I got mod permission so here we go.

It seems someone doppleganger Perry, but nobody realizes that yet has tampered with the Food Synthesizer over night. Instead of your normal meals, now it mostly seems to spit out food that has black food coloring in it (black eggs and ham, black cookies, etc.) It's still EDIBLE it's just been colored black.

Also, some foods might come out with frowny faces on them, such as if you order pancakes or maybe the cookies have frowny frosting. Or it could even be carved into that black apple you just got.

What or who could have done this?

As if enough wasn't going on...

Indeed, it's likely that everyone's far too distracted lately, which makes a perfect opportunity for some perfectly benign, unassuming mushrooms to appear in one corner of the Nature Deck. They are perfectly harmless, at first, but in time someone may notice them growing at an abnormal rate. And more of them are sprouting on the deck, as the spores spread. As they spread, some will start leeching onto other plants, and suck the energy from them, causing them to whither.

If left alone, by the end of the week, the mushrooms will become too large for the Nature Deck to even contain, and they'll start breaking out, and leeching off of other things, stealing away as much energy as possible...

They can be destroyed by fire, or heavy layers of weedkiller, but surely such an act would destroy everything else on the lovely deck, as well.

Where did these parasitic fungi come from? And who could know how to stop them?

Well. We'll just have to see.