User blog comment:Chaoarren/1500 Pages Element Contest/@comment-15446856-20180316211832

Petrifaction: This is a status effect/ailment.

This ailment is meant to provide one that grants true danger towards the hunter, something only very few others have.

This ailment will cause the hunter to flinch immediately upon it being inflicted. An on-screen warning will appear the first time, telling the deadly effect of what will happen should it not be cured. To add to the warning, silver rocks/liquid appear around the screen to remind hunters that they have the ailment. The ailment slowly covers the hunter's body in stone and gradually slows down their movements except for falling and taking a hard hit. Should it not be cured in 60 seconds, a grey puff of smoke will emit from the hunter and completely solidify them in stone and cause am instant faint regardless of any guts or moxie skills they have.

In a nutshell, hunters have 1 minute to cure this ailment, or it will gradually get worse until time for it expires and they faint without possibility to be saved.

There are three ways of curing this severe ailment, first being to drink an Ancient Potion, the second to roll in water four times, and the third is simply using a Cleanser.

The inspiration behind this idea is the status effect of the same name in Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. I thought it would be a good idea to make an ailment like this for MH Fanon as it is the most plausible ailment from DDDA that can be turned into a Monster Hunter ailment.

The name for the ailment was supposed to be Solidification, but since BannedLagiacrus used that name for an idea for a previous contest, I decided to just use the original name from the source.

Petrifaction appears as a thick dark grey smog. It works by covering the victim in a substance that will quickly harden from a dusty covering to a hard stone layer that will suffocate anything engulfed in it to death.

Petrifaction will be an ailment for monsters with a very high threat level, like 6 stars and above. I have one Elder Dragon in concept form at the moment that will use it. I'm certain others users will soon find use for this ailment on their own monsters.