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[The Legendary Shark]

What the police don't know is that Bazzer had to cut the mystic tree down to prevent the High Cedric, Maximal Druid of the Putrescence Clan, from using the tree's life energy to open a portal to the Undervibe in order to release the demonikind ravager known as Destroiatrix the Foul. Bazzer saved the world but nobody's ever gonna believe him.

Poor Bazzer.

[Funt Solo]

Personally, I prefer the tree gradually growing through the miscreant route as a just, appropriate and deserved fate. (I might be wrong on this, but did something similar not happen to one of the characters within the myths of Game of Thrones? Or am I thinking of another series or movie?)

The three-eyed raven was, indeed, part-man, part-tree, with the power to witness any moment in time from any location, and also to warg into, well, a raven.

I've also a vague memory of trees or roots rapidly growing up through baddies. Was this in Slaine, perhaps?

[The Legendary Shark]

You might be thinking of bamboo torture. Or maybe the Thistlebone story Poisoned Roots.

[M.I.K.]

I'm sure folk on t'internet have already said this, and I'm not saying it's totally implausible, but that's a suspiciously professional looking tree-felling for a 16 year old.

[Funt Solo]

I've also a vague memory of trees or roots rapidly growing up through baddies. Was this in Slaine, perhaps?

Maybe biowire from Cinnabar.

[Le Fink]

I've also a vague memory of trees or roots rapidly growing up through baddies. Was this in Slaine, perhaps?

Maybe biowire from Cinnabar.

The scene from Slaine Sky Chariots where worms came up through a Drune Lord (is that right?), who looked a bit tree-like

[JayzusB.Christ]

I've also a vague memory of trees or roots rapidly growing up through baddies. Was this in Slaine, perhaps?

Maybe biowire from Cinnabar.

Sounds about right, though it had already been established as a Nort weapon long before cinnabar.  Cinnabar was its origin story, and also a demonstration of just how nasty a way to die it was

[sheridan]

I've also a vague memory of trees or roots rapidly growing up through baddies. Was this in Slaine, perhaps?

Maybe biowire from Cinnabar.

Sounds about right, though it had already been established as a Nort weapon long before cinnabar.  Cinnabar was its origin story, and also a demonstration of just how nasty a way to die it was

The first biowire story was in the batch of progs which was given to me by a neighbour and started my long slide into Squaxxdom.  Around the 310s-320s back in 1983.

[Richard]

Prog 317.

[Funt Solo]

[JayzusB.Christ]

That's the one.  I had thought it was introduced in Cinnabar, being a very John Smith way of shredding human flesh, but was delighted to find it was a nod to continuity. I also hadn't realised that Bagman's mental instability was a similar gathering up of Finley-Day plot threads.  What Finley-Day didn't include was inter-species orgies, future AIDS, soldiers smoking weed, and Gunnar making jokes about incestuous paedophilia.

I loved Cinnabar.  You'll hear someone who looks like me but with a strange, whiney voice discussing it at length with Eamonn on the Mega City Book Club podcast.

[rogue69]

Is this really the best way to get a new generation into the art classics? turning Van Gogh's artworks into Pokemon

https://nerdist.com/article/pokemon-van-gogh-collaboration-reveals-new-promo-card-and-museum-adventures/?

[M.I.K.]

Yes. Yes, it is.

[Funt Solo]

I've also a vague memory of trees or roots rapidly growing up through baddies. Was this in Slaine, perhaps?

Maybe biowire from Cinnabar.

The scene from Slaine Sky Chariots where worms came up through a Drune Lord (is that right?), who looked a bit tree-like

Aha! I think my vague memory was pointing at this scene from Zenith:

[Le Fink]

Aha! I think my vague memory was pointing at this scene from Zenith:

Ah yes. Some evocative onomatopoeia in there too.