| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: Viral diseases |
| Date: | Tue, 22 Jul 1997 12:07:31 +0100 |
> Well, if you take a Deadly and don't receive treatment (first aid),
> or don't make a Body(10) test (not likely for your average person),
> you'll be dead in a number of minutes equal to your bodyx10.
Granted, if you're an average person you probably won't survive the 6D in
the first place. However:
> VITAS killed what, 20% of the population all at once? How many people
> were actually affected for it to reach those kind of numbers?
A little over 20% of the world population? We don't know the incubation
time for the original VITAS, but if it was similar to VITAS-3 then it
looks to me like it couldn't have spread all that easily, unless it's
possible to pick it up off someone who died from the disease.
But what really bugs me is that, when you really get down to it, infection
happens as follows:
0 hours: infection
0-12 hours: you feel fine
12 hours: you take 6D damage, most likely result: instant death
13 hours-60 days (assuming you survived): fever, chills, vomiting
It would make much more sense to have the disease give a small amount
of damage (Light or maybe Moderate) every couple of days, the Power Level
getting higher for every new resistance test against it. That way the
virus has a time to spread and infect other people.
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