Sickness is a status effect that causes a steady, temporary loss of stats (akin to being hit by a grudge's Touch of Weakness special action). If left untreated, it can go from Sick to Very Sick.
Sickness may be caused by:
- Drinking dirty water or vomit
- Prostitution
- Using cursed healing rods or potions ("you feel grumpy. you get sick.")
- Eating certain kinds of food (Cursed corpses of undead: Zombie, Skeleton, etc)
- Drinking alcoholic Potions
Sickness may be cured if you drink a blessed healing potion (of any kind), or when you sleep; however, the only guaranteed cure is if you die and crawl back up. Dying in the arena/Party Time!/Hunting quests can be used to instantly cure your sickness, however, it can incur penalties to fame (unless you manage to kill all monsters first and then somehow die without leaving: starvation, overweight, summoned monsters, magic reaction, etc), as well as receive the Tired status (if maximum SP is less than 150).
The stat loss can be avoided by wearing "It maintains ..." equipment. Wearing a full set of it will make you immune to sickness.
Elona+ Changes[]
Drinking green tea can cure sickness. (Version 1.68)