I'd like to give thanks to Melchior Dahrk for putting together this comprehensive list of Morrowind inconsistencies, which brought my attention to these issues.

Description

I tackled these inconsistencies in one of three different ways, I either:

1. Changed the dialogue to reference the correct creature(s)

2. Added the disease to the creature mentioned in cases of there being no way to contract the disease in the vanilla game

3. Removed the reference to specific creature(s) in cases of there being no way to contract the disease in the vanilla game. Thus the line remains without creating an inconsistency but still serves to expand the world and help create the idea that there are diseases/things out there that you never even run into while playing.

What follows is a breakdown of what this mod changes.


Ataxia

Vanilla Line

“Ataxia is a mild common disease affecting the victim's strength and dexterity. Symptoms include generalized pain and muscle stiffness. It may be contracted from slaughterfish.”

Issue

Ataxia is contracted from the Diseased Alit and Plague Bear but not slaughterfish.

Solution(s)

"Ataxia is a mild common disease affecting the victim's strength and dexterity. Symptoms include generalized pain and muscle stiffness. It may be contracted from Alits."

Brown Rot

Vanilla Line

“Brown rot is a mild common disease affecting the victim's strength and behavior. Symptoms include necrosis and sleeplessness. It may be contracted from the bonewalker, skeleton, greater bonewalker, or bonelord.”

Issue

Brown rot cannot be contracted from skeletons or bonelords.

Solution(s)

Brown rot is a mild common disease affecting the victim's strength and behavior. Symptoms include necrosis and sleeplessness. It may be contracted from the bonewalker, or greater bonewalker.

Chills

Vanilla Line

“Chills is an extremely dangerous common disease affecting the victim's mind and coordination. Symptoms include clumsiness and mental confusion. It may be contracted from the bonewalker, skeleton, greater bonewalker, or bonelord.”

Issue

Chills cannot be contracted from any of these sources, or from anywhere else for that matter.

Solution(s)

"Chills is an extremely dangerous common disease affecting the victim's mind and coordination. Symptoms include clumsiness and mental confusion. It may be contracted from the bonelord."

I added chills to bonelords. As in Morrowind Advanced - BTB Edit

Dampworm

Vanilla Line

“Dampworm is a serious common disease affecting a victim's mobility. Symptoms include uncontrollable muscle spasms and twitching. It may be contracted from the nix-hound.”

Issue

Dampworm cannot be contracted from anything.

Solution(s)

Removed "It may be contracted from the nix-hound." Adding Dampworm to nix-hounds is a very bad idea because it causes them to run in slow motion, floating in the air as they go. 

*Removed Dampworm changes in v1.2*

Droops

Vanilla Line

“Droops is a serious common disease that affects a victim's strength. Symptoms include weak and flaccid muscle tissues. It may be contracted from all forms and stages of kwama.”

Issue

There is no diseased version of the Kwama Forager or Kwama Warrior.

Solution(s)

Changed "all" to "most" forms of kwama in the dialogue and added droops to kwama warriors.

*Created diseased varient for 1.2 and added it to leveled lists.*

Rattles

Vanilla Line

“Rattles is a mild common disease affecting a victim's willpower and dexterity. Symptoms include muscle spasms and listlessness. It may be contracted from the nix-hound.”

Issue

Rattles cannot be contracted from anything.

Solution(s)

"Rattles is a mild common disease affecting a victim's willpower and dexterity. Symptoms include muscle spasms and listlessness."

Wither

Vanilla Line

“Wither is a mild common disease that affects a victim's strength and endurance. Symptoms include loss of energy and shortness of breath. It may be contracted from dreugh.”

Issue

Wither cannot be contracted from the Dreugh. It can be contracted from Dreamers.

Solution(s)

Because knowledge about interactions with the Sixth House and its followers might not be as common as knowledge of local sea life, I decided to just remove the last sentence. 

Rockjoint

"Rockjoint is an acute common disease affecting a victim's manual dexterity. Symptoms include painful swelling and immobility of all joints. It may be contracted from the domesticated guar or dusky alit."

Issue

Rockjoint cannot be contracted from anything.

Solution(s)

Replaced “domesticated guar or dusky alit” with “wild guar”. As yet I still need to create a disease version of the Wild Guar.

Notes on Compatibility

Because I would not want changes made to creatures to add diseases to them to cause incompatibility with other mods, I have re-dated this plugin using WryeMash so that it will be easier for people using the vanilla engine to keep it near the top of the load order by default.

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Unique Lore Friendly Cave Rats

FMI - Legion Dialogue 

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FMI - Nice to Meet You

FMI - Ingredient Locations

HulStop.

FMI - Current Councilors

FMI - Sane Ordinators

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