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Lord Ben · Seasoned Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 105

I assume they're immune to diseases and poisons but nothing specifically says anywhere.

oddtail · Seasoned Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 484 Location: Poland

It does.

They're dead. You can't poison someone who is dead. Neither can they get sick. And it IS specifically said that the Manitou keeps the body from rotting and otherwise decomposing. And rotting is pretty much the only "disease" that a dead body needs to worry about.

Also, the Harrowed power, don't remember the name, that allows you to get people sick specifically explains that the Harrowed's body, even when using the power, is not actually "sick", it just carries the disease.

Of course, if a poison or sickness is supernatural, all bets are off. But even Black Magic spells like Contagion would not work on a Harrowed, unless they're specifically *designed* for "killing" dead dudes.
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horrorman009 · Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject:

Most bloodborne pathogens will not work on harrowed simply because they don't really have blood in them any more. It's more like icker, like a black sap.
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jamiemalk · Novice Joined: 05 Jan 2007 Posts: 70

From a less scientific and more thematic point of view, Poisons no, diseases no...
But i would alow anything that can be caught from a dead body be carried around and transmited by a harrowed, who would be totally unaware of the burden they were carrying...

Wendigo1870 · Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2008 6:45 pm Post subject:

They'd probably be more susceptible to 'new' problems which can be considered 'diseases' by the undead.
For example, flies laying eggs in them, larvae which then feed on necrotic flesh, ... other scavengers, attracted by the rotting walking meatsack, ...
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Lord Ben · Seasoned Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 105

But the coup power of the snake cloud is to be immune to poisons...

That doesn't make sense if harrowed already are immune.

Wendigo1870 · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject:

Lord Ben · Seasoned Joined: 18 Aug 2005 Posts: 105

I think I'm just going to say that besides death poison works like normal. The Manitou keeps the body working but poison affects the muscles and stuff so maybe they'd still be affected. Not sure, but to decide they're just flat out immune takes a lot of interesting monsters off the table.

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