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Deciding that the fruit of the mushroom trees looks rather tasty, you make that your luncheon for the day. Climbing up to pick them feels like it would be a waste of time, and while you <span class="mu-i">could</span> just leap up and grab it from the branches, you have a better idea. When you studied the cultivation of chestnuts under the careful tutelage of Goodman Granger - the yeoman who ran the royal chestnut orchard - he showed you one of the magic tools they used to quickly shake all the nut-bearing fruits of a chestnut tree free.
You don't have such a magic tool on you, but you have two strong arms. Replicating what it did should be a simple matter.
The alpha stormwolf gives you a curious look as you wrap your arms around the stalk of the nearest fruit-bearing great mushrooms. It is suprisingly soft against your skin. You can feel a firm core like wood beneath the outer flesh, but rather than rough bark the mushroom's outermost layer feels more like a silky pillow that's been stuffed with fluffed bamboo fibers. Once your fingers have dug into the flesh and you have a firm grip upon it, you take a deep breath and push the resulting prana through the chakra of your solar plexus.
With the power that creates your arms begin to vibrate just as rapidly as the fork-tongs of Goodman Granger's harvesting tool. The alpha stormwolf gives a surprised yelp at the power surging through your arms. It must look rather unnatural, as the tongs oscillated with such great speed that their shape became an indistinct blur to the ordinary eye. Your eyes could keep track of its precise motion, of course, and your arms now mimic it exactly, causing the mushroom stalk and its many branch to vibrate vigorously.
Plop, plop, plop! The stems snap and the fruit falls from the great mushroom onto the soft mycelium floor of the forest. You stop shaking your arms after a dozen of them fall. That should be plenty of fruit to fill you up. If you need more later, there is an abundance of fruit bearing fungi all around you, so you don't need to be greedy.
The fruit has a savory and meaty taste to it, with just the barest hint of spice that reminds you of the bright red peppers that grow in the southern provinces. Rather than seeds, there are spores all throughout the flesh of the fruit whose nature might have proven problematic for an ordinary adventure. You don't know exactly what they would do, but just like the spores you breath in through the air, your heart chakra burns them away.
If you ever want to feed your sisters these fruits, though, you will need to cook them thoroughly. Hopefully that doesn't ruin the taste.
<span class="mu-s">After eating your fill, your path towards the Greatest Mushroom Tree leads you to a camp of goblinoids.</span>
>Sneak around them.
>Spy on whatever they might be doing.
>Walk through the camp and continue on your way. It's not like they're a threat.
>Might as well clear them out and see if they have any interesting magic stones.
