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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Byrons_Ghost" data-source="post: 963585" data-attributes="member: 7396">Visha/Cadwyn: The Chapel of IllirBrother Albert motions you to a side table, where a small bowl of blue bulb roots sits. They give off a pungent odor, similar to garlic."We received these from Marian, who runs the apothecary shop. She also acts as town midwife. She called it 'blueroot'. It wasn't actually able to cure the plague, but it did temporarily stabilize those who were in the early stages of infection. Alas, it only added another day or two to their lives in most cases: the disease rapidly progessed to a point where the blueroot had not effect."Visha recognizes the plant, although he was unaware that it grew in this area. [Game Effects: If taken when the symptoms of a disease first appear, blueroot holds of the effects of the disease for one day only, regardless of how many treatments are given. Any damage already taken from the disease remains in place during the lull period.]Brother Albert continues, "As far as we know, the first to catch the disease appeared among Sir Lohgin's men. There's some confusion as to who exactly was first. Sir Lohgin came to us early one morning about a week ago and said that several of his men, who had seemed unwell the previous evening, were now deathly ill with some plague he had not seen. He himself got sick later that day. I can't think of any actions to which the start of the plague could be traced- there were no strangers in town, or other mysterious events, and none of the guards had been travelling recently.""As for the symptoms: it began as a normal fever, nausea and chills followed by weakness and a burning sensation. After several hours the patient begins to develop large boils all about the body- some of them even growing together into patches. By the end of the first day, the boils have collapsed and begun to drain into the body, and the flesh they sat on begins to rot away with infection. Depending on the strength and health of the person, they would last another twelve to twenty-four hours before literally wasting away.""The disease was not magical, so far as we could tell. What few healing spells we have are for flesh wounds and minor injuries, not crises such as this. We sent for more experienced help, but we are a remote village, and word doubtless took some time to reach you. Now that you are here, things seems to be slowing down. But it is still glad that you are here as an official presence- without Sir Lohgin's garrison, we are open prey to bandits, raiding bands from Canceri, all sorts of other dangers."Brother Albert pauses for a moment, then says "I actually have a theory about the disease. I think that only certain people were susceptible to it- something in their blood, perhaps, or a peculiar alignment of humors. I think this is why it came so quickly, and left just as suddenly once it ran out of victims. What this condition that protected the survivors is, I could not say. But I hope that this is the case, and that we will not see this plague again."</blockquote>

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