Void-Induced Viruses

== Void Induced Virus ==
The Void Induced virus is known to void those who catch it. The name of the virus comes from the symptoms which are the slow transformation into a half Voidborn or voidling, the result is the patient is irreversibly turned into a Voidborn. The known method of contracting the virus is through the transmission of voided blood, meaning that voided patient can turn others into half void born's.
== Letter Warning ==
=== This letter of warning was handed out when the first signs of the virus was discovered ===
= Ξ 𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤  𝔄 𝔑𝔢𝔴 𝔇𝔦𝔰𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔢 𝔦𝔫 𝔈𝔵𝔬𝔲𝔰í𝔞  𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 Ξ =
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[ Translation in Traveler's Tongue provided by the Royal Lingohistorical Institution of Exousía ] Hello Exousía, this is Gabe Daridia. I am sending this message to whomever might be able to redistribute it to warn the region of a Virus that has recently been discovered in New Sybada. A city-wide pandemic has seemingly been caused by the contamination of blood into various beverages at an event not too long ago. The person behind this accident, which might have also been planned, is former Vulperium citizen, now Exousían citizen "InFoxxer". Thanks to behavioural examinations, the disease has been confirmed to be a virus. It's current form is spread through blood (and by extension, intercourse), and the main observed symptoms are an alteration of skin color (Voidborne Dermachromatic Alteration Syndrome, VDAS) and hallucinations (Hallucinatory Voidborne Syndrome, HVS), which might be caused by changes in skin chemistry. For the latter reason, the term "Voidborne Dermacelebral Viruses" (VDV) has been coined to describe any virus of the family. At the moment, I seem to be the only person who is trying to figure out a cure or a prevention method, but my resources are scarce and the only microscope I was able to get myself is a repurposed telescope. If you have any experience in medical or biological research, please contact me. If you need to send a letter, I will receive anything sent to the Vaentilazia (Gabe Daridia, Vaentilazia Street 1, New Sybada, Exousía). Thank you for your attention. 
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== Gabe Lily's Notes ==
Gabe Lily's notes are the only known research into the virus at this point in time. There research notes goes into a possible cure and in depth research of the virus. Most of there study has come from inspection of blood taken from the Voidborn known as Foxxer.
=== Research introduction ===
I have been working in my homemade laboratory for quite a few weeks now. It is not the perfect working environment, and I am worried about the liquids spilling onto the bottom floor, but at least it is something.
After scavenging through the leftovers at the Vaentilazia, I have found an untouched bottle of Brandy. While something like moonshine would have been easier to work with, I was lucky to find a mostly uncontaminated bottle of (seemingly) 51% alcohol, 1% blood and 48% various things I am not sure about.
Using my repurposed telescope, I have managed to find some interesting reactions with the type found within Foxxer’s blood.
=== Void Excretion ===
Firstly, I have observed that whenever the virus is present, this is always completely or partially surrounded by a black-ish, grayish serum. For all intents and purposes I am going to call this “Excretion” because the virus seems to be producing it somehow, often times by replacing the material they’re on.
=== Stimulation with Redstone Power ===
In large quantities, I have found excretion and viruses to try and avoid ONLY activated redstone. Unactivated redstone seems to be engulfed just fine, though. I am wondering if this could mean redstone and void have some magnetic relevance. If this is true, maybe the flow of void could be controlled by injecting activated redstone in a body.
Another major thing I have noticed with redstone, is that whenever a vial of VIVs gets ‘shocked’ with a redstone pulse, another (seemingly unrelated) vial might also start spasming. I am wondering if this means some particles are interconnected with each other in an unknown manner, or maybe void is controlled by a major entity?
=== Consumption of Materials ===
Apparently, whenever faced with a material considered ‘precious’, the Void excretion will engulf it into itself, note this process doesn’t seem to be reversible. This furthers the hypothesis of the void being some type of a ‘hivemind’ entity.
The void’s processes seem to speed up whenever specific types of materials are included into it. I have made a graph with all specific cases of this (note that the unlisted either get engulfed or are ignored)
On a last note, I have also observed that VIVs seem to avoid turning small amounts of material into excretion. While what counts as “small” is relative to the quantity of excretion and virus, I’ve found colonies of around 0.015 blocks to be able to reliably engulf various silica-based materials.
=== Finishing notes ===
Please beware around VIVs. I have been researching them since their discovery, and the more I look into them the more dangerous they seem to become. Thank you for your attention.
Category:Virus
Category:Disease
Category:Traveler's Era