Chapter 14

Could I make my mushrooms poisonous? I still haven’t decided on a course of action yet but could I do that?

Maybe.

I mean I do have access to the root system hub. Right now all I’m taking are carbons that would have gone to the mycorrhizal network, but who’s to say I couldn’t take something else? Something else that won’t kill them but make them uncomfortable, something that won’t really sit well with their stomachs ... like fucking laxatives!

I wouldn’t even have to kill the creature essentially completely side stepping the moral question of whether its permissible to kill the predators.

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I would still have to be careful though too much of the laxatives and they could end up dehydration and die anyway.

So start off with small doses of it and up it every time they come?

Pause.

Do I even know if the hub has any laxatives?

A quick check.

Okay there are a lot of different compounds here that I don’t know the effects of if consumed. So no, I don’t know.

Should I experiment? Pick out a compound and see what happens if I grow my mushrooms with it? Can I even do that? Wont hurt to try, I guess. As quick fire way to see results I take a specific compound from the hub and direct it back from the first contact mycelium pathways and direct it back to my original pathways where im going some mini mushrooms. Of course it hits me mid transfer that I could have just grown a mini mushroom from my mycelium near the hub network. Im such an idiot, but I guess I’m still getting used to this whole mushroom thing. It just made sense to direct the chemical compound where I was already growing my mini-mushrooms.

Some time later et voila, success. It’s most definitely possible.

Now to figure out which compound is the one I need.

Hmmm.