The purple spores may just look like a mushroom at first but if you get too close to it it will spray some spores at you. for the first few days the victim will not feel anything different at first, but by the 5th or 6th day the victim will slowly start losing control of his body, like not being able to sleep, eat or drink. by the 8th day the mushroom's start showing on the victims head, but the victim already too late to get help. by the 11th day the victims body will have started decomposing and the purple spores have taken fully control tips on confronting them -if its the mushroom, just stay away -if its a spore body run away, they can be fast --parasite explorer
Other facts: -the purple spores are like a hivemind and can communicate telepathically. -from time to time the purple spores have to switch bodys because the old bodys has decomposed far enough, this is the perfect time to strike -if try to fight them close up they will spray spores on you so fight them ranged