Dualysis

Description

In the annals of weird diseases that afflict the people of this world, this is probably one of the strangest. The Dualysis disease manifests itself by evaluating the body and creating a non-living duplicate of it. The strangest part is that the person afflicted with the disease remains alive and there doesn’t seem to be any permanent damage. There is some speculation that this could be a form of a symbiote that is trying to make a new body but there is no evidence that that is true.

When someone is affected by this disease, they become extremely lethargic. Most of their energy seems to be drained and they spend a lot of the time bed-ridden. After a certain amount of time, a small wound appears at the end of the fingers of one hand. A mucous membrane constantly exudes from that wound and, after a while fashions itself into the same type of race as the afflicted. The main body gets weaker and weaker. If the mucous membrane is cut off and the wound is sealed, it will reopen and the process starts over.

If the process is allowed to continue to the end, there will be two identical people conjoined at the ends of the hand. The wound is then immediately closed, causing the bodies to separate. The new body has all the same organs and be almost a complete duplicate.

The host slowly regains their strength and everything returns to normal. How and why this disease developed is a total mystery.

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