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Nevaeh now wears a scarf to cover several bald spots and her singed
hair. She was left with first-degree burns, but it could have been worse
according to Tanya Robinson, Nevaehâs mother.
âThe doctor told me her hairstyle saved her life,â Tanya recalled. âHad it been different, she might not be here.â
This isnât the first time Nevaeh has experienced bullying. Two years ago, another student broke her thumb.
Iâm walking into that school like
Hate crime. It should qualify as one.
Nevaeh is thirteen years old. This happened at Gompers School in the Philadelphia School District. The school district has not issued any comment, but y'all can make yours:
Samuel Gompers School
Address: 5701 Wynnefield Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19131
District: The School District of Philadelphia
Phone: (215) 581-5503
The School District of Philadelphia
Address:Â
440 N Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19130
Phone:Â 215-400-4000
This happened October 25, 2018. This isnât some random post that wonât die. Itâs happening now. Call. Demand accountability and this be treated as a hate crime.
The
illnesses in the DMG mostly seem to be written as a hazard for the PCs,
or a way to legally screw them over if they fail an ill-timed
Constitution save. However, sickness in real life is more than that, as
exhibited by everyone who’s ever gotten a cold. And as I am currently
sick, I felt ideally suited to write about this.
Sickness comes
in a lot of different forms, and even the exact same condition can have
different symptoms depending on the day. If everything given here
applies to a character, then that character is having a VERY bad time
and should probably just have stayed home and rested and not gone
adventuring. If it’s just one or two things though, that would be
someone who’s slightly sick but “I’m fine it’s not that bad I can still
go and fight”.
You’re not required to select everything listed
under a symptom. They’re all different ways in which something might be expressed, and some are more intense than others.
Everything here is intended to be optional, like if you want
to play as someone who is kind of sick, or have an NPC with a cold, or even as a mild curse on a magic item.
BODY ACHES:everything hurts from the neck down.
You have disadvantage on all Acrobatics and Athletics checks.
Every
hour, make a DC 12 Constitution save. On a failure, if you are wearing
armour or heavy clothing, you gain a level of exhaustion until you take
it off; if you are not wearing armour or heavy clothing, you gain a
level of exhaustion until you put some on. Note that this does not grant
proficiency with any armour, nor remove any armour-related
restrictions.
COUGHING:we all know and hate it.
You have
disadvantage on Stealth checks that require you to be quiet. In an area
of magical silence, or in a noisy environment, for example, this
penalty does not apply.
Whenever you attempt to cast a spell
with a verbal component, make a DC 10 Concentration check. On a failure, you
are unable to properly perform the verbal component due to coughing; the
action taken to cast the spell is wasted, but the spell slot is not
used.
DECREASED IMMUNE SYSTEM:as if being sick wasn’t bad enough, now you’re more likely to get even more sick.
You have disadvantage on Constitution saves against contracting a disease or suffering the poisoned condition.
DISTORTED APPETITE:you need to eat, but it’s hard to eat.
Any
time you attempt to eat or drink something, it has a 25% chance to seem
utterly disgusting to you, and require a DC 12 Wisdom save to actually
eat or drink it.
Unless you succeed on a DC 10 Constitution
save, you can only ingest half the normal amount of food per day;
anything more than that gets brought back up. Note that this does not
change how much food you actually require.
EARS CLOGGED UP:how are ears even connected to the nose and throat, it just seems unfair.
You have disadvantage on Perception checks that rely on hearing.
You take a -2 penalty on any skill checks that require producing or hearing music.
FOGGY BRAIN:it’s hard to think when your head feels like it’s full of cotton.
You have disadvantage on all ability checks to recall information.
You have disadvantage on all ability checks to learn new information.
Your passive Perception is treated as 5 lower than usual.
If
you succeed in your saving throw against an effect that would induce
the charmed or frightened conditions, and which has no effect on a
successful save, you don’t even notice. Unless the caster was very
obvious about directing the spell at you, you have no idea that you were
a target.
GENERAL BLAHS:uuuugghh.
You take a -1 penalty to all skill checks.
You take a -1 penalty to all attack rolls.
You take a -1 penalty to all saving throws.
LETHARGY:you wish you’d stayed in bed, and you probably should have stayed in bed.
Your speed is reduced by 5 feet.
You have disadvantage on saves against effects that would restrain you or render you unconscious.
Whenever
you take a short rest, make a DC 10 Wisdom save. On a failure, you doze
off and are unable to perform any other actions during that short rest,
and can only spend one hit dice to recover.
You have disadvantage on initiative rolls.
RUINED VOICE: after extended bouts of intense coughing, you can barely speak.
You can’t verbally communicate with anyone farther than ten feet from you.
Any Performances checks to sing are both at disadvantage and have a -5 penalty.
Social
checks that would involve speaking are made at disadvantage, due to how your
voice sounds and/or your unfamiliarity at communicating without normal
speech.
Whenever you attempt to cast a spell with a verbal
component, roll a spellcasting ability check, against a DC of 8 + the
spell’s level (cantrips count as zero-level). On a failure, you can’t
get the magic to accept words formed with your wrecked voice, and the
action used to cast the spell is wasted (but the spell slot is not used
up).
Your voice is unrecognizable. You need alternate methods to confirm your
identity. However, if you’re trying to pass yourself off as a different
person to someone who only has your voice to go off of, you
automatically succeed if they have no reason to be suspicious, and you
have advantage on the Deception check otherwise.
STUFFED NOSE:if nothing can get in through your nose, it doesn’t seem right that so much mucus can come out from your nose.
You can’t smell anything. You automatically fail Perception or Investigation checks relying on scent.
You cannot breathe through your nose. If your mouth is covered, you risk suffocating.
Your
voice sounds weird when N comes out as D and M comes out as B and other
sounds are likewise distorted. You have a -2 penalty on verbal
Persuasion, Deception, and Intimidation checks, as people have a hard
time taking you seriously.
TEMPERATURE FLUCTUATIONS:you feel too hot, and then you feel too cold, and then you feel too hot….
You have disadvantages on saves against the effects of extreme heat or cold.
The only way you’ve found to stay comfortable is with an
awkward and constricting array of blankets. You have disadvantage on all
Dexterity-based skill checks and Dexterity saves. If you choose to not
wear the blankets, you instead have disadvantage on attack rolls and on
skill checks that take more than a single action to complete.
WATERY EYES:you legitimately are not crying from pain, but nobody will believe you on that.
You have disadvantage on Perception checks relying on sight.
You have disadvantage on Intimidation checks against someone who can see your eyes.
I recently discovered there’s a 5e homebrew codex made by actual med students here on DMs Guild for implementing Fantasy viruses based on real world diseases like the black plague and other fun things. It costs a few dollars, but it looks really cool and I plan on picking it up at some point
So i saw a post a few days ago about neurotypicals who say that stim/fidget toys make you *less* focused and how fucked that is and it got me thinking of an analogy.
So you know when you try on a friend’s glasses and you can’t see shit???? Their glasses make your vision worse, right? But you realize that it’s because YOU DON’T NEED THEM. You might mention or make a joke about how blurry things are for you, but you still understand and appreciate that the glasses help your friend see, even though they aren’t good for you personally.
So when you try your friend’s tangle or fidget cube and claim, as a blanket statement, that it makes you *less* focused and that your friend should stop using it for that reason?? You’re being just as much of an asshole as if you tried on your friend’s glasses and said “wow, you know these ACTUALLY make your vision WORSE, right???” because you’re assuming that your experience is the same as theirs when it’s really, really not.
I’m wanna show this post to my stepdad bc he thinks my stims are just toys and he has actually called me stupid for using them as coping mechanisms
This is literally the best analogy that I’ve ever seen about this
are you saying that engagement rings aren’t just cool rocks
They sloth is my favorite
STORY TIME!
Ok so when I was doing a security job on a college campus, the geology club on said campus was having their mineral and fossil sale (which is where the club gets the vast majority of its funds for the year). They had some really cool shit but their sales techniques were… uh, they were bad, just really terrible. They set up the tables, put all their stuff out, hung a sign up… and then sat there, occasionally mentioning quietly to one or two passersby “Hey we’re having our mineral and fossil sale if you want any.” Very boring, overly factual, not very attention grabbing.
Now I’m a fuckin nerd so I’m all over this shit (the sale was literally a foot away from my security post so I wasn’t even getting in trouble for spending literal hours ooh-ing and ahh-ing over the really cool stuff they had). And me being the type of nerd who must SHARE ALL THE THINGS when I find cool stuff (and who also has 18 years of customer service/retail experience to draw on), I start trying to get some of the literal hundreds of students walking by to get some of the cool things. The club only needed a couple hundred bucks and we were on the largest campus in the state so they should have been making their goal easy but almost no one was biting. So my “must share the thing” nerdiness teamed up with my “must help all the people”-ness and I did my best to pitch in and get them more sales.
Now, it was two days before valentines and a lot of the people walking by were dudes. So I start trying to get them interested with comments like “hey come check out the cool stuff you could get for your bae!”
One group of dudes paused but it didn’t seem like they were gonna stop and get any of the cool things, so I go “No, seriously, chicks dig this shit, you literally cannot go wrong here. There’s fossils and cute little carvings of manta rays and kitties, and literal gemstones here; that box is full of fucking EMERALDS that are 3 for $5. GET. SOME.”
They didn’t believe me that the ladies would go nuts for “a bunch of shiny rocks.” So I decide to prove it to them. And in the most booming voice I can muster (and I can muster quite a bit after a decade of choir classes) and yell “THEY HAVE SHINY ROCKS OVER HERE AND THEY’RE REALLY COOL!”
Literally instantly, three separate groups of ladies look straight at the tables and make a beeline for them, all of them saying some variation of “Wait, did you say shiny rocks? WHERE?! WHAT KIND?! OMG!” Suddenly a dozen or so different gals (and several dudes), who seconds ago were only thinking about getting to class, stopped in their tracks to detour to the table full of shiny rocks. Only two left without buying at least one thing.
The dudes I’d been talking to before were bewildered but convinced, so they start looking for the best shiny rocks they can get to give their SOs. Several of them came back a few days later to inform me that my seemingly ludicrous advice of “get them shiny rocks” had gotten them laid or scored them a date.
So, remember kids, GET THE BAE A SHINY ROCK. That shit WORKS.
You know whatâs sad, before I even read this article I was ready to refute this because I grew up believing Chuck Berry created Rock and roll. Itâs said how so many knew of this great woman yet none spoke on her greatness.
I also discovered Big Mama Thornton, whoâs another hugely influential early inventor of rock and roll â Iâm pretty sure Hound Dog was originally popularized by her, before Elvis stole it.
