Devil’s Ambrosia

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The Devil’s Ambrosia is a parasitic species of edible flower found in the Backrooms.
Devil’s Ambrosia.
==Description==
The Devil’s Ambrosia, also known as Black Ambrosia, Shadow Lilies, or the Flower from Hell, is an invasive species of edible flower that resemble lilies with a black coloration and multiple orange anthems sprouting from the center. Said anthems produce a pitch-black, sweet-smelling & tasting nectar.
The Devil’s Ambrosia is in nearly any level with high levels of vegetation and flora, such as forests, jungles, gardens, farms, greenhouses, and other places where its presence is unintended due to its nature as an invasive species. It can even be found in pots and in bouquets in urban-level's flower shops and other stores.
==Properties==
Devil’s Ambrosia exhibits a noteworthy quality to its scent. Devil’s Ambrosia smells differently depending on the individual, and the scents it mimics are usually derived from someone’s tastes in what they like to eat or even deep emotional triggers such as those associated with their childhood or other fond memories of their former lives in The Frontrooms. Some scents noted include roses, chocolate chip cookies, cinnamon, chocolate, peanut butter, bacon, fresh fruit, vanilla, perfume, freshly cut grass, freshly brewed coffee and even fresh laundry. The nectar tastes of mangoes and honey with “a hint of endive.” 
Those who have picked up the scents emanating from the Devil’s Ambrosia note that they felt compelled to go further to the source and had an overwhelming desire to ingest them or drink their nectar. Some have even heard voices compelling them to consume the flower or drink its nectar in a sultry, welcoming tone. Both the flower and its nectar are highly addictive, inducing intense feelings of euphoria, and the effects it has on those who have become hooked are similar to that of a cocaine dependency.
Devil’s Ambrosia is responsible for the creation of Slashers, undead entities possessing many anomalous traits and an unyielding bloodlust that drives them to kill indiscriminately. Wanderers who have ingested Black Ambrosia even once are doomed to become the murderous, undead mockeries of their former selves once they have met their demise. Due to its many properties of alluring, enticing wanderers to ingest it, and its invasive nature, it can be surmised that Devil’s Ambrosia is a parasitic organism, the creation of Slashers being the principal goal in it’s life cycle.
The high quantities of Devil’s Ambrosia nectar found in a Slasher’s internal system may be how it spreads itself to new areas and potentially even other Levels as the nectar is shown to propagate the growth of Devil’s Ambrosia. The flower doesn’t seem to have or grow from seeds, giving credence to this theory. Deathmoths play a part in the life cycle of the Devil’s Ambrosia, spreading the flower’s growth via pollination after feeding on the flower’s nectar, which may or may not also play a factor in the production of Moth Jelly in Queen Deathmoths.
Descriptions of hearing voices while within proximity of the flower, reoccurring nightmares from those who have ingested the flower describing a “flower-faced man,” as well as countless M.E.G. interview logs with Slashers detailing voices encouraging or commanding them to kill as well as reoccurring visions of the previously mentioned entity have led researchers to theorize that the Devil’s Ambrosia may be the extension of an entity of some kind, one far greater and darker than that what has been observed in The Backrooms so far…
If the Ambrosia is linked to or is an extension of a conscious, self-aware entity, it’s main goal might be to promote the dominance of Slashers in the Backrooms. Slashers function almost like a hive mind, having a single, shared goal of killing anything in their way yet having the capacity to cooperate, going as far as forming groups and even symbiotic relationships, presenting the possibility that they are conduits of the entity or at the very least its “followers”. If the Devil’s Ambrosia is allowed to spread at the current rate it is going, either everyone will become a Slasher, or they will die at the hands of a Slasher.
==Usage==
Slashers have shown to be attracted to Devil’s Ambrosia as they always crave it. Learning this weakness, The M.E.G. have weaponized Devil’s Ambrosia to attract, distract, and contain Slashers.
The most common use of Devil’s Ambrosia is grinding the flower into powder and pressurizing it into a gas to use in “Ambrosia Grenades.” These grenades are high-tech gas grenades used to attract or deter Slashers from those they are seeking to kill.
==M.E.G. Response==
Due to the danger this accursed flower presents and the advent of the booming Slasher population, the M.E.G. have made extensive efforts in the retrieval and containment, or even the outright extermination of any traces of the Devil’s Ambrosia.
Multiple squads keep forming in the effort to reduce the Devil’s Ambrosia’s population, such as Team Magnolia, which prioritizes finding, retrieving, and returning specimens to headquarters for scientific research, and Team Rose, who prioritize finding “hotspots” with a massive population and growth rate of Devil’s Ambrosia and removing all traces via standard issue, M.E.G. Grade Flamethrowers.
While it is still in hot debate on whether the true nature of the flower is that of the “Parasite Theory” or the “Entity Theory,” one thing is known for sure. This malignant flora and the undead harbingers of death it creates must be stopped at all costs.
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