Your corpus is suffused with the Contagion, exposing anyone who touches you. In addition, during periods of high activity, you have a disturbing tendency to leave traces of your corpus behind as ectoplasm; while this doesn’t harm you, this material is just as Contagious as the rest of your body. You suffer a –2 penalty to Physical and Social actions. As when Replicating, the Contagious will consider you one of their own. If you abstain from unlocking the Key of the Contagion for the remainder of the Story, you regress to Replicating. If you dramatically fail a roll to unlock the Key of the Contagion while Shedding, or if you use it more than times than your Stamina rating in one chapter, you gain the Terminal Contagion (see p.170).
Possible Sources: Failing a roll to unlock the Key of the Contagion while Replicating.
Resolution: Regress to Replicating; progress to Terminal. Beat: Lose an ally’s trust due to your obvious infection.