Behind the Scenes: How they Filmed ‘The Last of Us’A deeper dive on the HBO show that’s spore than meets the eye.

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But in the show, the spore concept was replaced with tendrils, as we see in the scene with Tess' nasty zombie kiss in the second episode.

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In fact, any player who encounters a gas spore will have to succeed on a DC 15 Intelligence check to discover that this ugly being is really a plant.

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Technically, Stamets is an astromycologist and operated the spore drive, but he has been serving in the Chief Engineer capacity as well.

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They can do asexual spore reproduction, they can do sexual spore reproduction, they can do mycelium, where basically they kind of clone themselves, like oak trees can clone themselves with plant roots underground.

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They can do asexual spore reproduction, they can do sexual spore reproduction, they can do mycelium, where basically they kind of clone themselves, like oak trees can clone themselves with plant roots underground.

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Unlike most ships in which use dilithium to achieve faster-than-light travel, the Discovery uses a highly experimental mycelial spore drive.

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