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When Orks fight, they give off spores. When Orks die, they give off even more spores. These spores embed themselves in the ground and are the beginning stages of the Greenskin Orkosystem, growing into everything from fungus, to squigs, to snotlings, grotz, gretchin, and of course, da boyz.

But what happens if a human puts down an ork (with sustained lasgun fire and liberal bolter fire), and the spore cloud blows into his face? Would little Orks start growing in his stomach?

The spores require a fairly narrow set of environmental conditions to grow. The hydrochloric acid in the human stomach does not fit such conditions.

No, I believe you can eat spores just fine. I dont think they spend enough time in the hunan body to germinate. Though you would definitely want to torch the latrines.

Yep, probably the best way to go about that... if you were dining on spores for some reason. More importantly, however, getting a faceful of spores is more likely to hit your lungs than your stomach, but then you're going to cough them out again, or just respirate them out normally.

This also assumes that your body's own immune system does not attack the spores as invading bodies.

I wonder if Orks taste like champignons if you bake them...

When the spores get into your bloodstream, I think you'll start thinking of painting things around you with red paint, and feel how your volcabulary and grammatical talent starts to deteriorate.

Sooner or later you'll find all large, sharp objects desirable.

Whenever we play the Last of Us, me and my friend joke that the whole cordyceps fungus is actually just a vanguard spore attack from the Orks. It just happens that the oomies digest it wrong so they don't pop out squiggies or grotz.

The same thing if you eat an apple tree seed, you get an apple tree grow out of you ... It's why I don't eat apples.

Burp

If they don't taste too bad could spores be an emergency ration on a world recently devastated by an Ork incursion? I'll be contacting the Administratum with my findings.

You turn into the Incredible Hulk

The Emperor's Hulks, a SM chapter whose cursed brethren when angered burst from their power armour and wreak havoc on friend and foe alike.

If a cursed member commits a terrible crime against his allies he is sent into exile alone, wandering forever down a winding road...

TBH be surprised if that didn't crop in the RT days.

You might have a problem if the spores got into an open wound. Then you'd have a nasty fungal infection that would also spread ork spores. But you wouldn't end up with orks popping out of your body or anything, but it would still be bad.

 Grey Templar wrote:
You might have a problem if the spores got into an open wound. Then you'd have a nasty fungal infection that would also spread ork spores. But you wouldn't end up with orks popping out of your body or anything, but it would still be bad.

Maybe a little squig head popping out of your shoulder?

Probably not a full on squig, but maybe a different ork form. Something like a worm or something, with lots of teeff!

In the interest of Grimdark I'm gonna say an orkoid creature grows in your stomach until it gets to big and bursts outta your stomach like alien

ORK spores…that would explain the "toilet issues" I've had for a week.

It is a littke known fact that Space Marines actually do ingest ork spores on the eve of battle. They have found that it augments their natural ferocity and speech patterns. Fourtunatly only the incredibly stupid and/or zealous chapters do this. In fact , the Black Templars were created from the members of the Imperial Fists legion that were eating spores.
Maybe I should stop eating them now.