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This page could use more info: Health Points: Loss: Exploration, Ship Malfunction, Fire, Space Combat, Diseases, Schrödinger (Unless Raluca) etc. Morale Points: Gain: Rebel Bases, Sol etc., Loss: Mental Disorders, Panic Attacks etc. Please confirm and append the values to the article, then remove this notice! Ividyon (talk) 01:27, 21 December 2013 (MST)

The daily grind in the depths of space asks a lot of the Daedalus crew , who find their mental and physical Health diminishing with each passing day. Maintaining your Health Points and Morale is one of your many responsibilities in the fight against the Mush, which eventually proves difficult as you are beset by Dangers from all sides. Deaths of vital personnel and depleted resources will drive you to carefully guard every precious point you have, and force you to cooperate with others to restore them as efficiently as possible.

To the left of the play area is the display for your health. Over your picture is a collection of icons representing special statuses, and just below that are your and gauges. Special statuses can be good or bad, and hovering over the icons will give a description and sometimes advice.

Health Points

Health Points are a measurement of your physical well-being. When they drop to zero, your character will die and you will be removed from the game.

Health Points are capped at 14 . If you are playing in Gold Mode, you gain a bonus of +2 , making 16 your total maximum.

Ways to gain Health Points

Source	Gain
Surviving for a day	+1
Eating a Banana	+1
Eating certain Alien Fruit	+1
Healed using Bandage	+2
Healed using Medkit	+3 *

* Increased by 1 with Ultra-Healing Pomade researched.
* Increased by 2 if used by a Medic.

Ways to lose Health Points

Source	Loss
Room Shaking	1-3
Steel Plate	4-6
Combat: Kick Off	1-3
Combat: Hit by Knife	1-5
Combat: Hit by Blaster	3-5
Combat: Hit by Machine Gun	2-3
Combat: Hit by Natamy Rifle	2-4 *
Combat: Hit by Lizaro Jungle	3-5
Combat: Hit by Rocket Launcher	?-8
Combat: Throwing a Grenade	0-3
Combat: Hit by Grenade	0-10

* 6-13 if victim is a Mush.

Starvation

Starvation is linked to a hidden stat called Satisfaction. When you eat, you gain Satisfaction points depending on what you eat. Different foods give different amounts. You will gain the Full Stomach status when your Satisfaction is 3 or more, and you cannot eat any more after that. You lose 1 Satisfaction per cycle. Once your Satisfaction points reach 0, you will be fine for 24 more cycles. Once that time has elapsed, you will gain the Starving status, and will begin losing 1 per cycle.

Given a basic max starting Health of 14, and assuming that you have already hit 0 Satisfaction at some point in the recent past, eat 1 ration giving 4 Satisfaction, and you will last 5.25 days before death:

(Cycles of Satisfaction ticking down + Cycles before starvation starts + Cycles of losing 1 ) divided by Number of Cycles in a day
4 + 24 + 14 = 42 Cycles
42 / 8 = 5.25 Days

With Gold Mode: (4+24+16)/8 = 5.5 days
With low health: (4+24+1)/8 = 3.625 days

The only thing that will affect this process is damage you receive in that time from other characters or random room events, or Morale loss causing suicide. This can technically kill you earlier than that, but the overall chances of that are impossible to calculate at this point. Get your and to max and eat that Ration, and you should be fine.

TODO: Need to confirm the 24 cycles before starvation starts, find the point that the hunger notification starts, and find out what max satisfaction is.

Morale Points

Morale Points represent your character's mental integrity. When Morale drops to zero, the character will commit suicide and you will be removed from the game at the next cycle change.

As with , Morale is capped at 14 . If you are playing in Gold Mode, you gain a bonus of +2 , making 16 your total maximum.

Ways to gain Morale Points

Source	Gain
Eating a Banana	+1
Eating certain Alien Fruit	+1
Cycle spent lying down with Shrink in room	+1
Comforted by a Shrink	+2
Receiving a speech from a Leader	+2
Doing the thing	+2
Caressing Unknown Character (once per game)	+3
Using the Alien Holographic TV (once per game)	+3
Rebel Base Transmission: CYGNI	+3
Rebel Base Transmission: KALADAAN	+6
Comms Link first established	+3 *

* For everyone already out of cryo.

Ways to lose Morale Points

Source	Loss
Surviving for a day	-2 *
Crew member death	-1 **
Demoralized by a Mush	-2
Panic Attack	-3
Eating Uncooked Ration	-1

* Reduced by 1 if Mankind's only hope is present (and alive).
* Reduced by 1 if you are The Optimist. (stacks with above)
** No loss if you are Detached Crewmember.

Illnesses

Disorders and diseases must be removed by medical action (medical kit, therapy or drugs) to resume natural healing and morale gain.

Diseases

Diseases are physical afflictions, often affecting and . TODO: Add table of diseases, explain how to treat (medkit, pills).

Icon	Status	Cause	Details	In-game Description
	Cold	Random at cycle change or caused by being infected with a spore (appears 2-4 cycles after infection)	20% chance to lose 1 per cycle.	Don't go out without your Kleenex Every cycle, a 20% chance, loses 1
	Gastroenteritis	Eating spoiled food Witnessing Death	Lose 1 per cycle. Max -1.	Do you need a diagram? A good whiff of the smell? Churning stomach? Every time you Consume, your character loses 1 . -1 Max . Every cycle, makes you dirty. Every cycle, loses 1 . Every cycle, a 16% chance, -1 . Gives the symptom [Vomiting].
	Rejuvenation	Expedition - Insects	20% chance to lose 1 per cycle. Increased chances of falling ill.	Your body is emitting a pulsing green light. This doesn't exactly encourage a good night's sleep... Each cycle, a 20% chance, loses 1 . Increases your chances of falling ill. Gives the symptom [Fitful sleep].
	Space Rabies	Expedition - Predators zone	Lose 2 per cycle.	You’ve got rabies. You are prone to violent outbursts but it’s the disease that will end up killing you. Gives the symptom [Biting]. Gives the symptom [Psychotic episodes]. Gives the symptom [Drooling]. Gives the symptom [Foaming mouth]. Every cycle, -2 .
	Migraine	Killing someone (Maybe witnessing a death, Not sure...).	20% chance to lose 1 per cycle.	A particularly tenacious heavy migraine is harassing the patient at the moment, but it will eventually go away... Every cycle, a 20% to lose 1
	Tapeworm	Eating Rotten Food Eating some alien fruits	Lose 1 satisfaction every cycle...	"You are hungry. Really hungry. All the time... Let's eat for God's sake man! Every cycle, -1 cycle(s) of fullness..
	Sepsis	Can be caused by receiving combat damage or failing DIY Surgery	Health Loss of -4HP per cycle.	TODO: Fluff/ingame description needed
	Acid Reflux	Caused by eating alien steaks or rotten food.	lose 2 AP when eating anything (including pills)	"You are bringing food back up. It is unpleasant and irritating." Gives the symptom [Vomiting].
	Mush allergy	Caused by eating alien fruits or being infected with a spore (appears 2-4 cycles after infection)	Sneeze (randomly when you're in the same room as a mush? when you're infected with another spore?)	"Contact with Mush gives you horrible, painful blisters."

Disorders

Disorders are psychological afflictions, often affecting . TODO: Add table of disorders AND table of symptoms [All psychological disorders can be treated by a Shrink, the effects of pills are randomised for each game]

Icon	Status	Cause	Details	In-game Description
	Crabism	Witnessing death. TODO: Other causes?	Janice drops to the ground and starts screaming for their mother... (-1 AP)	From time to time you take to walking sideways or throwing yourself to the ground only to return to brief periods of normalcy. -4 Max Morale.
	Coprolalia	Witnessing death. TODO: Other causes?	Some messages are randomly replaced with alternate text, or text is added. Post-it notes and whispers not effected. Examples Hey, you bunch of honkers, Pathetic crappy admins, You're nothing but boils	You launch huge streams of insults without warning. This tends to shock people the first time they see it. -4 Max Morale.
	Psychotic Episodes	Witnessing death. TODO: Other causes?	TODO: Missing information.	You can no longer control yourself and often descent into a black rage. You are strongly advised to stay away from all weaponry. Gives the symptom [Psychotic episodes]. Gives the symptom [Biting].
	Chronic Migraine	TODO: How?		A particularly tenacious heavy migraine hits you from time to time... and when it hits you it turns everything upside down... no luck -2 max Every cycle 20 % chance to lose 1
	Depression	Witnessing death. TODO: Other causes?		You Suffer Constantly. Life has become so long, too long, and every test makes you increasingly lose your taste for it Max -2 -2 Max
	Weapon Phobia	Witnessing death. TODO: Other causes?		You can no longer fire weapons, and the simple sight of them makes you uncomfortable... Forbids the action: Fire. Forbids the action: Attack.
	Paranoia	Witnessing death.	Occasionally replaces text with "[name] is a threat to us all...", and other nonsense messages when using the walkie-talkie. Also reduces max morale by 3.	TODO: In-game description
	Chronic Vertigo		Eleesha starts with Chronic Vertigo. Vertigo means that a character is barred from Piloting tasks, but can join expeditions.	You have chronic vertigo which proves to be quite debilitating. Gives the symptom [Vertigo]

Injuries

Injuries are physical traumas that can only be fixed by the Surgical Pod in Medlab.

Icon	Status	Cause	Details	In-game Description
	Critical haemmorage	Gained when stabbed with a knife. (Presumably a critical hit)	Loose x2 hp every turn till surgery.	You have a haemmorage in an artery which requires major surgery. Good Luck. Every cycle -2 hp. Room log: Despite a good dodge, Janice has lost a little blood
	Open-Air Brain		Despite the description, you don't die if you are dirty (bug?)	Part of your skull is missing. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that this can be a problem in several situations. -2 max You will die if you become Dirty.
	Broken Ribs			Your ribs are broken, causing pain when your posture straightens. Accuracy -20%. All your actions cost 1 more. actions cost 1 more.
	Broken Finger			One of the fingers on your good hand is broken All your actions cost 1 more.
	Bruised Shoulder			Your shoulder has sustained major contusions. Fortunately this is reversible. Accuracy - 10 %.
	Perforated Lung	Gained when stabbed with a knife. (Presumably a critical hit)	Most actions require +2AP including picking up and dropping items, Player becomes Mute (Can not use walkie-talkie but can use General announcement for 2AP, bug?), HP loss of -2 per cycle.	TODO: Fluff/ingame description needed
	Torn Tongue	Caused by accident after missing with knife.	Player becomes Mute, but can use the General Announcement system if Comms Manager (bug?)	TODO: Fluff/ingame description needed Room Log:Roland missed their target by a good distance and the clash against a nearby wall made them bite their tongue...
	Damaged Ears	Caused by being shot with the blaster.	Player cannot use public channels. Private channels still seem to work, if they were present before being injured	Your ears are no longer of any use. Although you never seem to listen to what you're told anyway... Makes you deaf
	Burnt Hand	Caused by being shot with the blaster or shooting the blaster.	Everything costs 1 more than usual, including non-ap actions which will now cost 1 .	Your hand is burnt All your actions cost 1 more.