Fungus for Plant Warfare

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Warning: Ongoing Fungus Attacks!

This is a warning to all of our farmers to be on your guard against a new fungus attacks currently being targeted at the Fief of Glass!

Basics

What do we know about this attack?

What
A fungus that attack plants. It is not magical, and so it can easily bypass fief wards and is therefore used by enemy fiefs as a form of plant warfare.

How
Transmitted by painted magpies that have been baited to go to enemies fief and made to land in contaminated soil before being sent to our fief.

Who
The birds seem to be coming from the Fief of Perfumes which has just been conquered by the would-be emperor, but nothing has been confirmed yet.

Mode of action

This is very clearly a fungus engineered solely to stop our production of flour from Larante flowers and to slowly starve us!

Pollination
When a painted magpie that has been contaminated by the fungus comes to pollinate a flower, the fungus is dropped inside.

Pistil
The fungus crawls all over the flower and penetrate inside it, targeting especially the stigma section of the pistil.

Digestion
The fungus settles next to the ovaries of the flower and spreads its digestive enzymes, eating the resulting slurry.

No fruits
The destruction of the ovaries prevents fruit generation, but the plants are still pollinating.

Spreading
The fungus then spreads to other plants through pollinating animals and insects.

Sleep
When all flowers in a field are dead, the fungus lays dormant until the next flowering season.

Defence

What can we do to defend ourselves from this attack?

Watch over the plant carefully

Notice any suspicious white spots

Wash the affected area with fungicide

Add a small dose of fungicide in bird baths

Warning 1

Do not waste fungicide on unaffected areas!

It is expensive and difficult to produce.

It kills the good fungi the plants need to absorb magic.

Warning 2

Do not attack painted magpies coming from Perfumes!

The poor birds are perfectly innocent and do not know what they are doing.

If they see you attack other magpies, they will not come to your farm at all.

Stay vigilent and be ready to defend your plants!

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The Fief of Glass

Territories The City of the Hundred Fiefs · The Fief of Glass · The Lady's Tower Politics Politicians (Lady Olénie, Dame Louise of Glass) · Political system (Lords and Ladies of the Fiefs, Lady Olénie's government, The Police of the Fief of Glass) · Problems (The ongoing Elantian civil war, Previous inhabitants of the Fief of Perfumes, Water sickness) Magic Dangers (Seasonal magic flood, Magical corrosion, Basement kraken) · Technologies (Tower wards, Ward pins, Tasty Treat) · Industry (Glass and Magic Lenses, Glassworkers, Runes) Culture Farming (Soulmates' wine, Painted magpie, Fungus for Plant Warfare) · Travellers (Trading caravans, Travelling healers) · Others (The Worship of the Imperial Family, Election of a Tower Leader, Spying Devices)