{{Infobox expedition log
| title = Flesh & Metal
| date = 2/18/26
| storyteller = Tire
| tier_of_play = Expert
| player_characters = [[Swaying Petals]], [[Peaches]], [[Kaina]], [[Father Sunstone]]
| rewards = 350 xp, 808 gp, Fossil Fragment (Deinonychus Claw), Dragonic Verge, Rending Gauntlets (lesser), Orc Headsplitter
| result = Success
| author = [[Swaying Petals]] (Cloyster)
| downtime_days = 15
}}
(associates return to the Lost Temple to encounter more constructs)
==Log==

''Log penned by Swaying Petals''

We got a call back from the Ratfolk archeologists at the Lost Temple. Last time we fought off some constructs, but as they have dug deeper they have felt that they are being watched. So Peaches, Kaina, Father Sunstone, and I (I’m Swaying Petals by the way, hi!) traveled to the Lost Valley deep in the wilderness. It was strange to have another cleric of Sarenrae with us, as we both filled similar roles, but I didn’t really mind! It’s nice to have some like-minded peers and I don’t mind sharing the spotlight.
We went through the passages we had traveled and built upon the last time we were here and descended down a circular stairwell until we found a circular room with walls lined with pipes and tubes and a reservoir of this green liquid that Kaina said was poison that would melt your flesh! Yikes! So taking a step back from that, we went to the door to the south and Peaches quickly sniffs out the smell of motor oil and soon enough, a bunch of robots surround us! They were different from last time, some looking like dinosaurs or dogs. Peaches didn’t hesitate to unleash the smack down on each robot with her staff! And soon we finish them off.

We find a jail area that had cages of various sizes and several torture devices. In one large cell, we see scrape marks made by boney claws that continue into the next room. As Father Sunstone tracked them, Kaina busts down a blocked door and we discover a horrible room! It was a large room with shelves of specimens on the wall, but the room was filled with torture devices that had mutilated and decayed corpses strung over them! It was awful to see, but upon examination, it seemed like the corpses had only been decaying for 2 years. Given how old the place was, that doesn’t make any sense! But Peaches remembered 2 years ago the barrier protecting and preserving the temple was broken, so that barrier must have preserved things here.

There was a suspicious pile of bones in the corner of the room, a mix of humanoid and animal bones. We were wary given the scratch marks from earlier, so Father Sunstone tried to attack it with a divine lance while Kaina threw a weapon at it. And sure enough, it shambled to life! Father Sunstone and I acted nearly simultaneously, but I tried to identify what time of undead it was, but it didn’t look like it was undead at all! Some sort of construct, I guess. It had dinosaur skulls on its head, shoulders and hands and it resisted the magic from my spells and Peaches attacks and Kaina started focusing on it. We heard shambling from a room behind us, and soon enough a ginormous fleshwarp behemoth slithers into the room! It was frightening to look at, but I sang a song to distract it. It grabbed and attacked Peaches, who was enlarged. I realized that it had the same properties as undead! So I blasted it with a heal spell and boy it was maaadddd!! It dropped Peaches and grabbed me in her place! I barely managed to wiggle out and finish it off with another healing spell.

But meanwhile, Kaina was still battling the Skeleton construct. The construct was afflicting Kaina with some sort of curse and before we knew it, Kaina suddenly turned to a boney stone! We finished off the weakened skeleton and rushed to Kaina, but they were petrified and there was nothing we could do. At least here. Peaches scouted the dungeon as a beetle, and as the coast was clear, we explored the place, found a few magic items, and then we used a spare cart to load up Kaina’s statue and we (and by ‘we’ I mean Peaches, she is so strong) carried Kaina out of there. Father Sunstone summoned a stead to help carry Kaina, so I hope we can get them treated in Onadbyr soon! I felt useless as I couldn’t help poor Kaina, who already suffers from Malaria, but no one else could help her either, so I’m glad we can take her back to town at least. Once Kaina wakes up, I’ll try to make sure no one calls him a bonehead!

Swaying Petals

2026-02-19T05:32:05Z

CloysterOyster: /* Assignments Attended */

{{Infobox Associate
| name = Swaying Petals
| image = [[File:SwayingPetals portrait.png|300px|frameless|center|alt=A smiling sunflower creature raising one hand and holding a scimitar in the other. She has white clothing and a leaf skirt. Sun rays glow from behind her head on a white background.|Swaying Petals Portrait]]
| class = Cleric
| occupation = Healer and Entertainer (Singer)
| tier_of_play = Trainee
| adopting_storyteller = Open
| ancestry = Leshy
| heritage = Fruit Leshy
| aliases = Petals
| pronouns = She/Her
| age = 26
| height = 2'9’’
| partner = none
| relatives = Dane the Insane, Unknown Leshies
| status = Alive
| player = Cloyster
}}
== Appearance ==
Swaying Petals is a 2’9’’ tall Leshy that takes the appearance of a sunflower, with bright yellow petals surrounding her freckled, smiling face covered in sunflower seeds. She has a lanky green body with stubby legs and large leaves that act as her hands. She wears white explorers clothing and leaves resembling a skirt cover her lower half.

The fruit that grows on Petals is a large sunflower seed that is retrieved by pinching her cheek. She doesn’t like to give the seed for people to eat, however, so she will only do so if pressed or in an emergency.

== Background ==
Swaying Petals (or Petals for short) was created by a human Druid named Dane the Insane alongside many other leshies. Dane was a disheveled wild-man whose main fashion accessory was a pot that he used as a helmet. He lived alone in the woods and spoke in a babbling near gibberish that only plants could understand. Dane lived a peaceful life until one day his grove was beset by hordes of zombies. Dane beat back wave after wave, but as the hordes of undead never seemed to end, he used his druidic magic to slowly create a small Leshy army to help him protect his home. So one day, years into Dane’s war against this seemingly endless zombie horde, he created Swaying Petals. She felt an immediate connection to the sun and took to the tomes of the literature of Sarenrae, and joined the small platoon of plants that also followed the faith. She found her place supporting her allies not only with divine healing, but also through singing as she sang to others as she healed and fought in order to keep up morale in the long, grueling battles. She always tried to keep a smile on everyone’s face.

While she trained and studied hard to live up to the expectations of her creator and other Leshies, the relentless undead forces were eventually too much to deal with. She watched as day by day, more of her Leshy comrades were eaten by the undead masses. Ground continued to be lost until finally they were pushed back to the grove itself to make a last stand. Dane, sensing that the battle was lost, heroically dived headfirst into the undead horde, shouting to the remaining Leshies to escape with their lives. Fearing for her life and not wanting to join all the fallen Leshies, she turned and fled the grove along with the few other Leshies still agile enough to run. As Leshies had never left the grove, they quickly became lost and were ambushed by pursuing zombies. The Leshies scattered as it was every plant for themselves and Petals kept running, never looking back, until her legs gave out. It was deep into the night and Petals collapsed, safe, but alone. Over the next several years, she wandered the countryside, exploring the ruins of the world and meeting unfamiliar, but friendly, creatures. She used her singing talents to improve her reputation and earn enough coin to stay at inns. She holds onto hope in her heart that somehow her creator and mentor Dane the Insane is still alive and vows to return to the grove one day, to drive all of the undead out.

In the year 228, it has been around 5 years since Dane the Insane’s grove was overrun, and Petals has finally wandered into the largest metropolis she has ever seen: [[Onadbyr]]. She was amazed at the scale of the operation of the [[The Round Table|Round Table]] and signed up as an associate in order to put her skills to good use and make the world a better place. With any luck, she can find peers to travel with her to lost home, but she knows she needs to learn a lot more before she is strong enough to return.

== Personality ==
Petals is a fun loving, bubbly airhead who always strives to bring smiles to people’s faces. This does not apply to any undead, zombies or otherwise. She hates undead and will light up a heal spell upon seeing any, but she can be convinced to not smite undead if a friend vouches for them. She loves to sing and to lighten everyone’s spirits. She is very naive and unfamiliar with the world. She is very excitable and uses the phrase “Oh my gosh” a bit too frequently.

She doesn’t think very highly of herself and single mindedly pursues being useful to others. She is a pushover and will buckle under any social pressure or coercion. She served her creator, Dane, and now Sarenrae and she feels the need to follow the path laid out by them because that is what she was “made” to do. She does have a passion in life for singing and daydreams about one day becoming a famous singer, but she has put those dreams aside to do more important work healing people and eradicating undead.

She tries to put on a brave face, but she is actually rather fearful. She impulsively attacks undead on sight because she saw countless of her peers be eaten alive by undead hordes. As such, she is deathly afraid of being eaten alive and doesn’t like to hand out her healing sunflower seed often as she does not want people to get used to eating a part of her.

== Trivia ==
* Her name is a reference to the American rapper, singer, and songwriter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swae_Lee Swae Lee], who wrote the song "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_(Post_Malone_and_Swae_Lee_song) Sunflower]" which was released for the accompanying soundtrack to the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018).
* Swaying Petals does not like zombies on our lawn.

== Assignments Attended ==
° - Log penned by Petals

Winter 231
* [[Flesh & Metal]], 2/18/26 °

Fall 231
* [[Descent Into The Temple]], 1/9/26

Winter 230
* [[The Monster Mash: The Sequel: The Trivia Game]], 10/27/25
* [[Issues in Munavri Way]], 10/17/25 °

Fall 230
* [[Munchaucher's Proxy]], 9/5/25 °

Summer 230
* [[It's a Trap!]], 8/30/25 °

Spring 230
* [[A Gasp of Rot]], 7/19/25
* [[Descent Into War]], 7/11/25 °
* [[On the Prowl]], 7/9/25
* [[Please Help]], 7/7/25 °

Winter 229
* [[The Silent Audience]], 6/16/25
* [[HO ahWt A githN!]], 6/2/25 °

Fall 229
* [[The Feline at Fault]], 5/28/25
* [[Three Nights at Lady's]], 5/15/25

Summer 229
* [[Army of the Knight]], 4/21/25 °
* [[A Lord's Ransom]], 4/9/25

Spring 229
* [[Fly Me To The Moon (Part 3)]], 3/26/25 °
* [[Fly Me To The Moon (Part 2)]], 3/12/25 °
* [[An Explosive Arrival]], 3/8/25 °
* [[Fly Me To The Moon (Part 1)]], 3/5/25 °

Winter 228
* [[Rock on, Owlbears]], 2/18/25
* [[A Warm and Fuzzy Feeling]], 2/17/25 °
* [[A Lukewarm Reception]], 2/9/25

Fall 228
* [[Holy Sweepers]], 1/29/25 °

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Petal Expression Sketches 1.png|Swaying Petals Expression Sketches 1
Petal Expression Sketches 2.png|Swaying Petals Expression Sketches 2
</gallery>

Swaying Petals

2025-11-05T16:29:57Z

CloysterOyster: /* Assignments Attended */

{{Infobox Associate
| name = Swaying Petals
| image = [[File:SwayingPetals portrait.png|300px|frameless|center|alt=A smiling sunflower creature raising one hand and holding a scimitar in the other. She has white clothing and a leaf skirt. Sun rays glow from behind her head on a white background.|Swaying Petals Portrait]]
| class = Cleric
| occupation = Healer and Entertainer (Singer)
| tier_of_play = Trainee
| adopting_storyteller = Open
| ancestry = Leshy
| heritage = Fruit Leshy
| aliases = Petals
| pronouns = She/Her
| age = 26
| height = 2'9’’
| partner = none
| relatives = Dane the Insane, Unknown Leshies
| status = Alive
| player = Cloyster
}}
== Appearance ==
Swaying Petals is a 2’9’’ tall Leshy that takes the appearance of a sunflower, with bright yellow petals surrounding her freckled, smiling face covered in sunflower seeds. She has a lanky green body with stubby legs and large leaves that act as her hands. She wears white explorers clothing and leaves resembling a skirt cover her lower half.

The fruit that grows on Petals is a large sunflower seed that is retrieved by pinching her cheek. She doesn’t like to give the seed for people to eat, however, so she will only do so if pressed or in an emergency.

== Background ==
Swaying Petals (or Petals for short) was created by a human Druid named Dane the Insane alongside many other leshies. Dane was a disheveled wild-man whose main fashion accessory was a pot that he used as a helmet. He lived alone in the woods and spoke in a babbling near gibberish that only plants could understand. Dane lived a peaceful life until one day his grove was beset by hordes of zombies. Dane beat back wave after wave, but as the hordes of undead never seemed to end, he used his druidic magic to slowly create a small Leshy army to help him protect his home. So one day, years into Dane’s war against this seemingly endless zombie horde, he created Swaying Petals. She felt an immediate connection to the sun and took to the tomes of the literature of Sarenrae, and joined the small platoon of plants that also followed the faith. She found her place supporting her allies not only with divine healing, but also through singing as she sang to others as she healed and fought in order to keep up morale in the long, grueling battles. She always tried to keep a smile on everyone’s face.

While she trained and studied hard to live up to the expectations of her creator and other Leshies, the relentless undead forces were eventually too much to deal with. She watched as day by day, more of her Leshy comrades were eaten by the undead masses. Ground continued to be lost until finally they were pushed back to the grove itself to make a last stand. Dane, sensing that the battle was lost, heroically dived headfirst into the undead horde, shouting to the remaining Leshies to escape with their lives. Fearing for her life and not wanting to join all the fallen Leshies, she turned and fled the grove along with the few other Leshies still agile enough to run. As Leshies had never left the grove, they quickly became lost and were ambushed by pursuing zombies. The Leshies scattered as it was every plant for themselves and Petals kept running, never looking back, until her legs gave out. It was deep into the night and Petals collapsed, safe, but alone. Over the next several years, she wandered the countryside, exploring the ruins of the world and meeting unfamiliar, but friendly, creatures. She used her singing talents to improve her reputation and earn enough coin to stay at inns. She holds onto hope in her heart that somehow her creator and mentor Dane the Insane is still alive and vows to return to the grove one day, to drive all of the undead out.

In the year 228, it has been around 5 years since Dane the Insane’s grove was overrun, and Petals has finally wandered into the largest metropolis she has ever seen: [[Onadbyr]]. She was amazed at the scale of the operation of the [[The Round Table|Round Table]] and signed up as an associate in order to put her skills to good use and make the world a better place. With any luck, she can find peers to travel with her to lost home, but she knows she needs to learn a lot more before she is strong enough to return.

== Personality ==
Petals is a fun loving, bubbly airhead who always strives to bring smiles to people’s faces. This does not apply to any undead, zombies or otherwise. She hates undead and will light up a heal spell upon seeing any, but she can be convinced to not smite undead if a friend vouches for them. She loves to sing and to lighten everyone’s spirits. She is very naive and unfamiliar with the world. She is very excitable and uses the phrase “Oh my gosh” a bit too frequently.

She doesn’t think very highly of herself and single mindedly pursues being useful to others. She is a pushover and will buckle under any social pressure or coercion. She served her creator, Dane, and now Sarenrae and she feels the need to follow the path laid out by them because that is what she was “made” to do. She does have a passion in life for singing and daydreams about one day becoming a famous singer, but she has put those dreams aside to do more important work healing people and eradicating undead.

She tries to put on a brave face, but she is actually rather fearful. She impulsively attacks undead on sight because she saw countless of her peers be eaten alive by undead hordes. As such, she is deathly afraid of being eaten alive and doesn’t like to hand out her healing sunflower seed often as she does not want people to get used to eating a part of her.

== Trivia ==
* Her name is a reference to the American rapper, singer, and songwriter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swae_Lee Swae Lee], who wrote the song "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunflower_(Post_Malone_and_Swae_Lee_song) Sunflower]" which was released for the accompanying soundtrack to the film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018).
* Swaying Petals does not like zombies on our lawn.

== Assignments Attended ==
° - Log penned by Petals

Winter 230
* [[The Monster Mash: The Sequel: The Trivia Game]], 10/27/25
* [[Issues in Munavri Way]], 10/17/25 °

Fall 230
* [[Munchaucher's Proxy]], 9/5/25 °

Summer 230
* [[It's a Trap!]], 8/30/25 °

Spring 230
* [[A Gasp of Rot]], 7/19/25
* [[Descent Into War]], 7/11/25 °
* [[On the Prowl]], 7/9/25
* [[Please Help]], 7/7/25 °

Winter 229
* [[The Silent Audience]], 6/16/25
* [[HO ahWt A githN!]], 6/2/25 °

Fall 229
* [[The Feline at Fault]], 5/28/25
* [[Three Nights at Lady's]], 5/15/25

Summer 229
* [[Army of the Knight]], 4/21/25 °
* [[A Lord's Ransom]], 4/9/25

Spring 229
* [[Fly Me To The Moon (Part 3)]], 3/26/25 °
* [[Fly Me To The Moon (Part 2)]], 3/12/25 °
* [[An Explosive Arrival]], 3/8/25 °
* [[Fly Me To The Moon (Part 1)]], 3/5/25 °

Winter 228
* [[Rock on, Owlbears]], 2/18/25
* [[A Warm and Fuzzy Feeling]], 2/17/25 °
* [[A Lukewarm Reception]], 2/9/25

Fall 228
* [[Holy Sweepers]], 1/29/25 °

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
Petal Expression Sketches 1.png|Swaying Petals Expression Sketches 1
Petal Expression Sketches 2.png|Swaying Petals Expression Sketches 2
</gallery>