Medusa's glance (Animal trait)

Medusa's glance is an animal trait in which staring into the eyes cause the target to either contract fibrodysplasia akinitosis or osteosklirosis.
== Effects ==
Fibrodysplasia akinitosis, or Gorgon's disease is a genetic malfunction where connective tissues and muscles turn into bone, immobilizing the victim.
Osteosklirosis, or Marble bones is a genetic disease that causes bone densification.
A medusa's glance causes this disease, in extremely rare cases, it can cause osteosklirosis, the bone densifying gene mutation. 
== Mechanics ==
Medusa's glance, or gorgon's disease, similarly to the basilisk effect is caused by a stare of a medusa causing an effect on the victim. Medusa's glance gives off a flash of light that causes an energy wave. A wave is the propagation of a disturbance producing in its passage a reversible variation of the local physical properties of the medium. It moves with a determined speed which depends on the characteristics of the propagation medium. In this case, the wave causes one of two genetic mutations in the target, the first is a rapid variant of fibrodysplasia ossificans, the other rarer mutation is osteopetrosis. 
Unlike the basilisk's kill stare, the medusa effect has no known preventatives. 
Those capable of withstanding medusa's glance are known as Marble bones. In certain religions, these are medusa's champions, in others, they are medusa's hunters.
== Variants ==
=== Trollstare ===
A type of medusa's glance that causes calcium rich sweat to encase the victim in a statue. When the user of the glance dies, the calcium material melts down.
The name derives from trolls turning to stone when in sunlight because of a vitamin D induced calcium overproduction.
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