Krokig Musseron

Constellation

Krokig Musseron, also known as "The Crooked Mushroom" is a tightly packed collection of eight stars that appears in the mid-sky around the 40th week of each year. Five of the stars comprising its cap appear bluish-white, while the large, orange, "crooked," cap-star transitions the constellation to the two yellow-white stars that complete its stalk.

Cultural Impact

Every year, as the days get shorter and temperatures begin to turn towards Winter, there isn't an Ash Wheat farmer in Calayor that goes to bed without searching the night sky to check on Krokig Musseron.
They do not search out of deference, nor out of superstition. They search out of practicality.
They all know that the morning after the bright cerulean streaks of "Musseron's Spores" first flicker down in one and twos, their final harvest begins in earnest. For ten days, sweat will pour as scythes of steel slash through fields. For ten nights, the sky will weep as "spores" of light slash through sky. Both will build to a crescendo of activity, and suddenly cease.
For, as dawn rises on the 11th morning, any crops left unharvested will be tainted by the familiar purple-black hue of Noxious Morels  that sprout in Musseron's wake.

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Story Hook Ideas

• A race against the clock to help harvest when a family/town is taken ill at harvest time
• Noxious Morels show up in farm/region ahead of schedule "ruining" (or actually ruining) crops. The party needs to find/alleviate the source...
  • ...the work of a rival farm/town?
  • ...curse from someone crossed by farmer (or his family)?
  • ...natural reaction to new fauna in region accelerating their growth?
• How do "Musseron's Spores" affect the Myconid population?

Alternative Name(s)

The Crooked Mushroom