Spore print??

[sesa]

Good morning! This is Sesa. Vouivre, weapons engineer, DND master, video game wizard, etc etc etc

[There’s a crude drawing of a dragon with little stick legs beside “Vouivre” in case people don’t know what it is.]

I’m to believe we do not have cameras here, so I am going to just have to make do with my impeccable drawing skills.

Can someone identify this mushroom for me? I am foraging on the off chance we have another famine before this wretched cold ceases.

[It is. Well.

A crude drawing of a mushroom. It legitimately looks like a Mario mushroom.]

Comments

[sesa]

I was not sure what else to do!

And I am simply not going to bring back poisonous mushrooms. That would be reckless.

[unheiring]

And you didn't consider listing the color? What object you found it near or on? It's relative size to its surroundings? Patterning, perhaps?

That seems reckless.

[simplicitas]

in sesa-hyung's defense fly agaric are pretty easy to identify based on that drawing because theres not a lot of stuff here anyway and they look pretty signf signifft sig they look pretty youuneeq

[unheiring]

Oh, that was meant to be a legitimate rendition? And not just a work of childlike fancy? My mistake.

[simplicitas]

I assume legitimate until proven un...legitimate

[unheiring]

[Just gonna draw a line down to the text below. I'm sorry I'm on mobile and can't link but he is absolutely calling Sesa out, that's the key takeaway here.]

[sesa]

Ah. I suppose that would have been wise…

I don’t have these where I’m from, so I wasn’t sure what the ettiequte would be for identification.

[unheiring]

Assuming your "artwork" is accurate, then I suppose it doesn't matter. Though you could humor me and describe it.

[sesa]

Well…it’s in a cluster. They’re smooth and round, maybe a little bit flat in some places? They’re growing in an irregular stack on top of each other between the bark of a fallen log.

They’re also a sort of dusty brownish cream color.

[unheiring]

So they... don't at all look like what you drew.
Wonderful. That's great. Very helpful.

[sesa]

I

I know I said I was an impeccable artist but I’ve never seen a mushroom before! Not in real life!!

[unheiring]

And you could not have looked at the mushroom and simply... drawn what you see?
Imagine, if you will, that the situation was reversed. Had you drawn an oyster mushroom, doubtless anyone with common sense would say "yes, eat it."

And then where would you be?

[sesa]

Dead, I suppose.

I’m sorry. I did the best I could, I just didn’t realize they came in so many varieties.

[unheiring]

Ugh

... You're alive, right? And no one is hurt?

Take it as a learning experience then. Survive and be better.

[sesa]

I should say so! It’s just me out here, and I haven’t touched the mushrooms yet. I just wasn’t sure what I was looking at.

And I am sure there are many more out here I will be unable to identify, for that matter…

[unheiring]

Might I recommend bringing a book next time? I'm sure you can find something that identifies the local species within the school library.

[sesa]

That seems to be the best course of action! Honestly I’m not sure why I didn’t think of it sooner.

[Idk because ur dumb]

There aren’t very many mushrooms out here right now due too the cold, but I’ve now learnt its better to be safe than sorry.

[unheiring]

As long as you've learned.

[sesa]

I have, I promise. :)