I've got something really fun today!
Most people know how mushrooms can be hard to distinguish from each other, but did you know the same could be true of your common chicken?
The Chicken of the Woods is a sort of perfectly average chicken. In the literal sense! The main way to distinguish it from other chickens is the lack of any extremes.
The exact height and weight of a chicken on Cyclowiki. The most common coloration and no distinguishing patterns or variance.
The perfect mutation. A suresign of Magical Corruption.
You see... feral chickens without mortal influence includes our natural magical dampening from our gluttonous subconscious...
But magic follows what we think about... even out there.
And occasionally that corruption manifests in a Chicken of the Woods!
A chicken so infused with magic on its death, reaching out for dear Life, and finding itself forever changed by our Perception of it...
A very rare corruption for chickens, as they usually become Basilisks or False Miniature Dragons, but certainly the oldest.
We only know they exist because people keep eating them and getting sick or...in much worse cases make the mistake of homing them...
The Chicken of the Woods can harbor resentment.
Upon touching our collective will, the Chicken gains its own, as well as the ability to learn.
Do not confuse them with a Chicken Familiar though.
Survivors of encounters describe its gaze as piercing. Old. Its taste-- like Tainted Boar.
It's often quieted by your megacity's news outlets when someone dies on consumption. Much harder to hide when a family who happened to own chickens does not go softly into that good night.
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