Sporemageddon

I had a meeting, and was only stressing out about it a little.

Honestly, it wasn’t like me to be too worried about things, but this... was a little different.

It had taken a solid month and a half to get everything ready for larger-scale production. Initially, I was pretty excited to get things going, then reality set in. Setting up an entire new production facility was going to be expensive and time-consuming, and worse, I wasn’t sure if I wanted one anywhere close to me.

If I ramped up Dreamveil production and things worked the way I wanted them to, then the farm would become an obvious target. That was why I wanted to work through the Union, at least initially.

So I hemmed and hawed and only slowly ramped up the production of stuff in my farm.

Nine racks of Dreamveil, each one initially experimenting to see what different conditions would lead to faster, better, growth.

The first batches came in at slightly different times, with slightly different levels of quality. That was fine, it allowed me to narrow optimal conditions down. The first batches were then preserved.

I tried drying it first. It was a decent way to preserve some of my other mushrooms. It did seem like the more magically potent ones lost some of their potency when dried. I could literally feel that they were less magical, but some amount of the magic stayed in the mushroom, even over the long term, and that was good enough for me.

I was actually building up a nice stockpile of some mushrooms with interesting effects. And it made handling some of the more dangerous mushrooms easier.