Plague

Plague
Community Rating: 15
Difficulty: 20
Range: touch
Duration: permanent
Effect causes target character to be afflicted with
deadly disease
Attainment Rating: 25
This miracle causes the target character to suffer
from a severe case of the bubonic plague. This illness will do damage value 12
plus a random bonus each hour until the character dies or the miracle is
dispelled. The damage is increased by +1 for each continuous hour during which
the target is infected. For example, the first how the damage value is 12, the
second 13, the third 14, etc. The caster of the miracle will be immune to the
contagion, but other characters who are in close proximity to the target must
generate Toughness totals every five minutes against a difficulty
number of 8 or come down with the disease. This curse can be counteracted in
one of three ways: the use of a dispel curse miracle; the use of the
cure disease miracle, with a difficulty
of 12; or the generation of a faith total on the part of the target
which is higher than that used to cast the miracle. In addition, the healing
miracle can be used, but only to delay death, not to dispel the effects of
the plague.