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Let's see.. I've got 4 on me... Okay, tend one, gone... Tend two, gone... Go to tend the third... oh, left the wound more severe, here's 30 seconds while they chew away.... tend it again, and horribly rip it out, okay, so now i've got one in me.
That should be enough to get me to haven, and find the proper folks to remove these.
You feel a bit tired.
Well, that happens... Then i'm sitting there.
You feel a bit tired.
You feel a bit tired.
Now i'm battered, and the one worm on me, has suddenly turned into 4.
The question... Do these things breed and reproduce once latched onto you?... The gestation period for these seems to be on average, 20 seconds or so.
Or it could be a bug... Anyone?
-Trazier
It takes awhile for you to see them once they are latched on. You can feel tired and start losing vitality and fatigue waaaay before you will see one.
I've gone from having none, feeling tired and then WHAM six.
I've also had that layering affect..where you only see two...so you tend one..but you still have two. Basically..you had more than two..you just couldn't see the third...or fourth...or fifth.
I love worms... LOVE, LOVE them, but if one change were to be implemented,..its that they wouldn't be able to hide for so long..and layer like that. If I can see the wound where they are biting, I should be able to see them...IF these were conventional leeches. However, I know Shaunn has brought up that perhaps they burrow into you..and while you can see the bite, you can't identify the worm within you.
Then I'd like to change my complaint into a semi suggestion...
Maybe tend right leg hard
To, in lieu of having that 'You try to take it out, leaving the wound more severe, here, sitcherass down for 30 seconds while the rest of em bite the life outa ya' message...
You could grab the thing, and, leg be damned, RIP it free, then toss it aside.
For people like me, who panic, and just want the damn thing GONE, and don't care HOW, just GET IT OFF ME!
Realism too, if I had a leech on me, I could go to the doctor(skilled empath who could remove it), or, if it was really burrowing in and hurting me, I could rip it out (say, if it was taking so much blood I was feeling faint)
-Trazier, who still hates these... And still thinks that if you 'fail' the tend, you should still pull the thing out, but make the wound a bit more severe.
Maybe tend right leg hard
To, in lieu of having that 'You try to take it out, leaving the wound more severe, here, sitcherass down for 30 seconds while the rest of em bite the life outa ya' message...
You could grab the thing, and, leg be damned, RIP it free, then toss it aside.
For people like me, who panic, and just want the damn thing GONE, and don't care HOW, just GET IT OFF ME!
Realism too, if I had a leech on me, I could go to the doctor(skilled empath who could remove it), or, if it was really burrowing in and hurting me, I could rip it out (say, if it was taking so much blood I was feeling faint)
-Trazier, who still hates these... And still thinks that if you 'fail' the tend, you should still pull the thing out, but make the wound a bit more severe.
<<I vote for this too, but only if these leeches burrow in and attach to arteries before they're noticed. Then tending hard makes with the bright red frothy....nothing like arterial spurting.>>
See, the point is, that doing this, prevents that ::points up:: from happening.
-Trazier... not-so-insect/bug/creepycrawly friendly.
See, the point is, that doing this, prevents that ::points up:: from happening.
-Trazier... not-so-insect/bug/creepycrawly friendly.
I'm really surprised nobody's suggested the possibility of applying flame to these things to get them off. Isn't a lighter one of the things that's used to remove a real leech, or am I just confused? Perhaps making it so that applying a torch to a bloodworm would make it release/kill it? Then they'd be easier to remove using your first aid skill.
>>Leeches and Ticks
>> "Once a leech. tick has taken hold, any attempt to dislodge it by force will do more harm than good. Apply either a lighted match, burning cigarette, common salt a drop a kerosene or turpentine to its body - it will release its hold and drop off....[stuff about ticks]"
Yep.
>>Apply either a lighted match, burning cigarette, common salt a drop a kerosene or turpentine to its body - it will release its hold and drop off.
Look, another use for naphtha! Just be careful using Arc Light afterwards. ;)
Which means that blood worms (or something similar) need to show up in some dry areas, like in the Fire Sprite area. :) Bwahahahaha!
The evil mind behind Kynevon
Look, another use for naphtha! Just be careful using Arc Light afterwards. ;)
Which means that blood worms (or something similar) need to show up in some dry areas, like in the Fire Sprite area. :) Bwahahahaha!
The evil mind behind Kynevon
Actually, the quickest cure for a tick I ever heard of was fingernail polish. :-D
Seems the tick breathes through orifices on its body (since its head is buried insode of you). Coat its body with polish, it can't breathe, and has to extract its own head in order to breathe. Once it's extracted, pluck the little bugger off and toss it aside.
~~~Krin
Seems the tick breathes through orifices on its body (since its head is buried insode of you). Coat its body with polish, it can't breathe, and has to extract its own head in order to breathe. Once it's extracted, pluck the little bugger off and toss it aside.
~~~Krin
Well..we don't have nail polish. Salt might be able to be under the substance system (maybe a salt mine for mining or something). We certainly have fire.
I'd think....that if they ever did include alternate means of making it easier... It is a way of tending them off. I don't think it would teach AS MUCH as manipulating them off, perhaps. Or maybe it would teach as much - it is first aid knowledge, after all.
Everything I've read on leeches says that just plain tearing them off is a definite no-no. However,....these aren't your standard leeches. We don't know if they are just on top,.or burrowing or whatever. We don't know their anatomy, and what in particular might ease them off....simply because..well...Elanthian stuff is different.
~L/S
Fire will kill a tick, yes, but I wouldn't recommend it for removal. It kills them because their bodies are basically huge blood sacks. Blood boils ... think that is all that good on their bodies? Newp ... they explode, heh.
Killing a tick doesn't get it's head out of your skin, and that is the part likely to make you sick. Ticks don't drain all that much blood, their bodies can't even handle more than an ounce or two. It's the contact of your blood stream with their "storage tank" and whatever pathogens they might be carrying from other victims that cause you to get sick from the bite alone. Breaking off the body and leaving the head makes you sick because you now have a piece of a bug's corpse in your skin and your bloodstream, doing awful things to your biochemistry.
Bottom line: killing it doesn't solve the total problem, just the immediate one. And it makes solving the big problem (avoiding disease) even harder.
And applying something (naptha should work ... its oily, would do similar to the nail polish) to cause the tick to "remove" itself should still teach FA ... you are applying knowledge of holistic healing techniques to counter a health problem. How is that any different from learning FA from knowing how to wrap a bandage around yourself?
Hence why removing a bloodworm teaches it so well.
~~~Krin
Killing a tick doesn't get it's head out of your skin, and that is the part likely to make you sick. Ticks don't drain all that much blood, their bodies can't even handle more than an ounce or two. It's the contact of your blood stream with their "storage tank" and whatever pathogens they might be carrying from other victims that cause you to get sick from the bite alone. Breaking off the body and leaving the head makes you sick because you now have a piece of a bug's corpse in your skin and your bloodstream, doing awful things to your biochemistry.
Bottom line: killing it doesn't solve the total problem, just the immediate one. And it makes solving the big problem (avoiding disease) even harder.
And applying something (naptha should work ... its oily, would do similar to the nail polish) to cause the tick to "remove" itself should still teach FA ... you are applying knowledge of holistic healing techniques to counter a health problem. How is that any different from learning FA from knowing how to wrap a bandage around yourself?
Hence why removing a bloodworm teaches it so well.
~~~Krin
>>>And applying something (naptha should work ... its oily, would do similar to the nail polish) to cause the tick to "remove" itself should still teach FA ... you are applying knowledge of holistic healing techniques to counter a health problem. How is that any different from learning FA from knowing how to wrap a bandage around yourself?<<<
That would result in the Gods having to install FA skills from self healing with herbs. Same kinda deal.
That would result in the Gods having to install FA skills from self healing with herbs. Same kinda deal.
>>That would result in the Gods having to install FA skills from self healing with herbs. Same kinda deal.
Funny you should mention it.
According to GM Towint at the last SimuCon, that is exactly what we will be seeing ... "soon". <shudder> That and messaging to tell us which part of our body got healed when the herb pulses (you can tell when an Empath transfers it, why not with an herb?) and when the herb wears off.
~~~Krin
Funny you should mention it.
According to GM Towint at the last SimuCon, that is exactly what we will be seeing ... "soon". <shudder> That and messaging to tell us which part of our body got healed when the herb pulses (you can tell when an Empath transfers it, why not with an herb?) and when the herb wears off.
~~~Krin
