Problem: Mummy

[Carl]

My question: how can I cure the disease (or whatever it is) a mummy put on my chars? They can't recover and get a -2 CH. The German word is "Mumienfäule".

Are they hexed, poisoned, ill, or what? I tried everything the clerics had to offer....

Sorry if this question has been asked by thousands of stupid users before....I am not stupid!

[SixOfSpades]

Mummies, especially Greater Mummies, have a special effect added to their melee attack. If they hit you, the icon "Diseased" (it looks like a pink, crumbling, plus sign) appears on your portrait icon, and you lose a few hitpoints every round, for the next few rounds. It's not permanent, the damage can be cured like anything else, and the effect isn't too dangerous unless you take multiple hits.

But that doesn't sound like what you have. An excerpt from Volothamp's Comeuppance:

Contagion Type: Wizard (Necromancy) Level: 4 Casting Time: 4 Duration: Permanent Saving Throw: Negates Range: Sight Target: Creature Area of Effect: Creature Description: If the targeted creature fails to Save vs. Spells, their skin erupts in a painful rash, with open, festering sores, infected lesions oozing pus, etc. Their Strength, Dexterity and Charisma all take -2 penalties, and the creature is Slowed. The condition is permanent until healed with a Cure Disease spell.

I've never seen a Mummy cast Contagion, but you might be playing with Weimer's Improved Undead installed, or you might simply lost track of who cast what, in the confusion of battle.

[Riftmaker]

Mummies are supposed to have an eventually fatal Contagion touch, but they don't originally in SoA/ToB.

Is that what Improved Undead does?

Try a Cure Disease spell, if that fails, try Greater Restoration or Heal.

[Link]

Are you sure it isn't nausea? It has the same icon?

[Carl]

First of all: thanks,
but I did what every reasonable man would do: I deleted
and restarted. So that's it. I won't catch this again!

It's not nausea...
the condition is permanent. You can rest for 16 days and
they don't recover. And you get the penalties.
Sounds like Contagion, but I never installed
Improved Undead...strange...

They got infected in this Egyptian-style room under the
graveyard.

The literal translation (I play the German version)
would be "Mummies rottenness"....

[ 11-23-2004, 01:49 PM: Message edited by: Carl ]

[shamrock_uk]

Deleted? Not your savegame I hope... Cltr+R would probably fix this if you enable cheatkeys and nothing legitimate works.

[ 11-23-2004, 08:11 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]

[Riftmaker]

Wow, the german version actually had the real Mummy Rot?

That's gimped, in my game it's some idiot-proof version.

I'll let you know what Mummy Rot does when I get home and look at my Monstrous Manual. I think you have to use one of the following spells to cure it:

Cure Disease
Lesser Restoration
Greater Restoration
Heal

I'm also quite sure that it is permanent. I think after 30 days of being infected the character dies.

Like I said, I'll let you know when I get home (approximately 5.5 hours).

[Desuma Malevois]

Just to make sure, you don't have the "diseased" icon on your character sheet? (You didn't actually say, though others here posted concerning it)

Is the affected character using the Rod of Terror?

[Riftmaker]

Pulling out the good ol' MM.

Regular Mummy:

Fatal in 1-6 months.
Victim loses 2 points of CHR every month.

The only cure is the Cure Disease spell.

Greater Mummy:

24 hours after infecting, victim loses 1 point of STR, CON, and 2 points of CHR.

Only cure is a Regeneration spell.

I suspect you have the Regular Mummy version, in which case you have to cast a Cure Disease spell to cure it.

[Carl]

Thanks again,

Fortunately I had a savegame before this f****** thing happened.
So I reloaded that one and deleted only the one WITH the Mummy Rot.

Cltr+R didn't work.
And it wasn't the diseased icon...I don't remember the icon itself
but it meant "Mumienfäule" or "Mummy Rot".

@Riftmaker:
Yep, seems to be the Regular Mummy version....but I tried Cure
Disease, in fact I tried everything there is...

But like I said, it doesn't matter anymore, I reloaded.
And now I'll be a lot more careful concerning mummies...