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fungi_notpunnyHi. I'm... Hunting and wilderness. [The voice is young and female, a vaguely midwestern US accent, who pointedly offers no name. She stutters every now and again, but tries to stay casual as she speaks.] Sorry about all the--overgrowth. This message is about all of that. Um.
The city is too big for me to really go around yelling all the plants off the buildings, but if it's cut down and--you know, regularly pruned--it shouldn't grow back so fast. Same with everything in the paths. If you have any bad mold growing or anything, you can, um, message me? I'll show up and get rid of it.
[She takes a deep, shaky breath.]
Okay. The other thing... I might have fucked up. I don't know yet. If you guys can keep an eye out for a type of fungus, or any spores, that would be helpful. They look anywhere between a sort of...pale yellow to a pale pink, sometimes just white, and the outside is sort of reddish-pink. It grows in plates, and it'll travel through tendrils when possible. They like water and damp stuff. Usually they grow from human bodies. If you see any, don't go near it, don't fuck with it. Just message me through this thing. More importantly, if you see any spores... well, you probably shouldn't fuck with them anyway, but especially not if the spores are whitish-yellow. A little won't do much, but if you start feeling dizzy, it's over. You can walk through them if you have a gas mask. [There's a pause for a few moments, and a shuffling that sounds like paper.]
These things are called cordyceps. They're a fungus that can infect people through the spores. When you're infected, you'll get sick and then become aggressive very quickly. It's...basically zombies.
I haven't seen any yet. If you do, though, be careful. The spores are nearly impossible to get rid of, but the plants themselves can be taken out with fire...or bleach. Probably.
There’s a certain stage in their life cycle where they start glowing in the dark, but I… don’t really know what stage it is. Also… there's no cure, at least not where I'm from.
Anyway... if you need to get in touch, I guess you can, um, comment here. Or message me.
[There is a hand drawn image of what is, presumably, a cordyceps plant attached to the message.]
(OOC: temple information and IC inbox. Characters will not find any of the cordyceps fungus around, for the time being.)
The city is too big for me to really go around yelling all the plants off the buildings, but if it's cut down and--you know, regularly pruned--it shouldn't grow back so fast. Same with everything in the paths. If you have any bad mold growing or anything, you can, um, message me? I'll show up and get rid of it.
[She takes a deep, shaky breath.]
Okay. The other thing... I might have fucked up. I don't know yet. If you guys can keep an eye out for a type of fungus, or any spores, that would be helpful. They look anywhere between a sort of...pale yellow to a pale pink, sometimes just white, and the outside is sort of reddish-pink. It grows in plates, and it'll travel through tendrils when possible. They like water and damp stuff. Usually they grow from human bodies. If you see any, don't go near it, don't fuck with it. Just message me through this thing. More importantly, if you see any spores... well, you probably shouldn't fuck with them anyway, but especially not if the spores are whitish-yellow. A little won't do much, but if you start feeling dizzy, it's over. You can walk through them if you have a gas mask. [There's a pause for a few moments, and a shuffling that sounds like paper.]
These things are called cordyceps. They're a fungus that can infect people through the spores. When you're infected, you'll get sick and then become aggressive very quickly. It's...basically zombies.
I haven't seen any yet. If you do, though, be careful. The spores are nearly impossible to get rid of, but the plants themselves can be taken out with fire...or bleach. Probably.
There’s a certain stage in their life cycle where they start glowing in the dark, but I… don’t really know what stage it is. Also… there's no cure, at least not where I'm from.
Anyway... if you need to get in touch, I guess you can, um, comment here. Or message me.
[There is a hand drawn image of what is, presumably, a cordyceps plant attached to the message.]
(OOC: temple information and IC inbox. Characters will not find any of the cordyceps fungus around, for the time being.)