"Hey, you're looking great. What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything. I simply paid the doctor for thinquick."
"How long does it take?"
"He just gave me something and told me to eat it."
"Eat it, to get thin?"
"Better than that, I can still eat anything like I did before. I have noticed I am get hungrier than before though."
Discovery
Once while performing an autopsy on someone who had died despite their best efforts to keep them alive, the doctor found something of interest. Inside of the patient there was a long worm that was still alive, it had lodged itself in the intestines and the doctor believed it was consuming the food that the patient was eating. Given that the patient died after losing immense amounts of weight, this was likely.
Application and Removal
Thinquick is applied by having the patient ingest a tiny worm. Eventually it will lodge itself in the gut of the host and begin working. While consuming part of the food the host eats, the worm will grow significantly in length - it can become several times the height of a person.
Eventually, this does become a health risk to the host and the worm will need to be removed. The usual method for this is having the patient ingest a small amount of a poisonous substance - enough to kill the worm but not the patient.
Availability and Cultural Impact
Given the cost associated with the procedure and the negative effects on the physique of the patient, it is inaccessible to members of the working class and the poor. Only the wealthy inhabitants of
Burim can afford the treatment and handle the weakened state because they needn't perform intense labor.
The elites who seek out this treatment are often those who gorge themselves at fancy feasts and expensive dinners. With the worm in place, they can continue to do so and still manage to lose weight and maintain their figure which has become an increasingly important part of the social life of the wealthy now that thinquick is available.
Manufacturing
Doctors who apply thinquick generally keep a healthy amount of young worms. However, the young worms can't survive for too long outside of a host. If they need a source, they occasionally use livestock as a source to breed more of these worms.
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Game Statistics
A character undergoing the thinquick procedure adds
b to all Brawn- and Agility- based checks. If the worm is not removed after a reasonable amount of time, this increases to
bb. If it remains longer than that, it becomes a health hazard.
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