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D6 | These myconids have |
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1 | a crown of crimson tendrils that makes them look quite fearsome. |
2 | wrinkles that make them look like a cross between a walnut and a brain. |
3 | teardrop-shaped bioluminescent nodules that sometimes break off and float away. |
4 | lacey skirts of hyphae. |
5 | frills that trail below their caps like tattered veils. |
6 | wide pores that leak indigo ichor. |
D6 | These myconids can |
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1 | puff up rapidly, becoming temporary giants, but collapse soon after. |
2 | seemingly teleport by popping in and out of the ground - really they're translating themselves through the hyphaeic network. |
3 | survive decapitation and other sorts of dismemberment. |
4 | induce overproduction of chitin to organically petrify parts of their body. |
5 | speak with worms and beetles and all other detritivores. |
6 | clamber over any surface by sinking their tendrils into it. |
D6 | These myconids are vulnerable to |
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1 | direct sunlight, which dries them right out. |
2 | confusion if exposed to certain scents which disrupt their pheromonal communications. |
3 | exposure to temperatures outside a narrow band, and so must spend much of their time underground, in controlled environments, or in otherwise temperate zones. |
4 | starvation if isolated from their hyphae, as they're unable to process food on their own. |
5 | dogs and hogs, which can sniff them out and devour them relentlessly. |
6 | blights which leave meaty creatures untouched. |
D6 | These myconids' society |
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1 | teaches that individuality is an illusion, and that only the group is real. |
2 | is a crab-in-the-bucket scramble to earn recognition and a legacy within their short lifespans. |
3 | is built from the ground-up with limitless interconnection and redundancy. |
4 | is a nomadic trade empire, able to wander and integrate itself anywhere. |
5 | has exhausted itself with decadent celebration and monument-building. |
6 | is nominally democratic, yet entrenched interest groups have decided its direction practically since its inception. |
D6 | These myconids are |
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1 | descendants of cultists who worshiped a fungal god who they believed could bring them to ultimate cosmic unity. |
2 | former fairies whose spirits got stuck in mushrooms while passing through a fairy-ring. |
3 | a latent adaption in all fungi, simply waiting for the right epigenetic trigger to show up. |
4 | the descendants of fungus that grew atop graves and absorbed the form and intelligence of the corpses buried therein. |
5 | an epicurean wizard's experiment in creating self-harvesting produce. |
6 | an ancient species that has ruled over the great rot that has followed every mass extinction. |
D6 | If eaten, these myconids |
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1 | are addictively delicious, overloaded with umami flavour. |
2 | are powerfully anti-biotic, able to cure any bacterial infection. |
3 | contain spores that will survive their passage through your digestive tract. The spores will grow little myconids in your poop that will imprint on you like ducklings. |
4 | will chemically alter your brain to further their interests. |
5 | will launch your soul out of your body in a psychedlic astral projection. |
6 | will literally poison the shit out of you. |
> wrinkles that make them look like a cross between a walnut and a brain.
ReplyDeleteThought you might be interested to know that Vietnamese for walnut is "quả óc chó", roughly translates as "dog-brain fruit". This is rendered a little weirder because "brain" in this phrase is actually a slang-term, and is more commonly recognised as "snail". So... dog snail/brain fruit.
Just some random trivia because I have run out of superlatives for these, and you already know I love mushrooms. I am, after all, a fun guy.
Thank you "funny little table man"
etymology/philology is pretty goated...
Deletethe "These myconids are" table on this entry is _particularly_ good
ReplyDeleteI read a Chinse novel once ("The night before my divorce, I turned into a mushroom") where the heroine was the human-shaped daughter (spore) of a goddess-like fungus. She frequently terrified villains when her face dissolved into hundreds of thousands of hyphae.
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