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Bacteria have taken hold in an open wound. The flesh around it goes hot, then grey, and it stops knitting.
Source: Ending a 🏕 Long Rest carrying a 🤕 Major Injury or 🤕 Incapacitation without choosing Sleep as your Rest Activity — DC 12 🏊 END + 🏕 Survival. Cannot be caught from food.
Sleep — or 🏕 Receive Care — tends the wound whether or not the mending Test succeeds, and you make no roll. Every other Rest Activity leaves it open.
When contracted, the infection sits on the injured limb and does not move.
Minor
- -1 🏊 Endurance
- The infected limb’s 💔 Cripple Threshold cannot be restored by any means
- Disadvantage on 🏊 END + 🏕 Survival Tests
Major
- -2 🏊 Endurance, -2 🏃 Agility
- The infected limb’s 💔 Cripple Threshold cannot be restored, and 🤕 Injuries on that limb cannot be mended
- No HP recovery from the Sleep activity during a 🏕 Long Rest
- Gain 1 stack of 😫 Exhaustion on a failed progression Test
Cured By
- 💊 Antibiotics — removes it instantly at any severity
- 🧫 Infection Care — cures Minor; reduces Major to Minor
- A successful 🏕 Long Rest progression Test
- Visiting a doctor at a settlement
Clear the infection first, then treat the injury. While an Infected Wound is active, no amount of 💉 Stimpaks will move that limb’s 💔 Cripple Threshold.
See 🤒 Illness for contraction, progression, and the full cure table.