Hostile planet, hostile plant

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jedion357
June 24, 2013 - 5:34am
I've been auditing a discussion on a gamma world yahoo group http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/gammaworld/

about hostile planet encoutners and this came up:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/sheep-eating-plant-bloom-puya-chilensis-photos_n_3474003.html

a case of truth being stranger than fiction.
I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers!
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Ascent
June 24, 2013 - 7:33am
Next step in its evolutionary phase, its stalk falls onto its victims, puncturing them, then stands back up. A spiked flail plant. Imagine, if you run through a field of those, you would have to keep running until you're all the way out or be flailed on all sides. Anyone chasing you close behind would be flailed.
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