Creature:Scelus

Physiology
Scelus are created when a victim is infected with a mutagen that dissolves them into primordial ooze. Latter the mutagen in the ooze is rewritten causing the ooze to construct itself as a Scelus.

Scelus come in a variety of forms, but are always fairly insect like and bear some similarities. For one Scelus have no internal organs except a nervous system and brain as well as a circulatory system and heart used to pump primordial ooze. Destroying either the heart, the brain, or decapitation will kill the Scelus as it causes one or both those systems to cease functioning. Otherwise the Scelus will regenerate unless fifty percent of their total mass is destroyed. All Scelus also give off an abnormally high body temperature.

Scelus do not see light, instead they detect heat and electrical impulses as a source of vision. They have no ears either and instead feel vibrations in place of hearing. They have an acute sense of smell though.

Weaknesses
Scelus are harmed by ionizing radiation which breaks down their cells and prevents regeneration. As a result Scelus detest sunlight, though it does not hurt them. Silver is also toxic to them and has the same effect as ionizing radiation does.

Scelus also are adverse to running water which as they have an instinctive hatred of it due to the fact that strong currents can pull apart an injured Scelus. They dislike the scents of plants from the Sorbus, Allium, and Rosa though they are not harmed by them. Holy symbols have a strange psionic repelance it the hands of the faithful, but determined Scelus will overcome this.