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Brain disease (kuru)

Eating human flesh — steaks or guts from a human body, cooked or not.

Cure

None

It stays until your character dies.

Shows up

~33 min

After eating human flesh.

Damage

None

It costs no health — but your laughing gives you away.

Kuru comes from eating human flesh. The game counts the disease in your body as agents, up to 5000; they grow by one per second whatever you do, and nothing ever removes them. From 2000 agents, ~33 min after the meal, it shows.

Stages

How the disease runs in the game, stage by stage: when it starts, what it does, and whether it still heals.

  1. Incubation

    no way back

    1–1999 agents

    Nothing you can notice; the agents grow by 1 per second.

    Nothing stops it — no pill, no immune system.

    ~33 min after the meal.

  2. Kuru

    no way back

    from 2000 agents (of 5000)

    Symptoms

    • Laughing for no reason
    • The view jerks
    • Sick icon in the status bar

    It starts with a laugh. Laughing fits and a shaking aim are at their strongest once it has fully grown, ~50 min later. No damage. Sick icon.

    Never: no medicine, food or immune system removes it. Only death ends it — a new character starts healthy.

How to get rid of it

There is no cure. It stays until your character dies.

How to avoid it

Do not eat people.

Good to know

  • Cooking, drying or burning human meat does not remove it.
  • Your laughing does not infect other players.

Not sure it is this?

The doctor asks what you notice on your character and names the disease and its stage.

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