... I guess Estus could be considered a drug given using it means you literally need to take it in order to live... and you can even somehow drink it through a full-faced helmet.

Also, [@gentlemanvaultboy], The Yharnum Blood subplot should probably focus more on shutting down the distributors.

For the IC reason of Yggdrasil's disease control probably being pretty good, and also the OOC reason of avoiding things getting too stuck in a plot about it.

Even if punching out a certain... uh... thing with... thing that has... thing named after a portion of the brain could be a fun "boss" encounter the actual infection part should probably be kept fairly minor.