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    Default Will alcohol kill a violet fungus?

    We have an awakened violet fungus that some dwarves are going to try to get drunk.
    What will happen?

    I know in real life, alcohol isn’t exactly healthy for a fungus, though you usually use upwards of 60% to try to kill it.

    [edit] Will it get drunk?
    Last edited by Falcon X; 2019-06-10 at 06:09 PM.

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    Default Re: Will alcohol kill a violet fungus?

    Arms and Equipment Guide has rules for treating booze as a mild poison.

    Is it immune to poison or Fort saves? If yes then it wont get drunk.

    If it can be poisoned then it could get alchohol poisoned.

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    Default Re: Will alcohol kill a violet fungus?

    Common drinks? The game treats it both as food and poison, so a fungus would actually enjoy the easy to digest liquid. Fungi don't easily die from contact with alcohol, we use it to prevent microfungi from setting in and growing. A large fungus is basically imune to anything but prolonged complete submersion in concentrated alcohol - and it lasts much longer than a human or dwarf would anyways. Fungi are Plants with Plant Traits, so your Violet Fungus will outdrink all of them and then joke about their inability to deal with a little poison much weaker than his own.
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    Default Re: Will alcohol kill a violet fungus?

    That sounds pretty smart Kayblis, so I’ll assume it’s correct. Thanks!

    Now I just have to figure out if it gets tipsy. The rules on awakening plants aren’t too specific....
    Maybe i can find somewhere that talks about ents or mycanoids drinking....

    [edit] Just read that Tolkien’s ents could get drunk.
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    Default Re: Will alcohol kill a violet fungus?

    Alcohol functions as a poison (Arms and Equipment Guide, page 32). Plants have poison immunity. Violet Fungus is a plant.

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    Default Re: Will alcohol kill a violet fungus?

    Quote Originally Posted by SirNibbles View Post
    Alcohol functions as a poison (Arms and Equipment Guide, page 32). Plants have poison immunity. Violet Fungus is a plant.
    There it is. Was afb so couldn't cite the source.

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    Default Re: Will alcohol kill a violet fungus?

    I never noticed that DR before : DR 15 / Alcohol
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