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[umiman]

I was cleaning out the underground caverns in preparation for breaching the circus when I noticed one of my dwarves who slew a forgotten beast with some poison blood was acting really strangely. His initial health page was showing he had a fever and he could barely move. I glanced at his wounds and saw he didn't really have any injuries at all. Then I checked him in his character screen... this is what I saw:

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He was rotting ALIVE. Oh, and that's not the worst part. You see, not only was this syndrome making him rot internally... it was ONLY affecting his internal organs. Very shortly after I noticed this, he started emitting miasma! ALIVE! So the medics dragged him to the hospital, the whole way he was dripping his ooze, melted organs, blood, etc. up all the stairs and into the hospital and emitting miasma everywhere. Here:

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And from here, we can see that from the outside, he actually looks completely fine. So this guy is rotting internally and is being turned slowly into a pile of skin. Note the long trail of blood and ooze... and the miasma. He's still alive. Until now he's still alive. I'm wondering when he's going to die considering all his organs have rotted away.


Oh. And the other guys coming into contact with his blood are undergoing the same thing. Looks like I don't need the circus to end my fortress. xD

[Doughnut189]

Congratulations, your fortress has had an outbreak of ebola.

[David Holmes]

At least he's been happy lately.

[xeivous]

He's also 135. What a trooper.

[Absentia]

1. Eurgh.

2. This is why you don't want to fight FBs with poison blood directly.

3. If I saw a guy who was totally swollen and leaking rotten organs from every orifice, I probably wouldn't pick him up and carry him back to where everyone was living. But then I'm not a dwarf.

4. That is going to be one nasty fort in a few months.

[ASCIt]

Congratulations, your fortress has had an outbreak of ebola.

I knew it existed here somewhere...

[umiman]

My doctors and nurses (that aren't rotting) are trying to save the patients. They can excise the rotting tissue from each organ and bodypart that's rotting, but they can't do it fast enough to save anyone. It's so pyrrhic and sad.

[Rez]

This event is the embodiment of DF.  !Fun!, grotesque, and hilarious.

[Kilroy the Grand]

My doctors and nurses (that aren't rotting) are trying to save the patients. They can excise the rotting tissue from each organ and bodypart that's rotting, but they can't do it fast enough to save anyone. It's so pyrrhic and sad.

Then why am I giggling?

[Absentia]

My doctors and nurses (that aren't rotting) are trying to save the patients. They can excise the rotting tissue from each organ and bodypart that's rotting, but they can't do it fast enough to save anyone. It's so pyrrhic and sad.

I've never really felt sorry for the little bearded lunatics, but this is coming pretty close. Alas, poor Urist.

[dizzyelk]

My doctors and nurses (that aren't rotting) are trying to save the patients. They can excise the rotting tissue from each organ and bodypart that's rotting, but they can't do it fast enough to save anyone. It's so pyrrhic and sad.

Just think of all the experience they're getting!

[NW_Kohaku]

If you have any interest in saving the fort at all, it's quarantine time.  Unaffected miners can start digging out a new fort and start breaching the rooms you locked the survivors into when there's enough room to start the fort over.

That, or just lead your whole fort to the magma piston for a mercy Unfortunate Accidenting.

[Mitchewawa]

You know, not all rot syndromes are lethal. I mean, this one might be, but just wait it out. I've gotten ebola syndromes without a single casualty.

[Reudh]

I've had the same one, though not nearly as virulent, and only three dwarves caught it.

Two recruits who were walled away with the corpse, and the militia commander who cleaned herself off after coming down with a rotten stomach and left hand, then left to go to the hospital, to have the 'tissue excised' from her hand, and nothing done for her stomach.

The recruits rotted to the point that they were little more than miasma clouds with skin, and then died of starvation.
Crisis averted.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

You know, sorry to be the medical pedant, but ebola is a bleeding virus.  This isn't a bleeding syndrome, it's a necrosis+swelling syndrome.

If you want necrosis + swelling, maybe try necrotizing fasciitis, which is mostly just boring old strep or staph (betcha you got some!).  Ebola just isn't a good description for umiman's syndrome.