Mushroom House
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Mushroom House
The problem with most of these grow your own home kits is that you need a lot of land. The tree house looks like it only has a small footprint, the trunk only a few metres across. This is misleading as to maintain itself, it requires the canopy to spread across a wide area to catch enough sunlight. The roots need plenty of space too, not just to hold the whole structure up. There needs to be enough ground to absorb water and other nutrients. If you encroach on someone else’s property they can simply cut it back, causing growth to slow.
Crystal homes at least do not have that problem; the indestructible mega-diamond these kits create will laugh off any attempts to break off stray limbs. This can cause some friction with neighbours, and worse still makes it all but impossible to make alterations once grown. No knocking out walls to create space.
Let’s not even think about the hectares a Baba Yaga hut requires.
The advantage of Fungal Dwellings is that you do not even need a small amount of land. Simply scatter the spores in a cool, dark, damp spot and wait for six to eight weeks. By the time any current users discover the initial growths it will be too late. An ineradicable blight will have taken hold, breaking down any current structures, making the whole place a disgusting mess of roiling mycelial proto-life.
Act quickly to gain title to the land while it is worthless as the next stage will bloom overnight.
Within hours the fungus will fruit, rising high into the air. In a few days the interior dries out, enabling the space to be excavated. Functional rooms in the stalk and a large, airy, elegantly curving space up in the cap. For those who like an outdoor life, the cap keeps the worst of sun or rain from the area around the home.
When the house spores, be sure to collect them, keeping them safe and perfectly dry. You never know when you might want to move again.
