1. Herbling's Pouch
   
2. Events
   
3. Hero Abilities
   
4. Friendly Monsters
   
5. Themes

Ability: Gather Patch (see 3.1)

A related concept, the Forager aspect keeps track of the hero's foraging level.


A related concept, the Way of the Herbling aspect is granted when equipping the pouch.
Stats: +0.3 Health, +4 Retirement Age



This event is the main trigger for the mod content. It bestows one hero with the Herbling's Pouch and a passion for foraging.

Hostile Site Encounter
Biome: Broadleaf and Pine Forests
Required heroes: 3 (one hero must have an open slot for a talisman)
No heroes in party may have the Herbling's Pouch equipped
Other targeting notes: The event prefers characters with Wildheart, Curious, and Wanderlust hooks for the role receiving the Herbling's Pouch.

This event is a mission victory event that can be triggered after the second forager level.
Required heroes: 2

Herbling Hero (Herbling's Pouch equipped)
Forager level must be bloodleaf (2) or above
The hero must not have a gather fail counter

Second Hero
Must not have skeletal theme

Other targeting notes: The targeting for the second hero prefers a hero who can form a romance or rivalry relationship with Herbling Hero.
Outcomes: The Herbling hero may form a romance, or rivalry if eligible. Receive the Company Cook aspect. This aspect modifies the Gather Patch ability.

This is a mission victory event that can be triggered when the hero has previously failed foraging.

Required heroes: 2
Restrictions: No maimed or killed heroes.

Herbling Hero (Herbling's Pouch equipped)
The herbling hero must have failed the previous gathering attempt

Other targeting notes: The targeting for the second role prefers a rival of Herbling Hero. The second role must not have the Herbling's Pouch equipped.
Outcomes: Herbling Hero receives the Violire Blossoms aspect, which modifies the Gather Patch ability. This modification may be saved into legacy for legacy Herbling Heroes.

This is a mission victory event that can be triggered when the hero has failed two consecutive foragings.

Required heroes: 2
Restrictions: No maimed or killed heroes.

Herbling Hero (Herbling's Pouch equipped)
The herbling hero must have failed two consecutive gathering attempts

Outcomes: Herbling Hero receives the Dry Patch Badgerkin aspect, which modifies the Gather Patch ability. This modification may be saved into legacy for legacy Herbling Heroes.

Tiding

Required hero:

Herbling Hero (Herbling's Pouch equipped)
Forager level bronzebark (4) or above.

Outcome: Herbling Hero receives the Underbrush Refuge aspect with Shelter and Shade ability.

Wilderness Scouting encounter
Biome: Broadleaf and Pine forests
Required heroes: 3

Herbling Hero (Herbling's Pouch equipped)
Forager level must be blueleaf (3) or above

Healer Hero
Healer personality stat must be greater than or equal to 60
Must not have the Herbling's Pouch equipped

Non-healer Hero
Healer personality stat must be less than or equal to 40
Must not have the Herbling's Pouch equipped

Other targeting notes: The event also tries to find a Legacy Hero who is past retirement age, who plays the part of a Mercenary Hero in the event.
Outcomes:
Choice 1: Make sacrifice
Hero Herbling gains Havenbeam Sap aspect with strong Touch of Sap ability. This ability can be saved into legacy for legacy Herbling Heroes.
Gain ally. Chance for ally to take part in further adventures up to two times. (See Sap Father Visit 2.6.1)
If the Havenbeam Sap aspect is saved into Legacy, the ally will also appear in future campaigns up to two times.
Note: If the Havenbeam Sap aspect is saved into legacy, the Herbling Hero is not eligible for the event in future campaigns.

Choice 2: Look away
Hero Herbling gains Havenbeam Sap aspect with weak Touch of Sap ability.
If Mercenary Hero exists, recruit Mercenary Hero.

Mission start encounter

Triggered by: Choice 1 in Utter Sap (2.6)
Required hero: Herbling Hero (Herbling's Pouch equipped)

Outcomes: Sap Father visits Herbling Hero and joins as an ally for the mission. May trigger twice in a campaign. Increases Touch of Sap healed HP on first occasion, grants augment on second occasion.

Hostile Site encounter
Biome: Grasslands
Required heroes: 4

Herbling Hero (Herbling's Pouch equipped)
Forager level bronzebark (4) or above

Coward Hero
Coward personality stat must be greater than or equal to 60

Outcomes:
Choice 1: Make intervention
Unique combat scenario with ally and special defeat clause.

Choice 2: Stay hidden
Generic combat scenario. Trigger job event Research Yellow-Belly Caps in a library or town site. (see A Serendipitous Disposal 2.7.7)

Mission victory for Talking Bushes Choice 1

Required hero: Herbling Hero alive

Outcome: Herbling Hero receives Call of the Shrauv aspect and ability. This ability can be saved into legacy for legacy Hero Herblings. (See Call of the Shrauv)
Note: If the Call of the Shrauv ability is saved into legacy, the Herbling Hero will not be eligible for the Talking Bushes event in future campaigns.

Mission victory for Talking Bushes Choice 1

Required hero: Herbling Hero dead

Outcome: Plain comic.

Mission defeat for Talking Bushes Choice 1

Required hero: Herbling Hero alive

Outcome: Lose control of Coward Hero. Trigger job event Regrow the Vine.

Mission defeat for Talking Bushes Choice 1

Required hero: Herbling Hero dead

Outcome: Plain Comic

Job event

Triggered by: Choice 2 in Talking Bushes
Required hero:

Herbling Hero (Herbling's Pouch equipped)

Outcomes: Gain Dried Yellow-Belly Caps aspect with Yellow-Belly Cloud ability. This ability can be saved into legacy for legacy Herbling Heroes.

Tiding

Required heroes: 2

Herbling Hero (Herbling's Pouch equipped)
Forager level bloodleaf (2) or above

Greedy Hero
Greedy personality stat must be greater than or equal to 60
Must have a level 2 or above relationship (lover, rival, or friend) with Herbling Hero

Outcomes: Gain Trufflesnout as pet and the Nethertruffles aspect. Trigger job event Truffling Matters in random visible town.

Job event

Triggered by: Trufflesnout! tiding.
Required hero:

Herbling Hero (Herbling's Pouch equipped)
Trufflesnout pet alive
Nethertruffles aspect

Outcome: Nethertruffles may be exchanged for goods or enhancements. Unique exchanges occur at 1,2,3,4, and 8 nethertruffles.
Note: More Nethertruffles can be dug up with Trufflesnout's unique ability once per mission.

Hostile Site encounter
Biome: Swamp
Required heroes: 4

Theme eligibility: At least one hero in the party must be eligible for the Pitcher Plant theme:

• No hero in the company may have the Pitcher Plant shoulder pet.
  
• One hero in the party must have open theme slots for the shoulder and wings.

Herbling Hero (must have Herbling's Pouch equipped)
Forager level bronzebark (4) or above

Goofball Hero
Goofball personality stat must be greater than or equal to 60
Must not have Herbling's Pouch equipped

Third Hero
Must not be skeletal
Must have one leg that is NOT prosthetic or morthagi
Must not have the following abilities or upgrades: Fly, Talon Dive, Windwalk or Zealous Leap
Must not have Herbling's Pouch equipped

Fourth Hero (no specific requirements)

Other targeting notes: The event prefers a hero with highest loner score for the Third Hero role.

Outcomes:
Choice 1: Remove infection
Unique scenario with ally
Third Hero speed malus for duration of mission

Choice 2: Gain infection
Unique scenario with ally
Third Hero keeps infection

Mission Victory for A Bogged Odyssey

Required heroes: All heroes and ally alive (..you don't need the goat). (Maims are allowed)

Outcomes:
Primary Choices: The player is granted the Pitcher Plant shoulder pet to an eligible hero of their choice.
Choice 2: Conservation. An area of the swamp is conserved, granting resources at chapter's end.

Note: Primary choices receive an option for either a permanent Pitcher Plant or a non-permanet, campaign specific, Pitcher Plant. (Granting a permanent Pitcher Plant to a Herbling Hero will naturally prevent the hero from finding this event in future campaigns.)

Mission Victory for A Bogged Odyssey

Required heroes: All heroes alive, ally dead. (Maims allowed)

Outcomes: The site can not be secured during this chapter.

Mission Victory for A Bogged Odyssey

Required heroes: At least one dead hero.

Outcomes:
If ally is alive, gain 1 legacy point and conservation granting extra resources at chapter's end.
If ally is dead, the site can not be secured during this chapter.

Ally death event during A Bogged Odyssey

Outcomes:
If a hero eligible for the Pitcher Plant theme is still active, gain choice of a non-permanent Pitcher Plant.

An overland or tiding event following A Bog Odyssey Choice 2

Outcomes:
A hero who chose the infection has a monthly chance of triggering a Fetid Waft (see 3.6). (This is likeliest to occur during an interval).




Granted by: Herbling aspect from Herbling's Pouch item.

Description:(Once per mission) Forage Plants, Bark, and Fungi from adjacent scenery. On success, increase Forager level and gain herbal benefit for mission.
Cost: One action point
Note: Adjacent scenery must have plant or tree aspect (these sceneries are those that enable vine wrench and treecall for mystics). Herbal Benefit increases with forager level.
Herbal Benefits:
This means that a max level 7 forager will receive 3 Temp HP, 14 Stunt Chance and 1 Potency for the mission.

Modifying Aspects:

• Company Cook: Successful foraging slightly deepens party relationships
  
• Violire Blossoms: Failed attempts grant herbal benefit for resentful ally (rival or personality)
  
• Dry Patch Badgerkin: Failed attempts grant temporary Dry Patch Badgerkin ally (for one turn)
  
• Grass Roots Assistance!: Successful foraging hobbles nearby enemies for two turns (received when reaching blackcap (7) forager

Obtained from: Underbrush Refuge tiding (2.5)

Cost: No cost
Description: Once per mission, interact with nearby scenery (tree, plant) to grant Shade and Shelter aura for nearby allies for 2 turns (+14 dodge)


Obtained from: Utter Sap (2.6)
Cost: One action point

Description: Once per mission, heal an adjacent injured ally. Gain herbal benefit dependent on user personality.
Note: Amount of healed HP (1-3) depends on choice in Utter Sap event and subsequent possible Sap Father visit.


Obtained from: An Uprooting (2.7.1)

Cost: One action point, one legacy point
Description: Once per mission, in grasslands, interact with any adjacent scenery to call Shrauv ally. If Shrauv is called twice in a campaign, it will grant Herbling Hero Dried Yellow-Belly Caps aspect with Yellow-Belly Cloud ability.


Obtained from: A Serendipitous Disposal (2.7.7) or Call of the Shrauv (3.4)

Cost: One action point
Description: Once per mission, next to a fire, set a batch of dried Yellow-Belly spores in flames, and enter grayplane with cautious allies. Nearby enemies will be blinded.
Herbal Benefit: Cautious User: 1.4 Speed (Coward >= 51)


Obtained from: Nimble Infection (2.9.5)

At the end of the player turn, the hero's feet release a fetid waft, deterring and knocking back adjacent people (humans). Affected people gain +1 Warding and +14 Stunt Chance for the enemy turn. If affected people are present, the hero's loner personality stat increases (the modifications only last for the campaign).


Obtained from: Utter Sap (2.6)

Sap Father Fungus may visit the Herbling Hero up to two times in subsequent missions. He is a pacifist, incapable of dealing damage, but may heal allies, arch trees, and grant temporary health to all beings around an interfused tree. Sap Father has a pacifist aura, which increases warding and armor at the expense of bonus damage and spell damage.

Obtained from: Talking Bushes (2.7) Choice 1, and Call of the Shrauv (3.4)

The Shrauv are an exiled bloodline of Drauven plainstails who travel in rootfear. Shrauv has a Shed Mind ability, increasing its potency and spell damage to party levels, a pinning Bushwack, the ability to spawn and interfuse with a bush and enter grayplane, and a once per mission use of terror-belly caps, spiking fear in nearby enemies.

Obtained from: Gather Patch (3.1) modified with Dry Patch Badgerkin aspect

The Dry Patch Badgerkin is a hit-and-run fireskirmisher brandishing their trademark fireballs. The Badgerkin matches the Herbling Hero's potency for balance. Dry Patch Badgerkins excel in guerrilla tactics, disappearing at the end of the player turn. (They also have an insane dodge rate.)


The subject of poems and plays, its deeds told across the Yondering. It's a pig.

But it's a Nethertruffle pig! With the ability to dig for Nethertruffles next to (plant, tree) scenery. If enemies are adjacent to Trufflesnout when it digs for truffles, it becomes aggressive, gaining the War Pig aspect, a buff to armor, warding, and potency, and the War Pig Slam skill (think warrior backslam).

As long as Trufflesnout is alive, the Herbling Hero may visit the Nethertruffles dealer in Truffling Matters (2.8.1)


Obtained from: A Final Wade A Farewell Pitch (2.9.1) or Mortal Choice (2.9.4)

The Pilaia Pitcher Plant is a carnivorous fly-trap. Note that it occupies the shoulder pet AND wings slots.
Stats: -5 Charisma

Note: There are technically two Pitcher Plant themes. One theme is permanent and one is non-permanent (similar to petrified limbs). In other respects the two themes are identical. In the mission victory (2.9.1), the player is granted the choice of permanence after choosing an eligible hero. In mortal choice (2.9.4), only the non-permanent theme is obtainable.


Nectar Spout!
(Active) Once per mission, splash a stock of nectar onto distant tiles. Allies and enemies caught up in the nectar will attract swarms of flies, lowering their accuracy for the mission (-14 Melee Accuracy, -21 Ranged Accuracy). The spout splashes nectar onto a random half of the tiles in the area of effect that lasts for 6 turns (3 rounds).

Switcheroot!
(Active) The roots of the Pilaia grapple nearby units. Every other turn as a swift action, swap the places of two nearby single tile units (Range: 2.6 + Bonus Range)