Disease

[nellyneil]

What is the best way to become diseased and then spread it?

[Joshuamonkey]

What is the best way to become diseased and then spread it?

What disease? Feeling faint? I don't even know if that's contagious. If it is, then just be with other people..
The sneezing sickness was very contagious, but that no longer exists, as far as I know.

[Pure_Dunga]

Yawn's seem to be quite contagious.

[SumBum]

The sneezing sickness was very contagious, but that no longer exists, as far as I know.

Hallelujah.

Although it has made for some good stories for older chars. "Back in my day..."

[Ryaga]

It'd be cool if there were more things like that. Like diseases that came and went in a few years, things that could be unique to each 'generation' and give stories to tell and cause drama and such.

[Chris]

I was about to start a topic, but this one is pretty close....

Has anyone figured out how much rest at what interval is necessary to prevent the overeating sickness?

[SekoETC]

It's not about resting, it's about keeping your surroundings clean.

[nellyneil]

like leaving meat and fresh dung on the ground?

[Mr. Bones]

Just keep small amounts of food in your inventory so you don't eat everything. Always worked for me.

[Snickie]

What is the best way to become diseased and then spread it?

Roleplay it.

I've roleplayed my chars having diseases before. Like, there was the time Snick went swimming in the bay in Klojt, and then dragged herself out of the water, and I fell asleep iRL before I could roleplay her properly drying off. I ended up giving her some disease that involved fever, delirium, etc. because I didn't think it made sense to be swimming in cold water and fall asleep on cold stone while still wet and get away with absolutely nothing.. :p

And when my chars have the faints, I roleplay it. Always.


Sadly (I think), I don't notice a lot of people roleplaying anything like that. Seriously! Nobody, including Cantr chars, have perfect immune systems! And contagious diseases, even when existing only in roleplay, should be contagious! I doubt there will ever be any roleplayed plague or anything like that, though, unless it becomes implemented in the game mechanics. Shame. I think it'd cause some seriously awesome roleplay and great stories for later on that people could roleplay telling.

3918-1.34: You say: "And then there was the Great Plague of 3285-3309 that swept through Town. It started with a lone traveller named Traveller who had this cough, and it spread to people, and they started coughing and vomiting and some even fell into delirium. We lost 3 people to it, including Traveller, and then Person came up with a cure using herbal mixtures, spinach, and mashed potatoes, and manage to save the rest of the population."
3918-1.34: Newspawn says: "Wow.... I hope it doesn't come back!"
3918-1.35: You say: "Hopefully it won't. And if it does, we have the cure for it sitting in our storage rooms in the Hospital."

[Wolf]

What is the best way to become diseased and then spread it?

If your char is male there are a few steps...
1. Find a sheep or other animal that looks like it spent some years rolling around in its own dung.
2. Sex that animal up.
3. After sexing up the animal, relieve yourself. If it burns when you pee, move on to step 4; If not, repeat steps 1 to 3, as often as needed.
4. Soon as you realize it burns when you pee, find the "easiest" girl in town; There's bonus points if she's the needy type that clings on to everyone with a pulse. Sex her up. The following steps are optional but will have bous points attached.
5. After the easiest girl in town, try sexing up a visitor; sailors, traders, military-type people are great for this. A travelling town leader is perfect for this purpose.
6. Sex up the local town leader. Don't be shy or squeemish about the possibility of this being a man, if you are serious about spreading the disease and wanting bonus points.
7. Sex up a few more animals - especially those that are hunted for food; Nothing quite like catching VD from a tasty piece of grilled meat.

If your char is female, there are less steps but every step has bonus points.
1. Look for the guy who looks like he just ate out some smelly animal's butt and say hello to him like he has a chance of getting lucky; He'll have a gift for you...
2. After this guy rolls off of you, seduce the town leader.

[EchoMan]

You sound like someone with way too much experience in the matter...

[Wolf]

Oh, I've seen a few things happen in a few places, and threw those together

[RedQueen.exe]

What I find absolutely hysterical (due to my own ease of amusement) is that in cantr a potential source of sickness is dead bodies; however, a study was done not long after that tragedy in Haiti that determined that in a crisis like that that burying bodies does not need to be as high priority as was originally thought. Turns out dead bodies actually aren't that great at spreading disease.

A good reminder that our simulation of the world will only ever be as accurate as our understanding of it.

[Wolf]

What I find absolutely hysterical (due to my own ease of amusement) is that in cantr a major source of sickness is dead bodies; however, a study was done not long after that tragedy in Haiti that determined that in a crisis like that that burying bodies does not need to be as high priority as was originally thought. Turns out IRL, dead bodies actually aren't that great at spreading disease.

A good reminder that our simulation of the world will only ever be as accurate as our understanding of it.

Blasphemy!
The book of Flesh & Blood sayeth, that He who hated the Man flung diseased dog's corpse over the wall in pieces, and it came to pass that the Great Plague struck many!
The Book of Martin sayeth thou art a Blasphemer!
Taketh thy "scientific studies" and shoveth them!


(just poking fun here, but yeah, it could still work in Cantr. I wish we could implement a second type of burial... "You see a man in his sixties eat the corpse of Sleeping Spawn" followed by "A man in his sixties coughs repeatedly" heheheh...)