P’s lie: What is petrochemical disease?
Petrification has become a pandemic in the fictional world of Lies of P, a devastating and mysterious affliction for the city of Kratt. Its origins remain shrouded in uncertainty, as does the exact mechanism of its spread. Krat suffered from the disease at least twice, each time causing widespread death. The disease’s signature symptom is an alarming change in a patient’s blood, turning it into a deep blue that mirrors the color of the entire body.
In addition to this disturbing change, patients may also endure a sensation of extreme coldness and, in some cases, severe itching. The physical manifestation of the disease is the appearance of crystal structures or strange stone-like scales on the patient’s skin. However, it doesn’t just stop in the physical realm; petrification appears to take a toll on sufferers’ mental health. Due to the ominous nature of the disease, sick people were kept in quarantine to prevent further spread, adding an atmosphere of fear and despair to the beleaguered city of Kratt.
In Lies of the P Universe, petrification has afflicted several people, each exhibiting unique and disturbing symptoms.
- For example, part of Antonia’s face was covered in stone scales, a disease that left her visibly weakened.
- Another example is Black Cat, who is blind due to illness and is looking for a rare cure – gold coin fruit.
- What makes the story even more interesting is Giano, who claims to have the disease but has no outward physical symptoms other than a persistent cough.
- However, things take a strange turn when Gian’o tries to pick fruit from the gold coin tree, causing his hands to get burned.
- These cases highlight the mysterious and multifaceted nature of petrification in this complex world.
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Who suffers from petrification?
Antonia
In Lies of P, the character Antonia plays an important role in introducing players to the petrifying disease. While the nature of her illness is unclear, she is one of the first characters encountered suffering from this mysterious disease. While her condition will be explicitly confirmed later in the game, observant players will be able to spot signs of petrification on her face if they closely examine her character model during the initial encounter. As the story unfolds, players witness how Antonia copes with the effects of the petrifying disease, and by the story’s conclusion, the severity and speed of her decline may be affected by the choices players make.
crying woman
Another poignant character affected by this disease is the crying woman encountered in Chapter Two. Sequestered behind a window on Avenue Elysion, she was a victim of isolation. She reveals to P that her eyesight is deteriorating and that her deepest wish is to hold her baby again, which adds a heartbreaking dimension to the story.
Giano
In the world of P’s Lie, Gian’o is an interesting character in Chapter 4, slightly hidden from the main plot. Suffering from petrification disease, he desperately searched for the legendary gold coin fruit tree to cure himself. Despite his apparent illness, Gian’ao demonstrated extraordinary abilities.Players can choose to trade the fruit they find for unique items, but here’s a twist – Gian’o may not actually be affected by the disease at all
In a post-credits scene, he reveals his true identity as the alchemist Paracelsus, displaying a completely different personality during a phone call with an unknown person. This discovery suggests that his petrification may have been a clever cover for his research.
Adelina
Entering Chapter 6, players will encounter another victim of the petrifying disease, Adelina, hiding in a room in Estella’s Opera House. Her backstory and internal struggles can be pieced together through environmental details, diary entries, and even a battle with her sister earlier in Chapter Six. Finding her alive felt like a pleasant surprise, but unfortunately by the time she was found, she was already in the advanced stages of the disease. She expresses remorse for her betrayal of a relationship with her sister. The player has the option to offer her an apple purchased from Polentina in the hotel to ease her final moments, but timing is crucial.
This must be done before defeating the boss of Estella’s Opera House; otherwise, it will be too late and Adelina will die. If the player provides the apple, they can return to her petrified body after defeating the boss, where they will find the records she left behind. If not, the Apple can still be used on her statue elsewhere in the Opera House to obtain a spare Trinity Key that will help solve Alecchino’s riddle.
This black cat
Finally, black cats became the last major victims of the petrifying disease. Encounters with the Stalker and his partner Red Fox begin as early as Chapter Three, but it’s not until after Victor’s defeat in Chapter Seven that Black Cat’s condition is revealed. He and Red Fox wait for the player on the monorail heading to the Barrens Swamp, looking for gold berries to slow Black Cat’s creeping blindness, which hampers his abilities as a tracker.
Players can choose whether to give him fruit or not, and if they are willing to help, the reward is record-breaking. In Chapter 11, the player encounters Black Cat and Red Fox again, this time in separate boss battles. However, if the player chooses to give him fruit in Chapter 7, they have the option to skip two encounters and provide additional fruit to help heal the cat, which highlights the impact of the player’s choice to unfold the narrative around P’s lies.
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Can petrification be cured?
Giangio’s introduction to P in “P’s Lies” brings up the interesting concept of the golden coin fruit, which he sees as a potential cure for petrochemical diseases. Initially, he dismissed it as a rumor and expressed doubts about its validity. However, in Chapter 5, the player stumbles upon a tree bearing these fruits outside a hidden door in the hotel, where Giangio establishes his new base. Interestingly, he revealed that he was unable to pick the fruit himself because the tree seemed to reject him.
From this point on, P gained the ability to regularly collect these fruits, which served as auxiliary currency and were mainly used to trade wishing stones and star fragments with Giangio. However, Gold Coin Fruit is not a complete cure for the disease, as Gian’o’s constant need for more medicine hints at its limitations. Given Gian’o’s questionable status as a victim of the disease, players may begin to wonder if he has ulterior motives for harvesting the fruit. Elsewhere, the fruit exhibits varying degrees of efficacy.
As the story progresses, players can choose to use the fruit to create an experimental drug to help the dying Antonia. Another character in the game, Polendina, requests the drug, and the player decides whether to provide it or not with consequences. Giving Polentina the medicine will keep Antonia alive until the end of the game, while not taking the medicine will cause her to die early and miss dialogue opportunities. Although this fruit is not a complete cure, there is no denying that it is effective.
Black Cat is another character who uses the Gold Coin Fruit, and it turns out that the Gold Coin Fruit is the most effective for him. Players only need to provide him with three gold fruits throughout the game, once in Chapter 7, directly in Chapter 11, and later in Chapter 11 via Red Fox on his behalf. When offering the final fruit to Red Fox, she expressed confidence that it should be enough to cure him completely, further deepening the mystery surrounding the fruit’s true potential.
Changes in the nature of petrochemical diseases
In Lies of P, petrifying diseases start to change a lot as you play the game. At first, you see people suffering from the common petrifying disease, but later on, you encounter creatures suffering from mutated versions of the disease that turn them into monsters. You first encounter these monstrous creatures in the cathedral in Chapter 4, and you’ll see more of them as the game continues.
This mutation looks a lot like the common petrifying disease, and in Chapter 9, you can see Bella’s friends slowly turning into monsters as a result. One of the first and most important mutant monsters you encounter is Andrus, who was once the Archbishop of the Cathedral and is now the boss you must fight against in Chapter 4. He was furious with the alchemists, blaming them for the mutations and problems on Kraat. This connection between the alchemist and the petrifying disease becomes even more important when Geppetto asks P to find a cure for them after Chapter 6.
What is the cause of petrification?
In The Lie of P, it takes you quite a while to figure out what causes the petrified disease and why it’s become so common. It turns out that the disease occurs when people are exposed to something called an “erg” for a long period of time. Krat relies heavily on Ergo as a source of power, especially for the golems scattered throughout. So it’s no surprise that many people started getting sick. Ergs are like solid forms of life essence and memory, which explains why the skin of petrified patients hardens in a manner similar to erg crystals.
This also explains why Erg-powered golems sometimes begin to behave more like humans, and why the Grand Covenant is needed to stop them from rebelling. Mutated versions of petrified diseases can develop naturally from regular forms, but many are caused by human experimentation. These experiments were performed by alchemists led by Simon Manus. Simon Manus believes that these forced mutations, even if they cause casualties, are necessary to make humanity stronger and move towards his goals.
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