Space Opera - The Drip Chronicles

Originally posted on MSPA by thriggle.

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Declare everlasting love for the sappling and defend it from the approaching savages!

You will not let your newfound friendship be destroyed by this planet's SAVAGE BARBARIANS. You brandish your charred ZAP GUN threateningly at the approaching SAVAGES.



The SAVAGES scamper off toward the distant PRIMITIVE VILLAGE.

> I have no idea how ZENOBOTANY works, but use it to check out the BLOSSOM.

Now that your beloved SAPLING is safe from the SAVAGES, you attempt to make a XENOBOTANY skill check to study the newly grown FRIENDSHIP BLOSSOM.

You can't make heads or tails of this suspicious BLOSSOM. It seems to share traits from both the Rosoideae and Droseraceae families, but that's speaking in terms of plain old boring botany, not XENOBOTANY. You suspect that your XENOBOTANY skill is too low at this point, which sort of makes sense, seeing as your entire knowledge of the field comes from your firsthand experience of being ingested by deadly SAVAGE FOLIAGE.