"They are effectively moving truffles. They fetch high prices if they're good quality, as they are filled with oils that have strong, earthy scents. Unlike truffles, however, they reproduce very quickly and have a strong flavor of their own: that of a savory, earthy chocolate. They are very popular among kobolds in particular."
'If they're fungi and not animals, why do they move? They sound like they would taste good'
"Gourmet Energy suffuses them, allowing them to evolve in strange and often pointless ways. A normal truffle would fail to grow around the trees in the Primm Forest, due to the Monarch Mold having completely taken over that niche. However, give that truffle the ability to crawl around on the surface and eat detritus, and make it able to disguise as a normally inedible creature..."
Mr. Black is sitting by the side of the street, very carefully picking debris off of large, brown slugs.
"W h a t a r e y o u d o i n g?" The Maw asks.
"Cleaning these fungi so that they'll sell for more. They are rare, but they are also outclassed by many other ingredients. Would you like to try one?"
"I w o u l d n o t b e o p p o s e d." A massive purple hand extends from the woods.
Mr. Black drops a cleaned "slug" into the hand. "They are suffused with Gourmet Energy, like most of the ingredients I harvest."
It disappears but the sound of eating fills the air. "Mm. Reminds me of uncured Elf flesh."
"Hm. interesting. Most would more likely compare it to mushrooms or chocolate, but one with a broader canvas to choose from would likely say such. You have opened my mind to a new possibility."
"They are effectively moving truffles. They fetch high prices if they're good quality, as they are filled with oils that have strong, earthy scents. Unlike truffles, however, they reproduce very quickly and have a strong flavor of their own: that of a savory, earthy chocolate. They are very popular among kobolds in particular."
'If they're fungi and not animals, why do they move? They sound like they would taste good'
"Gourmet Energy suffuses them, allowing them to evolve in strange and often pointless ways. A normal truffle would fail to grow around the trees in the Primm Forest, due to the Monarch Mold having completely taken over that niche. However, give that truffle the ability to crawl around on the surface and eat detritus, and make it able to disguise as a normally inedible creature..."
"They are effectively moving truffles. They fetch high prices if they're good quality, as they are filled with oils that have strong, earthy scents. Unlike truffles, however, they reproduce very quickly and have a strong flavor of their own: that of a savory, earthy chocolate. They are very popular among kobolds in particular."
'If they're fungi and not animals, why do they move? They sound like they would taste good'
"Gourmet Energy suffuses them, allowing them to evolve in strange and often pointless ways. A normal truffle would fail to grow around the trees in the Primm Forest, due to the Monarch Mold having completely taken over that niche. However, give that truffle the ability to crawl around on the surface and eat detritus, and make it able to disguise as a normally inedible creature..."
'That's so interesting!'
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"Gourmet Energy suffuses them, allowing them to evolve in strange and often pointless ways. A normal truffle would fail to grow around the trees in the Primm Forest, due to the Monarch Mold having completely taken over that niche. However, give that truffle the ability to crawl around on the surface and eat detritus, and make it able to disguise as a normally inedible creature..."
'That's so interesting!'
"Even more interesting than that, you see those little black eyes? They're not eyes. Moving fungi usually have an advanced sense of smell or some form of EMF sense, so they usually don't need to see. So chocolate snails hunt antsnakes, a strange breed of colonial millipede, and harvest their pit organs and put them on their own stalks. As a result, they chocolate snails gain the ability to sense heat from meters away, so that they have time to hide under the debris they carry before the potential predator has time to see them."
"As a Harvest Hunter, I have to know all about how these creatures work. For example, you can lure them with a tiny amount of chocolate snail oils, as they release some while ready to mate, but use too much and they'll think that there is an injured one and stay far away in an act of self-preservation. In addition, I learned that when 'overcooked' they have a flavor and texture similar to half-elf eyes. I discovered this after meeting with a tribe of cannibals and going hunting with them, and when one of them died during the hunt, I was asked to partake in the funeral. I won't go into details, but the anatomy of the slug makes it a good imitation if you cook it properly, which is one of the strangest details I've ever discovered about a creature. Plus, I can use it as a selling point to humanoid-eating species. Ethical substitutes are very expensive for them, so when I can sell them chocolate snails for bulk prices, they can't resist."
'Also good!'
Hi squeaks, decides he likes the warm water, and jumps in
You guys are awesome and mean so much to me. And mean so much to each other.
"That's great!"
Hamy pushes the rubber ducky over to Hi.
Long live the dragon slayers, long live the spider guild, long live the forums.
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Long live the dragon slayers, long live the spider guild, long live the forums.
I want you to know. You are going to lose. You are going to lose badly. You’re going to lose badly and it’s going to be awesome.
Hi looks suspiciously at the rubber ducky.
You guys are awesome and mean so much to me. And mean so much to each other.
"Gourmet Energy suffuses them, allowing them to evolve in strange and often pointless ways. A normal truffle would fail to grow around the trees in the Primm Forest, due to the Monarch Mold having completely taken over that niche. However, give that truffle the ability to crawl around on the surface and eat detritus, and make it able to disguise as a normally inedible creature..."
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Awake, impure, divine
Breathgiver of the Strugels
"Yeah, you bit my ear." He huffs
He finds a wagon wheel lodging an air vent open
"Its bright. And warm."
"I made a sandwhich" He says
Ye old creator of characters
Tortured poet and writer
This mortal body is expendable, I will be released from my binding soon.
"Hm. interesting. Most would more likely compare it to mushrooms or chocolate, but one with a broader canvas to choose from would likely say such. You have opened my mind to a new possibility."
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Awake, impure, divine
Breathgiver of the Strugels
'That's so interesting!'
You guys are awesome and mean so much to me. And mean so much to each other.
"Nice. Do you by chance have any herbs?"
psychopath ^-^
"Even more interesting than that, you see those little black eyes? They're not eyes. Moving fungi usually have an advanced sense of smell or some form of EMF sense, so they usually don't need to see. So chocolate snails hunt antsnakes, a strange breed of colonial millipede, and harvest their pit organs and put them on their own stalks. As a result, they chocolate snails gain the ability to sense heat from meters away, so that they have time to hide under the debris they carry before the potential predator has time to see them."
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Awake, impure, divine
Breathgiver of the Strugels
"Maybe? What are you looking for?"
'That's amazing!'
You guys are awesome and mean so much to me. And mean so much to each other.
"Dunno. Was just thinking I should get some in the ground for the winter"
psychopath ^-^
"As a Harvest Hunter, I have to know all about how these creatures work. For example, you can lure them with a tiny amount of chocolate snail oils, as they release some while ready to mate, but use too much and they'll think that there is an injured one and stay far away in an act of self-preservation. In addition, I learned that when 'overcooked' they have a flavor and texture similar to half-elf eyes. I discovered this after meeting with a tribe of cannibals and going hunting with them, and when one of them died during the hunt, I was asked to partake in the funeral. I won't go into details, but the anatomy of the slug makes it a good imitation if you cook it properly, which is one of the strangest details I've ever discovered about a creature. Plus, I can use it as a selling point to humanoid-eating species. Ethical substitutes are very expensive for them, so when I can sell them chocolate snails for bulk prices, they can't resist."
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
Awake, impure, divine
Breathgiver of the Strugels
*bored...*
Ye old creator of characters
Tortured poet and writer
This mortal body is expendable, I will be released from my binding soon.
'Um... I guess so? Always good to find an alternative to half-elf eyes'
Flint looks a bit sick
You guys are awesome and mean so much to me. And mean so much to each other.
*rp?*
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I know no one cares but i may leave for a couple of week or years
We are one, we are none, we are someone, something and somewhat
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