All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
~

I have removed all mention of redundancy, now nobody gets punished. This is mostly about making Sickness its own rule, with specific kinds of sickness (Scurvy, Cabin Fever, etc.) their own rules that change the value of the sickness column.

1) Make a new rule called “Sickness” that says:

The GNDT contains a column called ‘Sickness’. The eligible values are ‘Cabin Fever’, ‘Scurvy’. and ‘None’. If ever a captain has an undefined value for Sickness, eir Sickness value shall be changed to ‘None’.

2) In the rule “Scurvy” replace the following sentence:

This is to be tracked in the GNDT under Sickness. The eligible values are ‘Scurvy’ and ‘None’.

with:

Eir Sickness value in the GNDT shall be changed to ‘Scurvy’.

3) Remove the sentence “New captains have a sickness of ‘none’.” from the rule “Scurvy” (if the rule contains this sentence) since it will be handled by the “Sickness” rule.

4) Add a rule called “Cabin Fever” that says:

If a captain’s Location is set to Sea for more than a week straight, that Captain has contracted Cabin Fever and eir Sickness value in the GNDT shall be changed accordingly. A captain with Cabin Fever may not change eir Location by the rule “Homeland”. As a daily action a captain with Cabin Fever may roll 1DICE50 to try to escape the doldrums. A result of 0 to 24 means the captain is still stuck in the doldrums. A result of 25 to 44 means the captain can make it back to eir homeland (eir location shall be changed to either Port or Home Land, as determined by the text of the rule “Home Land”). A result of 45 to 50 means that the captain has shown great skill in eir escape and may change eir location to any legal value.

If the Location of a captain with Cabin Fever is ever not “Sea” eir Sickness shall be set to “None”.

5) If the majority of the comments for this proposal that have active FOR votes contain the words “Cabin Fever saps your strength” add the following text to the end of the aformentioned “Cabin Fever” rule:

Starting the day after a captain’s Sickness is set to Cabin Fever, each following day at 0:00 AM, if that captain’s Sickness is still set to Cabin Fever, that captain’s army is reduced by DICE5.

As stated in the glossary, this rule cannot reduce a captain’s army to below zero.