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A deep systemic fever that burns through muscle, taking hold after bad meat or a night spent somewhere foul. It has no clever trick — it simply gets worse, faster than anything else.
Source: Food-borne. Also environmental, at the GM’s call.
Minor
- -1 🏊 Endurance, -1 🏃 Agility
- Healing from all sources is halved
- Disadvantage on 🏊 END + 🏕 Survival Tests
Major
- -2 🏊 Endurance, -2 🏃 Agility
- Healing from all sources is halved
- No HP recovery from the Sleep activity during a 🏕 Long Rest
- Gain 1 stack of 😫 Exhaustion on a failed progression Test
Escalates Faster
The 🏕 Long Rest progression Test for Wasting Fever is made at DC 13, not DC 10.
Cured By
- 💊 Antibiotics — removes it instantly at any severity
- 🧫 Infection Care — cures Minor; reduces Major to Minor
- A successful 🏕 Long Rest progression Test (at DC 13)
- Visiting a doctor at a settlement
See 🤒 Illness for contraction, progression, and the full cure table.