( alright that's out of his system, some useful info: )
It's a bacterial infection, spreads mostly via droplet transmission, and is about as virulent as it gets.
If you're from Earth– ( he's betting on it ) –and familiar with the pneumonic plague, picture that, but with a ten-minute incubation period, and rapid onset tissue destruction. Some of the locals call it "coal sick" because the pattern of decay blackens the faces and extremities of its victims, just a little before they pass from massive organ failure.
Researchers in Minaras have a serum that can provide relief from the symptoms, but it's temporary. Thus far the bacterium has been mostly resistant to whatever basic antibiotics I was throwing at it. Our more magically-inclined healers have had the best luck treating it.
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It sucks. Don't catch it.
( alright that's out of his system, some useful info: )
It's a bacterial infection, spreads mostly via droplet transmission, and is about as virulent as it gets.
If you're from Earth– ( he's betting on it ) –and familiar with the pneumonic plague, picture that, but with a ten-minute incubation period, and rapid onset tissue destruction. Some of the locals call it "coal sick" because the pattern of decay blackens the faces and extremities of its victims, just a little before they pass from massive organ failure.
Researchers in Minaras have a serum that can provide relief from the symptoms, but it's temporary. Thus far the bacterium has been mostly resistant to whatever basic antibiotics I was throwing at it. Our more magically-inclined healers have had the best luck treating it.