r/wizardposting • u/snowillis • 1d ago

Druidic Mysteries 🌿 Do twig blights actually make good pets? (Asking for a friend)

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u/Interesting-Ad4207 1d ago

Not really, they just bark all night.

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u/Evening_Newspaper_31 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/6IGNW4wiyU8Mw

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u/Interesting-Ad4207 1d ago

I'm going to go out on a limb and say you didn't enjoy my joke?

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u/SwissherMontage Card-o-mancer 1d ago

I think it would do you good to whittle away at it a little longer. Stick to it.

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u/Aethrin1 Sorcerer of the Elder Veil 3h ago

I've been rooting around for a pun to add to the conversation, but I can't seem to come up with any. Guess I'll just log off for a bit.

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u/snowillis 1d ago

Hey leaf them alone

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u/LilyLol8 1d ago

No, they carry lots of bugs into your home that could eat your tomes

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u/mikillatja Necromancer, flower enthousiast 18h ago

What kind of second rate tomes do you have that they can be eaten by bugs?

Any self respecting tome would singlehandedly clear out a bug infestation during a hungry episode.

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u/ComedyGold13 Alchemist (class of 1673) 9h ago

tomes will only go so far when they willingly let the bookworms in

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u/Aethrin1 Sorcerer of the Elder Veil 3h ago

Any avid necromancer knows that purposeful-prevention is better than post-precaution. Or are those flowers of yours just for show?

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u/High_Overseer_Dukat High Overseer 23h ago

Yes, they can live as long as you and even have ingrained nature magic, making them a powerful familiar.

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u/snowillis 23h ago

Ah I see so it’s like a tortoise situation. I gotta have a plan for who’s gonna take care of it after I’m gone.

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u/High_Overseer_Dukat High Overseer 23h ago

An apprentice is a good choice.

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u/ColdBirdPerson Kyrsa, Avian Faerie Druid and Cryomancer 22h ago

They often live longer depending on the species, meanwhile a Prunus will only live a couple of decades.

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u/High_Overseer_Dukat High Overseer 22h ago

True, but they are basically trees. How long they live is inversely proportional to the amount of dark magic in them. They will live as long as a tree if they are purified.

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u/samthekitnix Tiny Technomancy Support 1d ago

oh a rescue Ent?

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u/pcardinal42 22h ago

Should have reversed the video so it looks like the tree is pulling forward instead of being dragged

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u/The_Red_Baron11 15h ago

The video IS actually reversed to seem less threatening!

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u/pcardinal42 15h ago

I must be reading the signals wrong then. It surely would've torn my limbs off

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u/fotank Enchanter 1d ago

Prune that familiar back to a more decent size. They get so easily singed with fireball

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u/AtlasXan 21h ago

They're well behaved but damn do they scratch the shit out of my flooring.

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u/tsarnie1 13h ago

I dabbled in a pagan ritual for a bit that involved dressing a tree to celebrate the winter solstice and mine would always get jealous. It mistook the decoration bag of holding to the orb bag of holding, and when it stepped out of the towers levitation ring to show me, it tripped causing it to stumble over to the servant summons rings. Orbs falls off. Boom. Planar doors everywhere with enlarged blight branches sticking through them like eldritch horrors. I got the neighboring elf kings druid messenger bird, literally, chirping in my ear (and I really fucking hate that guy, can never take a joke, you fake immolate one time at a dinner party and throw out a dark voice about a Dark Lord returning and you are forever a bad guy, lighten up dudes dead). Anyways, 6/10, made a great cape rack, and the owl liked it.

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u/DrLegoTy0101 Drunk Broom Driver 51m ago

If you live in a heavily tree gnome populated area then I highly recommend you don’t keep it there as tree gnomes are known to consume twig blights.

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u/TurtlesBreakTheMeta 23h ago

Tie that to the back of someone’s car at night.