# \[Spoilers\] We are the Mycus. Join us

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [June 29, 2015, 6:28am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952 "2015-06-29T06:28:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![DooMJake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@DooMJake](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/DooMJake)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/41 "2015-07-16T12:44:34Z")

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you forgot “owo”

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**Author:** ![Soyweiser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/soyweiser/32/37_2.png) [@Soyweiser](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Soyweiser)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 12:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/42 "2015-07-16T12:56:43Z")

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> [@DooMJake](#):
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> you forgot “owo”

What is happening outside? What is that noise? OMG IT IS SO BRIGHT. I @#$@#%$@?~\>…

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**Author:** ![Laughing\_Fool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6de8d8/32.png) [@Laughing\_Fool](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Laughing_Fool)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/43 "2015-07-17T20:14:07Z")

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O hai Mycus pls buff ur mutations kk tanks bai. - Survivur.

Seriously, right now you are better off with marloss carrier for endless food and water while pursuing a different threshold.

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2015, 8:18pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/44 "2015-07-17T20:18:40Z")

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Yesss, it would please us if we had more power to…colonize this world.

If fungifying enemies would be enabled as an unarmed bonus attack like claws, maybe?

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**Author:** ![Duros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f475e1/32.png) [@Duros](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Duros)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 8:16am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/45 "2015-08-04T08:16:08Z")

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For The Emperor!!

Burn The Heretic,  
[glow=red,2,300]Kill The Mutant,[/glow]  
Purge The Unclean!

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 3:03pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/46 "2015-08-04T15:03:11Z")

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You forgot any mention of xenos, which the Mycus technically would be,

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**Author:** ![TheFlame52](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/theflame52/32/247_2.png) [@TheFlame52](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheFlame52)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 7:41pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/47 "2015-08-04T19:41:07Z")

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Where did the inspiration for Marloss come from, anyway?

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 8:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/48 "2015-08-04T20:05:52Z")

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We would like to know that, yessss.

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**Author:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/49 "2015-08-04T21:05:59Z")

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> [@TheFlame52](#):
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> Where did the inspiration for Marloss come from, anyway?

Whales, I believe. Marloss berries are one of those really old things that has been in the game for forever in one form or another. On the other hand if you’re talking about why Marloss berries are part of the Mycus, I was the one who coded that based on an old connection where Marloss berries used to only spawn near fungal portals. I just expanded the connection and helped get the lore ball rolling, and it sorta wrote itself from that point on. 😛

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 9:52pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/50 "2015-08-04T21:52:27Z")

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Which I would assume be part of fleshing out existing monsters into more factions, since the Mycus are no longer conflated with the blob, I would assume this implies the Marloss has lost its form association with the Nether.

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**Author:** ![i2amroy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/i2amroy/32/909_2.png) [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/51 "2015-08-04T22:07:14Z")

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Yeah, it’s definitely a pure Mycal thing now. 😛

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 10:16pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/52 "2015-08-04T22:16:49Z")

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Though it’s possible he meant where’d the idea, the inspiration, for the Marloss come from. In which case, I…we have no idea.

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**Author:** ![TheFlame52](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/theflame52/32/247_2.png) [@TheFlame52](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheFlame52)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2015, 1:26pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/53 "2015-08-06T13:26:21Z")

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We might have to ask Whales. Just how old is old?

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 5:35am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/54 "2015-08-07T05:35:42Z")

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marloss berries predate me working on the project, so yea, oooold.

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**Author:** ![TheFlame52](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/theflame52/32/247_2.png) [@TheFlame52](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/TheFlame52)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/55 "2015-08-15T15:09:52Z")

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So Whales old, then. Doesn’t he have a tumblr we can contact him with?

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2015, 3:45pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/56 "2015-08-15T15:45:00Z")

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Definitely would be interesting to see the inspiration that led to adding them, yeah. While the Mycus in general started off giving a cordyceps vibe, and now they seem like part cordyceps, part Mycon, and a few other things, I’m not sure what the Marloss berries are referencing, if anything.

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**Author:** ![Dorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/35a633/32.png) [@Dorian](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Dorian)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 5:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/57 "2015-12-07T17:04:27Z")

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Are there some kind of special mechanics to be gained via the Mycus path, or is this basically just… generic mutations randomly given? Because if it’s the latter, that’s not much for motivation to go fungal.

“Mycus” makes me think of the byrum from Dreamcatcher (just got done reading it, so it was the first thing that popped into my head, and now I will think of all fungaloids as Mr. Grays). Does becoming one with the mycus provide the ability to mutate other creatures into fungaloids and create a minion army?

Stuff that would be cool for going down this path:

- Create fungaloids.
- Be able to construct/seed fungal pillars at ground level and build structures out of them.
- In Dreamcatcher, Mr. Gray had telepathic control over people, made one dude jab a pencil up his nostril and into his brain, another bash in his head against a cement wall, etc. That might be kind of extreme, but it WOULD be cool if you could “seed” hostile creatures with your spores and then use the still-growing mycus within their body to exert pain and/or injury on them.

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/58 "2015-12-07T17:08:08Z")

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I assume it’s due to the path not yet being fleshed out extensively. So far it’s just a set of mutations, with one major fork in the mutation tree.

The fact that they’re gained over time is at least different compared to chugging mutation, but it does make it a lot simpler.

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**Author:** ![Murdath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/848f3c/32.png) [@Murdath](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Murdath)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/59 "2015-12-07T18:23:24Z")

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The only problem with the mycus is that you will end up with 1\*10^9999999 fungaloids around you. I end up killing them at some point but they are always back, I used to keep sound dampeners on because the noise was really annoying.

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**Author:** ![Random\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Random\_dragon](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Random_dragon)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/spoilers-we-are-the-mycus-join-us/9952/60 "2015-12-07T18:31:34Z")

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_pouf_

That’s part of the Fun though.

I should mod something Mycus-like into Dwarf Fortress…

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