Anemone's The Husking: Evolving Disease Mod

The Husking - evolving disease (like Crimson Curse) that turns heroes into Husks

How to become Husk: Sky Taint will evolve into Husking - Body.
Sleeper will inflict Husking - Body
Trinkets will supplement disease gain, giving benefits to those with the disease, and granting the disease on actions.

Husking evolution:
Sky Taint -> Husking - Body

Husking - Body -> Husking - Mind
Husking - Mind -> Husked

Special: Husked -> Sleeper's Exalt

Speed up evolution through consumption of Shard Dust
Shard Dust will grant additional effects/buffs if Husk
Shard Dust will heal stress if Sleeper's Exalt

How to unlock Sleeper's Exalt: ||triggered by an act out while having the Refracted affliction, while fully Husked.||

If that doesn't work:
||triggered by using Shard Dust 7 times - you will take approximately 240 stress, but the power will be worth it.||

Husking Removal:
What I want to do: successful resolve checks (virtues) trigger the disease to devolve, all the way down to Sky Taint. Disease also cannot progress while virtued.

What I will probably have to do: virtues probably wont work, but I can make the disease not evolve while virtued, I think.
I will instead probably make a trinket that prevents the disease from evolving, has a chance to devolve the disease, and downsides. Downsides can be removed if virtued, and worsened if afflicted. Disease evolution can also be sped up while afflicted.

Note that heroes with custom virtues and afflictions (like Flagellant) can still become Refracted. Simply have them "die" in Endless Farmstead, and they will return Refracted. Note that they will also lose certain quirks, such as Twilight Dreamer, any Thing/Prismatic quirks, and other quirks that are removed on "death".

Husking effects:
Barks, act outs (positive and negative), interactions with trinkets, afflictions, items

All stages are incompatible with other diseases (size 3 - meaning you are immune to new diseases, like Crimson Curse does)

Sky Taint: 11 rounds
1 pt/rd Bleed
1 pt/rd Blight
1 pt/rd Horror

Husking - Body: 150 rounds

Description: Husking begins to turn skin into ash, crystalline formations grow in the gut, and your pulse beats to an unknown rhythm - the metamorphosis begins.

-15% max hp
+20% prot
+20% bleed resist
+20% blight resist
-50% food consumed

Husking - Mind: 200 rounds

Description: Whether it is the horror of ones body becoming inorganic, cold matter, or the disease invading one's mind, the transformation has changed your psyche.

Constant Horror (1/round)
-20% max hp
+25% prot
+25% bleed resist
+25% blight resist
+10% bleed skill chance
+10% blight skill chance
-50% food consumed

Husked:
Description: Ashen skin, crystalline flesh, breath of dust. No visible flesh remains, and the mind has... become adjusted. The transformation is complete!

-25% max hp
+30% prot
+30% bleed resist
+30% blight resist
+20% bleed skill chance
+20% blight skill chance
-100% food consumed

Sleeper's Exalt:
Description: More a being of light than of conventional matter, and merely bound to a physical manifestation for use in this plane. Your perception has become an ocean, and all will drown in your light.

Constant Horror (1/round)
Constant Regen (1/round)
-90% max hp
+30 DODGE
+30% bleed skill chance
+30% blight skill chance
-200% food consumed
-100% virtue chance
-80% stress while Afflicted
Permanent Riposte on DODGE (if Riposte is defined)
Riposte effect: enemy party: blight 1/3rds (90%)

Trinkets: (probably all purchasable with Shards, but affordable)

Industrial Husk Solvent
Constant Blight if Husk (1/round)
+50% damage vs Husk
-100% shards received
Husking Cannot Evolve
On attack skill: self: (3%) Cure Husk Entirely

Blighted Offering
+20% blight amount received
-20% blight resistance
-30% stress if Husk
+50% blight resistance if Husk
+20% prot if Husk
On attack skill: self: gain Husking - Body (10%)

Husking Spores
+20% stress
+20% horror amount received
+50% blight skill chance if Husk
On attack hit: target: blight 2/3rds 100%
On friendly skill: target: gain Husking - Body (5%)
On friendly skill: target: blight 2/3rds (80%)

Farmhand's Plow
+15% melee damage
-15 ranged acc
Ignore Protection if Husk
On monster kill: self: gain Husking - Body (10%)

Hearthlight
+100% food consumed
+150% food consumed if Husk
+100% healing received from eating
+50% stress healing received if Husk
+50% stress healing received during camp
+50% stress healing skills during camp
+50% healing skills during camp

Sleeper's Mark
Unfathomable Horror if not Sleeper's Exalt
+100% Horror amount received
+20% crit while Stealthed
+20 dodge while Stealthed
Riposte always hits
On riposte attack: self: steal stealth from target
On being hit: self: stealth 1rd

Luminosity of the Comet
Double buffs from Luminous if Luminous
Marked if Fading
+50% stress if Virtued
+100% damage reflection if Virtued
+20% virtue chance per 20 torch

Tenebrosity of the Comet
Marked if Luminous
Stealthed if Fading
Cannot Virtue if Marked
+25% acc if Stealthed
+5% crit per 20 darkness

Colour of the Comet set bonus: "it is blinding, yet I can see..."
-10% torch burn rate
-20% torch burn rate if Husking - Body
-30% torch burn rate if Husking - Mind
-40% torch burn rate if Husked
Torch cannot decay if Sleeper's Exalt


And more

Estate items:
Economical Husk Solvent (buy with Shards)

Take 33% hp dmg and +20 stress on use (like The Blood)

If Husked: +100% damage received (66% hp dmg)

If Sleeper's Exalt: instant heart attack and -40% max hp for remainder of the dungeon

Reverts Husk disease to previous stage on use
Sleeper's Exalt -> Husked
Husked -> Husking - Mind
Husking - Mind -> Husking - Body
Husking - Body -> Sky Taint

Cures Sky Taint on use (useful if you want to cure Sky Taint after gaining it in a dungeon, at a cost)

Districts:

Institute for Husking and Comet Studies - Expedition Department
+2 respite in Farmstead
+1 respite per Husk in party

Institute for Husking and Comet Studies - Anatomy Department
+20% healing received if Husk (mod classes included?)
+5 dodge if Husk
+5 acc if Husk

Institute for Husking and Comet Studies - Janitorial Department
Produces 2 Economical Husk Solvent per week

Institute for Husking and Comet Studies - Living Quarters
Idle stress healing in town if Husk

Institute for Husking and Comet Studies - Psychology Department
-20% stress if Husk
+20% stress healing received if Husk
+10% virtue chance if Husk

Altar to the Stars
-20% stress in Farmstead
+25% damage reflection if Husk
+25% stun resist if Husk
+50% damage reflection if Sleeper's Exalt