Magic Mushroom: Difference between revisions

 

See also [[Fantastic Fruits and Vegetables]].

 

** Then there's the mushroom which, immediately after eaten, makes the victim susceptible to a single "post-hypnotic command" which will be performed whenever they hear the same sound as was around when the suggestion was made. (Why someone selling ingredients to a restaurant would be carrying some of those around with him is anyone's guess)

** The anime also had vaguely explained "Mushrooms of Love" that caused people who ate some to fall into a state of love that could only be cured by the local "Mushroom God", an extremely large mushroom with healing properties that also included curing mushroom poisoning. If they didn't eat some soon enough (Ranma and Akane, the victims in the episode, had until the first evening star came out), the effect would become permanent. It's never made clear exactly what caused specific couples to form from eating the mushrooms.

* The Caterpillar's mushroom in ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]''. Eating one side of it makes you grow taller, eating the other side makes you grow shorter.

* In the ''[[Necroscope]]'' books mushrooms growing on a vampire's grave can cause someone to be vampirised themselves.

 

** Two adventures by [[Gary Gygax]] himself (who had mushrooms as a [[Creator Thumbprint]])

*** S4 ''The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth''. One room had mushrooms which gave special benefits if eaten. Red ones cured one Hit Point of damage, purple ones granted infravision and yellow-gray ones gave immunity to poison for a time.

* The [[Pokémon]] Paras is an insect-like creature with a pair of mushrooms growing on it's back. In it's evolved form Parasect, the Mushrooms have merged into a single cap and ''[[Nightmare Fuel|taken over the bug's higher brain functions]]''.

** And Gen V has Foongus and its evolution Amoongus, apparently sentient mushrooms whose spore releases can sicken and poison people or Pokemon in the area.

* In a reference to ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'', ''[[King's Quest]]'' has a shrinking mushroom that you need to get out of the Land of the Leprechauns and back to the west side of the river. Wasted it or went underground without it? Congrats, now your game is [[Unwinnable]].

* ''[[Dungeons of Dredmor]]'' has a variety of interesting fungi that your character can collect. All can be eaten for various effects, most of which are good (except for the poisonous Mud Wen), and many can be used as ingredients for alchemy. There's even a whole skill tree devoted to mushrooms, Fungal Arts.

 

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