Scarlet Scab Mold
Scarlet Scab mold is a type of corralum mold that can live independently or in symbiosis with a family of polymorphic slime-like creatures known as the Jhoutaioan Slime. If independent, they grow on corralum walls or other moist surfaces. They excrete a basic (7 to 8 pH) substance that can dissolve most organic materials, including the organic chains that bond corralum together.
When the mold enters a symbiotic relationship with Slime, the slime will become predatory as the mold grants the slime the ability to digest far larger prey, including Sophont.
Scarlet Scab is treated as a dangerous pest, especially when it is capable of eating through the material that cities are often built upon. Most common fungicides can be used to dissolve the mold.
A shimmering, rippling mass of translucent tissue and glistening debris, the creature scurries towards you with startling speed. Each throb propels it forward in staggering bursts of violence. It hunts not by sight or sound, but by the heat of lungs and the bloom of exhaled breath.
When you look closer, you notice bones amongst the debris.
Pictured Above: A slime that has taken on the Scarlet Scab mold. The slime utilizes the molds strong acidic mucus to take down and ingest larger prey. This slime mold is strong enough to eat through flesh if left untouched.
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