Being on tour is harder on your mood and health than just staying in your home city all the time. It is important to follow some basic rules to keep fit and happy.
Mood
This will be affected if the bus you are travelling in breaks down 1% for every hour you are delayed.
It will also be affected slightly if you travel on the bus overnight during your sleep update.
It will be affected even more if you travel by plane even 1st class supersonic and private jets, so travel by bus or private vehicle (VIP only) whenever possible.
Jam sessions are boring after 4 hours you will notice a mood drop. It helps to book the best quality jam place you can afford.
Skilling, teaching and learning are all depressing. If your mood is low try switching to composing or picking flowers until you feel happier.
You can improve your mood by shopping make sure you have at least $100 in your pocket without cash, shopping is very depressing.
Partying all night (this will affect your health) will help your mood and you might get an inspirational seed if you are lucky and in a good club again you need cash in your pocket.
Talking to the media successfully improves your mood too.
In emergencies, for example if you have an important show or are planning a recording, you can improve your mood temporarily by eating oysters (slight risk of food poisoning) or chocolate (health drop later) or a fancy meal or by using anti depressants (available free of charge from the SNGU pharmacy.)
Alcohol will improve your mood but the heavy hit to mood and health the next day makes it a high-risk strategy.
Pets improve your mood when you feed them. This happens automatically (no need to buy carrots!) but you must have enough cash on you to pay or the pets will suffer and quickly die. This is very depressing, as is releasing pets into the wild so think carefully before getting a pet they really are for life!
Pets can be bought from pet shops or you may be lucky enough to find a magic rabbit. When someone pulls a rabbit out of a hat it stays in that locale for a few hours and anyone can pick it up. Magic rabbits are just like ordinary pets but slightly more expensive to feed.
Health
This will be affected mostly by performing shows, the more effort (performance ambition) you make, the bigger the drop. Try to book shows in the best quality clubs as this helps. Once you have a band bus and a crew your PA will help reduce the health drop by looking after you.
If you use alcohol or aphrodisiacs you will suffer a significant health drop soon afterwards!
The other major causes of health loss are pregnancy and illness more about them later.
You can improve your health by resting and by working out in the gym.
If you are in the red, resting is the only thing to do in a hotel or apartment is best.
Once you are back in the blue working out in the gym is usually best make sure you have some money on you for gym fees and go to a gym if possible.
Certain skills affect how much benefit you gain:
Religion will give you a mood boost in addition to the health boost when you rest and you will still be able to rest when your health is higher.
Yoga and Yoga Mastery significantly improve the effects of working out in the gym.
Tantric sex will give you and your partner a tiny health boost with every snuggle.
Certain foods improve your health but they are not always easy to find and can be expensive. They are often of most use to women soon after they have given birth.
Milk: 1% boost with every glass, 2 glasses in each bottle. Only works if your health is below 70%. Collect your own from the cow in the Nashville gate: fun if you can spare the time or buy it from 2nd hand shops. You can only drink it slowly and the bottles have a short shelf life so buy it in small quantities and if you do a milk run to the cow you can give bottles to your friends or sell them in the 2nd hand shops.
Donuts will take your health to 50% with one bite! (2 bites in each donut) only given to policemen so they are hard to find and can be very expensive to buy on the black market. Withdrawn because of people trying to cheat the game mechanics so rarely seen now.
Zombie eyeball (also called Trioxin Antidote) VIPs can obtain these when they are zombie hunting on the day of the dead they give about 20% health boost. They can be bought (check the forum for sales and auctions) but they are very expensive! Zombie brains (also called Repressitol Pill ) are also available they give an equivalent boost to mood.
Zombie dust boosts health and mood.
VIP renewal: this boosts health and mood. You will also receive a one time only gift package with a bottle of sparkling water. I believe this boosts health and mood but I have not tested this personally.
If your mood and/or health drop too low you will be automatically rushed to hospital. You will be treated there until you have recovered sufficiently to be released. You also have the option to take yourself to hospital and ask to be treated this can save time, but remember that once you are hospitalised you cannot move until you have recovered.
Pregnancy
Pregnant? Congratulations!
The baby will arrive approximately 42 days after you got your I´m feeling kinda moody diary message.
Don´t worry if you took a test and it showed positive and you still don´t have the affected by pregnancy on your character page, that takes 3-5 days to appear.
When you are affected by pregnancy you will notice your health dropping.
This varies from person to person but is usually about 3% a day.
Avoid too much skilling/teaching/learning if your health is dropping fast.
Try composing songs or picking flowers instead.
You may consider reducing your tour schedule slightly maybe play 2 out of every 3 cities. It is really not necessary to stop touring altogether.
The birth can be a little unnerving don´t panic you will be fine!
You will get a diary message:
Oooooh!!! Labour pains! It is time! OFF TO THE HOSPITAL!!! Can someone please call an ambulance?!
and you will be taken automatically to the nearest hospital unless you are busy:
Busy = travelling, jamming, onstage, on a date, recording a track or shooting a video.
Your health will drop dramatically into the red.
Labour takes 12 hours. If you want to stay out of hospital because you have a show, try keeping busy as much a possible from the day before the baby is due (they are often early) and use painkillers (available free of charge from the SNGU pharmacy) to improve your health temporarily once you have gone into labour.
Once the baby is born your mood will go to 100% and you will be released from hospital. Your health will probably still be in the red or just into the blue and now is the time to use milk/donut/zombie eyeball for maximum effect.
Some people save XP points to use at this time, others consider that a waste. The choice is yours.
Rest until you are out of the red and then exercise. You will be back to normal surprisingly quickly, no more daily 3% health drops - unless you get pregnant again straight away.
You will very probably ovulate within 12 hours of giving birth so be prepared!
Illness
There are a number of nasty illnesses out there waiting to be caught. Don´t worry, they can all be cured.
The most important thing to remember when you find you have caught any kind of disease is to STOP INTERACTING!
Most diseases are contagious and if you interact with anyone you risk infecting them.
Contact a doctor by personal message, tell them what disease you have and ask them for help.
The SNGU has several doctors travelling in the caravan and any of them will be happy to help you:
SNGU DOCTORS
Hugo Nyhander
Gül Erduman
Eleanor Cannon
Current Diseases and Health Problems:
Cold: lasts a few days, some health loss. Can be cured by a doctor or the effects can be reduced by taking an herbal remedy. Will go away on its own if left untreated.
Flu: similar to cold but the health loss is more severe.
Scabies: usual consequence of ignoring a 72 hour snuggle ban after reading a horoscope. Will eventually go away if left untreated but the health drop is severe and it is best treated by a doctor.
Chlamydia: probably the nastiest disease around at the moment. It is hidden: only YOU can see if you have it. It is caught from groupies or another infected person. It does not go away unless it is treated by a doctor. More people have this disease than all the other diseases put together. Get treatment, don´t be embarrassed!
Zombie virus: occupational hazard for VIP zombie hunters. Needs treatment by a doctor quickly because the health loss is severe.
Cholera, Bubonic plague, Typhoid: these are rare diseases contracted in cities with poor public health. Get treatment from a doctor as soon as possible.
Rabies: caught from rats when you are rummaging through the garbage in the city dump. Get treatment from a doctor as soon as possible.
Tinnitus: ringing in the ears. You get this if you are in a club when the volume is cranked up and you are not wearing your earplugs. No treatment, it goes away in a few days.
Travel sickness: you get this sometimes if you party all night when you are travelling. No treatment, it goes away in a few hours.
Affected by evil sprits: nobody knows how or why you get this. Try posting on the forum and you will see the only known symptoms! It will go away on its own: there is no known treatment.
Guilty conscience: you are given this if you spam or send abusive personal messages. There is no treatment and it lasts for several days depending on how serious the crime was. It has been said that praying in the temple helps. No evidence to back this yet but it can´t hurt to try.
Vaccinations
Many diseases can be prevented by the use of vaccines.
If you look at your medical history you can see what diseases you are immune to. This information is confidential and only available to you.
If you are going to use groupies you might want to get vaccinated against chlamydia.
There are two strains at the moment: lime and lemon chiffon. It is almost certain that more strains will appear in the future.
If you are going to use horoscopes and don´t want a 72 hour snuggle ban you may want to get the vaccination for scabies. Sea green strain is the current one.
Vaccines can be bought from many hospitals but they can be expensive.
Receiving medical treatment
If you have not been ill before you may wonder what happens when a doctor treats you:
A blood sample will be taken using a blood sampler. This may take several attempts, even the most skilled doctor may not succeed first time.
The doctor will use the vial of blood and a medicine base to make your medicine. This too can take several attempts and if the doctor has no success they may pass the vial onto another doctor to try or even take another blood sample so that they can both work on the cure.
Once the medicine has been made it can be given to you to take orally (takes 60 minutes to take effect) or converted into a shot and administered by syringe (immediate cure).
The advantage of the shot method is that you do not have to stay online until the medicine has been made.
Some cities have made it a criminal offence to take blood samples without permission. Rather than risk prosecution doctors prefer you to contact them first to ask for assistance. It is possible however that a SNGU doctor may notice that a fellow gypsy has been taken ill while they are offline. If you would like to be treated in these circumstances rather than wait until you log on, we will need your permission in advance and also to know your preferences. (For example do you want a shot for a cold or to be given an herbal remedy to take when you log on.)
The details will be held on the SNGU website accessible to all SNGU doctors in case of such a medical emergency.
For further information about this scheme please contact Eleanor Cannon.
SNGU Pharmacy
Thanks to some generous donations and a bequest the SNGU has a well-stocked medicine chest
This is located in the Green Angels tour bus and you can ask Eleanor Cannon or Steve Cook for drugs and medical supplies. Kris also carries supplies in his bus.
There is no charge for drugs or medical treatment but if you want to make a donation it will be gratefully received and used to maintain the stocks.
Currently in stock:
Herbal remedies
Painkillers
Anti-depressive tinctures
Morning after pills
Pregnancy tests
Medicine bases, blood testing kits and syringes for use by trained doctors only.
Voodoo powder: this is a dangerous drug and will only be supplied in special circumstances for people wishing to visit the land of the dead.
Vaccines: chlamydia: lime and lemon chiffon.
scabies: sea green
Aphrodisiacs
We are always looking for damiana leaves, parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme and comfrey leaves to make into drugs.
We do not carry poison and Eleanor will not make it for you even if you give her the rhubarb leaves. Suicide is not the answer!
If you have the Pharmacy skill and are willing to make drugs for the communal chest please speak to Kris or Eleanor and they will give you some herbs to brew.
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