Collabrative Illness guide

[miadon]

Ok this is idea, I had like 5 minutes ago (from date of this post), ok this idea would probably be better done on some website or maybe wiki, but as its an idea its here for now. Anyway my idea is that if your character suffers from a disease or became ill then share it here giving details so that others can look for an illness and perhaps use it for their character to roleplay and hopefully create something that might be quite common and part of planeshift life.

Example template:

Name:
Other Names:
Description: giving information such as what race it can affect, how serious it is, etc.
Causes:

• 1
• 2

Symptons:

• 1
• 2

Cure:

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ok template isn't standard but if someone wants to set up a site which can be better mantained and have a more fixed format that can be easily searched then great .

Ok now for the first illness:
Name: Klyros Flu
Other Names: none
Description: Klyros flu can affect any race and is often caused when dirty water has been swallowed, altough it is not lethal it can make the recipiant ill for many weeks, thus forcing them to stay in bed, klyros flu will always cause greeny\bluey scabs which may result in small scars being left after the illness has gone.
Causes:

• Internal contact with dirty water

Symptons:

• feverishness
• bad coughing fits
• poor eye sight
• large greeny\blue scabs that form over the body
• feeling of weekness
• loss of hunger

Cure: There is no known cure, bed rest and intake of herbal drinks is highly recommended
ok so if you have an illness\disease to add then go right ahead.

[Arka]

Name: Beard Blight
Other names: Miner's Mange

Description: Affects mainly Stonebreaker Dwarfs (mostly the males) as a result of spending long periods in damp humid conditions underground.

Causes: Believed to be a fungal infection. Is exacerbated by eating stale bread. Highly contagious.

Symptoms:

• Beard hairs fall out in clumps
• Flaky skin
• Localised itchiness
• Irritability (more than is usual in a dwarf)

Cure: Beards can be fumigated by burning flowers of sulfur next to the skin. Garlic is thought to help, but mainly in controlling the disease.

[miadon]

Name:Sleep of Ages
Other Names: Permasleep
Description: "Sleep of Ages" is a type of coma, which lasts for a long period of time from a minimum of one week to around 4 months. It can be very serious as food intake is difficult especially when the recipiant may vomit frequently during the coma.
Causes:

• Magic

Symptons:

• Inability to wake up to any noise or movement.
• Heavy breathing.
• Vommiting.

Cure: Magic, altough correct spell seems to have been lost.
Name:Xillix Syndrome
Other Names: Heavy Amnesia
Description: Only one person has ever suffered from this form of amnesia, so not alot is known about it.
Causes:

• Magic

Symptons:

• Forgetting about ones life.
• Believing to be someone else

Cure: Magic, altough correct spell seems to have been lost.

[Siteri Kidachi]

Those last two aren't really diseases though... they're curses. You can't catch a curse. (Unless for some reason whoever cast the spell wanted it to be contagious.)

[miadon]

true but some curses maybe more common than others, and to someone unknowing it may look like a normal illness,

[Myrthe]

but its still not

[zorbels]

but its still not

So then it can go under the Collabrative Illness guide in a sub section called curses. There problem solved. I win!

[Myrthe]

lol okay. if :cookie: worked id give you a cookie

[LARAGORN]

Name:Laanxitis Uphoric Post Individual Dementia Syndrome
Other Names: LUPIDS
Description: A very bad case of the Stupids. Every day things become impossible. you dont know how to do anything any more. Walking and talking are the only thing you can still do, even that is sometimes difficult. You continualy ask stupid questions, and do moronic things.

Causes:

1. the main cause is still unknown.
2. Being near or talking with others that have LUPIDS.

Symptons: ^ see above

Cure: The only cure known is time and the teachings of others. However, if not carefull the teachers may contract the ailment from the infected.
It is best to stay away from the infected and give guidance from a distance.

[Myrthe]

ooo i got 1

Name: Smith's Flu
Other Names: N/A
Description: A flu that is caused by viruses in the air created when a forge is used. It looks like a common cold but it much more. May cause in death if the victim is not treated properly.

Causes:
1) Working around a forge^^
2) inhaling disease-carrying viruses

Symptoms:
1) cold-like symptoms...
2) ...along with pupils becoming dilated
3) sometimes the victim will sleepwalk to the nearest forge
4) caughing up dusty blood

Cure: The victim must drink cold water regularly. Also, feeding the victim crushed reddish fungi, found in the well of laanx, mixed with warm water to make a soupy substance helps the victim sleep better and cure faster. Other than that, the disease either goes away after a few weeks, or the victim dies.

[steuben]

name: the consumption
other names: not sure but they are proably there
cause: unknown
description and symptoms:
- it is highly variable in its contagiousness for unknown reasons. it has been known to spread with the slightest contact and not spread despite several monthes in close contact
- gradual loss of sensation in the extremities eventually progressing to the whole body
- serious infections develop resulting in deformities and possible amputation
- while not fatal the disease does eventually lead to death

treatment, cure
- no known cures physical or magical
- treatment is merely pallitative, curing the resultant infections.

[Nalain Tarek]

Name: Dark flu
Other names: madness mushroom
cause: coming in contact with a type of mushroom that is pure black and has red spots
description and symptoms:
*Causes the infected to be constantly angry at something
*Eyes will turn red before th effects start
*Some will have slight heart burn
*will affect any one near the infected

Cures:
*Eating a pure white mushroom with blue spots

[Siteri Kidachi]

Here's another one for the curse pile then.

Name: Vengeance of Laanx
Other Names: The Wipe
Description: Can affect all residents of Yliakum. Severity varies with case.
Causes: Excessive greed among the people; failure to respect the laws of nature.
Symptoms: Vary depending on case: may result in destruction of personal items (including weapons and armor), money, partial amnesia (usually limited to combat or job skills), or a combination of any of these.
Cure: No cure other than regaining your lost possessions and skills the same way you originally got them.

[Nalain Tarek]

one more

Name: morpheous
Other names: Aniigra morpho
Description:turns rats and enkidukais into into mutated versions of themselves rats are known to multiplie their body parts
Causes: breating the toxins that trepors emit
Symptoms:
*having multiple bodie parts
*some body parts are lost
*fatal if vital organs are lost
Cure: one spell known by only one wizard and he hasnt been seen in years although his assistant levrus may know something

[Alfonso Knaf]

Name: Novaristain
Other Names: icy rash
Description: The Novaristain is most common among Ylians, but also quite common among Dermorians and Lemurs. For any reason among the Dermorians only childs are affected. The illness is mostly nonlethal and gone after 2-3 weeks, but there are also frequent deaths caused by it.
Kran avoid anyone with this illness. Although they can not be affected it shows quite many similarities to another - always deadly - diseas which spreads from time to time (s.b.).
Causes:

• To be together with an infected may cause it
• It is also believed that beeing out at night in Novari can cause it

Symptons:

• Every part of the body - except the hands - is covered with cold, white spots.
• After a while the spots raise and are getting embossed - this is the time were the affected suffers from dizzyness and dullness.
• After about 18 days the spots have risen about 8mm and are starting to fall off. The affected now suffers from big pain - like million little puncture wounds - and high fever.

Cure:
There is no real cure, but quite a bunch of tricks to ease the pain. Two of them are listed:
#1:
Cut a apple in two halfes.
Take some silicic and grind it together with the right amount of water to a thick paste.
Coat one half of the apple with the paste.
Cook the other apple in salted water, till he has nearly vanished.
Pour the apple-salt-water on the stomach of the affected.
Wait a minute and then rub the coated apple on the wet stomach.
Repeat this twice a day.
(the silicic paste may also come from a confusion about the kran-diseas)
#2
Wrap up legs, arms, stomach and foot of the affected real tight with some bandage.
Lay him in a warm bathtub.
Wait for about half an hour till you take him out.
Get some carrots, apples and fish and cook them all together.
The affected has to drink the brew of it as long as he still is wrped up.

Sidenote to the mentioned Kran-disease:
Not much is known about it, the Kran do not talk about it to "outsiders"
The only thing known is that sometimes suddenly many elder Kran are getting white embossed spots all over the body - they actually are a little bit colder than the rest of the body too.
After a while of suffering effery infected Kran dies...