The frog is old and has been around since before the rainforest mutated – it is in denial about its own mutated state. It doesn’t want to interact with the new mutated world and so refuses to leave the pond.
The spider doesn’t want to leave its web – its old web was destroyed by the tiger and it is afraid that if it leaves its web, the tiger will destroy it again. It wants the bad mushroom because of its beauty – looking at it brings the spider joy in these dreary times.
The bad mushroom is severely poisonous. If it is eaten, the consumer will die.
The good mushroom is rumoured to be the most delicious mushroom in the mushroom forest.
Eden: A Muntjac's Tale 
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