Hallucinogenic mushrooms

Who is she? The owner? A cook? The manager? Why would they eat the mushrooms?

Since the intent is malicious anyone could get access to the mushrooms. It wouldn't be like he had mushrooms on the truck that would get you stoned and ooops.

Kryianna said:

Is it reasonable for a fruit/vegetable distributor/deliveryman to have access to hallucinogenic mushrooms? I want the deliveryman to purposely give her the mushrooms when he drops off her restaurant's daily veggies. He needs her to be loopy enough to need someone else to run the restaurant for the evening, but not have it be life-threatening. Sound reasonable?

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Yep. They're very easy to come by (at least they were 20 years ago . . .) We used to know which cow fields they were growing in, so we'd just go and grab 'em. It's not like other drugs that you have to make a bigger effort to grow, harvest, and process. Anyone who knows what to look for can find them and if your character is into veggies he'd probably be able to get some.

III said:

Yep. They're very easy to come by (at least they were 20 years ago . . .) We used to know which cow fields they were growing in, so we'd just go and grab 'em. It's not like other drugs that you have to make a bigger effort to grow, harvest, and process. Anyone who knows what to look for can find them and if your character is into veggies he'd probably be able to get some.

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That's what I was about to say. . .so yes, it is easy and as long as she has a good reason for eating the said mushroom, I'd say it's believable.

storygirl said:

That's what I was about to say. . .

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I thought you looked familiar!

How is he planning on getting her to eat them though. They're not as awful tasting as people make out, but they're also not something you'd choose to eat unless you were aiming for a high.

it might make more sense to just give her a dope cookie or something, if he wanted her out of it.

How could he be sure that she'd eat them? All the ones I've seen were dried, and no, I never ate one.

III said:

I thought you looked familiar!

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Yeah, I was probably the one making sure you got home ok. I was around it all the time, but never actually tried it myself. No desire to. And uh, twenty years ago, I was eight.

Siddow said:

How could he be sure that she'd eat them? All the ones I've seen were dried, and no, I never ate one.

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I thought this too. And they're better (more digestible) soaked in a a little hot water - mushroom soup, lol.

Also, she won't be a little out of it if she somehow takes them, she'll be very damn out of it, and probably freaking out if she doesn't realise what has happened.

eta: if she ends up hospitalized because she's hallucinating, then there will be serious repercussions - they will trace it back to the delivery guy.

I have no idea if they have the same effect fresh - but I found this site for you
http://www.shroomery.org

You got some ... if I may say so ... considerations.

1) You need a reason this delivery guy has 'magic mushrooms' handy.

2) The delivery person has to know the restaurant person would
eat the stuff,
would eat enough of it to get sick,
would eat it within a certain time frame,
and would not share it with anyone else.

(One woman gets sick ... she goes home and the restaurant brings in somebody else for that evening.
Two people eat the evening's offerings and get violently sick -- they stop serving food RIGHT THEN and close the place.)

3) You got a scenario where the woman gets really ill from just tasting the food.
What happens if somebody has a whole bowl of soup?
Yerk. Slerk.
(drops dead.)
This stuff is not without a certain toxicity.

4) Before he hauls out the mushrooms,
you got to convince the reader there's some good reason
the delivery man doesn't just,
sneak a dose of ipecac or visine into her coffee,
or rub poison ivy all over her clothes the night before,
or break into her house that afternoon and nip holes in her pipes and call to say the basement is flooding
which all seems easier than mushrooms which are likely to be traced back to the 'Eat this nice muchroom, girlie' deliver man.

III said:

Yep. They're very easy to come by (at least they were 20 years ago . . .) We used to know which cow fields they were growing in, so we'd just go and grab 'em. It's not like other drugs that you have to make a bigger effort to grow, harvest, and process. Anyone who knows what to look for can find them and if your character is into veggies he'd probably be able to get some.

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If it's America, then they are illegal, so he couldn't just order any. If someone was picking some on their own, they'd better know what they were doing or the victim would be dead or need a liver transplant

Nakhlasmoke said:

How is he planning on getting her to eat them though. They're not as awful tasting as people make out, but they're also not something you'd choose to eat unless you were aiming for a high.

it might make more sense to just give her a dope cookie or something, if he wanted her out of it.

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That's what I was going to say. I thought they tasted like *ss, personally (not that I can compare the two, as I've not actually...never mind), and I can't see someone who really likes mushrooms wanting to eat them.


I didn't hallucinate much on them, the one unenjoyable time I tried them. Perhaps they were really old.

Maybe he could soak them in oil, or vinegar, and convince her to use it on something? Crackers with caviar and magic mushroom oil?

If he picked some Lawyer's Wig mushrooms, he could tuck the magic mushrooms inside them - Lawyer's Wigs are long and narrow, and almost impossible to mistake for anything non-edible, but you have to eat them within a few hours of picking them, or they turn into a black, slimy mess.

Over twenty years ago, Rugby School sprayed all their playing fields with something toxic, to stop the growth of magic mushrooms - to the disappointment of many locals who used to nip in over the fence (and probably to the disappointment of some of the schoolboys, too).

It seems strange that she would drop what she's doing to cook herself some mushrooms at that instant. I would think dropping acid or a sleeping pill into her coffee cup would make more sense.

Also, I would think that a "foodie" would be wary of any mushroom that she didn't recognize, especially if it wasn't commercially packaged.