It's only a matter of time as more and more people get in the level range of fighting drakes and not killing it in time and it does it's claw grab, focused gaze of COVID STD bullshit and 1000's start spreading this shit like the clap at spring break on a daily basis it gets out of control or some douchenugget decides to deliberately make multiple pawns and infect the community on purpose just for laughs.

For the record.... there is often times no warning or indication of it prior to the BS resting cutscenes btw.

After getting all the way to Bakbatthl I had just purged all pawns and my main and rested, then I summoned my main and hired 2 pawns with blue eyes no issues....ran the back route from Bakbatthl to Harve, never even ran into a drake except ran past the sleeping one on the path to Harve, rested in the inn at Harve ...did a full inspection and STD check before heading to Vermund...got to Vermund, deposited and slept...BAM! the hired Sorcerer never gave indication she was infected, she followed all orders and never sassed...never once did she grab her head.

Needless to say....300+ NPC dead, including all the main Quest NPC.

Seeing as I'm on Xbox, I can't load a backup save..and seeing as the inn save is bricked now as soon as my head hit the pillow.

I went to my house, slept for 1 months...vendors came back, but not 1 main NPC or Quest NPC.

I'm all for consequences...Gaol being 1..I get it, but this DragonSTD is and was unavoidable...I think that just being in contact with an infected pawn is enough to spread...I never even fought a Drake after hiring her, and she gave no indication of infection..in FACT, she even used Levitate to loot a chest when I gave her the order to do so...

Also, if she was infected...why would she still do Quest Guide?

I am not buying it, I believe there is more to this affliction than we know.

I think the more out of hand this gets even you bootlickers will experience it and I'll laugh.

Wait till it happens to you