Mush

In space, nobody hears it teem...

The Mush is a cruel fungus which uses its host as cattle, wiping out everything on its journey... extinguishing passion, emotion and desire and everything that makes a sentient being nothing but a mindless zombie. All it desires is the expansion of its organism.

Playing as the Mush

Main article: Mush Play.

An agent of the Mush requires stealth, cunning and deceit to claim victory over humanity and prevent the Magellan project from succeeding. Between managing your constant being Dirty, not drawing suspicion by the other crew members, and efficiently managing your , a lot can go wrong for an unprepared Mush player. Prepare your shroomy journey by informing yourself via the Mush Play article.

Mush Skills

Main article: Mush Skills.

Players on the side of The Mush have an secondary set of Skills with its own, separate curve and Skill Slots at their disposal. To balance things out, they lose the ability to use some of their previous Skills. If you play as Mush and the crew turns you back to Unknown Character with the injection of the Retro-Fungal Serum, you will get the choice of re-picking your character's skills.

Mush Actions

A list of actions in an example game of Mush.

Main article: Actions.

As the Mush you will have new actions available to you in addition to your human actions.

Some of these actions are available to all Mush, such as Extract a spore. Otheractions only become available to a mush player with the associated Skill, such as the Booby-Trap Unit action which is linked to the Trapper skill.

Converting to Mush

Apart from the two players who start the game as Mush (often called Alpha Mush) the only way that a human player can become a Mush is by having a number of spores attached to them.

At the start of every game, only 3 spores are needed to convert a Unknown Character player to a Mush player. In the later game this number may change to 4 spores if the humans finish the Mushovore Bacteria research.

A human victim will be converted to Mush immediately after the last spore is attached. The ship's crew log is also immediately updated.

Attaching a spore

There are a number of ways that a spore can become attached to a human.

• Infect, a default Mush action.
• Fungal Kitchen, a skill that spikes a consumable item with a spore, infecting the character who consumes it.
• Unknown skill, a skill which spikes a room's shelf unit with a spore, transfering it to the next character that uses it.
• Schrödinger can be infected with a spore, transfering it to the next character who caresses him.
• Cristalite zones on Expeditions have a chance to infect all traveling characters with a spore.
• "Doing it" An action that is intended to raise morale.

An example using Infect:

In this next example, the humans have finished the Mushovore Bacteria research and 4 spores are now required for a conversion.

Here, Paola is human and does not know she has spores attached to her.

At this point, Paola has been infected again and is now a Mush.

This is later in the game. We can now see that Paola has chosen her Mush skills and created her own spore.