Guide to Traumas

Brain Traumas are afflictions caused by unchecked brain damage. They can severely debilitate players, or very rarely imbue them with supernatural powers, if they're lucky.

Traumas are visible to Health Analyzers.

A player gaining a trauma will generally see a warning message unique to the trauma.

Trauma Types

You can only naturally gain one Mild Trauma and one Severe/Special Trauma at the same time from brain damage. However other sources of traumas ignore this restriction.

Mild

Mild traumas are relatively easy to get: they require a minimum of 40 brain damage. They can cause minor annoyance in several ways, like stuttering, hallucinations, phobias, or poor balance.

They can be cured fairly easily with Mannitol.

Severe

Severe Traumas require at least 120 brain damage before appearing, making them hard to get randomly. They are severely debilitating, and can range from mutism to complete paralysis.

They can only be cured with brain surgery.

Special

Severe Traumas have a 20% chance of being a Special Trauma instead. Special Traumas grant the player special abilities, although generally with little to no control over them.

Unlike Severe Traumas, Special Traumas are very easily healed, and Mannitol will remove them. Since the player will usually also have a Minor Trauma, this means that it's usually only possible to have both or none.

Trauma List

Mild

Name	Effect	Warning Message	Scan Message
Schizophrenia	The patient suffers from non-stop hallucinations.	You feel your grip on reality slipping...	schizophrenia
Stuttering	The patient can't speak properly, and will constantly stutter when talking.	Speaking clearly is getting harder.	reduced mouth coordination
Dumbness	The patient becomes dumb, causing them to speak oddly, randomly spout random nonsense, and making them clumsy when using some items.	You feel dumber.	reduced brain activity
Speech Impediment	The patient can't speak properly, and their sentences will have mixed or missing words.	You can't seem to form any coherent thoughts!	communication disorder
Concussion	Causes several symptoms, like vomit, dizziness, confusion, slurring, forgetfulness, or fainting.	Your head hurts!	a concussion
Muscle Weakness	The patient will sometimes lose control of their muscles, dropping items or tripping.	Your muscles feel oddly faint.	weak motor nerve signal
Phobia	The patient will be unnerved or panicked by seeing or hearing about a certain topic.	You start finding [subject] very unnerving...	phobia of [subject]

Severe

Name	Effect	Warning Message	Scan Message
Mutism	The patient no longer knows how to speak.	You forget how to speak!	extensive damage to the brain's language center
Cerebral Blindness	The patient's brain is no longer connected to their eyes, making them blind.	You can't see!	extensive damage to the brain's frontal lobe
Paralysis	The patient is completely paralyzed, and cannot act aside from speech.	You can't feel your body anymore!	cerebral paralysis
Speech Impediment	The patient can't speak properly, and their sentences will have mixed or missing words.	You can't seem to form any coherent thoughts!	communication disorder
Narcolepsy	The patient often feels drowsy, and will randomly fall asleep.	You have a constant feeling of drowsiness...	traumatic narcolepsy
Monophobia	The patient will become increasingly stressed when not in company of others, triggering panic reactions ranging from sickness to heart attacks.	You feel really lonely...	severe monophobia
Discoordination	The patient is unable to use complex tools or machinery.	You can barely control your hands!	extreme discoordination