Cure
Cure verb - To bring about recovery from.
Damages
Damages noun - A sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury.
Both words in one sentence
- The Dune Scorpions in Elements have a unique ability, neurotoxin, which is a death sentence to the opponent - if the Dune Scorpion damages their opponent just once they become poisoned, the poison gets worse every time they play a card, and there's only one card that can cure them.
- Cure Your Gays: Subverted wholesale, where the whole movie is about how Genesis House doesn't work, and in fact, for all the good it does Mark in getting him away from drugs, seriously damages many if not most of the guys there — up to and including driving one of them to attempt suicide.
Source: Film / Save Me - The later games in the Wizardry series feature a particularly nasty Stone effect — it damages vitality the same as dying, and when you do cure a stoned character, it's quite possible they died while stoned, necessitating resurrection and inflicting the vitality loss for dying...
Source: Standard Status Effects
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