Alzar wants some additional protection beyond the Wand and Defoliant. But for now he’ll see.
Alzar heads in from the south side. To the right is a large plant with purple blossoms and and branh-less but fern-like foliage over it, a bit like an evil palm-tree:
Alzar’s isn’t that good on his plant knowledge, but there are a few animals that have been poisoned and killed by the tree’s sap here. Alzar wants to kill it. Meanwhile, to the left are a large patch of whgat appears to be open grass.
The blades of this grass have become corkscrewed, and they are boring into a human skeleton that is here. The grass is a large patch, and it’s looking really lethal across the board. Alzar reaches down and plucks a few blades to examine them, and then places them in a Jar of Preserving for later use or research. Then he uses the defoliant and kills a 10x10 patch of the stuff dead. He steps into and through it, to the left of the tree, and moves north.