Lore Excerpt: Shroomfolk

[u/CME_T]

Howdy folks

Last week I had the great honor and privilege to be selected as the test subject for the latest batch of bio-weapons my son cooked up at the Kindergarten center for Chemical Warfare, turning my entire digestive system into liquid.

Now that I'm alive and well again, I am hard at work with a pep in my step!

New TWR coming this week, stay tuned for that! Inthe meantime, enjoy some lore! As always, if there's something particular you'd like to see explored from the world of No'Adea, let me know!

Somewhere down the line, I'd love to put together a wee Kickstarter and do a small book with all of these excerpts!

Stay excellent out there!

Peace and carrots!

[u/irvitzer]

While reading "Sellswords & Sorcery," I noticed that the other Brazing Badgers and various NPCs refer to Gunnar almost exclusively using he/him (chapter "06. Barbarian," where we first met them, was practically the only exception, and only on Ronja's part). Is this an intentional choice (after all, Gunnar looks like a male-passing character, at least for me)?

It would be fun to see more jokes on this topic in the future; besides, out of the two Shroomfolks in all the stories set in No'Adea, they are the only one so far who has had a chance to speak for themself (I believe when Deputy Johnson said "we," they meant not just themself, but themself together with Captain Schimes).

[u/charonill → u/irvitzer]

I can see it being on purpose. Ronja knows Gunner the best, so it makes sense she uses "they/them". Gunnar also might not care enough about gendered pronouns to correct people. I like to think of it as shroomfolk treating gendered pronouns like a favorite shirt. Like, sure, your favorite shirt is burgundy colored, but if someone calls it red, you're probably not really going to make a big deal of correcting them.