Fostbite
--INJURY (MAJOR)--
Effect: "-2 to Strength stat"
Cost to remove: 3 funds
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As an 'Injury', a Frostbite can be removed by visiting the Doctor's Office at the 'Hospital' location for a +2% increase to DOOM, the player character can click on their injuries individually and pay a certain amount of Funds to either remove or reduce the level of Injury inflicted. Injuries come in three levels, ranging from Major, Minor, and Stabilized. By going through surgery, you can reduce a Major injury to a Minor injury, or a Minor Injury to a Stabilized injury...Some Minor Injuries and all Stabilized injuries remove themselves from the Status Effects page after solving a mystery, whereas all Major Injuries and many Minor Injuries remain with you until you have them cured.
Also, many of the Injury status effects also stack, even if they are copies. Injuries can be inflicted randomly by events on occasion, but most injuries in the game are actually caused in combat by enemies that have special rules/skills that inflict Injuries if you do not successfully block or dodge certain attacks or certain weapon types, or you take too long to kill said enemy before a certain turn passes.
Frostbite, out of all Injuries, is both the rarest Major injury and the easiest to acquire Major Injury in the World of Horror. That is because it does not form under any normal circumstances, only in events that expressively dictate a below freezing temperature or is inflicted by enemies that have a special skill that causes Frostbite on unblocked hits.
Frostbite is a direct -2 to a character's Strength stat. This is an intensely brutal Major Injury for most characters, however it is so rare that being inflicted with more than one Frostbite at a time is unlikely...And the usual problematic risk of going to 0 or Negative strength stat, isn't such an issue.
This is because(To my knowledge and so far), there is only one event in the entire game of World of Horror that can inflict Frostbite, and always will inflict Frostbite if you do not choose and succeed a certain choice in it...The 'Otherworld' event, 'Boreal Expanse'.
Overall, the best way to stop being afflicted with the Frostbite status effect is by avoid visiting events that can cause Frostbite and utilizing your two most important defensive actions in combat. Dodge or Block.