Ero Bush

Name: Ero Bush


Description: A low-to-the-ground coarsely-leaved blue bush that bears a large blue fruit and a four-petaled blue flower. The fruit is deathly toxic and those who eat it without first training a resistence will die. However, the seeds are numerous and potent. When swallowed and killing a consumer, instead of growing out of the ground the seed will instead germinate in whatever ate it's stomach and grow out of the rectum.


Behavior: As a bush it is totally stagnant and cannot move. It remains close to the ground as it is in fact a bush and does not need to reach up past trees as there are none in their normal environment. Unless the seed is eaten in which case it grows out of the butt. As its home planet has no tilt there are no mating seasons and its reproductive cycle is totally random.


Tamability: It is a fucking bush and there is no point to domesticating it.


Where is it found?: It can be found in the cold ranges of Renaize. Specifically, it appears in large patches of land where trees are mysteriously absent. Also large masses of corpses.


Rarity: It fills an extremely specific niche and as such is quite uncommon. It would find great difficulty being introduced into a new environment.


Diet/Method of gaining nutrients and energy: Read abilities.


Products?: It produces a very special berry. We'll talk more about it in Abilities.


Reproduction: Standard plant reproduction in that it forms a seed in its fruits in the hopes that an animal will eat it and carry its fruit far away. This has the added twist of the fruit killing whatever is eating it and using the corpse as nutrients.


Size: Shrub sized.


Weight: Shrub.


Lifespan: About 2 years if constantly given nutrients, very short for a shrub.


Abilities: The reason the Eros Bush gets its name is due to its peculiar death berry. Not only does it resemble another berry in its same habitat so that a hungry animal who wants a snack must play a deadly game of roulette, but the berry is also unique in that its consumption fires off every dopamine receptor in the consumer's brain all at once, causing an instant feeling of euphoria and immediate orgasm. Twelve minutes later, the brain begins to deteriorate and rot. Within the next two hours the brain will have become a nice pink paste which, naturally, ends in death. After death the seeds are defecated out of the body, with roots already hooked in the consumer's intestines. Sunlight is then taken in and the body is used for nutrients. The cycle repeats.



Flaws: Its leaves suck at taking in sunlight efficiently as it has no taller competition and it requires a corpse to grow out of for it to be totally efficient as its roots act as decomposers better than actually taking nutrients from soil. Because of its reliance on masking itself as a normal berry it is awful at being introduced into new environments without also bringing another blue berry.

 

The bush's berries carry a hypervolative neurodegenerative substance with a biochemical composition similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease that rapidly eats away at nerve tissue which damages the structural stability of the brain and causes it to liquefy.

 

The twelve minutes are the absolute shortest that the prion will take to start doing its magic and that's after eating the whole berry which has an average radius of about 3 inches. Have any left, such as only taking a few bites, and the time for that to start will be proportionally longer as the Prion multiplies to full capacity before launching its assault on the brain. There is no current known antidote other than purging it from the body altogether via a total blood transfusion or other method until the twelve minutes are up, after which it hardly matters.

 

A hypothetical cure could exist but it would require a character to study it. The only reason that an antidote doesn't exist is because of the plant's obscurity. The berry has a specific bittersweet taste reminiscent of sweetened dandelion greens can be detected by most sapients who are concentrating on it hard enough but without prior knowledge that it's poisonous it's pretty hard to detect. Its special property is one of the flesh of the berry and the seed can be eaten by itself just fine. The fruit's capabilities stay with whatever products may be made with it whether it be turned into jelly or juiced.

For the blue berry comment, earlier in the app I stated that it has an uncanny resemblance of another, completely unremarkable blue berry bush which causes hungry animals to have to roll the dice whenever they eat one or the other on whether or not they die and was alluding to that fact in flaws as animals who observe the blue berries being eaten and are classically conditioned not to will probably avoid it if the waters are not muddied with berries that are totally harmless.

 

Yes.

 

The equivalent dose of a whole berry for Ero products is about 7 ounces or about half a jello cup. If one is to consume under the lethal dose their brain would still corrode, but at a much slower rate. As long as the medulla is protected, they probably won't die instantly and could possibly outlive the effects of the prion. It's a prion so no matter how much you take it'll be lethal.