Stamina, General

Stamina can be conceptualized like a battery of energy to represent how much endurance a person has remaining. Stamina is given as a percentage of their individual capacity. Attributes determine how much stamina one might have compared to another. Stamina is not a measure of how effective a particular attribute, skill, or trait is. analogy   In EveryAll Online, there are four kinds of stamina:   Physical Stamina indicates how much energy remains as a result of physical exertion. For example, a distance runner expends energy over time running and will become exhausted as the percentage indicted reaches single digits. A sprinter would find their stamina sink even faster. A person will pass out if they reach 0%. Those who have especially weak constitution may even suffer catastrophic organ failure, such as heart attack, cardiac arrest, hemorrhaging/stroke, shock, etc.   Mental Stamina indicates how much energy remains as a result of activities like concentration, thinking, debate, and working out logical or strategic puzzles. A person will become scatterbrained, confused or incoherent if their mental stamina drops to single digits. Reaching 0% is serious. A person may simply fall asleep or pass out, but it is also likely that they could become catatonic or even suffer frontal cortex psychological damage such as psychotic break downs, hallucinations, insanity, etc.   Emotional Stamina represents how much energy a person can put into feelings and emotions. Experiencing extreme and intense emotions can wear a person out, no matter if those emotions are negative, like fear and sadness, or positive, like ecstasy and passion. Introversion and Extroversion play a huge part in emotional stamina. Stoics may be more resilient here, but that also has a cost. Reaching low percent induces emotional numbness, depression, and even mental trauma to the limbic system. One can become so emotionally detached as to be a figurative zombie (maybe even literal!). At the very least, if a person passes out from critically low emotional stamina, they are guaranteed to have nightmares. Depletion to zero emotional stamina could result inwardly as suicide or externally as a violent psychotic rampage.   Spiritual Stamina represents the energy of one's self-conviction and inner poise. It can indicate how much hope they have despite a dire situation, or how much faith they have in another person, ideal, concept, or deity. This is the well of self-confidence. It decreases whether one resists insults, torture, interrogation or persuasion. It is used when the player attempts to commanding authority, influence or persuade others. It is not a measure of the effectiveness of one's influence and charisma, but a gauge as to how much energy it takes. Getting low in this stamina can manifest either internally or externally. Below ten percent leads internally to a sense of hopelessness, cognitive dissonance, apostasy, mistrust, depression, etc. Externally, others begin to question your authority, or lose faith and trust in you. At zero percent, internal consequences include paranoia, existential dread, self-harm and suicide. External consequences imposed by those following you include mutiny, imprisonment, execution, etc.   Note that external influences are considered for acquaintances, friends and allies. Monsters, rivals and enemies will still wish the player characters harm regardless of how much spiritual stamina one has. However, with enough spiritual stamina, one could still have the energy to intimidate or coerce a rival or enemy from doing harm.