| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Viral diseases |
| Date: | Mon, 21 Jul 1997 12:22:33 +0100 |
> Hmmm... I don't think so. HIV/AIDS just screws your life up and
> generally makes you die early, to put it at its bluntest. (Actually,
> IIRC AIDS just buggers up your immune system so you die from something
> normally harmless - AIDS doesn't even kill you itself. Or am I wrong
> again?)
HIV stands for Human Immuno(sp?)-deficiency Virus, and though I have no
real experience with it (and don't want to either :) from everything I've
seen and read about it, AIDS stops your immune system from working; AIDS
itself doesn't do anything to you except destroy your defenses. In the
end AIDS patients die from diseases everyone else survives easily, or
which they don't even get at all.
I guess you could compare it to being in a locked house with people
outside wanting to get you. They can't get in, but if they get a bulldozer
they can demolish the wall and get at you.
> HMHVV, on the other hand, changes you into a completely different
> LIFEFORM! HMHVV infected people get really funky powers and
> corresponding weaknesses - since when are AIDS victims (or VITAS victims
> if you want to keep it SRish) able to Essence Drain? :)
Maybe that would be the solution :)
Now we're talking about it, what woul VITAS do anyway? SRII gives a
VITAS-3 a damage of 6D and says sufferers get chills, fever, and vomiting
until damage gets reduced to Light, but that's it. Doesn't sound like a
disease that wiped out millions of people to me...
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