The Rise of The Twist Traps
235-MYH The West Coast Forest what’s modern-day Riga Latvia, In the height of summer, a swarm of Scarlet Ephemeral Vergrandivolans coccineuiugulum begin their breeding season what might be the closest thing Blish get to spawning that their ancestors use today.
Gathering in the billions males begin their rapid mating process with so many patterns to mate within a short time males will try to breed with anything that remotely looks like them even other males and large flying insects.
The stage is now set for a massacre.
Among the trees what look like bee hives hang above them in the branches. They are here for a reason they remember this from last year and over the last week have moved their way here to feast.
Bizzare slimy fronds begin to unfurl from holes in the hive's surface green veins begin to form in the yellow slime as the single cells of the protist work together to pump digestive enzymes into its tip.
The green spores are ejaculated into the air in mass falling over the swarms in a haze of green that smells like a sweet mix of vanilla and citrus. The potent neurotoxins overwhelm the already post-coital crazed Ephemerals inducing a state of euphoria that severely inhibits their sense of sight and balance causing the Blish to fly right into them.
By this point, the caught Ephemeral are so out of it that they don’t even struggle as the slim enters their airway and kills them by suffocation choking on their own blood and slime.