# Genetic Ossification Ieya’s first disease, and quite a lethal one. Developed to counteract healing, both Force and regular, it has yet to see field-testing but from laboratory tests has proven highly effective. By utilising a virus structure to restructure parts of genetics, it ossifies its victims, turning them into statues of bone. ### Symptoms The disease follows a simple progression of symptoms as it spreads through a host. While, theoretically, non-lethal if one is able to remain perfectly unharmed, this is effectively impossible. The first sign that one is infected is generally finding it harder to move properly, occuring roughly 1-2 days after infection under regular circumstances, faster if one moves a lot. This is caused due to the cells surrounding the joints being broken down and splitting into bone cells, causing movement to become much harder and causing more damage, further spreading the virus. Roughly 3-4 days in, movement will be incredibly painful, and subjects will start finding white spots of bone on their skin in certain places. These spots will grow as time goes on, and any further movement will only aggrevate the issue. Trying to surgically remove the bone will prove useless, as any regenerating tissue will also be returning as bone. Full flesh transplants, however, might work, if one could do such a thing. Finally, after roughly a week, the ossification will have reached the point where it makes movement impossible, each joint only a clump of bone. If one is unlucky, or perhaps lucky, it will penetrate vital organs, causing death (if painful and slow). However, the most common cause of death remains asphyxiation as one is unable to expand the lungs enough to properly breathe. Of course, any injuries received during the infection process will cause the lost tissue to regenerate as further bone, possibly bypassing some of the stages. Regardless, without extensive care and extreme caution, one week should be the maximum possible lifespan left for those infected. ### Safeguards One may believe that if you could only get rid of the virus and infected cells, you can then remove the bone and regenerate the tissue safely. This is not the case. The very bone itself created by this disease does not function like regular bone, instead of producing the blood cells that most bone does, it further produces virus cells, meaning the further the disease spreads, the faster it spreads. Once infected, the only way out is through genetic modification at a scale technology cannot reproduce. In other words, the only way out is through alchemy. At least that’s the intention behind it.