Changeling Homebrew Hedge Bounty

A resource for hedgey things for Changeling the Lost games by sup/tg/.

Hedge Bounty

Goblin Fruit

Common Hedge Poppy

The hedge has many, many different takes on the poppy but just like in the real world, the most common is the wyrd cousin to the opium poppy. Physically they don't appear much different from their mundane relatives, except for their more splendid coloration and blossoms. The latex obtained from scoring the seed pod is far more potent though, a single fruit producing enough to completely numb all pain allowing the changeling to ignore all wound penalties. Unfortunately the line between numbing all pain and numbing everything is very narrow, requiring a successful dex + medicine roll to get the proper amount, otherwise the consumer suffers a -2 penalty to dex and wits rolls thanks to the tingling numbness that overtakes their body. The common hedge poppy can of course be refined into more potent products.

Giant's Mushroom

An absurdly large mushroom. standing easily waist high with characteristic red cap with white spots and often growing in odd corners of the hedge in difficult to reach places, at least not without some climbing involved. While it doesn't taste particularly different from most mundane mushrooms, when someone eats all of it, the giant's mushroom imparts a bit of its size onto the consumer, granting them +1 to their size, complete with the extra health level and a +2 to all athletics roll concerning jumping. Unfortunately, upon taking a level of lethal damage the effect ceases, returning the consumer to their regular size. Should someone have access to two or more of these at once, nothing comes from further eating them.

Oz Poppy

Often appearing in large patches, these poppies come with brilliant scarlet blossoms with seemingly deep pitch black centers and an alluring fragrance. Anyone foolish enough to think these flowers will be in for a surprise as just being near these flowers is enough to lull most into a deep slumber, requiring a stamina + resolve to stay awake, rerolling once every minute with a -1 penalty per minute (up to a penalty of -5) as long as they are around the flowers. Fortunately elementals don't seem to be bothered around these flowers and are completely immune to them and can gather the flowers with ease which have various parts that can be consumed. The seeds, about small handfuls worth, when consumed induce a great feeling of fatigue, making the consumer feel as if they hadn't slept in twice as long as they have. This effect stacks for additional serving of them. The husk of the seed pod can be brewed into a tea, which provides a minor high but follows with an extended sense of calm, giving the imbiber a +1 to all composure rolls but reduces their initiative by 2. Finally, like most poppies, the latex of the seed pod can be consumed which acts a powerful sedative, requiring a stamina + resolve - 3 roll to even stay awake when consumed.

Witch's Butter

A gelatinous mushy fungus resembling a lump of colorful brains, typically yellow though it can range from burnt oranges to golden brown shades, that grows on fallen branches and dead trees in the hedge, most often in autumn. It tastes like butter with musky and pungent spices mixed in and can very easily be used like butter. Consuming a slice of toast's worth of Witch's Butter grants a +1 to all occult rolls for day. Eating more than that it isn't really recommended as the wyrd properties of the goblin fruit gnaw away at the eaters sense of reality, imposing a -1 to all clarity rolls for the next two days for each additional +1 to occult.

Oddments

Flower of the Elements

Sometimes the natural beauty of the elements concentrates enough to blossom into wonderous flowers deep within the hedge, creating floral displays of fire, ice, and so on. Aside from looking very pretty, changelings that know elemental type contracts can extract a further benefit by plucking these flowers; a +1 to elemental contracts of the specified element. If the wear benefits from an elemental contract but it does not match the elemental of the flower, the changeling is then considered to have a single dot in that particular element. Flowers of the elements don't last long however, disappating a day after being plucked unless replanted and cared for properly with a point of willpower and a dab of Glamour.