
This work contains images licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Agreement
Credit for the photograph of the spores goes to Brendon Rawlings
Credit for the other photograph, which I modified, goes to "Jelly Helm"
This work contains images licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 Agreement
Credit for the photograph of the spores goes to Brendon Rawlings
Credit for the other photograph, which I modified, goes to "Jelly Helm"
Nicely done with the creative commons images used.
I kind of expected the guy's name to be blocked out, since that seems to be the way things normally go. Anyways, upvoted. I like it.
Yeah, I had considered blackboxing it. But given that there isn't a "real" Thomas Hoang (in the Foundationverse; apologies to any IRL Thomas Hoangs I've offended), blackboxing would be kind of superflous.
You could say the same thing about blackboxing dates, times, etc. but those have potentially damaging information. Knowing that the mold monster thinks its name is Thomas Hoang won't really change anything.
I really liked it!
The whole 55kg of the virus is terrifying after having just read this.
I agree it's pretty scary, but I ought to burst your bubble and say that it's a spore, presumably a fungus, not a virus. it could potentially be viral because of the editing of DNA, but that's probably part of the whole anomalous thing.
Does it changes their clothes too? Because I can't really picture a Class D wearing a shirt. And I have a shirt just like that.
The uniform that the D-Class would have been wearing wouldn't have fit due to significant differences in height, weight, frame, etc. Probably they let him wear the shirt for the picture because why not?
Uhm, yeah, that's better. Headcanon accepted + upvote.
I'm assuming this was inspired by what the Cordyceps fungus does to insects. Very nicely done. The idea of the growth causing pain when the host tried to communicate was confusing, but it looks like that's been edited out. +1
Thomas Hoang is my cousin!
I enjoyed it thoroughly. An interesting way to do the whole fungal assimilation/zombie thing that's better than most that I've seen.
Little bit curious as to why this is Keter, though.
I tried to imply that the Foundation was unsure whether or not they had the only extant samples of Thomas Hoang, or if there were others in the wild. They got lucky when they captured the initial one, as the city was a relatively small one. If even a single Thomas Hoang "matures" in a major metropolitan area, it could cause millions of deaths Thomas Hoangs.
So, while it's easy enough to contain (although still dangerous as fuck), the possibility of there could be other instances of Mr. Hoang out there and the potential for destruction that they hold bumps it up to Keter.
Ahh, this is cool. Why Keter though? Unless the spores are adept at getting out through cracks, I don't think this guy(s) would be more than Euclid. I mean, he doesn't even seek out the conditions that make him spore.
As I said above, if the Foundation was certain that they had the only Thomas Hoang spores safely contained, it would be Euclid. Maybe even Safe. But they aren't, and if an uncontained instance is exposed to the right conditions in, say, Miami, it will be a huge shitshow, and nearly impossible to contain.
This seems to be a point of confusion for people, so I'll modify the containment procedures to make it clear that they're still searching for uncontained instances.
You should have called this Fungidentity Crisis
My mother had had to work late and when she got in,
You might wanna fix that.
That was intentional. I also believe that it's grammatically correct (use of had both in sense of "was obligated to" and as a marker of the past perfect) although I could be wrong. If I am, then just chalk it up to being an interview.
downvoted due to being really similar to that SCP that is a mosquito which does exactly the same thing as this. If that didn't exist I would have upvoted. Sorry!
Can you point me to it? I haven't had any luck finding it.