towerofanimus | 07 | bright white light

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

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.]

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.

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.

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.

[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?]

Absolutely. I've got enough dangerous hallucinogens for anybody who wants one, and it's not close to night where we'd be in trouble for this.

[Zett has every intention of staying shut in his room the whole night or until this wears off.]

[Oh bloody hell, that look on his face. It did not inspire confidence, no sir, not at all. She eyed the mushroom, eyed him, then sighed.] It's not like I have anything planned for the rest of the day...

[And down the hatch it went! She chewed it, swallowed it, and seemed generally unmoved.]

The texture's nice. It's not bitter. I wonder how fast-acting the... [And then her head gave a little tilt as she stared past Zett, down the hall.] ...oh. The doors are wiggling about. That's... that's impressive. I usually take a while to absorb things like that....

[Zett is a completely trustworthy demon and has no idea why you would be suspicious of any looks on his face!]

Is it that fast? I don't usually eat this kind of thing.

[It is astonishingly goblin-like, that is why it is unnerving, seriously.]

Very fast! The hallucinogenic compounds in these mushrooms must be very potent, and easily absorbed through the mouth... possibly crushing or compressing the mushroom releases the active properties, which is why they can be handled safely, but... but...

[And she spins herself about suddenly, looking this way and that, suddenly just as recklessly excited as Zett.] We need to find another volunteer! I need to take notes!

Let's do it! Who's around that we can get to volunteer~?

[Zett starts off in one direction and nearly trips, managing not to spill the box of mushrooms. Still grinning.] I forgot my legs feel weird, aha.

There must be someone! Everyone can't be out exploring... or whatever!

[She also stumbles, tries to steady herself by placing a hand on the wall, and then jerks it away with a bit of a yelp.] Aaah, and now the wall is melting... [She reaches out to touch it again, marvels at its sudden liquidity, and stops following along.] Visual and tactile hallucinations in concert, fascinating...

07 | bright white light

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Maybe we can get someone to threadjack? :D