The curse of the Lycanfruit

Lycanthropy is fairly well understood condition in today’s society. Scholars have discovered, after much study, that a viral infection is passed between attacker and victim, usually from saliva entering the victim’s blood stream when bitten. Obviously in most cases the attacker eats the victim, and so the virus doesn’t have much effect, but there are cases when the victim is strong enough to escape, although often they later wish that they hadn’t.

To start with, the virus has very little effect. The subject may find that they’re hairier than before, or that they feel compelled to dig in the ground, or piss up against trees for no obvious reason. However the strongest effects take place during a full moon.

During these times, the subject takes on a wolf like appearance, or in extreme cases, turns totally into a wolf. This tends to play havoc with clothing, as you might imagine. The subject will find them fuelled with an extreme bloodlust, and often totally loses control, their base animal instincts taking over.

All of this is well understood, and usually wolvan lycanthropes can live as part of a normal society, as long as they’ve got a good padlock on their bedchamber door.

However, there are other strains of the lycanthropic virus that are less well known, or understood, such as the lycanfruitic strain. This is incredibly rare, but far more dangerous than the common strains, as the victim’s morphogenic form takes on a less wolf like appearance, and more of a, well, fruit like one.

Needless to say, you are probably well aware that a Lime or a Kumquat can leave a nasty bite, but you may be less aware that there could be a chance of infection from the lycanfruitic virus.

Scholars are currently studying this strain to try and work out the implications, although, as yet, nothing conclusive has been discovered.