OLD SCHOOL PULP SWORD, SAUCER AND SORCERY ADVENTURES IN UNIVERSES OF WEIRD SCIENCE FANTASY
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The Viridian Fungus of Yoth
A palely glowing parasitic fungus that grows on anthropoids and similar creatures with chitinous exoskeletons, it is slain by sunlight. When the venom of creatures infested with the Fungus of Yoth is introduced to the bloodstream it acts as a powerful narcotic and induces vivid, euphoric hallucinations of bizarre blue and green vistas of a lifeless alien world, much of it composed of numberless tiers of complex, ornate architecture. Strange glyphs can be viewed within some recesses of the aforementioned architecture and some sorcerers have claimed that they divined certain potent alien incantations from these glyphs. Occasionally a user of Yoth venom will have the sensation of being viewed and hunted by a vague malevolent force.
Whoa! Did you get a batch of this in Gainesville, FL., too?
ReplyDelete**Very** interesting! :D
Heavy, I like how sorcerers on Algol are seriously wacked out on fungus and black light, spell research at a price.
ReplyDeleteBy Lovecraft's black lactations, this is great. (When I read the "malevolent force" bit, I immediately thought of Ash's unseen pursuer in Evil Dead II.)
ReplyDeleteNow that's some fungus I can get behind.
ReplyDeleteI have to ask, the piece ends in a comma, not a full stop. Was that just a typo? Is there perhaps more to come? What other fiendish properties of the fungus are yet to be revealed?
ReplyDeleteIt's a typo. I was going to expand upon the malevolent force but decided it was more menacing with less detail.
ReplyDeleteLess is more.
ReplyDeleteThis stuff reminds me I'm yet to play a sorcerer.
Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteI can feel the venom,
I am waiting for the vistas of the blue & green
lifeless architecture