Thanks Kelly, that's the one!
I loved Legacy of Heorot too.
The notion of being less smart and knowing you used to be smarter, faster, etc... ick. My mom ran into that as a nurse when a teen with about a 150 IQ went to a dance and some teenage moron spiked the punch. It turned out she had an incredibly severe alcohol intolerance. The damage the punch did never let her regain an IQ above 90 but she could remember how smart she had been... talk about a living purgatory.
Maybe a short article for Jeff at FT could be "alternate consequences to cryoberth mishaps" and include losses of INT, EDU (and maybe PSI too since it's a brain thing). It might also impair dex. Or other issues more specific than stat reductions. Maybe some could be treated and healed, others would be permanent (or require a much higher TL to repair).
That might be a fun minor addition to the game universe, especially if the only way you could travel (for work, for political freedom, whatever) was a multi-hope low passage.... eeep!
TomB