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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arscott" data-source="post: 1976275" data-attributes="member: 17969">Why not play with the party's expectations:Even if there are no viruses on Krynn, there's no reason your diseases can't act like viruses, <a href="http://www.sasny.org/adult.htm" target="_blank">Including the way they respond to medication.</a> Three years ago, a small town was stricken with a nasty case of red rot.  Fortunately, a devoted follower of mishakal arrived to help.  Though he himself nearly died of the disease, he managed to wipe out the infestation using a tonic made from jennis-leaf and hornroot.But that's not the whole story.  The tonic did indeed cure many of the disease, but the healer had gone to long in the presence of the sick.  For his selfless deeds, he would be doomed to die.  Save that on the eve of his death, Morgion appeared.  The dark god could grant immunity from the deadly illness, and all he needed in exchange was the healer's loyalty.Recently, the town has had another epidemic:  Sirrion's pox.  Like red rot, Sirrion's pox consists of red rashes and fever.  Unlike red rot, it is otherwise harmless.  Unless the diseased is exposed to too much jennis.  Just like the last time, the healer is distributing his jennis-leaf and hornroot cure.  But people are still dying from the disease.To make things just a bit more complicated, a sinister looking hermit has recently arrived in the town, he's well versed in diseases and their cures.  And he's telling the townsfolk not to take their medicine.</blockquote>

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