Vampirism Doesn't Work Like I Thought It Did

[David Brasher]

My witch-hunter character who specializes in vampires catches porpyric hemophilia all the time. He caught it and forgot about it. Four hours later, he went to bed and woke up as a vampire. (Are vampire hunters supposed to commit suicide at this point? Or are they supposed to be like Blade and keep on hunting vampires? I think getting cured is sort of cheesy and unique to TES games.)

 

I had thought that every time you caught porphyric hemophilia, a three day timer started, at the end of which you became a vampire if not cured. If cured, I thought the timer resets to 0.

 

I suppose that you become a vampire if you sleep when you have the disease exactly three days later than when you caught it, even if you have been cured and reinfected all within this same three day time-period.

 

I guess the only prophylaxis is making sure you are not diseased each night before you go to bed.

 

Can anyone explain what happened to my poor vampire hunter?

[Sarya]

Well, yes, it is as you say. But, you see, it counts tree days not since you go to bed, but since you get infected. If you ran around for three days or more without sleeping, then don't be surprised by your "Voila!" after a short nap. Was that so? If not, then do you use any related mods?

[David Brasher]

I caught porpyric hemophilia and was awake for four hours after that as I made my way to town. Then I went to sleep for eight hours. I don't remember if becoming a vampire wakes you up in the middle of the night, or if you notice it in the morning when you get up. But even if that were the case, it would have been a 12-hour incubation period, rather than a 72-hour one.

 

I do not have any mods that alter vampirism. (Unless someone made a dirty mod or mod with undocumented vampirism changes.)

 

My vampire hunter character catches the disease every day if I am finding lots of vampires to fight, but I drink a cure disease potion after each vampire lair I clear out. So although I might have the disease every day for three days in a row, I might also have cured it two or three times during that time period.

[Sarya]

Interesting. Then it's a bug. I can't say I slept much while being diseased, except the cases when I intended it to work, but all those times it worked right, tough sometimes 3-day-term was indeed shorter, even if a little. I would ask for a mod list, but that's not the case when I'm of help to point a problematic mod. Hmmm... if nothing helps, then maybe you may try to check Porphyric Hemophilia script, make sure it works as you need (resetting the term properly, I mean), or even turn off Porphyric Hemophilia completely and save as .esp, since you don't seem to need it.

 

As simple alternative you may do approximately as you suggested, like drinking a cure potion before sleep, but checking if you are actually diseased first. You don't have to use potions for that, a simple mandrake root will do.

 

Edit: hmmm, maybe this means something. Do you have anything editing timescale that could bug somewhere as well?