Shrooms: Chapter 5

The Big Reveal

• Confused about what is happening.

• SpiritualShroom did some help.

• Sam showed up.

Grab a snack and hold on to your seat, it’s gonna be full of twists!

Me: for now let me know more about yourself, you now got to see my lab and all my experiments on the shrooms, it seems only fair to tell me something about you.

Sam: ….

(Sam turns back at me looking with a smirk)

Sam: I’m a lizard Bari!

Me: what do you mean a lizard?

You’re just as human as I am!

Sam: you were talking with a “SpiritualShroom” inside your head!

Is it so hard to believe that I’m a lizard?

Me: I guess you got a point here.

Sam: Okay, so I’ll also add to your storyline, I guess you needed it, you did mention that it will help... but you were not able to make up the story until it happened!

Me: what exactly happened?

Sam: Is there a reason why you split the story into two parts?

On separate days too!

Me: ….

Me: well, you just read that announcement…

Sam: I’m an interesting character now ha?

(Laughs)

Me: okay I accepted my loss but I’m now more interested in the story than the whole NFT project!

Let’s see how you’re gonna be special in my story…

Sam starts walking around the lab and starts to change his color, slowly turning green and his eyes growing bigger, his nose growing out, and his jaw starting to expand...

He’s a full lizard in human clothing…

Sam: you see Bari, I’m also a wizard!

And that’s how I’m gonna be added to your shrooms!

I will be adding more magic to them too!

So when you take the Loss you turn it into a Win…

That’s how you turn a Lizard into a Wizard (laughs)

You see what I did there!!

(Continues laughing)

Me: … well, I still need to know more...

Sam: Yeah, yeah you’ll get there when the time is right…

Me: okay then how can you add magic to my shrooms!

Same: I’m a wizard Bari!

I can give them one magical power for each shroom!

And since I’ll be staying here for a while, I’m gonna put out 6 each month!

Do you want them to be shrooms or people?

Me: what do you mean?

Sam: well, if you want the people to be magical shrooms, they can too!

But instead of the 10 traits, it will only be one!

They will also be nameless, just a magical room in the field…

Me: hmmm… What do you get in return?

Sam: I’m just gonna be the first to join, that's what matters, right?

I mean you got here first and that’s a pretty big deal I think...

Me: YOU THINK!??

Sam: yeah…

Me: You know, if I can turn you to a shroom I can turn them too!

Thanks for the idea but that’s all that I’m taking from you, all I have to do is find a way to shroom you!

Starts to walk around the lab thinking of how to do it… if I can exist here and in the real world… there must be a way to keep him here as a shroom!

Sam: FOUND IT!

(Holding the MoneyShroom)

Yeah, it’s tricky how you made the clues, But I had fun!

IT IS ALL CONNECTED!

Me: told you you’re gonna like it...

Sam: do I get to keep it?

Me: do whatever you want, it’s totally up to you.

Sam: Am I gonna be a shroom next to my shroom??

Me: not yet... I’m trying to think of something even better…

To be in the shrooms collection you have to be a shroom and I can not just take a human-sized lizard and turn it into a shroom!

There gotta be something else…

Remembering the SpiritualShroom words.. about the human experience and the help… help to be helped!

I guess he did help me with sparking the storyline, and I need to keep the shrooms here not in the real world…

Let them choose…

LET THEM CHOOSE!!!

Me: hey Sam!

Can you come here for a second...

Since you’re a wizard I need you to do something.

Do you see that mirror?

Turn it to a shrooming portal!

Sam: It doesn’t work like that.

I can turn it into a reflection of what you say to it, maybe try saying you’re a shroom?

Me: You don’t know if your magic will work or not?

Sam: I’m not the one trying to turn people into shrooms.

Me: let’s just try it and be done with it.

Sam: *some magic spells with keyboard typing sound since this is the metaverse*

Me: Did it work?

Sam: I don’t know!

Let’s try it.

Stands in front of the mirror and looks at the reflection, which seemed normal.

Me: Speak your traits!

And don’t forget to say you’re a shroom too.

Sam: Wise O’Shroom…

That’s my name and what else?

Me: I don’t know, it’s your choice!

Sam: Okay …

Creative, Funny, Respectful, Humble, Tech-savvy, Calm, Curious, Athletic, Helpful, and… Thinker!

Me: You had to put some thought into that.

Sam: It doesn’t matter if it didn’t work.

The reflection on the mirror started to change and shrink to shroom size.

I reach for it inside the mirror and bring it to our dimension.

The mirror is more of a liquid surface, all reflections are distorted.

Holding the shroom and looking at it, it’s not any different than the shrooms in the lab.

Me: Why is it showing distortions.

It should settle by now!

Sam: It knows you took something…

Me: Do you know how noise cancellation works?

You flip the noise and play it, the sound waves then cancel each other

I’m gonna give it something for the shroom.

Okay, so what do you want me to distort about you?

Sam: What do you mean?

Me: Do what you did with the mirror again, I’ll paint it!

I’m a scientist here but in real life, I’m an abstract expressionist.

Sam: Enlightened, astral projection, wizard, lizard, and green!

Starts to paint using the Metaverse digital tools.

Aaaand we’re done!

Me: What do you think?

Sam: ….

Me: well, here we go.

Throwing the painting inside the mirror and hoped it would work.

Slowly the ripples started to fade and the reflection got sharper.

Me: I guess we’re open for business…