Magical Sickness: Not For The Red Cross

[Xarlen]

Ok. I've created a new disease, and I want some suggestions how to fix it.

The symptoms: Claw like bruises along the person's body. Coughing wheezes that sound like hissing. The dead body's eyes revert to slitted yellow cat eyes upon death.

The Disease's makeup: Infernal, and magical in nature. It was created by the work between Devils (Poison specialized wizard race, found in Traps and Treachery), a Rakshasa, and likely an Acolyte of the SKin, or a cleric probably. It's a combination of magical and infernal, and Remove Disease ain't gunna fix it.

It's summoning was more a spell: Cast on one or two people, and then it spreads around.

So, what spells should fix it? Break Enchantment? I was thinking, perhaps, Protection from Evil + Dispel Magic + Remove Curse or Disease.

Any thoughts?

 

[anglachel]

How about it being a curse that causes a disease. You must cast remove curse first then remove disease. If you cast remove disease first, then the curse just reinfects the victim.

 

[Xarlen]

The problem there is, the PCs have allready cast it (in directly). On one victim, remove curse. On another, remove disease. I was hoping for another step or two, so that they don't find the cure right away.

 

[kreynolds]

Here is an easy answer to your problem. Greater Restoration.

 

[Dark Helmet]

Ok. I've created a new disease, and I want some suggestions how to fix it.

The symptoms: Claw like bruises along the person's body. Coughing wheezes that sound like hissing. The dead body's eyes revert to slitted yellow cat eyes upon death.

The Disease's makeup: Infernal, and magical in nature. It was created by the work between Devils (Poison specialized wizard race, found in Traps and Treachery), a Rakshasa, and likely an Acolyte of the SKin, or a cleric probably. It's a combination of magical and infernal, and Remove Disease ain't gunna fix it.

It's summoning was more a spell: Cast on one or two people, and then it spreads around.

So, what spells should fix it? Break Enchantment? I was thinking, perhaps, Protection from Evil + Dispel Magic + Remove Curse or Disease.

Any thoughts?

Howabout you treat the "germs" that cause this disease as being extra-planar in origin, therefore a Dismissal spell must first be used.

 

[Xarlen]

Well, the origion of the disease is a ritual, a Ritual casting.

Considering all of the gathered eliments (Arcane, Evil, Infernal, and Clerical), I was just hoping for more of a chain of spells, as aposed to a simple 'Drop this and cure'. That way it'd take a while to figure out the proper chain, and make it more difficult to cure the inflicted.

 

[kreynolds]

Check out Monte Cook's Demon God's Fane. There's a real nasty disease in there.