Give me the lore on the mycologist (?) vaati, why did you eat the shrooms? /j
I can’t!! It’s weird! Well if you really wanna know…
It was my first week in my lab, i was getting aquainted with the types of growing media we produced and as soon as they came out of the autoclave (humid heat+pressure to sterilise stuff) i smelled the weirdest thing i had ever experienced… They smelled like carramel, fresh dough and savoury umami! i NEEDED to taste them!!! They’re made with yeast extract (bready beer like taste), sugars and peptone (basically protein). I imagined what it would taste like with some sautéed mushrooms… and one day i faltered to TEMPTATION!
The next few month i started working with yeasts and molds and their spores slowly infected me! That added to my stressed mind and i slowly lost myself to the mycellium “I hear them, they want more nurishment”. I needed to find a way to keep them at bay, to not surrender my mind to them! I started studying them; what environment they thrived in what they absorbed for food and their DNA.
*reverse flashback sounds*
Right now i’m focussed on find something, ANYTHING they could be weak to, so far i’ve been fruitless except for cutting their roots, that seems to contain the corruption so far…