Fungal Forest

Fungal Forest

Dark and damp and filled with sound deadening fungal turf and growths, this mock forest is eerily quiet and dangerous. Improved senses are a must for both the eater and the possibly eaten, as well as a digestion suitably disposed towards lots of mushrooms.

With plenty of line of sight obstructions, and the spongy, sound proof floor, it is hard to stay on target. Predators who specialize in laying traps to catch their food are very successful in this environment, such as giant spiders and their web snares.

The use of darkness can also give advantage here. Though the forest is lit with plenty of bioluminescent sources, these do more to light the source than their surroundings. Those creatures that are most at home in the dark, such as the ghostly famishers and the petulant dire faeries, rule this muted landscape.

And with the pervasiveness of bioluminescence, creatures who can mimic such lights, to draw in those looking for safety, have carved out their own unique space on the predator list. Like that of the Webless spiders whose eyes look like glowing mushrooms but whose jaws inject a lethal poison, or the forest lurker, whose specialized extra tentacle glows at the tip like a welcoming beacon in the dark, not all lights in forest are your friend..