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Illness Grid
1. You’re probably too sick to work, but you have no symptoms other than feeling like you’ve been tackled by a panicked herdbeast. If you’re a rider, it can be yourself or your dragon who’s feeling poorly. Nonriders, roll 1-3. Riders, roll 1-2.
2. Thanks to some bug or another, you’ve resigned yourself to spending the day in the latrines. What are you missing out on?
3. You’re a big faker. What’s so important to you that you’d fake sick and play hooky for it? Optional bonus: Roll to see if you’re caught or not!
4. You’ve been bedridden with fever for three days. Roll to see what happens.
5. You've come down with the sniffles. It's not enough to keep you bedridden or away from duties, but you do feel a bit poorly and will be walking around sniffing and blowing your nose for a few days.
6. You've come down with a nasty stomach virus. You are not feeling good at all and have to spend most of your day close to the latrines, or with bedpans nearby. You have the option of going to the healers, but it's up to you whether you spend time there or fight it out in your weyr. Either way, you're sick, miserable, and could use a little TLC. If a dragonrider, your rider is a bit more grey with worry over your misery and ill-health, but they do try to ease your suffering as best they can through the link.
7. You wake up with a sore throat and a general feeling of grogginess. Roll a D4 to see how you progress throughout the day!
If you're a non-rider, you are starting to feel a bit out of sorts. Roll to see what's wrong!
10. You wind up getting miserably ill. You have a high-fever that puts you well in the infirmary. If you're a dragonrider, your dragon is likely going to get very upset! If you've a weyrling, they're going to be in a miserable state of worry and distress! You don't know what you've got but it puts you out for a good two to three sevendays. Fever, chills, aches, pains; you have no appetite and likely wind up dropping some weight from the sickness. Any loved ones or family are likely quite worried.
11. You wind up so sick you actually died. Sorry folks, you didn't make it, and now your family, friends, and loved ones are in mourning. If you're a rider, your dragon Betweens. Any flits you own also Between. If you've a wher, depending on the bond, it might die of grief, or re-bond to someone else in time. If you own a feline, it might die in grief, or re-bond to someone else in time, or go feral. If you're at a Weyr you'll be sent Between, if you're at a Hold or Hall you will likely be taken Between by the watch-dragon or another rider--nobody wants to risk Threadfall eating your bones, after all.
If you roll this and don't want your character to die of illness, then just note that they get terribly sick. It is touch and go, and they might need a month or more before they're genuinely back on their feet and feeling better.
1. You’re probably too sick to work, but you have no symptoms other than feeling like you’ve been tackled by a panicked herdbeast. If you’re a rider, it can be yourself or your dragon who’s feeling poorly. Nonriders, roll 1-3. Riders, roll 1-2.
- 1 You (and/or your dragon) decide to fight through the day anyway, for your own reasons. How does your usual performance suffer? Does anyone tattle on you or your superior notice your condition?
2 You’ve asked your superior for the day off and got it. How do you spend your day?
3 You’ve asked for the day off, but due to need (or your boss is the hardnosed type), your request is refused. How do you handle that?
2. Thanks to some bug or another, you’ve resigned yourself to spending the day in the latrines. What are you missing out on?
3. You’re a big faker. What’s so important to you that you’d fake sick and play hooky for it? Optional bonus: Roll to see if you’re caught or not!
4. You’ve been bedridden with fever for three days. Roll to see what happens.
- 1 You have a good, if very strange dream thanks to your illness or the medications you’re on.
2 You have an awful nightmare.
3 Someone unexpected comes to visit you!
4 You’re a little confused and start to wander around, thanks to your illness or the medications you’re on. Where do you wake up? Is there anyone with you? Have you done anything strange, or just boring normal stuff?
5 Someone’s left you an anonymous get-well-soon (or the opposite) gift. What is it? Can you tell who it’s from? How does it make you feel?
5. You've come down with the sniffles. It's not enough to keep you bedridden or away from duties, but you do feel a bit poorly and will be walking around sniffing and blowing your nose for a few days.
6. You've come down with a nasty stomach virus. You are not feeling good at all and have to spend most of your day close to the latrines, or with bedpans nearby. You have the option of going to the healers, but it's up to you whether you spend time there or fight it out in your weyr. Either way, you're sick, miserable, and could use a little TLC. If a dragonrider, your rider is a bit more grey with worry over your misery and ill-health, but they do try to ease your suffering as best they can through the link.
7. You wake up with a sore throat and a general feeling of grogginess. Roll a D4 to see how you progress throughout the day!
- You feel miserable by lunch, and are just a pile of sick by dinner. You've a sore throat, a fever, aches, chills, and a cough. Better get to bed! This thing will be about a sevenday before you feel better.
You feel pretty awful by the time evening hits. A low-grade fever, maybe some chills, and your throat is on fire. It'll take a couple days before you start feeling back on your feet--but might have a runny-nose for another week or so!
Eh... Your sore throat lingers throughout the day keeps you wanting to sip on something warm. Still, you're feeling generally all right. The sore throat will linger a couple days before fading.
Whatever was wrong seems to clear up by the evening!
8. You've got an immune system of steel! You're feeling great, and definitely don't have any time for illness. In fact, you feel like a million marks! What can't you do? The world is your oyster--get out there and kick some a** and take some names. You're untouchable...or so you feel.
9. If you're a dragonrider, your dragon is feeling a bit out of sorts. Roll to see what's ailing your poor beast!
1. Oh-no. They're suffering indigestion and have what appears to be a case of thick-tail. How did you not see this!? You're going to have to spend some time getting them back to good health.
2. They appear to have an infection in their mouth. An abscess near one of their teeth, or some sort of wound on their tongue. The dragonhealers are going to need to check it out and give you some medication to administer to your mount.
3. They're simply just a bit under-the-weather. Dragon's don't usually get sick, but today they're just feeling a little more tired, and a little extra exhausted. Nothing some good rest won't fix.
If you're a non-rider, you are starting to feel a bit out of sorts. Roll to see what's wrong!
10. You wind up getting miserably ill. You have a high-fever that puts you well in the infirmary. If you're a dragonrider, your dragon is likely going to get very upset! If you've a weyrling, they're going to be in a miserable state of worry and distress! You don't know what you've got but it puts you out for a good two to three sevendays. Fever, chills, aches, pains; you have no appetite and likely wind up dropping some weight from the sickness. Any loved ones or family are likely quite worried.
11. You wind up so sick you actually died. Sorry folks, you didn't make it, and now your family, friends, and loved ones are in mourning. If you're a rider, your dragon Betweens. Any flits you own also Between. If you've a wher, depending on the bond, it might die of grief, or re-bond to someone else in time. If you own a feline, it might die in grief, or re-bond to someone else in time, or go feral. If you're at a Weyr you'll be sent Between, if you're at a Hold or Hall you will likely be taken Between by the watch-dragon or another rider--nobody wants to risk Threadfall eating your bones, after all.
If you roll this and don't want your character to die of illness, then just note that they get terribly sick. It is touch and go, and they might need a month or more before they're genuinely back on their feet and feeling better.
Grid Name Illness Grid
Character Name K'ell of Brown Eskharath
Location HR Weyr
