Renovare's Slumber
“Is the lion a villain for hunting the gazelle? Is the gazelle villainous for evading capture? Am I a villain because I participate in subjugation, or because I create it?” -Renovare, the Fungal Lord.
Transmission & Vectors
The Plague itself is airborne, and is present in all creatures whom dwell within infected forests. The effects of the disease only begin to slowly creep in, however, as the creature sleeps.
In addition, being struck by a fully consumed zombie of the disease will spread the disease straight into the blood stream.
Causes
Rumored to be created and propagated by the Plague Lord Renovare.
Symptoms
There are ten notable stages of the disease:
1. The slight taste of honey sets in, your joints loosen, and your mind feels slightly sedated.
2. A physical slowness takes hold. {Disadvantage on Dex checks}
3. Thoughts jumble, and focus unravels. {Disadvantage on Int checks}
4. The precise movements of combat fail you. {Dexterity AC is negated}
5. Even mere walking presents a challenge at this point. {Movement Speed halved}
6. Resting doesn't relieve you as it used to, you feel the urge to sleep longer... {Permanently level 1 exhaustion}
7. ...And Longer still... {Cannot restore exhaustion levels via long rests}
8. ...So rest, you will. {Unwakeable sleep}
9. A final realization of inevitable sleep, and creeping fungal death.
10. The disease finally begins overtaking you fully, damaging you mortally. {Take 10d6 necrotic damage every hour}
Treatment
Treatment is limited, but the best scientists have come up with a variant of medicinal salt that, when cracked and inhaled by an infected person, can reduce the effects of the disease.
Prognosis
The course of the condition consists of the creature slowing more and more as time goes on. Physical and mental quickness begins to fade; life force momentum begins to tire until the creature takes a final nap and never wakes up again.
Hosts & Carriers
Animals, plants, and even fungi carry the disease.
Prevention
The best way to prevent the disease is with another scientifically developed salt that, when used, prevents further infection for a brief time. Without the salts, the only solution is to not sleep.
Type
Fungal
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