A closer look at the glowing mushrooms

Duchess Lucilla Katharina set off down the closest path that seemed to veer upwards. It was hard to tell exactly which direction led where in this labyrinthine maze of crumbling corridors and dank catacombs, but she figured trying to head towards the surface was a good bet. Mud and damp moss that had flowed up and through the scattered stone tiles squished beneath her slippers as she cautiously made her way through the tunnel. While this already made for poor footing in the dim light, her tattered slippers were not making things easier.

As if on cue, her right foot suddenly slid forwards on a slanted, mud covered stone, causing the duchess to fall forwards with a few stumbling steps. She managed to catch herself on the nearby wall, her hands grasping on to some of the spiraling vines that were sprouting violet glowing mushrooms. As the **** of her impact rattled the foliage, a fine dusting of purple haze puffed out from the outgrowths. Lucilla had not even noticed it before she had inhaled a good amount of the sweetly smelling particulates. She regained her footing and took a step back as her nose began to tingle. Sucking in another quick breath, she let out a high-pitched sneeze that echoed off the stone wall before muffling into the dirt and plants that surrounded her.

"What...what is that stuff?" The duchess muttered aloud as she began to feel slightly light headed. "Oh that feels...that feels nice..." A smile fluttered at her lips as a tingling warm sensation flowed down through her chest to spread out through her body. "Goodness that...that feels..." The warming sensation began to center in her loins, and she sucked in a slow shuddering breath. "Oh my that is a potent aphrodisiac!" She let out a small incredulous chuckle and swiped a bead of sweat from her brow.

Lucilla had to take a trembling step back from the fading purple haze. If she inhaled another breath, there was a good chance the extra dose may make her so ferociously aroused that she couldn't think straight. She gently pressed a hand between her legs and sucked in a quick shuddering breath. That touch alone was nearly enough to send her over the edge.

It made some sort of twisted sense that this sort of plant would be sprouting in the bowels of the dead city. The Xerasm people had been hedonistic and lustful, and the weeds of their ruin seemed to still herald those ideals. She took a few more cautious steps back from the wall of plants and eyed them up and down. Those glowing mushrooms twisted out on vines along nearly every corridor she had passed through so far, illuminating the passages in varying degrees of color. Who knew what sorts of arousals the other glowing shades could arise in her. She would have to be careful not to disturb them too much or she might end up wandering through a miasma of orgasmic chemicals! Lucilla let out a slightly crazed giggle as she realized the thought of that sounded positively wonderful, given how she was currently being affected by just a small dose.

"Come now Lucilla focus! Just, hmmm, just keep moving."

The duchess managed to begin her path again, but the amorous effects of the spores still lingered in her system. Her nipples were still stiffened to hardened, sensitive nubs, and the movement of her brassiere against them felt positively sinful. As well, each step caused her small clothes to rub and brush against her slickened sex, it too in a heightened state of sensitivity from the fungus' effects. If her situation were not so frightfully dire, she would have stopped right then and there to let her fingers eagerly relieve herself of some of this tension.

"I might just have to take some of those plants with me when I leave..." She mused aloud, before shaking her head with a small chuckle as she continued on.