Animated Toadstools

Written by KoshcheiBessmertnyi

Animated toadstools are servants of leshys. They typically surround travelers at night, and begin to dance and taunt them, until the Master shows up. Some may have some sort of power to cloud the mind. There are also reports that particularly large toadstools act as the leshy's lieutenants.
The Yokels encountered such mushrooms in a wood near a standing stone several days north of Krinets. After they defeated the leshy, his mushrooms asked one member of the party to become the new Forest Tsar. Though they were denied, they handed the Yokels a magical sack as tribute (and the price of leaving them in peace). The sack turned out to be cursed, though perhaps useful in the longer run.
The party fleeing from the Kochmak camp outside Udyn, and Misha's servitors also encountered similar mushrooms (the former in the woods near the camp, the latter on the road from Laska to Kliakva).