Burning Your Mouth On Hot Food Is An IRL One-Day Status Effect Like Bloodless In Baldur’s Gate 3

A few weeks ago, my wife and I went to visit some friends who recently moved closer to us. We stayed the night on Friday and when I got up in the morning, my friend handed me a cup of coffee. The mug was only about a third full, so I assumed it was leftover from an earlier𒊎 pot and took a big swig.

I instantly regretted it — my mou𝔉th was suddenly filled with coffee as hot as a Baldur’s Gate 3 battle on the Gulf of Mexico coast after the BP oil spill. Reflexively, I spit it out on the hardwood floor. As I went to get paper towels to clean it up, I thought, “oh great, now my mouth is going to be burnt all day.”

But, as I thought about my burnt mouth throughout the day, I realized that “all day” was th🐎e longest my mouth would possibly feel burnt. Twenty-four hour bugs may linger for longer than a day, but scorching your mouth on hot food or drink is the one real-world health impairment I can think of that adheres to video game rules.

Being fully 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur’s Gate 3-pilled, I immediately linked this back to the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dungeons & Dragons status effects represented in the game. For example, if you let Astarion suck your blood, he will get a boost in battle for the next day, but your Tav will be afflicted by bloodless, a status ailment that gives them -1 on all dice rolls. That effect, which gives your hero an outline of wiggly red lines that looks like how Charles Schulz would draw Pigpen if he smelled like blood instead of dirt, lasts until the end of the day. Once you take a long rest, your heart gets the time it needs to pump out some new, fresh blood, and you're back to full strength. Maybe it's the sleep, maybe it's the 40-supply feast the game requires you to have each night before bed, but Tav's body is back to normal in the morning.

This makes intuitive sense in a video game because it's in keeping with the transactional, abbreviated nature of how video games handle healthcare. You drink a potion or you eat some pizza or you take a nap in a big feather bed and all of your ailments are gone.

In real life, though, recuperating is rarely that easy. About a month ago, I caught a bug that has been going around &md𒆙ash; not Covid, I checked several times. This ailment comes with a bad, mucusy cough and an intermittently stuffy and runny nose. It had been dogging me for about a week but, during a business trip, it kicked into overdrive. I wanted to try to get better before the event I was traveling for, so I stopped by Target, bought DayQuil, Gatorade, chicken noodle soup, and other assorted sick day stuff, and confined myself to my hotel room for a day, only emerging to buy another can of chicken noodle soup. I hoped that by giving myself all the right healing items, I could beat the sickness in one concentrated day of rest.

It didn't work. I was still coughing the next day, so when I headed to the event, I masked up and drank a bunch of complementary green tea with honey. A month later, both symptoms are still lingering in significantly reduced form, which has me paying closer attention than normal to how quickly my body heals. Very little goes away after a day. But, a burnt mouth? Like clockwork.