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[Hungry]

Is reminded of that damn plant that is "intelligent?" and eats flesh, and your fucked as soon as it touches you...because it colonizes victims on contact, and mimics sounds lureing/distracting one to death. Desides that this suggestion is under that needs to be implemented with destructive reactions catigory, namely uranium/plutonium.  Nuke da fort senerio.

[Areyar]

Is reminded of that damn plant that is "intelligent?" and eats flesh, and your fucked as soon as it touches you...because it colonizes victims on contact, and mimics sounds lureing/distracting one to death. Desides that this suggestion is under that needs to be implemented with destructive reactions catigory, namely uranium/plutonium.  Nuke da fort senerio.

Are talking about the original 'the Thing'?

[Muz]

This needs to be a HFS, though. Heheh, I don't think Toady should mention it in the release. You'd just get your dwarves acting all weird and partying near the mushroom......

[Corona688]

I like it.  There are fungi which do exactly this to ants and other insects.

Presumable the infected dwarf should eventually jump off a cliff and explode in a spore cloud or something similar.

The spinning pixie strikes the dwarf in the upper eyebrow.  It explodes in spores!

[Stove]

Have any of you read City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer? It's about a city called Ambergris that is filled with fungus and mushrooms of many different vivid discriptions. This includes a fungus that slowly takes over people's bodies. There is also a civilization of mushroom-like people called "Gray Caps" living under the city, who are a sort of HFS.

[Hungry]

Is reminded of that damn plant that is "intelligent?" and eats flesh, and your fucked as soon as it touches you...because it colonizes victims on contact, and mimics sounds lureing/distracting one to death. Desides that this suggestion is under that needs to be implemented with destructive reactions catigory, namely uranium/plutonium.  Nuke da fort senerio.

Are talking about the original 'the Thing'?

When the hell was the thing a plant....i was thinking more of the evil plants in the Ruins book/movie.

[Areyar]

Is reminded of that damn plant that is "intelligent?" and eats flesh, and your fucked as soon as it touches you...because it colonizes victims on contact, and mimics sounds lureing/distracting one to death. Desides that this suggestion is under that needs to be implemented with destructive reactions catigory, namely uranium/plutonium.  Nuke da fort senerio.

Are talking about the original 'the Thing'?

When the hell was the thing a plant....i was thinking more of the evil plants in the Ruins book/movie.

Oh yes! The black&white version of 'the Thing' involved alien/ancient plants found in the antarctic ice. that only started to flourish when the chief botanist/scientist fed them some of his blood.
From there events spiral to inevitable doom and the burning of the outpost.
Admittedly, the first thing that came to mind was 'Triffids' when I read your post, but besides being ambulant vegetables the similarities end.

Some authosrs featured in 'Heavy Metal' magazine are also heavilly into fungii, BTW. I recall a gnome kinda being that became rotten with mushrooms after abusing some hallucinogenic fungi.
I'll try to find the issue and scan the image.

[Rowanas]

I don't remember the original black and white "Thing" being fed blood. What the hell was that botanist thinking!?

[Hungry]

Is reminded of that damn plant that is "intelligent?" and eats flesh, and your fucked as soon as it touches you...because it colonizes victims on contact, and mimics sounds lureing/distracting one to death. Desides that this suggestion is under that needs to be implemented with destructive reactions catigory, namely uranium/plutonium.  Nuke da fort senerio.

Are talking about the original 'the Thing'?

When the hell was the thing a plant....i was thinking more of the evil plants in the Ruins book/movie.

Oh yes! The black&white version of 'the Thing' involved alien/ancient plants found in the antarctic ice. that only started to flourish when the chief botanist/scientist fed them some of his blood.
From there events spiral to inevitable doom and the burning of the outpost.
Admittedly, the first thing that came to mind was 'Triffids' when I read your post, but besides being ambulant vegetables the similarities end.

Some authosrs featured in 'Heavy Metal' magazine are also heavilly into fungii, BTW. I recall a gnome kinda being that became rotten with mushrooms after abusing some hallucinogenic fungi.
I'll try to find the issue and scan the image.

If my brain didn't explode with rememberance, mostly for that fungi affected mutant spider that kills prey through paralizingly hallucinogenic venom, damn i wish I could remember the title to that book...whole insane.

[Areyar]

I don't remember the original black and white "Thing" being fed blood. What the hell was that botanist thinking!?

the seedlings were iron deficient and dying, it was a desperate gamble.
When he saw it worked, he even hooked up bags of plasma etc in the greenhouse.

hehehe "feeeeed me!"

[Rowanas]

Well, he still goes down in history as an epic retard.

[Stove]

Have any of you read City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer? It's about a city called Ambergris that is filled with fungus and mushrooms of many different vivid discriptions. This includes a fungus that slowly takes over people's bodies. There is also a civilization of mushroom-like people called "Gray Caps" living under the city, who are a sort of HFS.

Here is an excerpt from one of the stories in the book, featuring a parasitic fungus:
http://www.sfsite.com/06a/tc129.htm

[waldo]

urgh that quite literally sends me shivering, one of the worst things i think is when they show the fungus growing in a time lapse.

i know that one time i had this nightmare of that white fungus that seems like the most common one, well anyways i was asleep, i knew i was asleep which was rather odd, when suddenly it started to just puff out of everything growing as if in one of those time lapses, i remember in the dream starting to sit up and i could literally feel the moss or fungus or whatever it was start to shred and do whatever the heck it does when it tears, well i was half asleep now and i started trying to wipe off my arms and everything and that really woke me up finally. it probably didn't help that my room was extremely messy at the time.

jeeze my subconscious is messed up...

[irmo]

It would be nice if these mushrooms would have some kind of use to them, maybe like extracting poison or something?

Sell them to the elves.

[Puzzlemaker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWB_COSUXMw&feature=related

http://www.livescience.com/animals/070402_cat_urine.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymothoa_exigua

Have fun sleeping tonight.