Dead Dryad

8. Dead Dryad. A heap of rotting wood lies against the wall. Several thin, knotty roots reach out of the pile at a strange angle and plunge into the earth.

• The wood is the curled-up body of a dryad. Her rootlike fingers burrow into the earth and fuse with the roots of the gorgoth tree in Area 4. A +1 Dagger of Venom (1/day weep scorpion poison for 1d4 rounds) is buried in her back. Removing it causes the gorgoth tree to become an ordinary apple tree in 2d6 days.