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[Valan Nonesuch]

Overview:
Sleep-Ill is a disease of the mind that causes several sleep related difficulties including sudden attacks of sleep, loss of muscle control and difficulty sleeping at night. Named after it's most frequent victims, members of the Night Watch throughout Santharia are most often afflicted with this disease. The illness goes by several other names depending on the region Watchman's Weakness (simply The Weakness to Watchmen) and Drowsies being just two of them.

Symptoms:
Frequent complaints of sleepiness despite a good quality and quantity of sleep are usually the best indicator of Sleep-Ill. As the disease progresses its symptoms may diversify to include hallucinations while the victim is on the edge of sleep (waking or beginning to sleep) or relaxed and a sudden inability to move while still awake. Any of these occurring over time is a fair indicator of the disease. The hallucinations themselves can be quite vivid, leading to all sorts of accidents in sufferers, occasionally ending in death, but most simply leading to further injury of the victim. The (admittedly antiquated) Guide to Ailments and Maladies of Men by Talabaltt Calitter has this to say on the subject of 'Wake-sap' "The illness, lacking any apparent means of transmission from afflicted to others, is believed to be an illness brought on not in the body but in the mind. The sufferer is beset with sudden sleep, occasional hallucinations, especially while waking or falling into sleep, sometimes of a particularly frightening variety. They may suddenly find themselves unable to move, though afterwards there is nothing to be found wrong with them."

Effects: Those afflicted with Sleep-Ill may suddenly fall asleep, regardless of what they are doing, experience sudden attacks of weakness in the muscles or continue to act and move despite being asleep. Later on in the course of the illness, the victim may find difficulty sleeping at night or wake frequently despite not being interrupted. This lack of sleep may contribute to the other symptoms and effects in a type of vicious, self-feeding cycle. The White Nehtorian Lysmarael wrote "If the patient cannot sleep at night, they are more likely to succumb to sleep during the day, and if they sleep during the day they are less likely to sleep at night. It is a very difficult situation to remedy." Lysmarael goes on to write that "If the patient should fall asleep during the day too often, they may find it impossible to re-adjust to sleeping at normal hours."

Cure/Prevention: It is believed that only the symptoms and effects of the disease can be treated as it is seen to be an ailment of the mind rather than the body, and some may give the afflicted party stimulating herbs and drinks to stave off sleeping during the day and then a sleeping draught at night to ensure sleep. Oft suggested herbs include Dreamer's Breath and Trinity Herb to aid sleeping and Daylong Flower to keep the victim awake during the day. Some more knowledgable healers suggest Arv Seeds be consumed, but this is not thought to be a reliable treatment because of its tendency towards addiction and eventual death. In Nybelmar, Watchmoss is dried and ground into a powder which is added to drink to improve the state of wakefulness, much like the Daylong Flower though lacking it's bitter taste.

Vector/Cause: The cause of Sleep-Ill is unknown but believed to be related to disruption in normal sleep patterns, such as those caused by working at night and sleeping during the day or similar extreme changes in the sleeping pattern. It is known that dwarves and gnomes are not sufferers of Sleep-Ill, nor are brownies or orcs. The disease is less known in Nybelmar, though the Krean folk seem to suffer it more often than other Nybelmarians.

[Fox]

Neat entry. I assume it's a Santharianized version of Narcolepsy?

Couple of comments:

Night Watchmen's Ailment is a bit long of a name. It works for a more 'formal' name, but what would the average commoner call it? IE, 'Nighties' or any other kind of shorthand?

Also, for the overview, I don't recommend ending with 'most often afflicted with' and then leading on to the Symptoms section. Since you've already summarized some of the symptoms in the overview already, I'd recommend just finding a way to end the paragraph cleanly and let the reader move on to the next section on their own without being more or less 'forced' into reading on. In other words, try to make the Overview be able to stand on its own.


About the ailment itself, what about combining it with Insomnia? You already have some Insomniatic effects listed in the entry (with finding it hard to fall asleep later on instead of instantly falling asleep), so identifying two separate forms of the Ailment in the entry, one for sudden bouts of sleep and another for inability to sleep is an option.

Any long-term effects?


For the cure, try and cross-reference some existing herbs on the site to give a bit more weight to the entry. Not necessary, but always valuable. Alternatively, you could mention a new herb or medicine and then develop that later!

[Valan Nonesuch]

Fox: I was originally trying to translate narcolepsy. It doesn't work well with the format because the symptoms and effects wind up blending a little. I think I accidentally left that sentence hanging. It's fixed now.

I'd have no problem with mixing insomnia, and I'll look into some of those herbs.
So far, herbs with relaxing properties include Dreamer's Breath and Trinity Herb. I haven't found anything with a stimulant property except Arv plant (which I'm reluctant to use because of it's mention of caffeine.

[Tharoc Wargrider]

Damn and blast! I had this filed away for future development, you swine!

Still, on the upside, you seem to be making an excellent job of it so far, Valan. I agree with Fox, you could do with adding some long-term effects. And what about northerners who have lived in the south for a length of time? Do they show symptoms?

As for the name, again I agree with Fox (scary!). Nighties would be a good common name, or you could use 'Late-ups', 'Bug-eye' or even 'Orc eye'. And anyone who adds 'the noo' to that last name deserves to boil in oil.

[Alysse the Likely]

Other possibilities for names (or maybe regional specific ones)

--Red-eye
--Blood-eye
--Drowsies (sufferers could be called Drowsers)
--Sleep-ill
--Watchman's Weakness (referred to among Watchmen as "the Weakness")

Hope this is helpful!


Alysse

[seth ghibta]

just a suggestion, but sleeplessness and disrupted sleep can in themselves lead to even more problems, such as mood swings, paranoia, delusions and balance problems.
it struck me that the disruptive effects of the ailment might cause their own, extra symptoms on top if the direct ones, further complicating things and making it harder to diagnose. But that may just be willfully complicating things, so don't use it if you don't want to.

[Valan Nonesuch]

Thanks for the insane outpouring of suggestions folks.
@Tharoc: First come first serve I suppose. I wanted to run up a character with insomnia on the RP side of things, but using insomnia felt wrong. I was trying to write it up, but I couldn't get it to sound decent, so I switched to narcolepsy. You can have the next one I suppose.

@Alysse I like the last three, particularly sleep ill. I might just change it to it's proper name ( I was starved for inspiration last night)

@Seth you're implying that folk might actually manage to make the connection between the ailment and those conditions instead of simply thinking them another ailment entirely? (This is my excuse for not making things harder than they already are.)

[Valan Nonesuch]

@Fox I think I'll keep insomnia clear of this and develop it separately. It wouldn't work out well because of the differences is the conditions and I think they might just wind up tripping over each other. I might steal some of the notes from here to use there though.
Most recent edits are in Yellow

[Valan Nonesuch]

New edits, now in RED

[Sivartius]

Could this perhaps also cover Sleep-Apnia? (I'm not sure of the spelling, as I've only heard it, not read it.)  Sleep-Apnia is a sort of of short circuit in the brain.  As a person enters REM sleep with this condition his/her brain stops sending the signal to the heart to beat, and it stops.  This jolts the person awake.  They can never get a really deep sleep, but simply doze all night.  There isn't a cure, though I believe for a while they tried electric shocks.  A man I knew had this.  He tried to keep awake by constantly snacking on high sugar foods.  Unfortunately, he also had Diabeties.

[Valan Nonesuch]

I'd prefer not to mix ailments, particularly one that requires a solid understanding of the mechanics of sleep and the heart. It seems... anachronistic. They've tried electric shocks for almost everything. I think they're stuck on them.

[Sivartius]

They probably are.  They're so Dramatic!

"Give my creation LIFE!!!!!  HA HA HA Ha ha ha ha!!!"

[Valan Nonesuch]

I think I'll have to develop something with a shocking effect.

[Sivartius]

So far your revelations have been electrifying.

[Tharoc Wargrider]

You were almost right Siv. The correct spelling is sleep-apnea. I should know, I've suffered from it since I was in my teens. It's given some of my past girlfriends a shock or two, even though I warned them about it beforehand!

I know when I'm having an episode because I always have the same dream. I'm flying high in the clouds, looking down on the fields below as they glide slowly past. Then, I see a house below, surrounded by a hedge. I begin to fall slowly towards it. As I get lower, I see a person stood outside the house, looking up at me. At this point I begin to fall faster and faster. I'm heading directly for the person below me. Just before I land on the person, I see their face and realise that it's me!
At that point, I always wake up, taking a deep breath. I don't struggle to breathe after that, even though Mrs W tells me that sometimes I haven't taken a breath for several minutes (something which I'm unable to replicate when awake, strangely enough). I usually fall back asleep immediately, leaving her to calm herself down after her scare!
Even though I'm aware of what is happening via my dream, I'm unable to wake myself until the point of landing.

So there you have it. Now you all know what happens in the Wargrider bedchamber of an evening. 

Oh, and Valan, I already have plans for a mad dwarf scientist who created 'elektrickery' amongst other things. It won't be anything like RL energy, as most of his inventions are completely useless.

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