Pipis

An image of the Ancient Pipis, a large colony of Pipis.

## Appearances

### Appears in

GRONDINGEUS:DEFINITIVE,GRONDINGEUS III:THE TOTALLY OFFICIAL THIRD GAME (non-canon appearance)

### Debut

GRONDINGEUS:DEFINITIVE(canon debut)GRONDINGEUS III:THE TOTALLY OFFICIAL THIRD GAME (non-canon debut and original first appearance)

Pipis is a minor threat in the main Grondingeus games and a major threat in the non-canon third game.

## Appearance

The visible Pipis pods take on an ovular shape and consists of a translucent outer layer and a blueish cyan inner fluid (although after Feasting they can sometimes turn red). The Pipis does take other forms known as Pipis Veins and Pipis Fans. The Pipis Veins appear as small tendril-like tubes often found near Pipis Pods, or burrowing beneath the skin of the infected, which is an early sign of infection. Pipis Fans are similar to Pipis Veins and take on a tendril-like shape, however, the Pipis Fans uproot into the surface of the unlucky victim at stage 4 of the Pipis infection and detect vibrations alerting the hive. Pipis Pods later grow into Poppers. Poppers appear as extremely bloated forms of Pipis Pods in which the Pipaf Fluid takes on a reddish color. As the name would suggest, the Poppers pop when alerted by Pipis Fans onto the skin of a potential victim, in which any fluid left on unprotected skin will be absorbed.

## Stages

##### Stage 1

Immediately upon popper Pipaf being absorbed, Pipis cells begin to form within the bloodstream, destroying white blood cells and replacing them with their own Pipis blood cells that fight off any nutrients that will not allow the fungus to reproduce, grow, or otherwise multiply. The cells at this point are making preparations.

##### Stage 2

after 1 second of Pipis cells forming, the body's DNA will be altered by the cells in order to use the body to build itself to death. The victim will begin feeling very energized, and serotonin production will be modified by the Pipis in order to make the victim feel at ease. Within the body, Pipis veins will begin forming, being built by the body's own resources.

##### Stage 3

Within 3 seconds of infection, if the victim is still alive and has a steady supply of nutrients, the Pipis will begin using a mixture of the victim's resources and it's own to begin forming Pipis pods at the surface of the body. The victim will, at this stage, begin feeling an indescribable insatiable hunger that cannot be filled, as the Pipis will not let it. The Pipis veins will have moved to the victim's brain and begin forming pods. The victim will be fully conscious but will have no control as the Pipis freely moves their body. At this point the victim is now completely zombified.

##### Stage 4

After 3 days of being a zombie, the victim's head will be spilt apart and Pipis fans will form on the remains. The victim usually dies of shock within seconds, but there have been cases where the victim continues to be conscious for up to 4 hours. The remains of the split skull will then be covered in any Pipis within their body that was still alive.

##### Stage 5

After the Pipis uses the corpse of its victim as nutrients in a process called "Feasting", it will move on from the victim's body, separating its own mass from the victim's, and either moving onto another victim or splitting off and combining together, in which the latter will form into a self-functioning colony along the lines of the Ancient Pipis.

## Trivia

* Pipis is an acronym for Parasitic and Infectious Pandemic Inducing Species.
* There is technically a way to survive Stage 2, if it is acted upon within 12 hours of the infection spreading to your brain. The stomach will be removed, and have the Pipis carefully popped, causing them to die out. The Pipaf and skin of the pipis are then disposed of in sulfuric acid.
	+ The first person to recieve this treatment was King Kevin XLI.
* Pipis is extremely dangerous to Humans, Kevins, and most animals that breathe oxygen.
	+ There has even been a case where a scorpion was infected with Pipis, although they were killed during the early phases of Stage 2.
* The most common death by those infected by Pipis other than the Pipis itself is suicide, with 14% of all Pipis-related deaths being suicides.
* Pipis was accidentally discovered by an unknown scientist, who saved 17 other people before eventually dying due to health complications caused by Stage 2.
* If pipis grows in the wrong places,especially near reproductive organs the pods can take on the features of the infected host in a similar process to Teratoma Tumors. This process is called skoptikós mýkita (mocking fungus in Greek) and is why the Ancient Pipis has eyes a mouth and even a mustache.