Mold Master
| Name | Mold Master |
| Race | Mutant |
| Type | Fungal |
| Faction | Independent |
| Premiere | Desideratum: Blood Bonds |
| Relative(s) | None Applicable |
The Xenopox Virus was created at MedUSA, a laboratory, in Oregon, though as a company, its facilities are spread across the globe. The base of the chemical concoction was the actual poison of the snake god, Ophion. In ancient times, anyone that Ophion bit would become snake people, reptilians. They would bite others, and the further away from Ophion’s original victim, the less human traits the victims would keep and the more of a reptile they would appear.
The original poison used had come from an ancient unearthed relic. Using the poison as a starting point, MedUSA began testing and tweaking the properties. The original idea of the board of directors and several of the scientists was to find a way to resurrect the snake god himself, perhaps by cloning. However, all attempts using the poison, failed. They then tested the poison on animals and people. By studying the effects on a microscopic level, they grew to understand the properties of the substance better. It caused mutations of varying types and degrees based on mixing with the DNA of different organisms. After the lab was destroyed by Siri Solen, the mutants that managed to escape sought refuge in the nearby sewer system.
One strain of these fleeing mutants was the fungalians. There was one particular specimen that survived the sewers as the Night Stalker, Roy McCoy, sought and exterminated mutants, nightly. It was a gelatinous mold and it slithered into a yellow section of the Big Pipe Project. There amid a pile of dead animals, it festered and bloomed becoming a sentient mold, the mold master. It desired only to spread itself throughout the tunnels. At that time, the mutant spiders of the brood mother had already claimed the yellow section of the sewer, but the spores could turn them into walking fungal zombies. The mold continued to spread and the spiders in that section were forced to retreat. The homeless humans that came to the tunnels in search of warmth and a place to sleep were infected and turned into mushdooms and mushwombs. The mushroom master was waiting until the humid summer came, at which time it intended to send its minions to the world above, infecting all of Portland. However, Absinthe Van Gothen had come to the sewers to find Molly McCoy and she managed to slay the mold master.
