What you are about to read is an essay published 9 years ago by a since exiled member of Captstone Academy. While the Academy condemns the despicable methods of the scientist in researching the subject, it nonetheless believes that the information contained therein is accurate and will prove useful in dealing with the growing concern of the mistsickness. Thus, the document is available in the library and, while subject to heavy restrictions and surveillance, is available for consultation. In no circumstances is the document to leave the library. Thank you for your understanding.
Mist exposure and it's effects
Exposing yourself to the mist is not without its risks. Prolonged exposure to it will be met with certain death.
At first, inhaling the mist will make the victim dizzy, weak. Breathing becomes hard. The mist is thick and gives the impression of water in your lungs. Then, it moves to your bloodstream. Your blood irreversibly tainted, becomes purple.
If you stop breathing the mist then, you will still feel it inside for the rest of your life. You are now mist-touched. Your veins, now purple, glow faintly below the surface of your sickly white skin. Your eyes have a permanent violet streak in them. You still feel the mist in your lungs.
If not, the mist continues its advances. It masses inside your muscles, and soon break out of your skin in solid crystal form. Moving becomes arduous and painful. the mist invades the brain slowly, creeping in your thoughts. Dementia will soon take hold of what's left of you, and when it finally does, your body will have become a monument of crystal and flesh, unmovable. 24 hours have passed. But your brain is still alive, subject to the assault of dementia and the mist. It will take 3 days for the last remnants of you to die from the mist.
- ████████████, Academy researcher
Infectiousness and prevention
Prognosis
There are 4 clear stages of the disease.
Stage I
Stage I happens in limited exposure to the mists. Recent studies put the threshold at an hour at most before stage II. Stage I symptoms include fever, weakness, dizziness, short breath, and the occasional vomit. The physical manifestations of the mist touch have begun in the subject. Their veins have a violet shade as well as a feint glow. Eyes have a bloodshot appearance with the iris clearly tainted by the mist. These symptoms are permanent, and far as we know, irreversible. The Mist-touched, as some have taken to call them, sometimes report hearing noises and voices when alone or when the mist is at close proximity.Stage II
After more than an hour of exposure, the subject enters stage II, characterized by the early formation of crystal cells in the blood as well as on the skin of the subject, physically manifesting as a crystalline rash near vital organs. It is worth noting that by this point, stopping exposure to the mist will not stop or otherwise slow down the progression of the disease. The process has started and will take its course from there. Subjects have reported different emotional states that lead me to believe that dementia is starting in this stage of the infection. Panic and anxiety have subsided in the subject, replaced by reported feelings of immense dread, terror and some hallucinations. The pain threshold is increasing drastically and a sensation of drowning takes the subject. After the initial 2 to 3 hours of this stage, subjects become hard to talk to. They seem to lose grip on the situation and their speech is quickly becoming incoherent. In my tests, most subjects stops entirely communicating with me toward the beginning the fourth hour, without exception.Stage III
By the fifth hour, the subject is unresponsive. The rash has spread, and the formation of crystals under and through the skin is noted. Stage III is the longest, ranging from hour 5 to hour 20, in which the subject will wail uncontrollably while having difficulty moving as the crystals forming get stronger and bigger. The blood, now entirely viscous and violet oozes out of the rashes and surrounds crystals slowly. Subjects have stopped breathing, but their heart is still pumping at a slow rate.in later tests, measurements with open heart surgeries would let me estimate about 7 to 10 beats per minute. The agony seems to reach its peak at this stage, and the pain seems unbearable. but the twentieth hour, the subject is mostly immobilized, now mostly made up of crystal chunks that have pushed up and replaced most of its organs and limbs. The heart is still there, beating away, pumping the viscous blood through the crystals and strengthening them, as well as pumping through the brain which has been preserved, now completely encased in crystal.Stage IV
The heart stops beating as the remnants of the blood has crystallized as well, leaving a shriveling husk in the middle of the crystal formation. The brain is still there and active, and reacts to electrical stimuli as well as producing bio-electrical currents in the entirety of the brain. In other words, through testing, I have discovered that the subject's brain is still very much active until days after the crystallization has completed! In particular, the pain receptors are incredibly active, meaning that the subject is agonizing throughout, and will be until the brain dies, 3 to 4 days after the process' completion.
Type
Parasitic
Origin
Mutated
Rarity
Common
Remove these ads. Join the Worldbuilders Guild
Comments