the film all because of the Shiney song. Some Spongebob episodes I avoided back them and today. Even today, I still have it but smaller. I had to walk out of Nope during the digesting scene. When TMNT Mutant Mayhem referenced Attack on Titan, I panicked and started to text my friend who saw it already like crazy. Asking if anyone gets eaten. Even small things like Miraculous Ladybug! When the giant baby wanted to use Marinette as a lolly pop. I had to close my eyes and walk out. I get all sweaty, my heart races, I get a head ach, feel like throwing up, it's intense. I sometimes lose feeling in my legs and can't walk. It got so bad that I started to develop a fear of eating as a teen. It's just hard sometimes because it's such a rare phobia. So, not many can relate.
Friends:.............. Your favorite movies are Trolls and Little Shop of Horrors!
Me:
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Magical Plants of the Core
Vampire hunting is not my only hobby. Despite my black thumb curse, I consider myself to be quite a capable gardener, and you’d be surprised at how often the two overlap!
So, let’s talk plants.
Many Vampires have specific horticultural weaknesses; garlic for the young and the weak, fresh flower petals for those of elven stock, and burning tobacco or pipeweed for Vampiric halflings. But those are all mundane herbs, common enough and with a hundred other uses besides repelling the undead. Magical plants are much, much rarer, and also much more potent in the hands of a hunter.
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Blood Seeker Garlic is an unusual item, a plant made magical through action and not nature. Ordinary garlic can be cultivated in such a way that it acquires something of the nature of the Vampire itself; water the growing herb regularly enough with Vampire blood, and the resulting bulb gains a taste for the stuff. This can then be thrown or otherwise pressed against bare Vampiric flesh, upon which it actually sprouts rootlike tendrils and tries to burrow into the creature to feast!
This is one of the rare plants on this list that I can actually make use of; I wear gloves as a habit, have little aversion to garlic due to my substantial age, and, obviously, shedding my own blood for a horticultural project is child’s play. Some hunters reject the use of Vampire blood as black magic, but I provide occasional gifts of blood seeker garlic to those of my acquaintance that will accept them; any edge is worth keeping, in our line of work.
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Nightblight is a species of wolfsbane unique to Kartakass, in an example of the land providing a counter to its ruler’s evil, and though its effects are not limited to Vampires, it is a preeminently useful herb for any hunter - provided you find yourself within its very limited growing range.
Nightblight is, put simply, utterly repellant to anything that even resembles a wolf. To humans and ordinary animals the scent is barely detectible, but any shapechanger with a wolflike form - werewolves, wolfweres, and yes, many Vampires - will refuse to go anywhere near the stuff unless possessed of the most iron of wills. Natural wolves are likewise repelled, and even those transformed into wolves by arcane magic find themselves loathing the smell of the plant. I can speak from personal experience here; even on two legs the scent is vile, and my attempts to collect some for personal use failed utterly.
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Lilies of Eternal Slumber are native to the jungles of Valachan. These nightblooming flowers are pale on the outside and bright crimson on the inside; upon contact with Vampiric flesh, the petals act as holy water does and burn quite severely. So strong is this effect that a lily can be presented as a holy symbol and used to keep an attacking Vampire at bay, and if a wreath of four blooms is placed around a Vampire’s neck, it mimics the full effect of sunlight - up to and including lethality.
The lily has passive effects as well; any mortal that holds a bloom is more easily able to resist a Vampire’s charm, and anyone already dominated in such a way has a chance to break free upon touching the flower - although they will resist doing so.
The most potent ability of these flowers, however, is that which gave them their name. If but a single bloom is placed on a Vampire’s resting coffin, the Vampire within will be sent into the deepest sleep possible for our kind, short of true death. This effect can only be ended if another creature removes the flower, and a Vampire trapped in such a way risks starvation over the course of many years. I cannot help but wonder if the lily was not an ingredient in the poison that was Strahd’s punishment upon his grandniece, my dearest Lyssa, for her attempt to unseat him as ruler of Barovia.
Unfortunately my efforts to cultivate the plant outside of Valachan were unsuccessful - and, really, even I am not foolish enough to keep a stock of such a plant close to my own home. As a hunter I cannot make effective use of it, and as a Vampire I am as vulnerable as any other to its effects.
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