How worried should I be about an infected book?

[Maeday]

I have no idea where to cure it. Nor exactly how it spreads. Should I cast it into the fire?

[HeXXedSmile]

I have a room to put the infected books in. They have been there for over a "Year" now with no side effects. I did clear all small objects out of the room first though. Also make sure you read each corruption, not all of them spread. Other than that I think I'm only a little ahead of you so I can't give much more information.

[Teagana]

Keep it separate from everything else (or read the curse description to see if you need to, as I remember from the beta, keeperskin spreads, sthenic taint does not, for example), eventually you should unlock skills that will remove specific curses. I have a skill but I'm not certain how to use it yet. Probably a crafting station?

[Morris Wyrm]

Has anyone figured out how to cure infected books?

[Tssha]

You need a cure skill + a number of an element (or higher). One infected book of mine required Winter 7 plus removal of infestations. It's...a bit high. Might be awhile before I cure it.

Also, I tried studying a book with a curse and now one of my soul's aspects is afflicted with a malady. Hint text suggests that, while it's usable without being exhausted, it wouldn't be healthy long-term to leave it uncured...

[Hermes]

Originally posted by Tssha:

You need a cure skill + a number of an element (or higher). One infected book of mine required Winter 7 plus removal of infestations. It's...a bit high. Might be awhile before I cure it.

Also, I tried studying a book with a curse and now one of my soul's aspects is afflicted with a malady. Hint text suggests that, while it's usable without being exhausted, it wouldn't be healthy long-term to leave it uncured...

what action do you use to remove the curse just study it at a desk of the appropriate symbol?

[Pandorian]

Originally posted by Tssha:

You need a cure skill + a number of an element (or higher). One infected book of mine required Winter 7 plus removal of infestations. It's...a bit high. Might be awhile before I cure it.

Also, I tried studying a book with a curse and now one of my soul's aspects is afflicted with a malady. Hint text suggests that, while it's usable without being exhausted, it wouldn't be healthy long-term to leave it uncured...

I commented elsewhere that I saw no downsides to the malady other than the obvious aspect changes and someone else commented it would spread to similar elements of the soul. I only had one Trist for the longest time and went through Numa and nothing happened. Currently I have a Phost that has malady I'm going to hang onto and see if my others also get a malady.

[Pandorian]

Originally posted by Tiberius25:

what action do you use to remove the curse just study it at a desk of the appropriate symbol?

Bed + Relevant type/amount of aspect it wants + drink. Make sure the malady is in the bottom left slot.

[Sepulchurz]

Just found a benefit to having a malady, sick soul cards cannot get exhausted unlike healthy cards. That means you can use your sick soul card to open books without knocking out one of your soul cards in effort. Can be also used to read books freely and not be worried about which one (or several) of your soul cards you won't need that day.

[Sepulchurz]

Also I'm curing my malady with a combination of Sunny(weather card), Assam Tea(drink), Wist(soul), and Watchman's Paradoxes (skill).

[General Ginger]

Originally posted by Pandorian:

Originally posted by Tiberius25:

Bed + Relevant type/amount of aspect it wants + drink. Make sure the malady is in the bottom left slot.

Are you sure that is what they are asking? I think they are trying to remove the disease from the book itself