Spore Fever
They call it Dejya Mnemsha, which directly translates to "Disease of Mushroom-Seeds", but I have decided to call it "Spore Fever" in the common tongue. It's a terrifying affliction, dear sister, the likes of which I have never seen before.
The call for alarm went up at Star-Down -- ah, but I forget that the Mnemic use a different time clock than Rosenburg, so it should have been about three of the clock for us. The smallest child of Mistress Yanlie had gone missing and they were frantic to find her. Sola joined in the search, so I did as well, and my Warlock affinity with the Wood element allowed me to search for her through the trees. We were the first on the scene, and I shall never forget the look in that child's eyes. They were dull, vacant of the spark of life. Like the other victims of the curse, she was found trying to bury herself in the mushroom fields.
The Onset of Spore Fever
Spore Fever, known to the people of Mnema as Dejya Mnemsha, is a new disease that has started spreading throughout Mnema. It most often affects the elderly, the infirm, and children, although it has affected even healthy people in the prime of their youth. Those suffering from this disease can experience a range of symptoms from coughing to fever to headaches in varying severity, but one symptom is unique to this disease alone: sleepwalking.
In all cases, the afflicted experience bouts of manic disassociation in which they become unable to be roused. If left unbound, they will attempt to reach the fields in which the people of Mnema tend to the mushroom harvests and bury themselves in the soil. While the other symptoms are mild in comparison to other sicknesses, people have injured themselves in their attempt to get to the mushroom fields or while trying to dig holes in the ground with their bare hands.
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The Death Record of the Matron Gnorvia
Original medium: clay tablet retrieved from the Mnemic archives
Here recorded are the deceased's titles: Matron of the Gnorvia.
Mother to four, three still living.
Grandmother to seven, seven still living.
Aunt to thirteen, eleven still living.
Wife of one, none still living.
Here recorded is the deceased's date of passing:
The year was the Year of the Passing Sky (seventeenth year after the Alliance was formed.)
The season was the Holding Harvest.
The time was Dawn-Sleep.
Matron Gorvia was of seventy-four summers.
Here recorded is the deceased's reason of passing:
Matron Gorvia was aflicted with the Dejya Mnemsha. She is the first known fatality of the curse. The symptom of her fatality was the cough. Her body has been enshrined beneath the mushrooms, as was her wish.
