A Stay of Execution

"All flesh fails. But I've been promised that my flesh will fail a little later. [This is a final insurance against sickness, if no Health remains to you.]"

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 is an element that can be used in place of Health to defend against illness. If you would usually fall to sickness and have no Health left, the Stay of Execution will be sacrificed in place of death. The  can be acquired through speaking with certain Spirits about your Health. All spirits that can grant  will have the Phylaxian aspect.

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"I will place a lock of my hair in the hollow of this one's chest, and with luck, one day, the sickness will seek me there instead."

- Getting from the Burgeoning Risen

"The Raw Prophet will embrace me with all its arms and kiss me with its mouths or whatever else it might find suitable, and perhaps that will protect me from diseases, and perhaps it will simply outnumber them."

- Getting from the Raw Prophet

"The Percussigant will weave the beat of my heart into the steps of its dance unending, and that might be enough, enough, enough."

- Getting from the Percussigant

""Open your mouth. Tilt back your head. We shall let one drop fall. Swallow. Yes. You'll be better now.""

- Getting from Ezeem, the Second Thirstly

""I will speak with your shadow, and some time soon it might turn a greater shadow aside. That's all I can promise you now.""

- Getting from Teresa