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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daztur" data-source="post: 5925410" data-attributes="member: 55680">Was out of town for the weekend for ancestral rites for my grandfather in-law (which sound a lot more interesting than they are...). I've got some ideas for orcish religion that are based on mashing together Korean feng shui, the Princess Bride and an alternate history timeline about yams but that'll have to wait for tomorrow. For tonight let's put in a plague...When Death Comes CourtingNote: this one is based on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henipavirus" target="_blank">Henipavirus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a> it is a damn scary virusIt begins with a dream. A dream of a kiss from a figure with a face shrouded in shadow. The sufferer then awakes with lips red and pink. This is the beginning of a the disease that sinks deep into the victim's lungs and brings up pink bloody phlegm for a full fortnight. In the young, aged or weak this is sometimes fatal but it rarely strikes down those in their prime. Soon enough, for all but a handful of unfortunates whose lungs have been permanently damaged, the phlegm clears up and the cough dies away.But when death comes courting, it will not be satisfied with one kiss and after two months or perhaps a year and a day the dream returns with the dark figure ever more insistent. This marks the onset of the second stage of the disease. The blinding headaches, the delirium, the mad ravings and finally the long sleep. Those who have tasted death's kiss and whose cough has dissipated live in fear knowing that death has chosen them as its own and is merely marking time before it drags them the rest of the way into the grave. There are the lucky ones who recover from the cough and never experience the second stage of the disease but of those who suffer from the headaches that come with the second stage of this disease only the luckiest are able to live and those that do so are never the same again.Hooks:-Are the dreams meaningful or merely psychosomatic (there have been cases of this disease giving you a cough and then you recover and then BAM encephalitis month later in the real world, luckily the real world version doesn't spread very easily, at least not yet...)?-How do people act when they know they have death by brain infection hanging over their heads that could strike at any moment? I assume that they might do most anything for a casting of a cure disease spell but of course the humble priests of these lands would never take advantage of their desperation, would they?-How widespread is this disease? What races aside from humans can catch it?</blockquote>

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