Chapter 15

Project bde was really just turning into project dissuade-predators-from-eating-me and that doesn’t really roll of the tongue.

I just wanted a laugh but reality kept butting in.

But I guess I could just call it phase one of the project? Yeah sure why not? Phase 1 of project bde: Fuck Off predators.

Testing the different compounds would be a slog, if I just grew my mushrooms back to back from the same location, so I didn’t. I checked the hub for a chemical and directed it to what would have been the site of project bde. And since I didn’t have a sensory network there I started making one.

I needed information. If what I had planned worked I needed different animals to target different mushrooms and only eat one. So I separated them, one would grow in the first failed location and the other at the second failed location. Doing this would let me narrow the compound that had a laxative effect, if there even is one.

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I wonder what other effects my chem mushrooms might reveal.

Plenty of mushrooms back in my old world had many different effects. I mainly focused on the tasty ones, but even I heard of shrooms. Those had a hallucinative effects. But others could kill like the death cap. Nasty little buggers.

But my chem mushrooms wouldn’t be exactly this though. The compounds I get from the hub are plant derived. Hell some might not even do anything.

But I’m sure I could find a natural chemical laxative somewhere in there though. I hope.

Plenty of plants have just as many useful effects as mushrooms do. Even if I don’t find a compound with the effects I want I should be able to find useful effects when my chem mushrooms are consumed.

Could even find the compound that makes caffeine. Though I suspect animals would be drawn to that mushroom instead of repel them. It would make them all wired and shit. Maybe even get them addicted to the caffeine mushroom. Which wouldn’t be such a horrible idea if I still want to train them in the future.

Hell I could even grow nicotine in my mushrooms get them REALLY addicted. But I’m getting ahead of myself here. Would that even be ethical? Scientist tested on animals all the time back on earth. Makeup, drug and even food companies all tested on animals. I heard there were some experiments that actively made their lab rats addicted so they can test the efficacy of whoever the hell knew. i’d be doing something similar here with phase one. But im in a survival situation… which is an excuse but I mean come on! Im not a fucking saint.

Shit i heard even vegans would eat meat in survival situations.

I’m still going through with phase one. This is too good of an opportunity to get caught up in hangups. Besides im using such small amounts of a given compound that it shouldn’t even cause an addiction. Of course I will be upping the dose every time nothing happens but we’ll cross that fucking bridge when we come to it won’t we?