Re: FunguSpace

shadowchaser meandered fecklessly...

> Having received such good reactions to my Real-/ Fantasyspace post I
> just had to hit you with another idea that I came up with.
>
> I called it FunguSpace.

    Did you avoid "FungiSpace" because it sounds to much like
"Fun-Guy Space?" : )

> The most important thing in this sphere is the main world called
> 'Jelod'. So I won't bother you with the rest.
> In most regards it still looks like your average Fantasy world, but
> that's only skin deep ...literally ...
> Everyone on this planet has been infected by a fungus. Everyone is at
> birth. About 60% survive and grow resistant, about 30% die,

[brutal snip]

> And it is dreaming.
> The symbionts can join the dream by bringing a piece of their skin in
> contact with the main fungus.
> There they can shape parts of the dream, placing memories and images
> they've got in their minds within it, and access them at another
> time. They can even store spoken messages in this dreamworld which
> appear as glowing silvery bubbles that can be popped to release what
> they contain.
> They can even make the fungus grow mushrooms, some to be eaten by
> anyone else who will suddenly find images appearing in its mind
> containing whatever the symbiont wanted that mushroom to contain,
> some who will work like eyes that the symbiont can use to watch what
> is happening at far away places. Others may look like a tiny mouth
> that will speak into the reall world for the symbiont.

    Down right... odd.  But odd is good.  Sounds like something
on the verge of being Cthulhoid (Fungi from Yuggoth).  Push the
dreamscape towards the alien and surreal and you're there.
    Cool idea.  I think I will have to make some use of it.  Feel
free to offer up some more details.  : )


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