Ectoplasm Forest

The **Ectoplasm Forest** is a location in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom*, located a little far off of The City of Nexus. It is a gloomy forest with high deposits of ectoplasm and other ghostly energy sources, which the main trio have visited on several occasions and is even where they met and said goodbye to Quacksia. The forest is also inhabited by many ghosts, some of which are hostile towards outsiders, which can make it a dangerous place to be.

## Description

The Ectoplasm Forest is a dark and dingy forest that is very large in size, stretching for as far as the eye can see. The foliage is a dense and coloured a particular dark shade of turquoise, including the plants, grass and leaves on the trees which have some strange patterns across them as well. Even the logs of the many trees are a strange pale brown and filled with many thin cuts and branches, making them look very unnatural compared to most other types of tree. Furthermore, the forest is always covered in a constant haze of ethereal white mist, which may be caused by the ghostly presences throughout it and so can make it harder to see in certain areas. One of the more notable types of plant within the forest are the Whitecap Mushrooms on the floor, which may look pretty and illuminate the surrounding area but can still be toxic and dangerous if misused. There is also a small lake within the forest that seems to have dried out a bit since it is quite low, and this lake is located near one of the many “wells” within the forest that contain larger concentrations of ectoplasm but also attract more ghosts to them.

## Background

Traces of any possible history within the Ectoplasm Forest are slim to none at all; the place has been filled with it’s great deposits of phantoplasmic energy and attracting of ghosts for as long as anyone can remember. As time has gone on though more strange things have occurred within the forest, such as the creation of ghostly mist and wells, plus the drying out of almost any water sources in it which has left only a small lake left. It has been said that there used to be ruins somewhere within that could have provided clues about the history of it, however these have long been lost.

The Ectoplasm Forest was first visited by Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. not too long after they had first moved to the City of Nexus, just wanting to look around and wanting to explore some areas outside of it. They fought off some evil ghosts and first met Quacksia, who they thought had escaped from Old MacDonald's Farm but in reality he was trying to warn them of a great threat coming their way, which would be The Devourer. Quacksia seemed to have been living around the forest for a while yet was happy to leave it in order to come live with the trio back in Nexus where they could hang out and fight crime together. They later returned to the forest in order to collect enough phantoplasmic energy and resources needed for a new Urn to keep the Evil King’s ghost in as the old one had been broken, fighting off some ghosts and collecting energy from the forest’s wells. Some more time later, the evil Devourer had visited the forest to collect some of his own ghostly resources from it in order to make a ghost capable of tricking DaPhantom, named DaPhantoplasm. She later lured DaPhantom back to the forest as a trap, where the Devourer and his Sentinels would pop out and attack him with the most dangerous weapon possible: a vacuum. Though he managed to destroy DaPhantoplasm with the help of Turtle Man and Officer M, thus releasing the energy within it back to the forest.

DaPhantom often visits the Ectoplasm Forest by his own in order to draw energy from it, empowering his ghostly abilities and keeping his ectoplasm levels afloat.

## Appearances

* S5E5 - Ectoplasm Forest
* S5E12 - Evil Chef
* S6E3 - Catching a Ghost
* S6E6 - DaPhantoplasm
* S6E14 - Farewell, Friend

## Trivia

* Even though the Ectoplasm Forest doesn’t make that many appearances in the show, it is within the video game adaptations of as levels that can be visited and interacted with.
* The forest was to make an appearance in a scrapped episode of Season 6 where Elizabeth had befriended the Evil King’s Ghost, but this episode was cut.
* DaPhantom draws a fraction of his ghostly energy from this forest to strengthen his abilities, as did the DaPhantoplasm that the Devourer made.

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