Storm on the Horizon

Verge is a small fishing village, and there aren't any stores to be found. Even if there were, it's doubtful they would stock something as rare as wolfsbane. But after asking around, you are directed to old Vlaidslav, a fisherman with murky eyes and skin weathered and tanned like old leather. He tells you how in his youth, he wandered away from the village, and distinctly remembers seeing the plant growing in the woods west of the town.

He also remembers seeing spiderwebs hanging from the trees and the shrubs, more than he has ever seen in his life. Before running away, he swears he has seen an entire deer suspended between the tangles of sticky webbing...

What do you do?

You leave Verge behind and venture west, into the dark forest. The air slowly grows dam and heavy, and the canopy of the trees loom above you. You trudge along for hours, the forest slowly closing tighter and tighter around you with each step you take. Eventually, the deer path you follow narrows further until it ends up in a thicket with strands of silk strung between the branches. Farther ahead, entire tree trunks are covered in webbings, and the air itself smells of decay, and rotten carcasses.

Several coccon-like shapes dangle from the trees above you. You can identify lumps of fur and antlers wrapped tightly in spider webbings, other look like outlines of boars, or maybe wolves. But most disturbing was an unmistakable outline of a humanoid figure, wrapped in thick silk, arms and legs pressed tightly against its body.

Underneath it all, is a blueish-purplish shimmer of petals beneath the webbings. Barns immediately identified the plant they came for, but the flowers lie directly beneath the webbing, spread all over the forest floor. Any attempt to reach them has a high risk of disturbing the webs, and whatever monstrous creatures spun them.

What do you do?