Catch-All with Prompts Inside

[justoscar]

Who: Oscar Pine, Waver Velvet + Others
What: February TDM, Event, and Catch All
When: Throughout the Month
Where: Throughout Trench

Content Warnings: Grief, Unreality, Coping with Trauma. Type-Moon. TBA. Will be added to top levels and tags as needed.

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[spiritwalks]

He's gratified when Oscar tucks into his food. Vyng is no Meers, but he still enjoys cooking for his friends and family.

"Trees have much wisdom to share," Vyng says with a sage nod, "it is true. Also? They're the biggest gossips. Share a secret with one tree, and it's only a matter of time before the whole gosh-darned forest knows about it."

[justoscar]

"Really?"

He took a big bite, enjoying the warmth and the sweetness of the meal, and regarded Vyng with wide, interested eyes. Even the early morning couldn't dull his curiosity.

"But, how do they talk to each other? Is it underground, with their roots? Or do they send their leaves at each other?"

[spiritwalks]

"Even better." Vyng's eyes light up. "Fungi! Great for parties with neighbors. Even better when you've got some real dirt to share with 'em."

[justoscar]

"Fungi? You mean, like mushrooms?"

Oscar blinked up at the Druid, plainly confused. Fungi weren't something he tusseled with, even while foraging. There was too much of a risk of toxins.

"How does it work? What is it like?"

[spiritwalks]

Oh-ho-ho-ho. Let Vyng expound on all the virtues of fungi.

"It's like a big brain. Beneath the forest floor," he says with a grin. "They send messages to other plants through this crazy-elaborate social network. It's absolutely nuts!"

[justoscar]

Oscar's wide eyes almost glittered with fascinated interest. sure, it was cold and he had chores to do, but there was still plenty of time-- and conversations with Vyng weren't an every day thing.

"Fungi, like a brain underground?"

He sucked on his spoon, thoughtfully.

"Or like a city? That sounds like a fairy tale!"

[spiritwalks]

"If a city were a single entity? Then, yeah. Sure!" Wouldn't be the strangest thing Vyng's heard of. "Communing with certain mycelium can yield as many secrets as caps n' stems. But the deeper the secrets, the higher the cost."

A pause.

"If we're comparing them to fairy tales, it'd probably be one with hard bargains and monkey paws. But mushrooms aren't wicked creatures — just misunderstood. They're so interconnected with the environment. People could stand to learn a thing or two from them."

[justoscar]

Congrats, Vyng. The boy's mind was getting swept away by the fantastical ideas of fungal networks too complex for the ordinary mind to comprehend. It was a logic that didn't make sense to how human minds worked-- but, the same applied to the forces of natural law.

"I've heard stories about fungi being able to solve complicated puzzles in order to reach their prize" he said softly, "and other stories about how fungi can overtake a creature's body as part of it's biological processes. How do you communicate with trees if the fungi are part of it? How... do you keep yourself from going crazy?"