Phlebotinum Dependence: Difference between revisions

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Due to illness, environment, biology or a deliberate design decision (or flaw), a character has a '''Phlebotinum Dependence''' -- they must receive regular or continuous doses or exposures to some unusual substance or energy just to maintain a baseline healthy state. If they fail to receive their necessary doses, they are not (or not just) [[Brought Down to Normal]] -- the phlebotinum is usually responsible for keeping them ''up'' to normal. No, without it, they will quickly weaken and start dying, the latter often slowly and painfully.