[ TRIGGER WARNING : CANNIBALISM, STARVATION, SUICIDE, MEMORY LOSS. PROCEED WITH CAUTION. ]
The Wendigo Disease is adaptable, and it seemed to realize rather quickly how stubborn humans can be. The will they have can be powerful, and some would rather starve to death than ever eat a corpse of one of their own. Along with that, the disease causes their hunger to be insatiable. The original human subjects who did give into the hunger quickly realized that they were not satisfied, that the pain would not stop no matter how hard they tried. After this realization, they would either allow themselves to starve to death or kill themselves.
So, as diseases tend to do, it adapted. It created the condition referred to as “The Fog.” The fog acts as a system of positive reinforcement for the human it infects. As the human eats flesh, the fog releases and clouds the brain. This leads to the subject not being able to remember basic facts about their life or their past, their location, or anything about what has happened to them. It also nearly completely blocks out any pain they feel from the mutations. It leaves them in a state of pure calm and tranquility.
The initial fog is incredibly strong, often leading to the subject being in a peaceful trance, unmoving and unresponsive for up to a full day's time. Though the fog does begin to fade. As more time goes on, the subject is able to remember more. They begin to remember who they are, where they are, what they have done and what they have become. They feel more pain. They feel guilt. The ache of hunger returns back to them, and subjects have been reported to be babbling on about “the whispers” and how they “beg for them to let the fog return”.
By the point the subject is starving, the fog has entirely faded, and the subject is back to full awareness. It is incredibly rare that a subject reaches this point, though, as they often begin to search or whine for food once the dull ache of pain begins to return to their body. If not begging for food, simply mumbling. Going on about the whispers.
These whispers are not yet explained. The subjects were never aware enough to speak about them or be questioned. The only one who was, Subject Wendigo, refused to give any employee answers. Efforts were taken to attempt to get it to speak about it, those including ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and up to three weeks of starvation. These efforts never led to any information, Wendigo consistently held silence. No further advancements have been made.
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It knew we couldnt kill it. It knew it was too important for us to let it die, Chernobog always made that apparent. No wonder it never responded to any torture.
It was always too smart for its own good. Why did we get one that held it's knowledge. I am aware the Doctor has her reasons. This one has survived longer than the rest due to its brain's strength from it, allowing it to overcome the rejection of food and eat the meal substitutions, but... It seems to do more harm than good.
What good is this thing alive if it is too aware? If it knows that it could kill us all if it tried? If it refuses to give us information, withholding it? Because it knows that we cannot punish it, and that we will not kill it.
Is it because its petty? Angry that we wont put it out of its misery? I am not sure. Maybe it just has hatred in its soul.
I am worried. I am worried this choice may cost some of us our lives someday. I pray that Chernobog was right about everything. I pray that this choice was the best one possible.
-Doctor Romanov