Tend to the mycelia
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From: Vertiginous Horticulture
The fruiting bodies of your [Growth] may be impressive, but they won't grow if you neglect the hyphae.
Unlocked with 
Rooftop Growth, Classification: Fungi, 
The Airs of London 51-100, 
Nurturing a Rooftop Growth 1-150
Challenge information
- 52 - very chancy (41%)
- 64 - chancy (51%)
- 77 - modest (61%)
- 89 - very modest (71%)
- 102 - low-risk (81%)
- 114 - straightforward (91%)
- 125 - straightforward (100%)
Each point of 
Rooftop Growth, Difficulty: increases the base difficulty by 5 points.
Success
Delicate work
They branch beneath the soil, a slender tangle of hyaline threads. Exposing them is difficult [...] to accomplish without damaging the superstructure [...]. Your tools are more akin to an archaeologist's than a common gardener's: tiny brushes [...] and fingerbone-picks.
Description summary:
The second paragraph depends on your Rooftop Growth.
| Rooftop Growth: | Description |
|---|---|
| 3: Prize-Winning Peppercaps | Peppercap hyphae reach and grasp towards sources of heat [...] When the growth is happy, the caps are wine-purple, with spots of virulent yellow – but to keep them this way the hyphae leech all the acids out of the soil [...] They require careful tending [...] |
| 5: False-Cantigaster Hybrids | The hyphae of these hybrids look grey and sickly, [...] nothing you do seems to make them any better. The mushrooms refuse to die, [...] but never have you seen a plant or fungus so bleak or pained as these. It is as if they are not immune to their own poisons. |
| 7: Tomorrowspore Ortcaps | [...] planted above shards of buried mirror – the mycelia quest half in soil, and half on the other side of the glass [...] Every so often the mirrors require replacing. Coaxing the mycelia out [...] is delicate work, and proximity [...] hazes your mind with spore-memories [...] |
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Shadowy is increasing…
You've gained (12 + Growth Difficulty) x Nurturing a Rooftop Growth
[The Airs of London change…] (random)
Rare Success
A friendly beak
[...]
Your delicate ministrations are interrupted by the sight of a great beak, half-hidden by floating purple fronds. A blemmigan! It's floating around a garret window in your direction. [...] Look at that: it only wants to help.Description summary:
The first paragraph depends on your Rooftop Growth (see above table).
[Find the rest of the story at https://www.fallenlondon.com]
- Shadowy is increasing…
- You've gained (14 + Growth Difficulty) x Nurturing a Rooftop Growth
- [The Airs of London change…] (random)
Failure
Overenthusiastic
It is very difficult to monitor the mycelia without causing them some kind of damage. Perhaps a spade was not the most suitable tool. If a fungus could glower, your [Growth] would be staring daggers.
- Shadowy is increasing…
- You've gained (1 + Growth Difficulty) x Nurturing a Rooftop Growth
- [The Airs of London change…] (random)
