The Mossy Mouthful

The Mossy Mouthful is a vegan/raw food restaurant and performance space patronized by earnest Druids who sing about Gaia a lot. Chauncey Meander ate here the night before the disaster with the curse. He was also the target of an obliviax attack. His memories are in a random obliviax and the PCs may ingest it (see below).

The owner of the Mossy Mouthful, Wyvern Wandralon (who finds gender binaries very tiring and so goes by the pronoun wyv, “with a y”) is sitting outside, distraught and wyv says that something weird is going on inside and cannot be persuaded to go back in under any circumstances. If questioned, Wyvern will say that wyv was given some moss in a pot by a devoted customer and wyv was growing it on a windowsill in the kitchen and it seems to have "gone wrong".

Wyvern Wandrolon Credit: Raffelia

The moss was, in fact, obliviax which grows quickly in sunlight and if it gets the proper food; memories. Due to the musical/magical environment and the curse the obliviax has become more powerful than usual.

The Mossy Mouthful is a faux grove. Instead of chairs and tables there are boulders and the floor is covered with a carpet of grass.

Using their stolen magic, the obliviaxes animated some 1 and a half foot high clay planters in the shape of giants that Wyvern had in the restaurant for growing wheat grass so that they can run around. The obliviaxes are riding atop the mini-giants like green afro chia pets on the rampage looking for more memories to steal. They seek to avoid melee combat preferring to snipe at anyone with their remaining memory drains or stolen spells.

There are eight obliviax/clay mini-giants.

They are plant constructs. They can't be charmed, paralyzed, poisoned or petrified.

AC 13

HP 8 (but see below)

Speed 25 ft.

Spell save DC 16 (spells are cast at the DC of the creature they were stolen from).

Four have spells readied; Grasping vine, Heat Metal (4th level, 4d8 damage), Call Lightning, Giant Insect. The other four have memory attacks readied.

If an obliviax takes 8 hp of damage bludgeoning both obliviax and statue are destroyed (ie. Both are dead and the obliviax can't be eaten). If obliviax and statue take 8 points of fire damage, the obliviax is destroyed and the statue is okay. If another kind of damage the statue is destroyed and the obliviax becomes immobile (ie. Can be eaten).

As an action on its turn an obliviax can target any creature within 60' of it with a memory attack. Once it has fed it is gorged and will not use this attack for another 24 hours. The target creature makes a wisdom save against a DC 13. If it fails, the target creature becomes stunned for 1d6 rounds and then is as if poisoned for 1d4 hours (basically confused, with no memory of the previous day's events).

If the obliviax successfully attacks a creature that has a spell casting ability it steals one spell from that creature picked at random. The caster does not remember that spell until the poisoned condition ends. The obliviax can now use that spell for 24 hours by taking 1 round to create a small, mossy version of the caster.

Any druid of level 3 or higher or a PC making a DC 12 nature check recognizes that these are obliviaxes and knows that in order to regain the memory, including the spell, the affected creature must eat the obliviax that ingested the memory.

It is possible to eat someone else's memory or memorized spell. To eat an obliviax (it must be alive) the eater makes a DC 13 CON save. If s/he succeeds s/he is briefly nauseous and then remembers the forgotten memories stollen by the obliviax including one spell. If S/he fails, s/he is sick for 1d6 rounds (as if poisoned). If one attempts to eat the memories of another the DC is 15. A creature cannot gain more than one extra spell this way, casts it with his/her own spell casting modifiers and at a level s/he can cast (if s/he cannot cast the spell then it is lost via a mossy burp) and loses the spell after 24 hours. If the PC s ask, obliviax tastes like eating a lawn after the goats have been by and screams all the way down.