Fungaloid lord

Fungaloid lord-

Just one breath is all it takes is to become exposed. However, don't worry, usually you will have a good enough warning before entering an environment infested enough to cause a successful infection. If you fall through rotten floor boards into a space taken over by the fungaloids though, then you're in trouble. If you don't get a fever, good. If you have a fever that lasts for a week, two weeks, more, also good. But if you have a fever that comes and goes quickly. Then, I am sorry to say, you are in the deep.

The most common treatment is to move somewhere dry and hot. Change your diet to only hot foods, soups and stews are great. A sauna wouldn't hurt either, in fact its one of the best treatments. This will eventually stop the spread of the fungus inside you and you (probably) wont turn into a walking, talking mushroom. Unfortunately, however, at this point your lungs are probably gone, replaced by the mushrooms. It isn't all that bad, since people who have gone through this before have a noted ability to hold their breath and breathe in places with very little air without passing out. Though you can forget about kissing and any oral activities. The mushrooms stay active in your lungs and produce more spores, but they usually don't take root as long as you aren't in close contact with anyone for a prolonged period of time.
Now that you know what it does, how do you avoid it? Primarily by staying out of old, moldy, humid, cool, dark environments. Cellars, abandoned houses, old tunnels etc. that sort of places. As mentioned before, you will usually have a warning before you enter any space that would be lethal to you, small green/teal and gold mushrooms around wet areas, the amount of these grow in intensity the deeper you enter the infested space, so if you do not go any further once you see the first signs of them, you should be fine. Our bodies can naturally deal with a small amount of the spores. The spores themselves are very hardy and can remain in stasis for many, many years until an environment that is suitable for them to sprout emerges. This is why you can find fungal colonies far away from each other.

And one final thing of note, if you are on the outskirts of the colony, you are probably fine regarding the spores as well as the possible inhabitants. Though if you crash into one, you'll get attacked, no doubt about it. So, good luck.

PS: Finally, there might be some fungaloids that move outside their groves. We call these fungaloid "lords", mostly because of the giant mushroom formations over their head and neck. They often kinda look like crowns. So, be on the lookout.