Psforssl the Red

[xXCrystal_Rose]

Psforssl never received an education. It couldn't speak properly and was antisocial as a result of this. Psforssl was deadly to be around because of how toxic it was and was kicked out from its colony as a sproutling. A new and growing colony adopted Psforssl, but it was still an outsider, despite how much Psforssl struggled to help the colony grow. All it wanted was acceptance and love which it was universally rejected because its spores were too caustic.

Over time Psforssl made friends with other druids. These druids were absorbed into it, unwillingly, though to Psforssl it was an intimate act. Psforssl didn't know right from wrong. It only had the aching craving to fill the lonelyness inside of it. Other druidic sproutlings should understand. Together they would grow bigger, better, stronger than the colony has ever known. And they did. The force and mental trauma of the unwillingly absorbed souls began to tear on Psforssl's psyche and it entered a very delicate stage where it would too easily lose its sanity.

Struggling to keep dominance over the absorbed sproutlings the adult Psforssl became much more violent. In typical myconid manner it was peaceful and skittish, but no longer shy, and while others feared opposing enemies of the Myconid Psforssl would show bravery and violence unnatural to the sporefolk and lash out with a ruthless viciousness. Somebody had to oppose the many evils that walked the caves after all. It was seldom that Psforssl would leave its grove without encountering necromancers, cultists, or evil folk that thought the peaceful myconid would be easy victims. In the end after a many hours long epic battle Psforssl was backed into a corner. With nowhere to go its hit and run strategies failed it. Psforssl was taken. The shock and trauma of the events that unfolded completely broke its mind and Psforssl became a shell where three minds fought freely for control. And then it died.... briefly.... only to rise again as an undead monstrosity anathema to all the life and growth that it once represented.

Psforssl the Red, defender of plantlife, infestor of the underdark, patron of growth and the all consuming tide of untamed nature.... became Psforssl the dead. The un-dead, destroyer of all that it once made.


Here are some screenshots of the life of Psforssl. Feeding Red Brothers, eating other sproutlings, and being an all around mischief maker and mushroom grower. I can't screenshot the end else some secret identities may be spoiled, but there is one I can show :)

I just love plant monsters and the theme of wild untamed growth, so this time it was a myconid. I'm always returning back to that general style of concept with different angles though. Who knows what the heir to this fungal menace may be!


Eating Traveller





Hiding. Psforssl hid a lot when small. So shy. It was adorkable pausing in fear when seeing people, screaming, and running away with arms flailing.





Fairy rings are cool. All the cool people grow them.




Playing with your food can be dangerous.



Eating another myconid. I don't normally like screenshots with text, but this tells a whole lot about the fucked up mind of Psforssl. Psforssl believed until the end that they were doing good, and they did do good, massively advancing the cause of the Myconid... through nontraditional means. Psforssl was a very deep and complicated character to bring to life.










In the end all three souls were lost. They were not allowed to die, not returned to the cycle, nor re-purposed or recycled. They were removed from the natural order, and while the sproutlings mocked Psforssl at first they realized there would be no freedom from their torturous host. Only terror and doom for all three as they were to be removed from the natural cycle.




--The quake continues, but the screams in Lower Sanctuary change from cries of panic into... Screams of terror...--
--To match the screams in Lower, the sounds of battle erupts as a few brave or perhaps foolish Lowersman begin to battle a gigantic mushroom monstrosity smelling of rot and death--
--Chaos spreads throughout Lower Sanctuary as the gigantic rotting mushroom creature continues its rampage--
--Finally... The streets of Lower grow quiet once more as the monstrosity is slain...--



If anyone has screenshots of the reanimated undead Psforssl on a rampage throw them in here too!

[sharkinajar]

What a fun annoyance! Your hit and run tactics kept us on our toes quite a bit. The end though was a lot of fun! A great character, and what little interactions we had was awesome.

[TheShadow]

Damn! I never did really get screenahots, but Pysforssl was a good character. While it ( i continue to call her 'she' in game) was merely a means to an end, and 1: a myconid and 2: a druid, Sennesse did like Psforssl the small, and even risked the ire of a few cityfolk to help her out one upon a time. Still, great job rose, Looking forward to your next charatcer!

[whiterabbit]

A different perspective on your fourth screenshot, Rose:

I was wondering what evil you were up to.  Voyeurism for the win.

[Pandip]

Adorably evil take on myconids!

[Pup]

Looks like an incredibly interesting char.  Sad I never met it.

[TheBigX]

Nasty little shit. Well done.  I like the way you opened the eyes of the Stewards about life in the underdark.

[Dauerschlaf]

Sad we didn't get more interactions, especially to see if Red could've been steered back towards the teachings of the Great Protector Teacher Grower.