Greenskin

Have you seen Betzy? She told me she was sick after eating at that new place down the street. She sent me a picture per crystal, and her arm looks all green and scaley!

— Academy Bickering

Welcome to the Green Parade

We at the Green Parade are a new cuisine restaurant in Vaporio that offers a new gourmet set of dishes we call the Phytozoa Culinary Arts! Have you ever had a chicken salad and thought:

What would meat made of vegetables taste like?

Well you are at the right place. At our establishment you will be able to enjoy the most high quality plant meat from all around the world.

Food Poisoning

Unfortunately, we had to close our establishment due to health risk concerns temporarily. We apologize to our customers and will do our utmost to bring the Phytozoan Culinary Arts to the masses once more.

— Green Parade

Following the explosive start to their business, the Green Parade had to close shop due to nuumerous reports that customers woke up the next day with a green plant-like rash on their bodies. Forensics from the Rox Medical Center have the following report to give, brought to you by the Clockwork Courier:

Introduction: The Phytodermal Metamorphoic Parasitica (PMPa) or more commonly known as "Greenskin" is caused by consuming poorly processed Phytozoa Meat. The unprocessed meat remnants will enter a persons body through the mouth and esophagus, effectively acting as a parasite, spreading through the body over the course of a few hours. While not life threatening, affected people see a minor mutation of skin, turning it green and in more serious cases, viney and rough. Additionally, the appetite for more Phytozoann food heightens. Consuming more of the same kind of food will worsen the effects, slowly mutating the person into a plant-being.

Symptoms: Early Symptomes beside the above mentioned green skin and heightened hunger for phytozoan-based food include dizziness, mental instability and a heightened sense of anger. In later stages, the parasite may be able to take over the body, so loss. of body autonomy followed by effective breandeathness can be expected in the end stages of the disease.

Clockwork Courier Exclusive: Treatment

We ask not for panic, dear souls. With the specially created Clearskin Pills, you will be able to recover from the parasidic infect quite rapidly. Take 3x a day and refrain from consuming phytozoan food until three days after the skin has cleared. Should the skin not show signs of clearing in five days, seek advice from your local Rox-certified doctor.

Breaking News: Riot Parade

Following the statements regarding the Greenskin disease of last weeks volume, readers were enraged and started blocking the streets, demanding that Phytozoa Culinary Arts be banned and stricter regulations and standards be placed upon newly discovered foods. When asked, the masses essentially want to "bring attention to the issue of unknown foods and their hasty launch disregarding health and proritizing profit". Many people have come to enjoy the plantmeat dishes and will want them back however, saying that with proper care and attention to preparation, the new foods will bring joy and variety to thes otherwise barren lands. To say that opinions are divided would be an understatement.

Type

Parasitic

Origin

Natural

Cycle

Short-term

Rarity

Uncommon

Phytozoa Species Include