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Mushrooms. It began with... mushrooms. After a particularly rainy and miserable few days mushrooms appeared all over the school grounds. And inside the school as well! These mushrooms grew not just from the ground but from the very walls, and they were unlike any mushrooms anyone on the Isle had ver sen before, no matter the world they were from. These were clearly no ordinary fungi! It would defy identification and it wasn't even clear if any two people saw them the same way!
Not knowing what they were would lead to one crucial question, are these fungi food or foe? Dare you eat one? How hungry have you become? And even if you don't eat them, they somtimes emit clouds of spores... dare you pass through them? But then, avoiding them entirely would be difficult, though doable if one were particularly determined.
While most of the spoor clouds would seem to be no more harmful than a sudden burst of dust... Some random unpredictable ones would have an additional effect. Whomsoever took the brunt of the spore cloud would find a memory of theirs springing to psudeo-life before them for anyone around to see and hear.
Only one memory will display at a time, and anyone in the area can see and hear it, but only those close enough to have been caught by that same spore cloud will get the full effect. They'll see the figures and setting as solid, and may experience subtle additional effects related to the memory, such as the feeling of a breeze or the smell of cooking food. Anyone else will see and hear everything fine, but will not experience any additional sensations and will see the scene as somewhat transparent. The figures aren't solid, they just seem like that to anyone who was close enough to smell the flower when it triggered.
The memory, oddly enough, will not be from the perspective of the one it belongs to; they and their companion or companions will be observing from a third party perspective, thus allowing a person to see their own face in the memories without the aid of a mirror. Nor can the memories be interacted with; those viewing them are observers only, and while they'll be able to hear the figures in the memory and each other speaking, no one in the memories will be able to hear or perceive them in any way. The memories vary in content and tone from person to person, for obvious reasons, but a common thread will soon be spotted: all the memories involve the person's mother or similar maternal figure. Generally they are more likely to be negative memories; if such memories exist. This is the Isle, and it is bound to try to draw forth the darkest and most painful memories with a person who, in theory, should have been a bastion of love and safety.
Once the memory fades that mushroom looses its ability and becomes just like any other mushroom in this event. However another mushroom nearby might have been activated and ready to spew forth memory inducing spores.
But the issues don't stop just because the mushroom did not invoke memories or the spores it spewed forth have ben expended. After all... you know someone is going to be desperate enough with hungry to try to eat one of these things. That person or those people are about to have a bad time.
The mushroom will taste... like well... Something. Something not mushroom like in texture. Unsettling, really when you can't place the taste, just that it does not go with the mushroom texture. And then at the end a mildly bitter aftertaste. The mushrooms are filling, at least; despite the disconnect between taste and texture. So that's good, right? What could be so bad about eating these mysterious mushrooms?
Eating the mushrooms, sorry to say, will result in the person having vivid nightmares involving their mothers or maternal figures. Again, while the content of those dreams will vary widely for obvious reasons, for some reason on the Isle the nightmares are especially bad. Those who have them will toss and turn all night, and will wake up feeling more tired than they were when they went to sleep. This will linger, the nightmares will persist for one night after the event for each mushroom the character ate, with a max of one week. Any sleep will be thus troubled when the character sleeps, be it laying down for the night or nodding off sitting up because they are so curst tired. As these are nightmares they need not be true to memories and even those without a mother can suffer these terrible dreams; a mother will b provided for them, as dreams are wont to do.
Picked mushrooms will start to rot within two hours of being picked, and be gone within five. But during the event there will always be more, and clearing one area will seem to be a Sisyphean task indeed. The mushrooms will remain throughout the event, at the end of which there will be a terrible storm with a single blinding flash of lightning that would light up even the most hidden areas of the school, and when the flash clears and people can see again, the mushrooms and anything extracted from them are just gone. Everything, that is, save the nightmares.
A disturbing phenomenon, to be sure, but once it's over, other concerns will likely take precedence once again. After all, something like that couldn't possibly happen again, right? Actually, this is the Isle, and that was a miserable week. Seems like it is guaranteed you'll have to suffer something like this again soon....
Not knowing what they were would lead to one crucial question, are these fungi food or foe? Dare you eat one? How hungry have you become? And even if you don't eat them, they somtimes emit clouds of spores... dare you pass through them? But then, avoiding them entirely would be difficult, though doable if one were particularly determined.
While most of the spoor clouds would seem to be no more harmful than a sudden burst of dust... Some random unpredictable ones would have an additional effect. Whomsoever took the brunt of the spore cloud would find a memory of theirs springing to psudeo-life before them for anyone around to see and hear.
Only one memory will display at a time, and anyone in the area can see and hear it, but only those close enough to have been caught by that same spore cloud will get the full effect. They'll see the figures and setting as solid, and may experience subtle additional effects related to the memory, such as the feeling of a breeze or the smell of cooking food. Anyone else will see and hear everything fine, but will not experience any additional sensations and will see the scene as somewhat transparent. The figures aren't solid, they just seem like that to anyone who was close enough to smell the flower when it triggered.
The memory, oddly enough, will not be from the perspective of the one it belongs to; they and their companion or companions will be observing from a third party perspective, thus allowing a person to see their own face in the memories without the aid of a mirror. Nor can the memories be interacted with; those viewing them are observers only, and while they'll be able to hear the figures in the memory and each other speaking, no one in the memories will be able to hear or perceive them in any way. The memories vary in content and tone from person to person, for obvious reasons, but a common thread will soon be spotted: all the memories involve the person's mother or similar maternal figure. Generally they are more likely to be negative memories; if such memories exist. This is the Isle, and it is bound to try to draw forth the darkest and most painful memories with a person who, in theory, should have been a bastion of love and safety.
Once the memory fades that mushroom looses its ability and becomes just like any other mushroom in this event. However another mushroom nearby might have been activated and ready to spew forth memory inducing spores.
But the issues don't stop just because the mushroom did not invoke memories or the spores it spewed forth have ben expended. After all... you know someone is going to be desperate enough with hungry to try to eat one of these things. That person or those people are about to have a bad time.
The mushroom will taste... like well... Something. Something not mushroom like in texture. Unsettling, really when you can't place the taste, just that it does not go with the mushroom texture. And then at the end a mildly bitter aftertaste. The mushrooms are filling, at least; despite the disconnect between taste and texture. So that's good, right? What could be so bad about eating these mysterious mushrooms?
Eating the mushrooms, sorry to say, will result in the person having vivid nightmares involving their mothers or maternal figures. Again, while the content of those dreams will vary widely for obvious reasons, for some reason on the Isle the nightmares are especially bad. Those who have them will toss and turn all night, and will wake up feeling more tired than they were when they went to sleep. This will linger, the nightmares will persist for one night after the event for each mushroom the character ate, with a max of one week. Any sleep will be thus troubled when the character sleeps, be it laying down for the night or nodding off sitting up because they are so curst tired. As these are nightmares they need not be true to memories and even those without a mother can suffer these terrible dreams; a mother will b provided for them, as dreams are wont to do.
Picked mushrooms will start to rot within two hours of being picked, and be gone within five. But during the event there will always be more, and clearing one area will seem to be a Sisyphean task indeed. The mushrooms will remain throughout the event, at the end of which there will be a terrible storm with a single blinding flash of lightning that would light up even the most hidden areas of the school, and when the flash clears and people can see again, the mushrooms and anything extracted from them are just gone. Everything, that is, save the nightmares.
A disturbing phenomenon, to be sure, but once it's over, other concerns will likely take precedence once again. After all, something like that couldn't possibly happen again, right? Actually, this is the Isle, and that was a miserable week. Seems like it is guaranteed you'll have to suffer something like this again soon....
