[quote=@Rhona W] I hadn't really thought about the fungus being altered or mutated... but now I am, and that's a fun hook for an adventure at some point that I'm squirrelling away for long enough that you've forgotten about it, and I can develop it suitably so it's not obvious. Interesting thought about it surviving in a hybrid - maybe one of the goals of the hybrid project was to reduce or remove the dependence on the symbiotic relationship altogether, so that the Anhur would be more able to survive on a wider variety of worlds. It seems like a logical reason to undertake such a project, or at least, one reason.[/quote] Well, the problem with squirreling it until I forget about it, [i]is that I'd have to stop roleplaying it after 20+ years[/i], first. Or I politely don't pull an eye of sauron moment the plot appears. That said, it'd be a complicated headache and my thought process on the subject had already jumped the shark about a decade ago. The whole original reclusiveness-thing was largely because it was a partial-failure to ween Felix from the fungus, and again, mostly just made her resistant to living a full-on LSD trip at all times [Cue bri'ish [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziqpwkhqTRs]Operation Moneybags[/url] video where they gave soldiers LSD and rocket-launchers] [url=https://www.blastwave-comic.com/index.php?p=comic&nro=38]being a bit impulsive would've been getting off light[/url]. And there'd be fear of it becoming cross-contagious, which'd result in [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7w9uWFIMBs]a heavy handed "kill everyone, leave no witnesses" zombie-eradication squad style response[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isFIv3-aHPY]since developing a normal means of containment/immunity would not work[/url]. So, yeah... I'll agree that we probably should [i]not[/i] have the story head in that direction at this time. So we're giving the anhur as a race a bit of plot-armor so they aren't living on borrowed-time mid-apocolypse. [quote=@FalloutJack] I'm thinking navy blue color with crimson highlights, myself. [/quote] Probably something like a happy little AH-1G, myself. [img]https://www.centaursinvietnam.org/History/HistoryPhotos/Cobra09x.jpg[/img]