// Health Points and Infection

Characters in Jericho have a health point system. Your cat will start off with a certain amount of health points (depending on how you distribute their stats) and as they fight and get injured, they gradually go down. If you HP reach 0 before you have a chance to earn any back, your cat will die and become infected.

Bites are a little different than health points. Bites are more like participation and activity penalties. If you do not participate in an assignment or if you fail to submit anything for an activity check, your character will receive a bite. Bites cannot be reversed or taken away

• If your character collects two bites, they will placed on a "parole" of sorts. What this means is that your character has been flagged as inactive, and thus may be last to be placed on assignment or be ineligible to receive random items. This is because if your character is inactive, I don't want others who are paired with your character to suffer if you don't pull your weight in a group assignment. 
  
• If your character collects three bites, they will become infected and you will be removed from the group.
  

Earning health points:

If your character is low on HP, there are ways you can earn them back and “heal” your character. These remedies can be purchased from the Apothecary.

To visit the Apothecary, click here.

Stages of infection:

There is a process by which cats become infected. If a character loses all of their health points, or if they collect three bites, they have officially become infected. From there, it is only a matter of time before they become one of the horde. The stages are as such:

• Stage 01: (1-5 days) general feelings of illness, wounds tend not to heal, eyes are red and watery.
  
• Stage 02: (3-8 days) violent mood swings. Constantly irritable. Fur loss begins to occur.
  
• Stage 03: (4-6 days) almost always violent/aggressive. Begin to become more primal. Partial loss of higher thinking. Eyes are cloudy.
  
• Stage 04: (terminal) Complete loss of self-identity, does not recognize friends or family, eyes are almost completely white, fur loss in large patches, skin often looks red and irritated if not pocketed with lesions and boils.