Ice body and immune

[happykj]

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Your form transmutes into living ice, granting you several abilities. You gain the cold subtype and damage reduction 5/magic. You are immune to ability score damage, blindness, critical hits, deafness, disease, drowning, electricity, poison, stunning, and all spells or attacks that affect your physiology or respiration, because you have no physiology or respiration while this spell is in effect. You cannot drink (and thus can’t use potions) or play wind instruments.

If a wizard has ability score damage, and then he cast Ice Body. Do the damage still remains after he is immune to it?

What if he is deaf or blind? Do he temporarily recover his vision or hearing during Ice body?

I thinking it might work like Delay Poison, which will stop those existing effect and prevent any new effect within the duration, and after the duration the character will suffer those effects again. But is there any specific rule that explain this?

[AwesomenessDog]

Gut reaction is you ignore the effects of existing ability damage/conditions, can't get new ones while the spell is active, but when the spell ends, the suppressed ones you already had are not cured and come back.

The spell doesn't say you are cured of the abilities so there is no reason to believe you would be, but neither does "immunity to X" say anything about whether you are explicitly only blocked from just taking new effects, or if it also overrides existing conditions. It just wasn't written in a way that expected immunity to be transient.

[Pizza Lord]

You are affected by things that are already affecting you unless it wouldn't make sense. I would say you are affected by any ability damage you already have. If you got a Con or Str penalty because some parasite ate most of your flesh or something, even though your flesh (that you had remaining) isn't really affected, you're still missing parts. Same if a hawk clawed out your eyes and made you blind.

If you're weak or hungry or injured, your ice body will have the same effects on it. If you were fatigued from lack of sleep and had taken 6 nonlethal damage, you would technically still have 6 nonlethal damage. Same if you had taken some magical cold damage. It wouldn't go away because you became immune to cold. Any continuing cold effects would stop affecting you.

If you were diseased beforehand and had taken ability damage, you will still have that damage in ice form. The disease won't affect you in ice form, but if you had leprosy and had twisted, gnarled limbs, then you will be an ice person with twisted, gnarled limbs.

Just like delay poison or neutralize poison can render such effects moot or delayed, they don't return or counter damage or effects that already happened. If you get drugged with a poison and it renders you unconscious, becoming immune to poison won't suddenly wake you back up. Same in this instance for the effects you are asking. If you're a blind and deaf person, you just become a blind and deaf ice-bodied person. The effect doesn't cure you of anything.

The same with any potion you drank. They don't stop working just because you can't drink potions after becoming ice form.

[Mysterious Stranger]

Delay Poison does not cure any damage that poison has already done. So, I would say that it does work like Delay Poison which means any damage or conditions you had prior to the spell being cast still remain.