07 | bright white light

[scentofmakai]

Characters: Zett and you!
Setting: Floor 61, then the dormitory floors
Format: Starting actionspam, will change to match!
Summary: Zett gathers and eats mushrooms for science. He's also willing to share.
Warnings: Hallucinogenic drugs!

[Floor 61]
["Many mushrooms grow on this floor. It is unknown if they are edible or not."

That was what the guide to the tower said, and Zett was just bored enough to decide to make a helpful contribution. Perhaps they would kill him unpleasantly, but his death would help people in the future to not die. Perhaps they would be incredibly tasty and a good source of food during Jason months. It was hard to tell, with the tower.

Careful to avoid all the pits on this floor, Zett gathers up as many mushrooms as he can. Just one wouldn't be enough to know for sure how dangerous these mushrooms were - if the first one didn't kill him, he'd have to test another.

Zett isn't actually going to eat on this floor (too dangerous with the pits around), so other residents will just encounter him picking mushrooms and gathering them in a box.]

[Dormitory Floors]
[When Zett gets back to the dorm floors, it's finally time to test the mushrooms for deadliness. Setting the box on the ground, Zett picks up one mushroom and munches on it.

It's delicious. Zett finishes it quickly and waits for any side effects.

Gradually he notices that his vision is going a little... weird. Colors are changing. The doors are starting to morph into shapes that clearly wouldn't fit a person through them, unless they were a very strangely formed person. He feels kind of... melty.

Huh.

Zett picks up his box of mushrooms and walks around the dormitories, occasionally stumbling as the ground doesn't feel right. When he spots other people, he'll smile and wave and tell them something like,] Did you know you're leaving a trail of light behind you? [After a moment, he'll add.] That could be the mushrooms, though.

Comments

Dormitory

[papillonmagique]

[Zoe just stares at him, her expression completely blank.]

... You are drugged, then.

Dormitory

[scentofmakai]

Yes, that's the impression I'm getting too.

[Still smiling!]

[papillonmagique]

[Still giving him the blankest look ever.]

You idiot. What if the mushrooms had been poisoned?

[scentofmakai]

That was actually what I was expecting. Somebody had to figure it out and the only way to do that is by testing.

[papillonmagique]

[Another sigh, and she reaches up to rub her forehead.]

Riiiiiight. How long ago did you eat it? And how many?

[absentapothecary]

What? [Annika was just minding her own business, shuffling on back to her dorm room after a bit of time down in the library, when suddenly this... kid(?) was making declarations about trails of light. She stopped, turned about, swatted at herself... and then came the mention of mushrooms.]

Oh for goodness sakes... Mushrooms? Mushrooms? [Then she paused. Her curiosity was piqued.] ...where did you get mushrooms? [Hallucinogenic mushrooms might be useful.]

[scentofmakai]

Floor sixty-one. [If Annika seemed exasperated by the silliness, Zett didn't notice.] It was't common knowledge if they were edible or not, and I thought that we should figure that out now. After all, it's always good to have extra sources of food, and it's bad to accidentally die from what you thought was a source of food.

[absentapothecary]

Aaaah... there's edible, and there's safely edible. It's also bad to be stumbling around this place as high as a kite. [She sounds a bit exasperated and a bit disappointed... but mostly? Mostly she's curious]

How many different kinds are there? Or are there only the one kind? How long ago did you pick them? Would you let me see them? I'm... I'm a... researcher of sorts.

[scentofmakai]

That's why I brought them up here to eat, and not the floor with all the holes in the ground. Though the rest of the level might look even weirder when you're high as a kite.

[Zett holds out the box to her; they seem to be all the same kind of mushroom.] I finished picking them about twenty minutes ago.

[absentapothecary]

[Annika reaches out a hand and gently picks through the mushrooms in the box, inspecting them carefully.] They look familiar... the pattern's not quite the same, though. Larger spots, the cap is much wider and thicker... no, I'm not sure that these are safe at all. Especially if you've eaten one and are seeing happy dancing lights.

[Then she picked one up out of the box.] Ah... may I? [A proper researcher ought to know just what kind of hallucinations they caused, yes?]

floor 61; placeholder for now

[undefines]

Oh, you again.

[Nue has no reason to fear the pits here, given that she can fly. In fact, she seems to be peering out of one, studying Zett from her hiding place.]

What are you doing?

[scentofmakai]

I'm going to test to see if these mushrooms are poisonous.

[Zett uproots a mushroom, then turns to look down at her.]

So what are you doing?

[undefines]

How are you going to test them?

[Is he going to do science things, like the people with the collar fluid? She doesn't really understand science things.]

[At that question, she sinks farther down into her hiding hole, so that only her eyes and her fingers stick out over its edge.]

I thought it might be fun to ambush someone like this.

[scentofmakai]

The only way I know how is to eat them.

Heh, that does look fun, you're right. You can't ambush me now, though. [He chuckles a little.]

[undefines]

Oh. [Well, she's not one to talk, considering her idea of "investigating" the collar fluid was tasting it. She emerges up to her waist as she declares:] I'll do it too, then. And I wasn't going to ambush you anyway, because I thought you might be doing something interesting.

I planned to give you Shion but Romeo wanted to eat mushrooms instead

[myblueskies]

I do? [He looked behind him for the light, twirling round but seeing none.] What mushrooms Zett?

why do all your roommates give you drugs, Romeo

[scentofmakai]

[Zett picks one mushroom out of his box.]

These are from floor sixty-one. I figured we should know if they were poisonous or not by the next Jason month, and it turns out you can eat them just fine, but they make you hallucinate a lot.

[myblueskies]

"You're not meant to eat mushrooms if you don't know what they do Zett!" He shook his head and looked in the box before picking out a mushroom. "Is it like Gamzee's slime?"

Popping the mushroom in his mouth, since they know what they do now so his mums rule doesn't count!

[scentofmakai]

"But then how would anybody figure out what they do? Somebody's gotta try it."

Zett shrugs, sitting down on the floor and making no attempt to stop Romeo from eating a mushroom. "I've never had his slime."

[myblueskies]

"I guess so! It's like an adventure!" He giggled, it was a lot like Gamzee's slime. "It's funny, when you eat it everything is bright and silly. It makes Gamzee really happy though." So therefore there was nothing at all wrong with it.

Dormitory

[nordic_dovahkiin]

[Brunwulf nearly bumped into the small lad in front of him carrying a basket of mushrooms. The Nord warrior had ended up on another floor, which he had no clue about. He must have taken the wrong stair, as he was trying to reach his own dormitory.]

Watch where you are going, lad. [Trail of light? He only now got what the boy was saying.]

What in Ysmir's beard are you talking about?

[scentofmakai]

I am watching where I'm going. You're big, how could I not see you?

[It seems very silly to Zett. He doesn't answer the question, merely grins.]

[nordic_dovahkiin]

[Big? Well, he is a Nord.]

I was watching where I was going, it was you who should watch your step, boy. Are you ill? You seem to be staggering around all over the place. [Either that or he's drunk.]

[scentofmakai]

Not ill. Only made some questionable life decisions for the sake of knowledge.

[So closer to drunk.]

[nordic_dovahkiin]

Knowledge? Are you some kind of scholar? [Brunwulf isn't really impressed by the looks you are giving him. He still thinks you are drunk.]