Rules: Halflings & Fae-Inflicted Diseases

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Halflings

[/b] Halflings are the result of a faery mixing with another race. Whether they be mortal, giant, dwarf, whatever. It is highly advised that Halflings never use the Twilight Gates. Those that do, will risk mild to severe alterations upon arrival into the opposite world. Occasionally, fatalities from these alterations have been reported.

Weres. Weres are usually the result of a Seelie Fae crossing with a mortal. Their animal is determined by the fae's animal form. IF two Weres of Compatible Breeds [cat and cat or dog and dog] mate, they are capable of creating were offspring. Through this manner, Weres are able to increase their gene pool and variations, often creating combinations that would otherwise be impossible without the fae magick to help allow bizarre crosses to succeed. Were magic is heavily affected by the power of the Moon, which (in this game) is the origin of the Full Moon Werewolf myth.

[/b][/size] increases the Were's physical abilities such as shifting and fighting. Thus youths may accidentally shift in public during this time, and Were's strategically prefer to fight around this time for the strength boost. A few folks may experience a slight Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde complex, but nothing too severe and incurable. Prozac does more than fix human mental problems.

The New or Dark Moon is a period when the Were's psychic powers are increased. These powers are a mix of their human half and their fae half, and generally correspond to the element of the fae parent.

Water = Emotion skills
Fire = Kinetic skills
Air = Sound skills
Earth = Sight skills
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Vampires. Technically there are TWO kinds of Vampires which are only related in the origin of the Vampire gene. The Halfling Vampire is a result of the crossing of an Unseelie Fae and a Mortal. This produces a fae-like being that is highly sensitive to light, natural light in particular, thus their instinct to sleep during daylight hours. Sunlight merely burns their skin at a much faster rate than humans. Some Unseelie Fae spontaneously combust, therefore, Vampires have long been taught to avoid the sun at all costs. However, in the case of the Halfling Vampire, the individual has the same ability as the Weres to transform into an animal, thus the common bat sightings in Vampire attack cases. The vampire's animal form would be determined by the animal form of the fae parent. Like the Were, the Vamp Physical and Psychic skill powers are amplified by the Moon.

[/b][/size] The bite of a Halfling Vampire cannot change a human into a Halfling Vampire. Instead, what often happens is the poison often secreted in Halfling Vampire salivia causes a special mutation to occur. The Fae's call this Mime Syndrome, or to be funny, Mime Disease. Three outcomes occur from Mime Syndrome. The first is death from the onset of the disease. The other two are the following cases, each coming from a separate kind of Mime.

[/b] Usually the magickal and physical mutations caused by Mime turn the mortal into a lookalike of an Unseelie Halfling, the Human Vampire. Upon infliction, body functions slow down to the tectonic plate crawl of the Unseelie Fae's cold and extremely slow body function rate. Breath, heart rate, and brain activity become physically undetectable as well as undetectable by most human devices. There ARE now devices engineered by fae minds that CAN detect these vital signs and determine if the being (if incapacitated) is truly live or dead. Diseased organs often decompose at this point only to regrow unbeknownst to the Human Vampire. The regrowing is also a slow process which determines how quickly the human can return to active function. Upon full transformation, the only real way to tell the difference between a Human Vampire and a Halfling Vampire, is by the fact that the Halfing can change form and usually comes with a psychic gift. Both usually have a natural allergic reaction to the sun. On rare occasions, one will exist that is more earthly and stone based, thus not having so much trouble.

Zombie. In rare cases, usually all from a certain individual that carries the rare Zombie Mime parasite, the mutation from Mime Syndrome instead creates a flesh eating zombie by magically altering the inflicted mortal's DNA and cell structures to create a creature that again seems to be a living dead. In the case of the zombie, the body grows to resemble a different kind of deathly Unseelie that looks like a walking corpse complete with lesions and often pieces missing as these creatures have bodies that reject malfunctioning parts in favor of regenerating new ones. Zombies are highly combustible and tend to fear open flame as it will kill them as quickly as a fire cracker explodes into sparks.[/ul]
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Known Fae-Based Diseases

To be added to as new diseases appear in the game.

[/b][/size] As covered in the Vampire section, Mime Syndrome is a saliva-contact condition caused by the fae-hosted parasitic bacteria dubbed the Mime Bacteria. During it's inflamation of the host, it often creates an irreversible mutation in the mortal host. Faeries are usually immune to this problem. There are two varieties of Mime. Vampire Mime and Zombie Mime. Both are carried by Unseelies and Unseelie-Halflings, however the Zombie Mime does not usually live as long and is much rarer to encounter. It is possible for a fae or halfling to carry both, however, most of the time only one of the two typical reactions occur. If both occur, the victim will die from the complications caused by conflicts between the two different illnesses.

Mime Rabies. This is a startling new disease that is still baffling fae medical experts. The disease is clearly a virus, however, the symptoms it carries are quite bizarre. It may have originated during the use of nuclear weaponry and only now are the effects being seen in the faes. Whatever the cause, the result is a virus that begins as a faery brand of rabies transmitted by saliva contact, yet in its advanced form, it begins to resemble symptoms of Zombie Mime Syndrome before killing the victim. By the end, the corpse is reduced to a mummified-looking state. However, faeries usually decompose almost instantaneously. Halflings afflicted will, however, leave behind corpses that turn to dust over a period of months rather than minutes. A few reports have come in of victims surviving this rare disease, but all reports were from halflings.
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