Mushroom Servant

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Encounter Conditions

Etheric

Initial Text

Making your way through the strange cavern and its forest of towering mushrooms, you come across an even stranger scene. A smaller mushroom, only about a meter and a half tall, is moving around and tending to some of the smaller mushrooms, dribbling powder on some and harvesting others with its spade.

Summary of Choices

1. Strike up conversation - after choosing to pitch in, unlocks Ancient Shroom
2. Pitch in (Good) - Information; gain some of edible mushroom, fragile puffball, large mushroom, red toadstool; or mushroom spade
3. Offer a protein bar (after trading with the mushroom scout) - Gain ? of edible mushroom, fragile puffball, red toadstool, tiny red toadstool, tiny blue toadstool, tiny green toadstool, tiny brown toadstool, large mushroom
4. Begin the slaughter - Fight Mushroom Harvester
5. Ignore it - Walk away

Choice Text and Results

Strike up conversation

You try to strike up a conversation, but it doesn't say anything in return. Of course, it doesn't have a mouth, so you're not exactly surprised.

(After you pitch in)

You attempt to engage it in dialogue. In response, it shakes its cap to a strange rhythm, tiny spores leaking out.

When it's obvious that's not getting through, it scratches something into the cave floor with its spade. The sketch is pretty rough, but it looks like a hunched over mushroom person.

It gestures vaguely towards a darker section of the cavern. Maybe there's someone over there that can talk with you.

Unlocks Ancient Shroom

(Or, if the Ancient Shroom has been slain)

You attempt to engage it in dialogue. In response, it shakes its cap to a strange rhythm, tiny spores leaking out.

When it's obvious that's not getting through, it scratches something into the cave floor with its spade. The sketch is pretty rough, but it looks like a hunched over mushroom person.

Then it shakes its cap slowly… and sadly, if you can project your emotions on to a living mushroom.

Pitch in (Good (1))

(First time)

The creature seems leery of you at first, but eventually shows you around. You don't share a language, if it's capable of speech at all without a mouth, but you pick up some basics from it pointing at things.

(Subsequent times)

You pitch in again, picking things up much faster this time. When you're done, he… it, whatever, even gives you a cut of the profits.

You found: 1-2 of: edible mushroom, fragile puffball, large mushroom, red toadstool

(Or, after having pitched in many times?)

You help out the creature for what seems like hours, but might just be a few minutes. When you finish up, it hands you a small package wrapped in what looks like the outer skin of a puffball.

Inside the package you find a spade similar to the one it carries, although with a handle suited for human hands.

You found: mushroom spade

Offer a protein bar

You hand over a protein bar. It seems to understand, because it hands you an assortment of mushrooms.

You found: 0-2 edible mushroom

You found: 0-2 fragile puffball

You found: 0-1 red toadstool

You found: 0-1 tiny red toadstool

You found: 0-1 tiny blue toadstool

You found: 0-1 tiny green toadstool

You found: 0-2 tiny brown toadstool

You found: 0-1 large mushroom

Begin the Slaughter

You lunge at the farmer as it raises its spade unsteadily to defend itself.

(Fight Mushroom Harvester)

Ignore it

Something happens, but mostly it's just

See Walk Away