Scoiris

The Scoiris is a fungus, originating from Neihrenspried. The neihrenspried fungus evolved in labolatory enviorment, originally being constructed as a bioweapon against Neihrenspried, developed by resistance, specifically by Nikolas Thornvell. It occurs in Eldham, more specificaly in Anglunias city Myrtle as well as wilderness around the city. It is currently mostly found in the myrtle deep mines, sewers and caves.

Spreading
The Scoiris spreads through spores covering ground and other surfaces, or through roots expanding under ground. It spreads in a form of long blue/cyan vine-like roots, blue tall grass which blooms and releases spores and long thin vines growing upwards. Some vines develop hard, warm bioluminescent sacks which are hard to destroy. Prolonged exposure to the light emmitted by them may sometimes result in temporary vision loss. In the further stages of environment infection, blue tree-like plants grow from the vines. These trees also spread spores and develop vein-like roots. These trees have blisters with a yellow watery fluid, which is then either discharged through roots into the ground in order to spread, or by blisters bursting with high pressure. This fluid is highly infectious and will caise immediate infection in 90% of the cases.

Infection stages
The infection spreads into the bodies in four ways, inhaling spores, exposure to infection fluid, consuption of the plant or a bite by infected animals. It occurs in five stages, each listed down below.

Stage 1 ,,incubation phase '' : This stage begins immediatelly after exposure to infection. During this time the infection travels into the victims small intestine and incubates. The duration of this proccess is different for each way of infection. In case the spores were inhaled or the victim was bitten by another infected specimen, this phase will last for up to a week. If the victim was exposed to infection fluid, this phase lasts usually 3 days. In case of direct consuption of any piece of Scoiris, this proccess will last for one day.

Stage 2 ,,spread phase '' : This stage begins after the incubation. The infection, now in form of extremely tiny ringworm, will spread all around your body. It will target muscles, bones and nervous system. During that stage, victims experience light pain in the abdomen and spine as well as fatigue and dizziness.

Stage 3 ,,manifestation phase '' : Now that Scoiris has spread all over the victims body, the ringworms will latch onto the muscles of the victim, causing strong pain in the body. Additionally victims will experience nausea, uncontrolled muscle movements, blackouts and short term memory loss. Victims will deny any possibility of infection and will avoid any medical help. At the end of this stage victims iris change colour into cyan or yellow. Infectants will also seek the nearest infection source.

Stage 4 ,,lichen phase '' : In this phase recovery from infection is unlikely. Scoiris will make its way to victims brain and completely take over it's nervous system and motor functions. It will silent consciousness of the infected and implement it's hive mind. During this phase inside of victims body vines begin to grow and eventually they will gently pierce through victims skin. It is common that there also appear small mushroom on the infecteds skin as well as victims skin starts to slowly rot and in some places it turns blueish. By now it is imposible to make contact with the victim. The zombified body will seek people who are not infected and force them into infection. In some cases, stage 4 infectants are able to hide traces of infection, on the cost of blueish pale skin.

Stage 5 ,,victims death '' : Even though this stage is unlikely to occur, in some cases the infectants will enter some kind of cocoon filled with infection fluid. In the cocoon infectants mind will be completely wiped out while Scoiris takes absolute controll over the body. Flesh of the victim will slowly disintegrade and be replaces with Scoiris artificial mass, that acts as a highly flexible base for the body. The infectants after this stage divide into two subclasses: Subclass A is a humanoid entity, it moves fast, has longer limbs and its teeth are more like a canines. Subclass B are entities that take various shapes, most commonly spider looking monster with long sharp teeth. They move slow but are strong and grow up to 6 meters high.

Note: Stage 5 infectant are impossible to be cured in any way. The only way of killing these entities is by cutting the head off or using very low temperatures to freeze the infection or extremely high temperatures so that bodily fluids evaporate from their bodies.

Behaviour
The scoiris has developped a kind of hive mind. Hosts are able to feel if other infectants are in danger and can communicate on long distances. It can take complete controll over hosts motor functions and consciousness. The Scoiris feeds on hosts bodily fluids to survive, once all nutrients are gone the host dies however the parasite keeps control of the body, in that case hosts body will quickly rot and become "unusable", however the death of a host is unlikely as Scoiris doesn't need lots of humidity to feed on. The process might take months or even years.

The Cure
A cure for Scoiris is not fully developped and comes with terrible sideeffects for stages 3 and 4, including permamently breaking down infectants melanin causing pale skin and discoloured hair, may cause internal bleeding and scars deep permament scarring on spots where vines would grow. Permament respiratory, nervous and muscle system malfunction. In some cases it will cause mental instability like depression, mania, masochism, physchopatic and sociopathic tendencies. Cured infectants will need several months of carefull physical therapy in order to return to full health, although this happens 30% of the time.

Note: Using the cure on stage 5 infected will result in unreversable death. Curing stage 5 is not feasable.