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FUNGUS FOREST
To raid the Fungus Forest you need to go to a King Ock Mushroom Grove and do a D-9 to dig through to the forest, then you have to climb down your Jute Rope doing a U-28. It takes 150 AP's to wander around down here.
I seriously doubt this is a stronghold, more likely it is a place long forgotten by all with some creations that have wandered in here and just stayed, and a few special creations as well. At one point it might have been a huge stronghold of one of the Fallen, perhaps even a huge underground city/camp as we have found a few statues of some kind of plodder. The place has likely been sacked or raided by treasure hunters as very few treasures can be found down here. The creations you run into varies a lot. No matter where you look you will find mushrooms of all sizes, colors and shapes.
The raids we have done so far on this place
Vlad Zin Shadowson (04/01/2000)
The first to arrive with all the items needed I quickly dug into the earth until I got through to the caves below. In went the rope and down I went. Moving into a clearing where all the mushrooms have been eaten. Having just entered I'm attacked by what have been eating all the 'shrooms
Fungus Beast 108 - 52
As I was just about to find treasure I ran into one of those treasure teleport bugs which sent me to the top of the King Ock once more, so in I went once more. In another clearing I find hundreds of dead creations of all kind, all quite dead, very strange. Examining some of the bones I am almost ambushed by something not quite so dead
Carrion Crawler 96 - 12
Looking amongst all the dead things I find a Mangy Beast Skull, now this should be useful as soon as I can get hold of some Crobbler Skins. The next room is quite damp with water dripping from the roof and almost everything being covered in slime, some of the slime being alive
Green Slime 90 - 12
No treasures to be found, and all the 'shrooms touched dissolve. Well, another room awaits. This room is a bit marshy like with a small pool in the clearing in the middle. As I can see something glittering at the bottom I reach for it, only to be attacked by some kind of guardian, or perhaps just something hungry
Water Gremlin 63 - 35
That out of the way I grab my treasure, 3 White Baubles, the Gremlin is putting itself back together, or perhaps forming anew, who knows, so with no more treasures around I just leave the pool. On my way to the next room I run into a Fuzzy Ock, and decide to splatter it, despite of how cute it is
Fuzzy Ock 8 - 4 (picked up a Clump of Ock Fuzz)
The next area have some tall mushrooms with vines hanging down from several of them, as I try to push my way through one of these vines come alive and turn out not to be a vine at all, so I wrestle it
Constrictor Snake 93 - 13 (WLE 21)
Cutting away the parts that look eatable I also find a Red Bauble. Deciding that I have had enough of Mushrooms for one day I start to look for my rope, and find it nearby, moments later I'm back into the sunlight.
Total damage taken : 124
Items used : Jute Rope + Golden Gargoyle Goblet
Weapon used : Dragonbone Sword
Darc Angel Shadowson (04/01/2000)
A bit of digging and in with the rope, then down the rope. Into the first open area, a circular area with white sand, a tad strange, and right into a sink hole, iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (well, she is female you know). Only by great strength is she able to pull herself to the side of the hole and out of it. Off tot he next clearing since there isn't likely to be any treasures in this clearing, and if there is it is down at the bottom of the sinkhole, and if you get down there you will have no need for treasures, ever again. This clearing is filed with dead and dying fungus, climbing a small mound she nearly becomes new floor paint when the mound turns out to be a Mangy Beast
Mangy Beast 147 - 42 / 0 - 38 (no kill)
Obviously this Mangy beast would prefer to have its clearing all to itself, so being the nice Viper that she is she heads for yet another room. This one is filled with vines and most of them have thorns, as it becomes more dense she decide to try another route, but a large vine wraps around her and drag her into a large thorny bush (-6 health). Strange, and where the thorns bit into her skin they turn red, red as blood, like they are actually sucking her blood, hold on they are, and the bush is more than just a plant, much more
Blood Thorn 78 - 24 (got 1 Blood Thorn)
Not wanting to see if there are more of these around she head for the next room. This one is filled with vines as well, but none of them have thorns. Pushing through the vines one of them comes loose to land on her, or rather around her, strange, eiks, it's not a vine at all, so she wrestle it
Constrictor Snake 0 - 19 / 0 - 19 (WLE 24)
She was obviously very surprised by that snake. It must have squeezed her head a bit to hard, or she must be very hungry as she imagine cutting away all the food from the dead snake, except she didn't kill it, however she does find a Quartzlight Gem, but as she can carry no more items she leave it alone, or perhaps she just imagined the gem as well. Deciding to try something different she runs full speed into the next room, which is filled with some nice white sand, and right into another sinkhole, iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii (you should think she learned about these the first time), dragging herself out she looks up and notice her rope nearby, so decide she might as well head back up.
Total damage taken : 142
Items used : Jute Rope + Golden Gargoyle Goblet
Weapon used : Dragonbone Sword
Darc Angel Shadowson (10/01/2000)
Since there are already a couple holes she just find one of them and throw down her rope. The first clearing has 3 small ponds with a statue centered between them, the statue is of a plodder with two horns centered in its forehead, it looks like it could be a great mount, except of course that it is made of stone and would be hard to get to move anywhere, even harder to drag up from this place. The pond and the statue are the only things found so far not covered by moss or fungus or other stuff. The ponds almost sparkle with some dim light, so she bends over (Oi, get your dirty mind off my butt or you will find out just how hard it is to walk when your legs have been stuffed down your throat and how hard it is to see when your eyes have been ripped out through your mouth) and take a small sip, and start to tingle all over (+4 Stealth), nice, drinking from it again does nothing. into the next clearing which is filled with slime, some of it alive
Green Slime 106 - 13
(just have to be a failed experiment). The clearing after also have a guardian
Fungal Zombie 58 - 9
But no treasure. The next clearing also have a Plodder statue and ponds (+3 Stealth), the clearing after also have a pond, and a surprise
Water Gremlin 82 - 10
In the pond is also 3 Slink Baubles, and then its time to leave.
Total damage taken : 32
Items used : Jute Rope
Weapon used : Dragonbone Sword
Vlad Zin Shadowson (10/01/2000)
Into the hole, where I'm almost ambushed by a branch look-alike
Giant Mantis 45 - 29
Good think it was not covered in fungus as well or I had never spotted it. near the Giant Mantis I find a Firestone, well, it's treasure, sort of. I try to force my way through some thorny bushed, and am rewarded by a few deep scratches (-8 health), and not all of the bushes are just ordinary plants
Blood Thorn 68 - 13 (got 3 Blood Thorns)
Thinking I have found a patch of pure gold I rush over, and right into some yellow mold looking like gold. After getting rid of my breakfast . The next clearing is covered in soft fungus and have several large lumps, one of which comes alive as I step on it
Fungal Zombie 59 - 9
Deciding that this creations doesn't have anything worth wanting I head back through those thorny bushed, and take another few scratches (-6 health) and am attacked once more
Blood Thorn 75 - 26 (got 3 Blood Thorns)
Time to leave I guess.
Total damage taken : 91
Items used : Jute Rope
Weapon used : Dragonbone Sword
Darc Angel Shadowson (13/01/2000)
Down the rope and right into a clearing of dead or dying fungus, with a large hill in the middle, which come alive as she step on it
Mangy beast 83 - 72 (6 food + Mangy Beast Skull) (WLE time 25 + 25)
The next clearing hold a buzzing sound, and the Preying Cockroach making them, but she decide to scram and head back to her rope instead of risking her life down here, she also quaff a few WLE (22 + 21).
Total damage taken : 72
Items used : Jute Rope + GGG
Weapon used : Dragonbone Sword
Baanzheee (13/01/2000)
Into the hole, and following a patch, which is covered in slime and very slippery, hitting the ground hard (-1 health), the mushroom shave been crushed flat. Following the patch he find out what have crushed the mushrooms
Land Leech 78 - 48
Leaving the trail and heading into another area, which have a single non-fungus tree, taking a better look he spot a branch which isn't really a branch
Giant Mantis 45 - 35
Near the half eaten carcass of the Mantis last dinner, ever, he find a Firestone. The next open area is covered in fine white sand, walk through it he walks right into a sink hole and barely manage to drag himself out. The next are is a wet marshy one, with some very large fungus, some of it with some huge bite marks in them, and with the thing eating off them still there
Snapping Turtle 57 - 45 (got Giant Tortoise Shell). The next open area have almost no mushrooms in it, because they have all been eaten, moving into the area he find what have eaten all that fungus
Fungus Beast 71 - 46 (two WLE 25 + 24)
poking around the now dead creation he find an Iron Stein, something it must have eaten. Deciding to leave while the getting is good he does.
Total damage taken : 175
Items used : Jute Rope + Golden Gargoyle Goblet
Weapon used : Bastard Sword
Horus oHex Shadowson (13/01/2000)
Down the rope, and first find is a field of pure gold, or rather a field of yellow mold, so much for that breakfast. Next up is a clear area with a beautiful huge flower, so beautiful you just have to sniff it, almost
Spore Flower 108 - 58
And there goes any breakfast not already gone. Spores are growing in the vomit, hope everything went out with the breakfast. into a clearing of white sand, and right into a sinkhole. Next clearing has another beautiful flower in it
Spore Flower 63 - 43 (WLE 22)
And if any of the breakfast remained, well no longer. Onto a patch of slime, and ONTO the patch (-3 health), at the end of the patch he find what made the patch in the first place
Land Leech 77 - 20 (WLE 25)
Deciding that he has no stomach for this place he leaves, to find something to eat.
Total damage taken : 124
Items used : Jute Rope + Gold Gargoyle Goblet
Weapon used : Dragonbone Sword
Baanzheee Shadowson (21/01/2000)
into the hole and into the first clearing, which hold a beautiful flower smack in the middle, being a Monger and nuts about beautiful things (???) he just have to take a closer look, and perhaps sniff it a bit
Spore Flower 66 - 52/42 - 43 (Ouch!)
After vomiting all over the place for a bit he head for another clearing, which have a field of pure gold, not having listened to what the rest of us have told about these patches he runs straight for it to pick up all that nice gold just lying around, of course it turns out to be yellow mold and he can see if there is anything left in his stomach. The next clearing has a lot of dead and dying fungus, and a small rise which he climbs in hope of getting a glimpse of something interesting, and indeed he finds something interesting, as the small rise turns into something not so small
Mangy Beast 0 - 46/16 - 51 (the Mangy gets tired of playing and runs away) (two WLE's goes into the mouth 22 + 25)
The next clearing holds a lot of nice white sand, not to mention a sinkhole, which he spend the next few minutes getting out of. Next clearing is covered in short fungus with several lumpy areas, one of the turns out to hold something interesting (if you are into that kind of thing)
Fungal Zombie 55 - 10 (WLE 25)
Deciding there probably isn't anything to be found down here, except for a world of pain, he heads for his rope and climbs out.
Total damage taken : 202
Items used : Jute Rope + Gold Gargoyle Goblet
Weapon used : Bastard Sword + Sacrificial Dagger (Against the Mangy beast)
Darc Angel Shadowson (21/01/2000)
into the hole, and into the first clearing, which have this beautiful flower in the middle, by now I have started to suspect that there is some foul magic involved since we just keep wandering right up to it, and only then realise that it is about to try and eat us
Spore Flower 68 - 45
After vomiting all over the place she head into the next clearing, which have that Plodder statue and the three ponds, and she take a sip from the lower right one (+2 Stealth), nice, a bit strange that we always drink from the lower right one and never the other ones, oh well, the probably do the same. The next clearing holds some smaller fungus, most of which have small bite marks on them, bite marks made by one of the creations made down the Grottos
Preying Cockroach 62 - 43/14 - 25
into the next clearing, which have lots of tall fungus, as well as an ordinary tree, which hold a living stick, and a large one
Giant Mantis 48 - 34 (Quaffing time, 2 WLE 23 + 24)
Below the tree is a half-eaten corpse, and on the corpse a Full Plate Armour, nice, first real treasure found down here, looks to be her size, nice, much better than a Gator Armour, nice. So all in all a rather nice raid this one.
Total damage taken : 147
Items used : Jute Rope + Gold Gargoyle Goblet
Weapon used : Dragonbone Sword
Vlad Zin Shadowson (21/01/2000)
Down the rope. First clearing hold one of those Plodder statues and three ponds, a drink from the lower right makes me feel much better (+4 Stealth). next clearing has a lot of short fungus, the area is filed with lumps, once of them comes alive
Fungal Zombie 66 - 10
Next up is some nice white sand, and a, not so nice, sinkhole. After spending some time there it's off to the next clearing, which hold a patch of gold, which isn't gold but yellow mold, so much for that lunch. Next clearing hold a lot of dead creature bones, as some not quite so dead bones, bones covered by flesh
Carrion Maggot 46 - 9
searching all the dead bones I find a Rollypod Plate, how.............. useless. Deciding this is a waste of time I climb up my rope to enjoy the rest of the day doing something else.
Total damage taken : 19
Items used : Jute Rope
Weapon used : Dragonbone Sword
Darc Angel Shadowson (07/02/2000)
Down into the darkness. First clearing is wet and muddy and the mushrooms have been half eaten, in one bite, and the hungry creation is still here
Snapping Turtle 49 - 37 (got a Giant Tortoise Shell)
The clearing after have some small fungus, with bite marks on them, and the little bugger making the marks
Preying Cockroach 65 - 31
next clearing looks suspiciously like the first, wet and muddy and half eaten mushrooms, and guess what, another turtle
Snapping Turtle 66 - 38/38 - 54 (WLE time, 25)
The next clearing is nice and dry, and with a nice looking flower in the middle
Spore Flower 56 - 57 (two WLE 23 + 25)
Next up is one of those Plodder statues and the three ponds, this time she takes a sip from the lower left pond (+2 Badness), so it would appear that they have some different effect, wonder what the one in the middle does. Feeling mighty bad she decides to leave this fungus hole.
Total damage taken : 217
Items used : Jute Rope + Gold Gargoyle Goblet
Weapon used : Dragonbone Sword
Vlad Zin Shadowson (07/02/2000)
Down, down, down. First clearing has an interesting looking flower, so I go to investigate
Spore Flower 71 - 49/19 - 41
After finishing leaving my breakfast I head into the next clearing which is filled with yellow mold looking like gold, so I leave anything left of my breakfast before moving on. Next is a clearing of short fungus with several lumps, this looks familiar, wonder what happens if I poke at one of the lumps, ah yes
Fungal Zombie 44 - 10
Next we have an area almost devoid of mushrooms, because they have all been eaten, by something very hungry, and enraged
Enraged Fungus beast 70 - 55 (not a special Fungus beast, just an enraged one)
Poking around the carcass I find a Detect mount Scroll, something new, cool, when I have half an hour to spare I'll try to decipher it and try to find out what it does. The clearing after has a small pond in it, wonder if you will gain anything from taking a drink, but before I can find out I'm attacked by something living in there
Water Gremlin 55 - 9 (WLE 23)
Deciding this water probably isn't worth drinking I grab something lying on the bottom instead, 3 White baubles, and then I decide to leave this place.
Total damage taken : 164
Items used : Jute Rope + Gold Gargoyle Goblet
Weapon used : Dragonbone Sword
Vlad Zin Shadowson (07/02/2000)
Feeling lucky I jump down for a second raid. First clearing holds a lot of bones from dead creations, mainly Tuskers for some strange reason, and also one of the not so dead creations
Carrion Crawler 58 - 13
In the piles of bones I find a Swamppus Paw, and it turns out I never met one of these cuties, so at least gain another blurb. Next clearing is filled with dead and dying fungus, and a single small rise in the middle, which I climb to get a better look, bad idea
Mangy Beast 71 - 47/12 - 61 (Got a Mangy beast Skull) (Quaffing time, WLE 23)
Next is a clearing with a beautiful flower it in
Spore Flower 61 - 54 (Quaff quaff, WLE 22 + 22)
I didn't want to keep that breakfast anyway. After dragging myself out of a sinkhole I continue into the next clearing, which is covered in green slime, some of it moving
Green Slime 84 - 16/5 - 13 (Drinking time, 2 WLE 21 + 22)
Deciding I'm not going to find anything down here I head for my rope and leave.
Total damage taken : 204
Items used : Jute Rope + Gold Gargoyle Goblet
Weapon used : Dragonbone Sword
Darc Angel Shadowson (10/02/2000)
Down into the big (not-quite-so) unknown. First clearing hold a big pond, looking down into it she is attacked by something living down there
Water Gremlin 64 - 9
Quickly searching the pond before the snakes manage to get itself back together she find 4 Yellow baubles. Next clearing have that Plodder statue with the 3 ponds, she takes a sip from the lower-right pond (+3 Stealth). Next up is a path of pure gold, which of course turns out to be some Yellow Mold, so good bye breakfast. Following a narrow path of crushed fungus, a path filled with slime she comes upon what left that trail
Land Leech 63 - 32 (3 food)
Leaving the dead Leech behind she comes upon another Plodder Statue (or is it the same) and 3 small ponds, this time she takes a sip from the lower-left (+3 Badness). Deciding it is time to get on with some other things she heads for her rope and climb out.
Total damage taken : 41
Items used : Jute Rope
Weapon used : Dragonbone Sword
Baanzheee Shadowson (14/02/2000)
In with he rope and down it, reaching the bottom he head for the first clearing , which have a beautiful flower in the center
Spore Flower 73 - 44/3 - 44
There goes the breakfast, and he is off to the next clearing. The Fungus are quite tall, and one of them is a normal tree, so head for that, one of the branches looks funny, almost as it was praying, walking a bit closer it also looks mighty hungry, uh oh
Giant Mantis 45 - 32 (WLE 25)
Tripping over the half eaten body of one of the Mantis previous victims he notice a Golden Dragon Statue, nice. The next clearing has the Plodder statue and the three ponds in it, so he approaches and take a sip from the lower right pond (+4 max spell points), very nice, taking another sip doesn't do anything. Next up is a path of gold, which turns out to be yellow mold, so there goes the rest of the breakfast, not so nice. The next clearing have some vines hanging down, pushing one aside it turns out to be a snake in disguise
Constrictor Snake 70 - 13 (WLE 21) (8 food)
Cutting up the snake to get the juicy parts he find a Slink Bauble. Deciding he has had enough fun for one day he find his rope and climb out.
Total damage taken : 133
Items used : Jute Rope + Gold Gargoyle Goblet
Weapon used : Bastard Sword
Baanzheee Shadowson (21-01-2000)
Down the hole to destroy some creations. In the first clearing stands the most beautiful flower you ever saw, how nice
Spore Flower 66 - 52/42 - 43
And breakfast is history. Moving on he run right into a patch of pure gold, which turn out to be nothing but yellow mold, so if anything remained of the breakfast it is now utterly gone. next up is a clearing with rotting fungus, and a small rise in the center, deciding to climb it he realise his mistake as it comes alive
Mangy Beast 0 - 46/16 - 51 (the Mangy Beast escapes) (WLE 22 + 25)
That was not a nice experience. Next up is a clear patch of sand, how nice, a day on the beach, sure. After pulling himself out of the sink hole he moves into a clearing covered in a rug of short fungus with several small lumpy areas, stepping on one it rise and attack
Fungal Zombie 55 - 10 (time for a WLE 25)
So much fun, so little time, he head out of the hole and into the sunlight once more.
Total damage taken : 202
Items used : Jute Rope + Gold Gargoyle Goblet
Weapon used : Bastard Sword
Darc Angel Shadowson (21/01/2000)
Inot the hole and in the first room she run into a patch of gold, and by now we all know what happens when she try to pick some of it up. The next clearing has a beautiful flower, too beautiful to now have a closer look
Spore Flower 68 - 45
So much for that breakfast. The next clearing hold a statue of a Horned Plodder and 3 small ponds, taking a sip from the lower-right pond she feel more stealthy (+2 Stealth), some nice ponds. Next up is a clearing where some of the fungus has been chewed upon, and investigating a buzzing sound from behind one of them she find what has been chewing on the plants
Preying Cockroach 62 - 43/14 - 25
Bug guts all over the place, so she moves on. The next clearing have a lot of very tall fungus, and a single normal tree, one of the branches look funny, investigating time
Giant mantis 48 - 34 (1 food) (WLE time 23 + 24)
Tripping over the body of a former adventurer, half eaten by the Mantis she find a Full Plate Armour, very nice. With her new prize she head out of the hole.
Total damage taken : 147
Items used : Jute Rope + Gold Gargoyle Goblet
Weapon used : Dragonbone Sword
Vlad Zin Shadowson (21/01/2000)
Down the rope. First oup is the Plooder statue and the 3 ponds, drinking from the lower-right one I feel better (+4 Stealth), very nice, I bow in thanks to the statue and hope to visit it often. The next clearing is covered in small fungus with lumps all over the place, stepping on one I know what will happen, but i do it anyway, just for the fun of it
Fungal Zombie 66 - 10
Nothing interesting here so I move on. next is a sink hole, and then a patch of yellow mold, not what I call good fun. The next clearing smells like a graveyard on a hot summer day, and in a way it is, the place is filled with dead constructions, and a not so dead one
Carrion Maggot 46 - 9 (1 food)
The only thing I can find in the piles of dead creations is a Rollypod Plate, how useles. I decide to head out before i have to much fun.
Total damage taken : 19
Items used : Jute Rope
Weapon used : Dragonbone Sword
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