Assassin Vine (Basic Lore)

Assassin Vine (CR 5)
Neutral - Huge - Plant
Assassin Vines are huge vegetable menaces found in the deep forest, hilly or mountainous wilderness, and far too often, in ruins and gardens both above and below the surface. The assassin vine is a carnivorous plant that collects its own grisly fertilizer by smashing animals beneath its massive bulbo-tubers, or corms. These remarkable plants can detect movements in the earth and air and detect changes in light and heat through their broad leaves, giving them exceptional awareness of the area around them. Possessing no intelligence or agenda, they lash out at whatever living things pass nearby, regardless of the target's size, sentience, or potential deadliness. Assassin Vines seen from the ground in dense forest look like a pair of trees close together, each with a massive woody buttress five feet across. If they are in open ground where they can be seen, it becomes apparent that the two 'tree trunks' are actually a single massive vine, easily a foot thick, which has two massive corms, one at each end. The central vine is fifty feet or so in length, and reaches up about twenty feet and loops over to connect both of the massive wooden bulbo-tubers together, the whole being surrounded by bushy vine/branches.