The Disease
[Entry-07: The Disease] As intended by divinities outline, the Alius harbors self-replenishing resources. It‘s this design that allows the Alius to churn life without divine interception. If left unchecked however, an overabundance of these natural resources will accumulate; thus resulting in a world oversaturated with life. With the balance of death absent, overbearing life yields devastating consequences to the environment. As to maintain the Alius, the gods would hone their combined strength to annihilate all life—ending a cycle to start anew. For many eons they would repeat this song and dance, until one day they abandoned the Alius to nurture something far greater. From beyond the voids, life was ignited throughout all of existence. Many galaxies flourished as the Alius slowly withered; with something truly horrifying  festering within its very flesh. The disease is a collective of bizarre entities who sprawled from the rotted masses of Alius life. These anomalies operate similarly to parasitic organisms, acting on the primal instincts to feed and reproduce. The disease can assume a wide arrangement of forms, as it possesses highly malleable vessels—researchers often liken it to sentient sludge. Typically, the disease will adopt a form that is small and nimble. Upon infiltrating the vessel of an entity, the disease will begin to gradually erode said vessel from the inside out over the course of several hours. Early symptoms of infection include fatigue, irritability, and abrupt bouts of confusion. Late stage symptoms include buildups of a black, mucus-like substance, vomiting, gradual &amp;quot;skin&amp;quot; erosion/exposure of skeleton, and heightened levels of aggression. Aggression observed in the infected is promoted by the disease tapping into an Alius entities consciousness; rewiring their thoughts with an animalistic instinct to spread the infection.
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