[Tuidjy]

> Tuidjy, nurse maid of MA Man

Actually, head geriatrician of Pythium, thank you very much. MA Man's is the
capital these octagenerians are besieging.

> I'm reasonably certain it's not that it's double-probability, but that Midwinter
> is the *only* time old age is the direct cause of afflictions.

Yes, that is correct. What I meant is that Midwinter is the time where already
diseased, old people seem to take an take an extra point of damage. One that
regeneration sometimes fails to negate. And more critically, when that extra
point kills, immortality and twice born seems to fail.