Editing Changeling Homebrew Hedge Bounty (section)

==Goblin Fruit Hybrids== 

Yes, goblin fruits can be hybridized! The hybrids can either be created intentionally, by accident in the freehold, or by simple fate around a freehold. In all cases, the effects of doing so are unpredictable; however, the following is generally true: 

-they exist only around either the freehold or the hollows where they were created or planted, and only there. If a freehold or hollow is abandoned, the hybrids will disappear
-they are more delicate, or  harder to grow, than normal goblin fruits, hence why they're rare
-they combine the effects of the hybridized plants

Exceptions to all of the above rules exist! The rules for doing so can be found in the sourcebook Rites of Spring. All fruits not mentioned in this document are not homebrew. 

===Wyrmbeetles=== 

An attempt to hybridize the rare fruit wyrmthumb (RoS) and diceberries, in order to get a plant easier to transplant, with the effects of the wyrmthumb. The hybridization took well, the plants grew with minimal fuss, they fruited in gold and crimson... and the berries themselves took flight, scattering about the hollow where they were grown. Worse, the golden bugs produced had deleterious effects, consuming the plants scattered about the hollow, weakening both defenses and garden plants both. The crimson insectoids seem to eat them, and other small Hedge denizens; the problem is that they don't seem to stop growing... 

===Wyrmberries=== 

A second hybridization of wyrmthumb and diceberries, albeit with a different (and possible more disasterous) result. The herbaceous perennial that resulted produces black berries resembling those of the diceberry, flavored between the two parent plants, but with a distinctly mealy (though sticky) texture. The berries added a bit of luck towards any attempt escape either bonds or a pursuer (the player rolls a single die with the 9 again rule in effect and if it comes up with any successes, the next pertinent roll the player makes automatically gains those successes). Better yet, the effect works on mortals AND the berries are not addictive. 

Instead, they're alive. Wormberries are filled with hundreds of egg cases, each of which hatch into mosquito-like larvae if conditions are right- such as a puddle that the berries fall into, or in the stomach of anything that eats the berries a day after doing so. A single berry can have over 100 eggs, whose larvae grow to the size of maggots and are resistant to most treatments, eating all the more- characters who consume them are at risk of malnutrition (see nWoD rulebook on intestinal parasites). Additionally, they require 1 glamour per day per 100 eggs to grow, starting 2 days after they hatch. In changelings or hobgoblins, this can be provided by eating one goblin fruit daily; if not, it's not too hard to sup some from the lining of the stomach. In mortals, however, the only way to get some is to harvest it from the pain caused by burrowing into the stomach- this risks serious infection, incapacitation and possible death. Worse, the worms don't need to harvest the pain of their host; the disgust of a medical examiner or the horror of a doctor do just fine, and the worms are perfectly capable of storing glamour if they think it'll be sparse. 

The worms are resistant to most treatments, both mundane and magical. Between 7 and 56 days after the eggs hatch, depending on the diet (both magical and mundane) of the host, the worms will pupate and exit the digestive tract. Large numbers of worms will cause diarrhea at this stage. Each "die" that can be rolled for successes requires at least 50 worms to be in the gut; once they're removed, or if the berries are cooked (killing the worms), then neither glamour nor the effects are gained. 

Once released, the pupae will hatch into an insect akin to a large mosquito, despite having two extra sets of legs, both knobby and feathery antennae and being as tough as a tick. This insect is perfectly capable of surviving in the mortal world, and is able to create hedge gates for itself, according to rumour. They usually have a difficult time escaping a closed sewage system (and often die down there); however, they can escape most sewage systems in the Hedge, and the diarrhea sometimes solves the problem of escape in the mortal world. Like a mosquito, they also spread disease, both among mortals and the lost; most seem to let mortals see past the mask, fact which doctors have noticed. 

When a mosquito has collected enough nutrition, it finds a nice patch of soil to grow an and grows a new plant. This, thankfully, seems rare; alarmingly, however, it may have happened in the mortal world as well as the Hedge.

===Jennystabs=== 

A hybrid of Jennyapples (RoS, and itself a hybrid of Jennystone and Stabapple) and Stabapples, the results of this attempt was much different from either parent plant. Jennystabs shoot up to 8 feet tall in spring, like a stiff blade of grass, before thickening and putting out twigs with leaves and flowers in early summer and crabapples in autumn. The crabapples grow in bunches of seven and show none of their Jennystone heritage; each bunch is too woody and astringent to eat (1 glamour to digest, but give 1 glamour, net gain.loss of zero), but can be cooked or turned into (hard) cider to get the glamour. When the leaves fall, tall, wooden, sharp stakes are all that's left, which can themselves be harvested at this point, giving either swords or spears. The plant needs all 4 season in order so that it can gain this state. However, the plant always for a lethally-sharp hollow defense.

===Cloverdice=== 

A hybrid of diceberries and the four-leaf clover found just inside of a Hedge gate, cloverdice form sweet-smelling bushes of mostly white (occasionally red) clover flowers with mostly white (occasionally red) cubic (d6) berries. Again, the red berries are the prize; however, they act very differently from diceberries: for each berry eaten, the next (unaffected) roll will recieve an exception success with 3 successes instead of 5; however, the 10-again rule no longer applies, and 1s AND 2s subtract. The white berries still supply glamour, and the red berries are not addictive. The foliage resembles clover, and is technically edible. 

===False Cloverdice=== 

When the cloverdice were made, the grower made a little mistake and included wood sorrel in the mix as well. Thankfully, the luck of the clover held; the false cloverdice somewhat resembles the cloverdice, but has distinct, 5-petaled yellow flowers and yellow cubic berries. The foliage is copious and delicious, going well in a salad (and tastes like wood sorrel at it's finest) and as much nutrition as a similar serving of kale, while the berries have a hint of lemon to them. Neither the foliage nor the berries confer any magical benefit, however, not even glamour.