Hello all! Running into this issue where whenever I have a day or two I don't work on Farwoods I need a full week to properly reset myself and get back in the groove. Any of you ever experience that?

Anyway, here's a sneak peek video for bathing. As previously mentioned I expect people will be able to run bathhouses, and you can use the soap on yourself, or someone else can use it on you. No, there's no cleaning skill; it's just for vibes and roleplay. Well, there is a stamina cost to scrubbing someone down, so heavily-minmaxed, anemic mages or stamina-poisoned individuals might not have the stamina to bathe themselves and might need someone else to do it for them.

As mentioned before, soaps are subject to Medicine and Skullduggery and can be imbued with very long-lasting effects, for good or for ill, on the person being cleaned. You'll also be able to take hot or cold baths; the fireplace is just for atmosphere in this, you will have to heat up the water for a hot bath. Cold baths will require you to bathe outside in cold temperatures, at least for now; in the future there may be other ways to make water cold. Either one will have a different lasting effect on you you won't get from a room temperature bath. But the basics of hygiene, as you can see, are very simple: if you start feeling dirty, fill a tub with water, rest in it, use soap on yourself. Everything else is just mechanics you can choose to engage with optionally for added benefits.

Next I'll be implementing the soap effects and crossing this off the list, moving on to the diseases that keeping good hygiene and bathing regularly will protect you against.