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Kite's Dance

Virulence: 5 Incubation: none Diagnosis: 3 Difficulty to Treat (Mundane/Magical): 6/2 Morbidity: 6 Treated Morbidity: 2

Symptoms: The Kite's Dance is a convulsive sickness whose sufferers exhibit, in creation, a movement very similar to that of a circling bird of prey, hence the name; they move in long circles around imaginary points they themselves cannot perceive, tilting madly from side to side. It is not a pure chaos though, as it is clear when multiple people suffer from the disease that they dance in time to the same beat. They become xylophagic, feeling an intense desire to eat wood in their surroundings, made more difficult by their inability to stop their dance. It is little known, but the disease changes according to the location of the dancer; in Yu-Shan, the dance is more delicate and involves complex steps and the consumption of silk; in the Underworld the dance is slow and sonorous and involves the consumption of dust, and in Malfeas, the dance is very lethal as it involves the consumption of Vitriol. Inaddition, the character develops the beaded eyes of a hawk; they receive the Disturbing flaw, and four dice to vision based perception rolls.

Duration: The disease will last for three years and three days unless healed or lethal; however, mortal victims make morbidity rolls once per month, and the exalted weekly. Three successes makes the disease extremely painful, inflicting a -4 wound penalty but no other symptoms; two more successful rolls cure the disease.

Vector: The cause of the disease is usually exposure to Zopoc, the dancing inquisitor; its presence makes the music of the world as manifest and inescapable. However, this is not the only way it can be contracted. It has been known to be caused by the consumption of a bird that has died of hunger, or in one case by dancing with a thunderbird for all of calibration.

Treatment: Treatment of the disease is a simple matter, if one that is likely to cause great harm; the victim must be fed the substance that he desires until he is satiated. However, the amount this will require is unknown, and usually far more than a stomach can safely hold. Alternately, the disease can be sweated out, but this usually requires far more water than a person has.