Rest and Recovery

Rest and Recovery is vital for creatures to heal and recover their faculties and capability to perform actions. Rest itself consists of non-strenuous activities – fighting, prolonged movement/travel, active research and analysis/experimentation, etc. preclude getting rest and regaining Health. There may be many circumstances which interrupt it or inhibit it, preventing rest from being effective. A full night of sleep is almost always considered some degree of rest. Rest cycles are critical to regaining the debilitation suffered from Wounds. If a target of variable Rapid Healing has not rested before it is applied, it will result in average efficacy. If the target has just received a Rest, it will have full efficacy. Most rest cycles assume that they are uninterrupted & unhindered and consist of only casual mild mental or physical activity for 1/3 of a day cycle maximum. Secondary lasting effects may linger, depending on their source.

Healing: A modest amount of healing is done by the body itself during rest. This can be augmented using nutrition, biological and/or technological agents, medicine, and mystical powers.

Short Rest

A Short Rest is a brief span of time spent at full rest. The short rest itself is a sleep cycle – typically 8 hours or 1/3 of a day cycle; The rest short rest cycle is a full day’s passage of time. Only sleep or a low impact activity may be enjoined in this time, or the rest cycle is reset. A Short Rest will: heal all fatigue damage, heal some normal damage, heals 1 Essence, and partially recharge vital fonts of energy, and alleviate a single Wound.

Long Rest

A Long Rest is seven Short Rest cycles, with unbroken sleep when expected (1 week or equivalent). A Long Rest will: heal all normal damage with basic care, alleviate most minor conditions, and alleviate all normal Wounds.

Extended Rest

An Extended Rest is four Long Rest cycles, with unbroken sleep when expected (1 month or equivalent). It is for recovering illness, disease, malaise, and such things as hard damage. An Extended rest will: heal all Hard Damage and all Wounds.

Prolonged Lack of or Disturbed Rest

The negative pathway of triggering events that leads to this state/condition will likely come with Trepidation; specifically Disorienting Thoughts. It is also possible that Nightmares my also intrude during the hours of sleep/rest. This state would be removed through direct actions such as Atonement or indirect; ex: an Act or Mystic OfferingsOfferings[/su_permalink of appeasement, Many causes have methods proscribed, both mundane and/or mystical.