The History of the Spores™

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Part 1: The Incursion.

 

It all began back in 1994, when (due to what was thought to be *undisclosed psychosis*), Kallus began drawing, painting and incessantly thinking about Spores. They had no names at that time, and were often quite vague in appearance. Unknown to him, Kallus was receiving subliminal transmissions from entities deep in the Frondulant Depths Of The Spores, located far off in space and a few dimensions over.
He attempted to fight the mental Spore incursion awhile, before realising that life was much better with the Spores around. For one thing, he was never short of melon.

The Spores had telepathically found him worthy, and slowly filled his mind with images and ideas - which were in fact, concentrated Spore facts. The observing Spores noticed that his mind did not cave in; his new state of awareness actually brought him a quiet serenity, punctuated by frequent bouts of manic laughter and paranoid whispers. Judging this to be mostly acceptable, it was at this moment that they gave him the Eggplant Vision.

The Eggplant lies at the Heart Of The Spores, a massive bioconstruct designed to create vessels containing moist clusters of Sporelings, and then to launch or *release* these Spores in the general direction of a suitable habitat.
Kallus was informed that the Eggplant had released Spores toward Earth, and that the Entropic Invasion™ was underway.

Chaotically ecstatic and unsane, Kallus attempted to tell the world about this, by creating a (now defunct) website, entitled Eggplant. It promised many wonders and incredible insight, but, alas, before any of these delights were created and uploaded to the interweb, disaster struck.

Everything went blank. Abruptly, all telepathic and subliminal contact between Kallus and the Spores had been cut off.

 

*kzzzzzzzt*


Two years passed, in which Kallus, drifting through strange psychotic episodes, struggled to adapt to the Spores being absent from his thoughts. He drank and smoked and rediscovered computer games. He gave in to the temptations of the Playstation, then later fell in love with Counter-Strike, Unreal Tournament and Diablo 2. Kallus immersed himself in them online, and found himself playing Planescape: Torment and endless hours of Doom offline.
Then, suddenly, he was collecting Transformers (Robots In Disguise) again, and plunged headlong into eBay, buying and selling, collecting, collecting.
Another website sprang up, entitled Esoteria (also now sadly vanishified, but I'll get them hosted at Sporetemple soon). It was filled with illustration, music, photography, prose, random mazes, quests and somber moments, and was loosely connected to a book he was writing.

The overall overtones seemed to be more to do with struggling to deal with his disturbed world vison, coping with depression, anxiety and psychosis. His artwork began to concentrate on these areas, and from that began a return to making music - which would have a vital role to play in the months to come.


The obsessive qualities of these pastimes related directly to the absence of the Spores from his life, although he wasn't quite aware of this on a conscious level. Although he was working, his artwork, photography and writing suffered with the loss, until the stack of abandoned projects far outweighed his finished pieces.

They were bad times for Kallus, but the Spores had endured far worse...

Frondulon

Part 2 soon.