Treating Illness
TREATING ILLNESS
Once a healer is confident in their diagnoses of an illness or poison, they can treat it with the appropriate remedy (medicine) detailed in their knowledge craft. Some treatments can take a short time to to become effective.
It is important to note that starting off, your character only has the medical knowledge appropriate to their race / region, and skill level. Some characters will have knowledge that is rare to come by, or unique to the character.
Q/A
- My treatment isn't working, the patient is remaining sick, or getting worse:
If your character lacks the knowledge of how to treat the symptoms, or can't reach a conclusion on the diagnosis it may be prudent to try and learn more through other In-Character means:
- Your character can leave word that they are looking for anyone with insight into a sickness manifesting X symptoms.
- If your character is in a location with a healers guild, they can petition the guild for assistance.
- They can try and find another healer PC to assist.
- If your character is in a location with a library (archives) and does not have the literacy and research skills, they can search for a character who might be able to help them research the sickness.
- If your character has the literacy and research skills, they can use the research command in the archives to try and learn more about the illness their patient might have.
- I don't have the apothecary skill to make medicine, how can I get the remedy I need to treat the patient?
Your local apothecary will sell cures for common illnesses and poisons.
- The apothecary doesn't have stock! Where can I get the remedy I need?
If your character is unable to source the medicine from either the local apothecary or from other PC's then petition up. We recommend and encourage player to player interaction and advise only doing this once other avenues have been exhausted.