
### Blighted Forest

Rotted leaves and dead branches litter the ground. The ground is barren and it is eerily silent.

- Hydra crabs. The size of your hand, if you kill one, two more appear to take its place.

- A small woodland creature has been flayed and stuck upside down to a dead tree with a hunting knife.

- Giant rat

- Lost faun trapped in the mud

- [Grab Spider]

- [Double Scorpion]

- A trio of [opultures](#opulture) hangs from a tree.

- Sticky tar pit. Step carefully or become stuck.

- Fire swamp. Pockets of noxious gas here spontaneously combust, shooting jets of flame into the air. Proceed with caution.

- A haunted dried up swamp __perm. The dorsal spines of an ancient sea creature jut up out of the cracked earth creating a row of ominous bleached white stone spires that reach up to the sky like boney fingers of a groping hand. Where rib bones run along the ground, the broken ground is rippling and undulating. The creature's huge skull lies half-buried here, half of its gaping toothy maw exposed, as well as one cavernous hollow eye socket large enough to crawl inside.

    At one point, this was the most lush and fertile area of the whole forest. Now a blight spreads from here into the forest, destroying and corrupting life as it progresses.

    If you have the *__fishtype* effect, read [Protocol G].
