Mercurial is a mental ailment that is supposed to cause a companion to suffer periods of maximum and nonexistent loyalty. It is randomly caused when resting or travelling below 30 Sanity. However, probably due to a coding oversight, it does not work as described and appears to have no effect other than changing/adding some flavor text.
Like most mental ailments, it may be cleansed with a Green Mushroom, cleansing at a Shaman Hut, or with the random blessing of Pure Mind from a temple.
Trivia[]
This ailment was called Bipolar in older versions of the game, and is still referred to as such in the game files.
| Mental | Acrophobia • Alcoholic • Angry • Cannibal • Claustrophobic • Cursed • Dendrophobia • Faithless (RIVALS only) • Kleptomania • Lepidopterophobia • Light Mental Exhaustion (RIVALS only) • Local • Medium Mental Exhaustion (RIVALS only) • Mercurial • Paranoid • Pyromaniac • Racist • Renounced • Sexist • Strong Mental Exhaustion (RIVALS only) • Superstitious |
| Physical | Enemy Attention • Followed • Hallucinations • Hearing Loss • Infected Wound • Injured • Jungle Rot • Malaria • Overburden • Pneumonia • Rabies • Scurvy • Sprained Ankle • Strange Biting Mark • Viewing Loss |