Mosiopas

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## Founding

### Dissolved on

5/31/23

Mosiopas was a mining town in the northern dark oak forests of the continent Cynnred. It was founded on May 14th, 2023 by the Tiefling Koszilo of Tal'Doraz, initially as a small skulk mining camp. It later was formalized into the Mosio Company, a company emphasizing skulk mining and shipping, with a road rapidly being built from it to the Tal'Dorazi town of Barak Khîm. Following the outbreak of a plague in the town, which would later spread to and ravage a large part of the world, and lowering of tensions, Mosiopas would be sold to Dufcin of Ascium on May 31st.

###### Mosiopas Ambient Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QUvTIx9noU

### History

Mosiopas was built initially as a small mining camp, with a couple workers buildings and a single mineshaft used to enter the skulk ravine. After the appearance of hostile foreigners on the eastern side of the ravine, a road was built connecting Mosiopas to Barak-Khîm and walls surrounding the main town. Following that, more mineshafts, a hoe factory, general blacksmith, and governors mansion were built.

Not long after the mansion was built, instances of disease began to appear in the town. After a number of workers had become mad by the disease and had to be put down, a bathing house was made as well as various precautions to prevent the spread of the disease. The precautions were lackluster however, and disease continued to spread in the poor living conditions of the town. This along with greatly increased Warden sightings in the ravines, caused mining operations to come to a crawl. Soon profit was not sufficient to continue using the town. Due to this and continued prodding by Ascium to purchase the land, it was finally agreed to sell it. While the skulk ravines and caves below Mosiopas were still minable, the town itself became a ghost town due to the continued presence of disease and old workers too far gone with it, corrupted by the skulk, barely sentient, and hostile to any and all to come near.

### The Plague

The first reported case of the disease within the town was believed to be May 20 or 21, though records were kept secret and often discarded to avoid alarm. The disease reported within Mosiopas was the first outbreak of the later plague / Hive that would spread around the world, and the symptoms were far more profound within Mosiopas. Early symptoms were typical to what was later known, darkness, nausea, etc. But due to the close proximity of the miners and workers of Mosiopas to skulk every day, these symptoms developed rather quickly to drone-like and savage behavior. Workers would begin to lash out at others, soon becoming fully feral and attacking other workers. It was at this point that workers would need to be put down, where they would then be tossed into the ravine to be eaten by Wardens. On a couple of cases, the disease progressed beyond this stage. Passed near loss of sentience, the infected would grow increasingly large growths resembling the texture and color of skulk on the skin. As certain parts of the body became increasingly covered in these growths, motor function would shut down. At this point they can still talk and bumble about incoherently, however as the growths covered the head and replaced the eyes, they would begin to only scream, in the same way the shriekers that alert Wardens would. After that their body would continue to shut down until they died and slowly decayed into the surrounding skulk.