Looks like a fun guy! Huh? Huh?!

I see what you did there.

Yeah, it was so funny, I almost lost mycon-centration :V

I love you both!

I have some more jokes about mushrooms, but they may take time to grow on you 8D

Huh? I couldn't hear you. I think you need to turn your mycon 8V

Alternatively...

That is somould joke there!

I'd figure either kill it with fire... some hellaciously powerful anti fungal lotion.. or maybe a microwave gun to make it all toasty and crispy brown n stuff..

Mmm, who's up for some tasty wild mushroom saute?

100% Juffo-wup saturation

We are the Mycon.

Juffo-wup fills my fibers, and I grow turgid. Commenting action ensues.

a fungus ooze, very interesting, never been one before as far as i know off, cool concept

Thanks!

This looks like one monster that you definitely don't want to meet down a dark alleyway. I hope that its weak against fire

Heh, although it seems like the exact sort of thing you might meet in a deep dark alleyway, all dripping with moisture and overrun with filth :V

Yeah, my first thought was fire, too :b

but is it edible????

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Hehe, I hope so! I was talking with someone on dA who was saying it'd be neat if they were domesticatible, so you could keep it as a "pet" and instead of gifting you with droppings you had to clean up, it just produced awesome harvests of fresh mushrooms :V

*laughs... what a creepy pet - but delicious...

I had a whole rash of mushrooms in my garden but I didn't dare eat them because I have no idea what's edible and what's not. My grandfather used to take me to the woods with him to pick mushrooms.

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That's really cool :3 I'm rather fond of mushrooms, although my husband, not so much :b I've always sort of meant to pick up one of those mushroom log kits - you can grow your own shiitakes :3

I too should look into it - mostly I just grow tomatoes and hot peppers.

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Since we've been moving around a lot, I haven't gotten the chance to cultivate an herb garden I've always sorta wanted. Then again, the plants I've ever gotten have tended to die, so maybe it's for the best :V

Looks delicius with potatoes and cheese :v

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Soooo those mushroom caps won't be edible since the spores erode everything. I have no idea why that was the first thing that came to my mind xD

Well, they don't necessarily erode everything like acid or anything like that. I was more thinking like a sped-up version of how mushrooms are often part of decomposition, consuming and spreading. But yeah, I was thinking there was probably some kind of debuff or damage-over-time element to it, but it's not really my job to come up with the lore, so it's me just thinking out loud :)

I just find it so funny to see a mix of ooze and fungus, with the whole thing I mentioned with another ooze about how there exist actual creatures IRL that are fungus that are mobile and ooze-like. They are called SlimeMolds. They are a mold spewing slime-like fungal creature that rolls slowly along the ground consuming dead debris... and anything tiny enough to get stuck in them and die as they 'crawl'... typically small insects... native to tropical jungles and forests...

I wish Slime-Molds grew mushrooms on them... but it won't kill or badly hurt them if they have a slice of their body cut off... funnily sometimes these slices grow to life as well like starfish arms! Weird right? A lot like Oozes from P&P and video games...

Yeah, that's sort of what inspired it, really :b I'm no myconologist by any stretch of the imagination, but I definitely encountered them in my adventurers getting my B.Sc! Plus yeah, I love science and nature stuff (which would explain why I ended up getting a B.Sc in it :b) :3

I've kinda had a nature obsession too... but my knowledge is far more extensive with mycology than botany. Also, my knowledge with the new adapted form of mycology they began teaching a few years ago is not good, and I've better understanding of mycology with times that used different methods to determine a specific species and even when looking entire genus's. Old age mycology from well over a decade ago... I wish they weren't rapidly discovering new methods and instantly applying them on such large scale acts. If you take mycology from three decades ago with the present day almost every known species is renamed and in general categorized as different species. Botany is a more stable science... maybe I shoulda focused on that...

It can be frustrating, for sure, but I like when you can actually easily see and track advancements in the field like that. Like, when I was in university studying immunobiology, the professors talked about the potential of using engineered viruses in the treatment of cancer, that that was what they were looking at doing in the future, and "in this professor's opinion," it would be how cancer will be cured.

Then, years later, it eventually filters down into public knowledge as the scientific body of knowledge about it has grown. In this case I'm about to link, it was discovered by accident, but illustrates the same premise: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/art.....les/300939.php

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Heh, I roomed with a "botanist" - he had a degree in forestry and basically worked as a greenskeeper for golf courses, but you could tell he was really passionate about it. Loved trees and plants and could tell you the species of everything and a bit of their history.

With trees, in particular, it would make sense that the body of knowledge would be more stable, especially given their generation times! But yeah, some fields seem to make sense as being faster changing than others, but to be honest, watching my husband go through the process of getting his PhD, there's a lot of active correspondence that happens between experts on a regular basis. One year a paper will be put out, and the next year, there'll be multiple responses to it, and the year after, more responses in turn, and that's just the "stream of consciousness" following a single person's ideas, let alone the academic community as a whole. It's just something the lay person never sees because they only typically have access to the "tried and true" stuff that's already been through their paces.