Tired Moodle
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| Class | Moodles |
| Type | Bad Moodle |
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The Tired Moodle shows that a character needs sleep. It appears after staying awake for a long time, and it has four levels.
Fatigue weakens a character badly. The vision cone narrows, melee damage drops and aim gets worse. Endurance recovers more slowly, and at the worst level it stops recovering at all. Body heat generation falls too. A tired fighter is in real danger, so sleep matters as much as food and water.
Tired Moodle Levels
The moodle grows through these stages, from mild to worst.
| Level | Name |
|---|---|
| 1 | Drowsy |
| 2 | Tired |
| 3 | Very Tired |
| 4 | Ridiculously Tired |
Tired Moodle Causes
Fatigue rises steadily while the character is awake. Without other effects, a full day awake takes a fresh character to full exhaustion.
Endurance changes the pace. Fatigue rises faster as endurance drops, and at zero endurance it climbs about three times as fast. Hard work and long fights therefore make a character tired much sooner.
Sitting or resting slows fatigue a little. Sleeping tablets raise tiredness on purpose, to help a character fall asleep.
The Wakeful trait slows fatigue gain. The Sleepyhead trait speeds it up.
Tired Moodle Effects
Drowsy is the first level. Its tooltip reads "Could do with a lie-down." The vision cone starts to narrow. Endurance recovers much more slowly. Melee damage drops by half, and ranged accuracy suffers. Pushing zombies away gets harder, and the foraging radius shrinks.
Tired is the second level. The vision cone and awareness radius narrow further. Endurance recovery becomes very slow. Melee damage falls to a fraction of normal, and aim gets worse again.
Very Tired is the third level. The character can barely think straight. Endurance recovery is almost useless. Melee damage is close to nothing, and aim is poor.
Ridiculously Tired is the last level. Endurance stops recovering entirely. The vision cone is very small, and melee damage is almost gone. At this level, the character can sleep even when in pain, and can sleep on the ground. The character stays conscious even here, but survival becomes almost impossible.
How to Fix the Tired Moodle
Sleep is the cure. A character can only fall asleep once the first level appears. The more tired the character is, the longer the sleep lasts.
Sleep usually needs a bed or similar spot, though the worst level allows sleep on the ground. A safe, barricaded room keeps a sleeping character from being caught off guard.
Caffeine pills and caffeinated drinks reduce tiredness for a while. They help push through an emergency, but sleep is still needed later.
Sitting down to rest slows fatigue between tasks.
Tired Moodle Traits
Wakeful means the character needs less sleep, and fatigue rises more slowly. Sleepyhead means the character needs more sleep, and fatigue rises faster. Night Owl means the character requires little sleep and stays extra alert while sleeping. Restless Sleeper slows the loss of tiredness during sleep, so each night's rest takes longer.
Notes
- Sleep as soon as Drowsy appears to avoid the worst penalties.
- Avoid fights while tired, since melee damage falls sharply.
- Caffeine buys time, but sleep is still needed.
- Low endurance makes fatigue rise much faster.
- Night Owl and Wakeful both cut the time lost to sleep.
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