>>106307514Coming down with a case of the Hoo in childhood is a bit of a rite of passage among Hoomans. Hooties who have the Hoo are unable to properly speak while they have the illness, instead only HOOOOOOOOO'ing very loudly. They're also much more emotionally volatile when they have the Hoo, though many believe the former symptom plays into this.
There are a few quirks with this disease. The first of these is that no Hooman suffers from it twice. The current medical assumption is that the body builds up an immunity to whatever causes the disease during/after first becoming ill. A way to concentrate the loud HOOOOOOO's into a few obnoxious days of the year instead of being sporadically spread out is to have "Hooing sessions", where Hooties who have the Hoo are brought to hang out with other, healthy Hooties in an effort to get them all sick at once. The concern of death from this disease is minimal, as nohoot has yet been documented to have died directly from the Hoo. Thus, Hooing sessions are treated by the communities that practice them as a sort of "ripping off the bandage" approach to the Hoo.
The second oddity with the Hoo is one that only began with the existence of the Morbs. For whatever reason, some Femhooties suffer from severe coughing fits while sick with the Hoo. These same Hooties, when asked about these fits, often claim to see visions of things that would occur in the near future. In most cases, this apparent precognition is lost upon recovery. The few exceptions to this are the ones who become Morbs. This has naturally led to speculation that the Hoo's origin and spread are divine in nature, possibly as a consequence of the Pestilence of Kyun that befell the Nameless One.
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>>106308908We do our best. Of course, it always helps to have new posters working on things. The more the merrier!
