CreatureDiscomforts

Creature Discomforts

The game already tracks whether you are cold, wet, drunk, hungry or queasy, but none of it really matters. This mod makes your own body part of the game.

No extra bars or panels: everything shows up as statuses in the game's own status list, next to Hungry and Cold. Cases and evidence are not touched.

Colds

Stay out in the cold or get soaked, and you can catch a cold. It gets worse in stages:

Status — What it does

Stuffy Nose — a little slower and thirstier, a slowly growing headache

Headache — the usual headache

Fever — no health recovery, lower max health, slower, sweaty, thirsty, tired, blurry vision

Chills — you lose heat faster, shiver and move even slower

• It only passes when you are warm and dry. That takes about a day,

or three times faster asleep in bed.

• Medicine eases symptoms, not the cold. Painkillers for the headache,

cough syrup for the fever and nose (makes you drowsy), a heat pack for the chills. Each works for a few hours, and a second dose the same day wears off sooner.

Hunger and thirst

• Starving / Parched: your body has hidden reserves, weight and water

balance. Go about a day without water, or a day and a half without food, and they run low: you start to stumble and slowly lose health, though never below a quarter of it, so it won't put you in hospital.

• One meal doesn't fix a fast. Water comes back in a few hours, weight

over a couple of days.

• Thirst gives you a headache if you put up with it for long.
• Thirst comes sooner than hunger, so a drink matters.
• Immunity: going hungry, thirsty or without sleep makes colds catch

faster and last longer. Eating, drinking and sleeping well bring it back. You never see it, you just get ill more easily.

Sleep

• A full night's sleep takes about seven hours, and you only wake up

Well Rested after eight hours in one go. A nap helps, but it's a nap. Sleep fast-forwards twice as fast, so the night doesn't drag.

• Falling asleep takes time, and you only rest once asleep. Not being

tired, caffeine, pain, hunger, thirst, cold, wet clothes, withdrawal, a light or a cruncher left on and noise keep you up (Restless); being tired, a drink or a sleeping pill help you drop off. Your detective says what's keeping them up. Lie awake too long and you get up again.

• Light sleep: drink, pain, cold, light and noise make you rest slower,

and you don't wake up Well Rested.

• Lark or owl: rolled for each save, along with whether the TV and music

help you sleep or keep you up. Your detective lets it slip.

• A ringing phone wakes you up, so you don't sleep through a call.
• Hunger and thirst go slower while you sleep, so a night in bed doesn't

leave you starved. Go to bed thirsty, though, and you'll wake up thirstier.

Pain

• A headache doesn't go away by itself in an hour. A hangover stays all

morning unless you take a painkiller.

• Going without sleep for about 18 hours makes your head ache, worse

every hour. Coffee keeps you awake, not well.

• Woken by the phone soon after falling asleep, or **sleeping more than

ten hours**: you wake up with a headache.

• A bad fall or a trip can twist your ankle for a day or two. You limp,

and running on it hurts: you slow right down, lose a little health, and it heals slower. Painkillers take the pain away.

• Painkillers ease a broken leg too: you limp half as much.

Running

• Running costs water and energy and warms you up. Run until you're out

of breath and you sweat and get dirtier: people can smell a sweaty burglar.

• Out of Breath: after about 20 seconds of running flat out you have to

slow down for a moment. Smokers, the worn out and the drunk run out sooner.

Drinking

• Spirits dry you out and make you tired. Beer, cider and wine are as before.
• Drunk, you don't feel the cold, but you lose heat faster. A drink

outside in winter is a trap.

• Coffee doesn't sober you up and doesn't cancel painkillers.
• Too much makes you sick. Once you are as drunk as you can get, the

rest goes to your stomach.

• A drink or two dulls pain. While only a little drunk you take less

damage and headaches ease faster. Past that it doesn't help any more.

What's in your blood

Caffeine, codeine (painkillers, cough syrup), sleeping pills and nicotine build up as you take them and wear off over a few hours. Alcohol is the game's own drunkenness. Only what you actually swallow counts.

• Medicine is one dose per press, not the whole bottle. A bottle of

painkillers holds ten, sleeping pills two.

• Coffee, tea or Starch Kola keep you Focused while the caffeine lasts,

about an hour and a half for a coffee. A tea alone isn't enough.

• Caffeine before bed: you are Wired. Right after a coffee you

can't fall asleep at all; for the next couple of hours you can, but it takes long and you sleep badly. A coffee lasts about five hours, a tea three, and every extra cup makes it longer.

• Caffeine is borrowed energy, paid back as it wears off.
• Coffee on an empty stomach, or eating when full: you feel sick.

Mixing things and overdoses

• Drink with painkillers or cough syrup: sick and tired for as long as

both are in you, worse the more you've had. It starts once you are properly drunk, about three beers.

• Drink with a sleeping pill still working: you black out for real, and

may wake up in hospital.

• Three coffees in a row: you are Jittery, shaky and queasy.
• Three painkillers within an hour or two: Codeine Overdose, dizzy

and sick. More, and you pass out.

• Two sleeping pills close together: you pass out.

Addictions

Coffee, cigarettes, drink, codeine (painkillers, cough syrup) and sleeping pills become a habit if you have a lot of them for days. A coffee a day or a glass of wine in the evening never does.