Typhoid

Typhoid
Mundane Disease
DC: 14
Progression
Pestilence: 0
You purge the disease from your body.
Effect: You are cured.
Pestilence: 1 - 2
You suffer from fever and headaches, along with a mild cough.
Effect: Tired
Pestilence: 3 - 4
Your fever intensifies, often causing delirium and you are usually too tired to even get out of bed.
Effect: Exhausted
Pestilence: 5 - 6
The fever continues and your abdomen becomes painful and distended. weak and dehydrated and may develop minor intestinal bleeding. Rose spots on the abdomen are common.
Effect: Pain(1), Exhausted, Take 1 point of Blood Loss at the end of each extended rest.
Pestilence: 7+
Your intestines tear, causing you to become septic and die.
Effect: You are dead. Your corpse is intact.
"They say the Fever's Embrace is the dance with an infernal spirit. The fever takes hold, and your very blood turns against you, burnin' you from within. The wisest amongst us stay far from the cursed wells, and never partake in food from a sick man’s hearth, lest the demon find a new dance partner."
——Maud, an elderly village herbalist.

Description

Typhoid, often referred to as the "Fever's Embrace" in folklore, is a malicious ailment that leaves entire communities in its cruel clutches. Victims are tormented by a high fever that sends them into bouts of delirium, as if whispering with unseen spirits. Their strength wanes and is followed by a relentless, wracking pain in their bowels. Their skin turns sallow and is often adorned with rosy spots, as if marked by some sinister blossom. It's said that the victim’s insides churn as if consumed by fire and ice. Whispers among healers speak of a demon that is said to reside in contaminated water and food, which possesses and ravages the bodies of those it can ensnare.

Typical Exposure

Typhoid is often thought to be borne on ill winds, especially among densely populated settlements, and carries the taint of the underworld. The more practical-minded contend that it comes from consuming tainted food or water, the demon of the Fever's Embrace lurking in the murk. Some villages are known to enact rituals of purification for their wells and food stores in an attempt to ward off the Fever’s Embrace. In times of outbreaks, the wells are often abandoned, and those who fall ill are quarantined in an attempt to starve the demon of new hosts.