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 Study upon helashio test subjects and a few trials upon condemned criminals has provided an exhaustive list of the potential effects of the mist upon humanoid life, with confirmed overlap among the majority of exposed cloned animal life. The effects observed are as follows:
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+  * The simplest byproduct of the extremely unusual cellular respiration cycle consists of a binary chemical which wafts off of the surface of the animal in rapid cycles with the convection process mixing droplets of the compounds, activating a exothermic reaction effectively catalyzing the binary chemical interaction which yields the final toxic product produced through this specialized function. This product as it emanates from the body mixes with compounds produced by dermal-zooid colonies resulting in enhanced volatility as the thick, moist, and toxic mist gathers around the animal. In the chemical mixture which is produced by the biological process executed in the compound secretion, occurrences of several phenethylamine compounds are observed, in conjunction with phosphonic esters. Phenthylamine compounds produced in this reaction are central nervous system stimulants. From this compound, a physiological impact is presented upon the cognitive and perceptive capacity of most vertebrates exposed. Speech, cognition, attentiveness, impulse control, and reflexes are dulled while also inducing severe hallucinations and dissociation. Accompanying the phenthylamine compounds produced, phosphonic esters are the more malignant of the compounds produced by the internal reaction. This organophosphorus class compound is a nerve agent compound which binds to nerve receptors, blocking normal calcium, sodium, and potassium channel behaviour. This organically derived nerve agent induces involuntary, painful, often damaging muscle contractions, voluntary nerve behaviours being interfered with, autonomic nervous system functions being impaired or outright suppressed, and cardio-pulmonary arrest when exposed to the aerosol form of the compound.
+  * Exotic magical compounds have been recorded as a result of the cellular process of the narrshra'am, binding with living tissues  resulting in the gradual and with sufficient exposure, complete petrification of the exposed organism. This process is thought of as an unintended consequence of the unusual biological processes of the narshraa'am as it is unable to consume stone-like materials, however individuals have been observed utilizing petrified creatures as components for their own physical form.
+  * The compounds present in the mist have been observed to reduce or remove tolerance, resistance, or at times even cause typically harmless substances to interact in aggressive manners with affected physiology. Confirmed side-effects of this process have been observed as dissipation of built up chemical tolerances, increased potency of psychoactive substance exposure, and in one case acute cellular death caused by an unusual interaction with atmospheric nitrogen.
+  * One of least commonly observed effects has been the partial reanimation of a deceased helashio individual who had previously succumbed to the nerve-agent portion of the mist. Despite having incurred extensive torn muscle tissue and a visible open fracture of two bones during the panic and seizures that lead to its death, the corpse was able to assume a standing position and displayed mild aggression toward other helashio when introduced to the test area. While the reanimation of the dead flesh was an unusual result, the lack of discernible intelligence present in the individual, transmission of the condition, or enhancement of the reanimated flesh proves the result little more than a novelty.
+  * One of the most drastic effects observed from interaction with the magical compounds produced in the narrshra'am's mist is the spontaneous reduction in scale of those affected. The result of this uncommon interaction with a living organism has been noted several times with roughly similar results reducing the afflicted to a size roughly a twelfth to a thirteenth of their normal stature. Recovered test subjects have demonstrated within reasonable doubt a continuity of self, with minimal evidence suggesting that the change, while drastic imposes any cognitive impediment upon the afflicted, aside from any horror and trauma potentially incurred by the sudden change in stature.
+  * The most unusual, and initially most vexing result of exposure to the mist recorded to date has been the sudden spontaneous change of form from one species to another. Careful study and several trials eventually revealed that an unusual interaction between contaminating genetic material from another species when exposed to the flesh of the subject afflicted by the mist can result in a conversion of the individual to match the genetic template of the contaminating genetic material. Testing circumstances most often resulted in afflicted helashio turning into small amphibians and rodents that they had interacted with prior to exposure, however instances of livestock, human, phenotype, and even lorath transmogrification has been observed in subjects.
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