On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

I would _really_ like to see some plant articles.

As part of a discussion on the Pinnacle Entertainment forums regarding the "Deaders" race in their Last Parsec setting, I was directed to this wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis

Make that affect sophonts then make it the atmospheric taint of a Red-Zoned world . . .

Oh! And I also loved the retired Scout's drinking story!

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville (1843)

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester

"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.