Kython Poison in Rat Hill

[Lirith]

I think something might be wonky with the poison/disease incubation code.

I was fighting rats in Rat Hill, receiving several of the usual "You feel no less healthy after a frenzied dire rat's diseased attack." messages in the process. A short time later, I got the following message:

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Your pulse returns to normal.
You feel poison course through you.

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 Mental state: You feel great.
 Spells and other magical affects
  Affected: Hide indefinitely
  Affected: Sneak indefinitely
  Affected: Broodling kython poison indefinitely
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From what I recall, the typical outcome in Rat Hill is one of the diseases (filth fever?), not a poison and certainly not kython poison. This is a low level PC who was been nowhere near any kythons on any occasion.
The affect was healed normally at a healer with cure poison.

Could the code be choosing one of them at random and in addition not distinguishing between disease and poison?

[Lirith]

Moving this to unconfirmed as the character in question later did develop filth fever as expected.

[Raona]

The diseases actually translate to numbers, so the lookup table may have a glitch. I know of at least one other case where someone who'd never encountered a kython saw it in Aff.

Anyone else out there have any experience with this? If so, was it in Rat Hill? (If so, that narrows the search for a mis-code of a disease there as broodling kython.)

[Raona]

I've checked the race tables and the poisons in the skill table and can find nothing amiss. Also no replies here, so unless we get more data I'm going to consider this rare and leave it in unconfirmed for now. I know of only two cases (and the first required immtervention, as at that time the cure poison spell didn't work on the kython poisons, either).

If you come down with Kython poisoning and were nowhere near a Kython, please do let us know here, along with what you had fought and where you had been recently. Thanks!