The clump of mud impacted the silhouette, causing it to... collapse? As if it was made of mud itself, the humanoid simply fell apart. A few seconds later, all sorts of small domestic wildlife idly moved past the fish men's feet. Beetles, worms, butterflies and even some snakes. There was something strange about them, however. They were all caked in flora. The carapaces of the beetles were covered in writhing fungi, the wings of the butterflies blossomed with foreign petals, and the simple garden snakes' scales were clotted with moss and small clovers. If the fish men looked close enough, they would've seen each piece of flora pulsate like a beating organ. The smell of flowers was intoxicating now. Suddenly, every flora-infested organism stopped moving. The plants that covered them began to grow rapidly, petrifying them in cocoons of chlorophyll green. Their corpses began to sink into the ground. The soil beneath their feet responded quickly. A small field of mushrooms with swollen bodies grew all around the remaining fish men.

The fish did not stay to find out what the mushrooms would do, and simply stepped around them as they ran as fast as they could. They ran blindly, flinging mud in whichever way to hit the man should he approach. It seemed that the creatures valued their life over their curiosity.

They found their way out of the fog, rejoining their army and greeted by the natural cold of the night and scent of the open air. No longer did flowers and chemicals bombard their senses and hug their skin. Their comrade, however... The Mangy finally got a look at the man in the bone-bird mask. He looked as he was seen before, a crisp hunter green dress shirt with a turban to match. He opened a hand towards the Mangy and spoke to him directly from beneath the fake face. "I'm terribly sorry about this. You weren't supposed to feel a thing, after all. No matter - I'll take care of the pain." He opened his hand. The Mangy began to feel very drowsy as the scent finally overcame him, entering his body and flushing all consciousness away like a wave of sleep. [spoiler]End here because I wanna do business with Quarter[/spoiler]