Sunday, October 8, 2023

Fungus for the Fungus God!

Temple of the Mushroom God (#9/31, #282/365)

This is the worship-place of the Fungus God Myknosis, Lord of the Purple Mushroom and Master of Slow Rot. The temple is carved from an entire baobab-shroom, its walls adorned with a catalogue of the fungal followers of the god. Everywhere are colonies of rustling Fungoids and spore-shooting Lavender Dream-Shrooms, lurking in the darker corners of the temple. The central chamber bears an enormous statue of Myknosis, in their form as a huge humanoid mushroom, carved from a single amethyst, mined from the Plane of Platinum.

The High Priest of the Mushroom God is Xx-Th-Yrg-ll ("Spores carried upon clouds to parts unknown") a Rust Demon who has overcome the incipient sessility of their type, by growing on a wheeled wooden wagon. This is then pushed about the temple and also Thagwar itself by a team of armoured Qagdin, Xx-Th taking a mobile interest in all proceedings that can be backed up later with spore-born data. Xx-Th is an old companion of Arg-Rth-V-Gl, administrator of the Forbidden Garden of Thay, and the two of them go back a long way in their devotion for bringing upon the dawn of a new age of fungal cataclysms and devastation.

One of their current shared problems are constant low-grade attacks and assaults by members of the Free Fungus Front, who wish to liberate all fungi from all forms of spiritual and physical repression. As a result, the temple is heavily guarded with Ishkarim and Accursed soldiers, wearing purple tabards and armed with violet-glowing Power-Halberds and a selection of elemental Glyph-Bombs. For this reason, whenever Xx-Th is wheeled around on their wooden chariot, at least one squad of temple guards will also be on hand, clearing the way and wary of assassins.

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