#leshy on shrooms

[pocket-goat]

cult of the shroom shenanigans. the siblings KEEP FIGHTING and leshy loses literally every single time.

also, @mellow-hii demanded that her follower have children with both leshy and heket. meet beastmode and camel cigarettes.

im gonna revoke your picnic shirt priviledges for this. no more frolicking for you.

[thvnderdraws]

my head if filled with cotl/trod somebody help /silly

[pink-nanowire]

Bishops bishops bishops

- The doggy with Shamura is based on an idea that Shamura might need like a "service dog" for the disabiliting consequences of their injuries. The service dog is actually now a dog follower that they befriended and who started to be their kind-of assistant and care-giver

(the idea is inspired by a cute fanart of Shamura with a doggy by @/ane-doodles and my brain went wild)

- Yes, this is the Yellow Cat from the short with Leshy, I'm one basic bitch

- Wawa, the lil follower Heket is lifting, is a chiwawa follower constantly high as hell on shrooms. She knows ASL, and she can understand what Heket wants to say without hearing her bc she's stoned lmfao

- Heket and Wawa became friends and accomplices, Wawa became her ASL interpret. But ppl tends to look and talk with Wawa more than Heket since the bishop is partially mute and they are scared of her, so sometimes Heket just... lift her and Wawa gladly insult the ableist cowards

- Yes Wawa is signing Bitch

- I forgor to draw Kallamar 😔

- WEIRDLY NARINDER IS THE ONE THAT I CAN'T DRAW HOW I WANT. FUCKING CAT.

[he-ofhavoc]

Spore... grotto...

*He thinks for a second.*

Sozo's? That guy? I've talked with him once. Maybe i should go check up on him. I dowbt anything major has happened there, however...

*Leshy stands up, and tries to get himself in the direction of spore grotto. Normally he would just see out of the crown's eye, but... he's not doing that right now, for whatever reason. Odd.*

@he-ofhavoc [i needa do hw so excuse slow responses]

Lamb? Lamb? Where are you?

*He's looking directly away from you.*

I heard something happened? What's going on?

*He has no idea why he even cares. He's supposed to kill you. Why can't he bring himself to do this? He was weak in his first universe, and he's still weak now.*

(... Leshy? How'd he get here? And why would he be concerned about them?

They step closer to him, so he can hear them better.)

"...I'm behind you, hi."

[lavendersartistry]

I honestly couldn't care if the fandom found this post but to put it simply:

The Cult of the Lamb fandom is icky.

It's funny how I can manage being in the fandom to this day while watching this fandom become to... whatever it is now.

This is a bit why I made my AU, Death and the Archivist.

What i mean is that Death and the Archivist is structured to bring into light of what the fandom turns a blind eye to (lore, less favorable and more favorable npcs, the bishops, narilamb flaws) because the fandom is just raging in shipping, woobifying characters, infantilizing Leshy, inappropriate jokes and probably more.

The AU is made to show how dark Cult of the Lamb is exactly. Like the bishops and Narinder are guilty of the lamb massacre and should be punished accordingly by Lamb because their race was wiped clean because of a prophecy due to Narinder's betrayal of the laws of the Old Faith. Yet the fandom badly uses Narinder and praise the bishops as if they never did anything wrong.

Yeah, people are allowed to interpret the characters of the game how they want but to this point, the fandom's "code" is to ship Narilamb without looking deeper into their relationship, woobify characters constantly, never make fem and male ocs interesting, disregard matters like Sozo's shroom addiction, and push aside other npcs for the more popular npcs.

So yeah, I guess I'm alone on this criticism with this icky-inducing fandom-

[askbishopschildren]

I'm bored, so yall get a bunch of fun facts

TW for the Loki section mentioning suicidal thoughts

Koda, Mars' and Apollo's dad for those who don't remember, originally was sent to Heket as an offering from his village. They had pretty poor harvests and not much was working, but eventually Heket came by to see what else they had to offer and took a liking to Koda pretty quick. Frankly he doesn't know why she chose him, nor does he think he deserves it, but he's grateful nonetheless

Artemis physically cannot go more than a week or two without getting sick, their immune system is THAT bad

Artemis is also allergic to cats despite loving them.

Mars prefers to stay solo, however if he fucks up and pisses off either Astraeus or another bishop, he will cower and hide behind his momma. He's a giant mommas boy if you couldn't tell

When with the lamb, Astaeus goes on missionary a lot since he can use his bigger form if a life or death situation arises

Continuing on the missionary theme, Mars tries to go as much as possible solely to get away from the lamb since he hates them, both for hurting his family but also supplying his drug dealer with enough shrooms that he died

Speaking of that, Sozo is just straight up Mars' drug dealer. They talk a lot over mushroomos and regular shrooms alike. It's also how he ended up getting along with Iluquim as Sozo kept insisting they talk

Artemis is a damn good cook, as they spend free time especially when sick doing it just to kill time. They really enjoy the cooking.

Mars really does not respect his dad much, but in the end he still does love him. He just thinks he is really weak compared to other cultists, which he isn't entirely wrong about and Koda thinks he is correct aswell.

Apollo experiments with poisons a lot, including his own as a poison dart frog. His mother gives him heretics to test the poisons on, however he usually lets the heretics that praise Narinder go under the guise of escaping.

Apollo is also just very shy when it comes to Aym, and Aym is too dense to notice the crush. Baal is driven insane every time he sees it.

Mars and Apollo both used to cuddle in their mothers bandages/scarf when they were little, with Mars even throwing fits when Heket wouldn't let him do it when she needed to do something.

Gaia is the only one of the cousins, aside from Loki, to not be able to change to a smaller form to match followers just because shes already pretty small to begin with, considering regular followers go up to her shoulders.

Mars is physically the strongest of the cousins, but it's from overcompensating as he doesn't have any special abilities like the bishops or his cousins. Apollo doesn't have much either, but he doesn't feel the need to overcompensate like his younger brother

As for their abilities, Astraeus can use weapons/abilities of different zodiac signs ones at a time, Gaia can grow plants anywhere she wishes, Loki is basically a nerfed Discord from MLP, Artemis can manipulate shadows and make animals out of them, and Apollo can light bend but it isn't much.

Artemis is AFAB

Astraeus is the cousin who's the farthest from their bishop parent by a mile, excluding Loki obviously since he ditched them decades ago, just due to Shamura being so busy in general.

AAnd for a final bit, a section fully to a Loki infodump

So we all know Leshy was a total hardass on Loki when he was a kid, but it was BAD. Loki was pretty much dead inside when Ratau found him, to the point Loki pointed Rataus sword to himself just because he had no reason to stay alive anymore. Ratau recruited him by showing him knucklebones and getting him hooked, which is why he is such a big gambler now. It's so bad that he lost both his eye and his leg in two bets, both to Shrumy, as Ratau forgot to teach him safer gambling practices and he didn't learn his lesson the first time. Loki also liked to sing for Rataus cult back in the day, and to an extent still enjoys doing it when Lambert starts their cult. He genuinely loves his counsins when he meets them and likes to help them with any issues they might have, basically acting more like an uncle to them over a cousin.

There might be another part of this if I get bored again, as I have accumulated a lot of facts and infodumps over the months of these guys being around from talkin bout em with friends on discord :]

[digimonlover09]

Bishop Swap AU

(Can’t remember if I ever posted it to Tumblr, but I guess I will now just in case. It was just the normal Lamb in this AU before the Goat was revealed. Does not extend into post-game story yet.)

The basics are Ratau swaps with Shamura, Sozo with Kallamar, Helob with Heket, Leshy with Midas, and The Fox with The One Who Waits. The wounds are also shuffled. Bishop Ratau is the blind one, Bishop Helob is the deaf one, Bishop Sozo is the one with brain damage, and Bishop Midas is the mute one.

I also gave The Fox Who Waits the alternate name of Raveni, based on the arg.

The not-Bishops are still siblings, a little adopted family Elder Vessel Shamura put together back in their Cult Leader days. 

Elder Shamura was devoted. They did everything TFWW asked with no hesitation. They were loyal, and so were the family they put together. Their cult was thriving, and so were they. Everyone was happy, everything was perfect

Until, of course, Narinder tried to take their god’s crown. After that, things just fell apart. Their family left and went their separate ways, they got lonely and tired, they became less active, the cult slowly withered away, and eventually the Fox grew disappointed and took the crown back.

Cryptid Narinder wants to be a god, and he’s become something different. Not a Bishop or a god, but not quite mortal anymore either. He’s something in-between mortal and immortal. He requests sacrifices from the Goat, starting small with a simple fish, and working up to requesting the life of his estranged elder sibling, Shamura. He still holds a grudge against them for denying him the power he desired all those years ago.

If they get sacrificed to Cryptid Narinder, Elder Shamura leaves a letter about how they miss their family, how they still love Narinder even after what he did, and how Goat fills the hole in their heart left by their family falling apart.

Cryptid Narinder’s also noticeably envious of the Goat if encountered after they defeat The Fox Who Waits. He might even request the Fox’s life instead of Elder Shamura’s, though he will ask for Shamura if denied. 

If Goat gives him Raveni, Cryptid Narinder will go on a tangent about the Goat accomplishing what he could only hope to, and then grants a Divine Inspiration or God Tear on top of the usual reward.

Shroom Kallamar isn’t infected by any parasitic mushrooms, he’s just addicted. He tries to run from his past and his pain by drowning his sorrows in menticide mushrooms, to the point where he’s never really sober anymore. 

He doesn’t want to remember how his brother betrayed them and ruined everything, how everything just fell apart, how that fleeting time where everything was perfect ended. So he takes any menticide he can get his hands on and drowns himself in the high and the good memories.

Sometimes he talks about them, about his siblings. Sometimes he talks about his time in the cult Elder Shamura ran. If he’s still alive when Cryptid Narinder appears at Spore Grotto, he’ll come out and greet him, say how he misses how things used to be, and then wander back into his usual room.

Cryptid Narinder will be silent for a moment, looking sad, and make a comment about how pitiful his brother has become, before returning to his usual behavior.

This interaction doesn’t happen if Shroom Kallamar already overdosed. Also the swapped Mushroom Sculpture looks very different, is called the Mushroom Shrine, and has references to all five of the not-Bishops.

Unlike canon Helob, Cannibal Heket is very aware that most people don’t eat live people like she does. She also knows that Goat is based in the lands her elder sibling once led a cult in. She sells Followers to the Goat for reasons of nostalgia.

Heket is the only sibling still in contact with everyone. She still talks to Elder Shamura every once in awhile, and sometimes plays Knucklebone with them. She still visits to Mushroom Kallamar, though he’s usually too high to understand what’s happening. She occasionally visits Collector Leshy and gifts him some of her prey. She even encounters Cryptid Narinder in the middle of the night once every great while, though they usually just glare at eachother. 

She’s a bit arrogant and rude when she talks to the Goat, and insults them if they don’t buy whoever she’s offering. She becomes sad after Kallamar dies, and she completely disappears if the Goat gives Shamura to Narinder.

Collector Leshy isn’t obsessed with money, he’s obsessed with people. He traps people in gold so they can’t ever leave him. He’s got a pact with the Gods of Gold for that power, so he still sells things for exorbitant prices to satisfy them.

Cannibal Heket only visits him on rare occasions, because he’s genuinely the most unstable in the family. She’s always very cautious when interacting with the worm, because she’s not sure he won’t try to trap her like his other victims.

Bishop Ratau does actively pity the Goat. But The Fox Who Waits, cannot be allowed to be set free. His pity wanes with every Bishop that dies, and the time the Goat reaches swapped Silk Cradle, he’s just tired. He wants this whole thing to be over and done with so he can mourn in peace.

Bishop Helob doesn’t cast famine, they just steal some of Goat’s Followers and feed them to their own cultists. Naturally, they eat the first one themself. All Followers recruited from swapped Anura come with the Cannibal trait, because of something Bishop Helob did to them.

Bishop Midas is a very hands off Bishop, mostly lets his Followers run wild while he laughs at the chaos. He can be bribed with shiny things, though. Most of his sacrifices get decked out in extra shiny jewelry and the fanciest clothes Plimbo can smuggle. Plimbo and Collector Leshy make the most gold off of Bishop Midas’s Followers, because fancier sacrifices mean better blessings.

[ratcandy]

so I love your sozo hcs and art a lot. I also love theorizing a bunch over lore and stuff in the game and... idk? I had to share this idea with someone about the cordyceps.

So, in one of the secret messages it does say the skull that Spore Grotto is built in and around was the skull of a supposed ancient god. Probably one of the "first gods" even, and it has a mushroom similar to the one that was on Sozo growing out of it, but the face is old looking... So what if the cordyceps is some divine fungus the Mushroomos worship and the one on Sozo is an offspring or rebirth of the ancient one that requires a host to mature? Fungi will often eat and kill other species so perhaps that adds into why Sozo eats the Mushroomos? For a food source to gain power and the cordyceps is a more powerful species of fungi?

Plus maybe Dr Sozonius has a bit of a grudge with them for forcing it on him. Idk? Just some theories I've had when analyzing everything.

Oh worm thank you!! I'm glad you like my art n rambles <3

The idea that the fungus is itself a deity is one that's been tossed around here a bit yeah!!! And seeing as it managed to take down a God (assuming it is the reason for that Ancient God's death and it didn't just show up after, which I can't imagine why it would for something evidently parasitic) it would make total sense if it is/was!

AaaanD the idea that the Mushroomos specifically worship that Big Shroom is interesting! And using Sozo as a sort of host for their God's rebirth would be in-line with typical cult stuff, so hey!! I could totally see it!

My only uncertainty lies in the fact that the Mushroomos seem almost confused by what's going on with Sozo? At least, they don't make any mention of what's going on, and just claim that he's growing more unpredictable and cruel, and that they fear for their safety around him. And they run away horrified when he tries to eat them, which is a total reasonable response on its own, but not if they would expect it to happen for their God to reach maturity, right? You'd think that'd be like. I dunno, an honor? Noble sacrifice type thing? If their death aids in their God's rebirth?

They even question why he whispers to himself, which you'd figure they'd know if they put that God in him sdghSDKJGH

It's possible they're playing dumb to keep Sozo/outsiders unaware of their intentions, though. That or perhaps the Mushroomos did indeed intend for Sozo to be the new vessel for their God but they just had no fucking idea what that would entail sdghKSJDGH.

Like, here they were expecting their God's offspring/reincarnation to treat them with kindness or whatever for being the ones that brought it back, only for SURPRISE!!!!! It wants to EAT. and it wants to eat THEM

Who knows!! I don't think the Mushroomos' intentions are ever totally made clear, so anything is possible. Though we do know they didn't give much of a shit about the Bishops ("Leshy was slaughtered! Never liked him, anyway" and "Shamura has died. It was probably for the best") so hey for all we know they hate these new Gods and want their old one back. Doing it in the middle of a new God's territory (Anura) might not have been the best idea tho

[askthe-yellowcrown]

You. Please don't tell me you have an addiction like literally all of your siblings. Leshy has alcohol, Kallamar has gaming, Shamura possibly has shrooms, and Narinder is still smoking blunts.

- The Orange Guy™

"what the hell did you people do to my siblings"

[ask-theyellowcrown]

Heket. I need you to be honest with me Heket. Do you or do you not have an addiction? Literally all of your siblings have one. Leshy to alcohol, Kallamar to gaming, Shamura to shrooms, and Narinder to blunts.

- The Orange Guy™

*she holding a mushroom* …no?

[ahumoki0]

Kallamar's map is so freaking hard! So frustrating Dx

At least his boss fight was easier than Leshy, cult wouldn't leave me alone to move on, had to give them some shrooms so I could fight

[angstandhappiness]

LMAO, NEAT Leshy getting straight up decked in the eye socket (ow) and just KO is hilarious 😂, but him acting after thinking to just let it happen because Joon got hurt is sweet. The faces of those peeps reacting to the vine bursting out is hilarious, especially the ones that decided it was the shrooms.

Local chaos god gets humbled, creates chaos over it. His aim still needs some work though

I really need to stop drawing Drunken Gods chapter stuff and actually finish the damn chapter lmao

[askacultleader]

Good day! good day! If you want some dirt on those siblings of Mr Totally-not-your-lover then know they all have addictions. Shamura to shrooms, Leshy to alcohol, Kallamar to gaming, and Heket to acid.

Farewell!

- The Orange Guy™

"Huh, for some reason that doesn't really surprise me.

Thank you for the information!"

[pixelated-moon]

Out of context shit I've said playing ✨cult of the lamb✨ (bc I'm obsessed with this game)

"Narinder! Stop beating the shit out of Dr. Sozo! This is the third time! What's your beef with him?!"

"Oh uh.... Leshy... You and Camellia (my yellow cat) have a... Beautiful child" (The child, Tulip, was born as a monster I think the form is called?)

"Elderly fight pit time y'all! C'mon!"

"Why do y'all want to marry me???? I don't do shit beyond keep y'all alive!"

"Where are the babies? .... No seriously where tf are these kids???"

"... Why tf do you look diff- oh it's Baal, sorry."

"ok new follower.... (Makes butterfly and just stares for a few seconds) ... Green black and blue makes the color in the sky mfs." (His name is deadass Aieaieaie, and I love him)

"STOP FUCKIN DRUNK FIGHTING FFS" "YOU KILLED HER WTF- THEY CAL KILL EACH OTHER IN FIGHTS????" "oh hell nah you ain't getting a killing streak"

"ah shit they're getting unfaithful... Out comes the shrooms then!"

"I'm currently putting bullets in a squid" (An actual text I sent my best friend)

"... Well that was easy." (Me after defeating Narinder in about a minute/minute and a half)

[askbishopschildren]

Welcome to the Ask Bishops Children ask blog! You may ask any of these 5 questions! As a guide, their names areeeee

Gaia: The small weeping willow bushworm and the daughter of Leshy! She is a massive pacifist and sees all life as precious.

Artemis: The short umbrella squid and the child of Kallamar! They have a horrid immune system and get sick very often, however they are still very happy most of the time and love playing with animals, real and shadow.

Astraeus: The starry spider and the son of Shamura! He's generally very chill and loves to help his cousins with whatever they might need. As you can tell by his design, he is quite into astrology. He also has a bit of a secret that only Gaia knows about.

Mars: The red hot toad and the youngest son of Heket! He has a rage as firey as the red on his skin and tends to be very rude towards most people. He has a bit of a shroom addiction and, unlike his cousins, has no special abilities and overcompensates for that with raw physical strength that only Astraeus and the bishops can tame.

Apollo: The calm blue toad and the oldest son of Heket. He tends to keep his younger brother out of trouble a good amount and constantly tries to get him to just calm down. Apollo feels really bad for the one who waits and goes to visit him from time to time.... and he also partly goes to see Aym who he is quite fond of.

[kakavashaspromise]

"I crave chaos" -Theri (Leshy energy) "Not now love the chaos will be later in bed" -Shroom