I can't edit my last reply and I don't want to seem confrontational by replying to someone else so this is a follow up response: While I'm hardly opposed to things that shake up the status quo or village wide events, I *am* opposed to something as not opt-out-ably horrible torture-porn-y as a redux of that illness shift. It worked for back then! But now, it doesn't suit the mood of the game at all in my opinion. The Malnosso's shifts on the population have been steadily less and less violent, so I don't want to see that roll back.

But I'm not opposed to things which shake up the status quo either (hell, I welcome it) but I would caution doing a ROLL BACK TO THE OLD DAYS thing.