Mycenikes

Frightening and aggressive small fungal creatures. Variously referred to as Myconoids or Mushroom Mans, the Mycenikes until recently infested the Water People Village.

Upon investigating the evacuated village, the party discovered the Mycenikes were growing from fungal mats floating in the corrupted water of the village temple. The party cleared the temple of the offensive goombas. Have they seen the last of them?

Behavior and Ecology
Mycenikes fearlessly attack creatures many times their size, attempting to overwhelm them with superior numbers. Recent field observations found that the fungal creatures drag victims back to their lairs to be infected with dangerous spores.

The spores quickly infect a host animal and hijack the creature's nervous system, creating a sort of fungal zombie while the fungal colony continues to grow. This seems to be part of teh Mycenike life-cycle, but observations have yet to confirm this hypothesis.