Ishtar

Story
Ishtar Terrarbor was a researcher who had a certain liking for plant life on Ludus. One day, her team was fortunate enough to come across the greatest discovery that someone like Ishtar could have unearthed on Ludus-Prime: the Wonder Jungle. Ishtar's team found that the Jungle was surrounded by a barrier all around, and also that there was a certain place where something the teamed dubbed the "Telepathy Board" sent out telepathic messages in the forms of rhyming riddles, most of which sounded like they were written by teenagers. After a weak of being stationed near there, a message from the Telepathy Board called Ishtar and a small number of its accompanying researchers-- but not all of them-- to be able to enter the Jungle. Though the others were apprehensive, Ishtar quickly accepted the invitation and ran in, prompting the others to more carefully go in as well and try to find it.

After traversing the dangerous Jungle with reckless abandon, childlike overjoyedness, and relative ease, a tired Ishtar laid down near a patch of vines to catch her breath. After laying down for some time, Ishtar decided to get back up, before realizing that the vines were now restraining and slowly pulling it into the ground. Although Ishtar put effort into doing everything she believed would cause the vines to release (struggling, not struggling, moving in specific ways, etc.), the vines were unrelenting. After a short time, Ishtar had fallen asleep, and would not wake up.

After years and years, the vines that had united Ishtar to the earth had worked some sort of magic to turn Ishtar into a tree.