[Herb Lore] - Hiding Moss

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Information

Hiding Moss is a deep verdant-green moss that expands rapidly when exposed to light from it's inert form. Within light, Hiding Moss is considered normally sized and mundane in comparison to any mundane moss. However, when obscured by darkness for longer than a minute, the moss would significantly reduce itself in volume, no matter it's original size shrinking to the size of one's palm in a dense but light ball. Hiding Moss is known for it's extremely absorbent nature and it's ability to release an  extremely humid mist when contracted. When used to dress wounds, the wound itself would shrink by half over the course of twelve narrative hours.

 

Alternatively, Hiding Moss would act as a very strong water purifier in survival situations, and when contracting would release a significant amount of it's weight in water through mist. Were one to crush or squeeze the moss deliberately, it would release a cup of sterile, tasteless water per square meter of it's original size. 

 

Found solely in the western swamps of Aevos, Hiding Moss would continue to exhibit it's odd behaviors even when removed from it's original environment.

 

Signs/Symbols

 

Earth | Reduction (x3)

Earth | Fear (x2)
Earth | Dark (x2)

 

 

Redlines

-Hiding moss is noded through the botany plugin. Items made using hiding moss are NOT ST Signed.

-The contracting or expanding force of hiding moss is slow and gradual, always taking the path of least resistance. It cannot be used to bind, wrap, crush, or flood someone.

-Hiding moss cannot be combined with one another and act as individual organisms when in their inert form.

-When processed for it's signs and symbols, the herb would lose it's raw effects and harvested capabilities.

-Hiding moss's weight is not proportional to it's original size in it's contracted form. When contracted, Hiding Moss sheds almost all of it's weight and is extremely dry and nonabsorbent.

-Swallowing Hiding Moss is harmless and would cause at most stomach upset. 

-Hiding Moss only expands when exposed to sunlight for over a minute and contracted when exposed to darkness for over a minute.