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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CanadienneBacon" data-source="post: 6609574" data-attributes="member: 11146">[section][align=left]http://i57.tinypic.com/zy9095.jpg[/align]Brue secured her own bandana about her nose and mouth, then proceeded to the red stake, where she stopped.  When Holt approached, she gave him a once-over, examining his person, armor, blade, and what she could see of his eyes.  When the Captain seemed ready, Brue launched into her appeal.  "Thank you for your indulgence in hearing me out, Captain.  Lawkeeper Greycastle recruited me two-fold, to keep the peace, and to look into the cause of the plague.  I admit the cause interests me less than a cure, sir."  Brue hedged.  This was the most she was about to say since waking, and the anticipation of an audience with Captain Holt had built over the course of the day.  She chose her words with care, wanting to be succinct but also with an eye to persuading the Captain.  "I've spoken with Greycastle, twice with Coinmaster Cooper, and met with Mistress Janelle, as well as the town's armorer,  Brue touched her new chain shirt, taking pains to make sure the Captain saw the deputy's emblem pinned to her breast, ". . . and the learned apothecary, Master Boddynock, who some call 'Vials.'"  Brue waited a beat to see whether Captain Holt recognized the names of several of the town's more prominent citizens.  "It's Master Boddynock who suggests he's got a cure, Captain.  I've visited him at his home, seen his research.  Brue had to think a moment to come up with a word better than "experiments," the nature of which she admitted privately might dissuade the Captain.  She continued, undaunted, "I don't rightly understand how Master Boddynock's arrived at his conclusion, but I did gather at a minimum from speaking with him this afternoon that he believes a certain kind of mushroom that grows in the Wealdath can be distilled somehow to make a cure for the disease here in town.  He showed me his work, said he was close, but that he needed more Fairy Cap mushrooms.  He was down to his last one, you see."  Brue forged on with her plea.  "Master Boddynock knows precisely where these mushrooms grow, he's told me they're in the Wealdath, and offered to give a sketch of the fungus, along with a map to their location."  "I admit I'm no native, so you're right to wonder why I care.  I couldn't say, except there's suffering in Mosstone, sir, and the people are uneasy.  I think what I propose is the right and honorable thing to do, no mistake.  But it's also practical.  There was a fist fight over the plague just this morning at the Mossy Nymph.  Greycastle and I broke up the fight handily enough, but folks is troubled, sir.  Janelle mentioned the fight wasn't the first.  Nor will it be the last, I wager.  I overheard people at the tavern just now, concerned for their crops and harvest.  Folks don't do well couped up like rats.  What's more, I'm given to understand that the plague's put a strain on relations with neighbors, if you take my meaning.  I understand the reason for the quarantine, and I say you're right to impose and right to keep it.  Tethyr can't afford to let the lid loose on this one.  The sooner the disease is done away with, the sooner we all get put back to rights.  Coinmaster Cooper said the druids in the forest can't help, they're away for the next while.  Mosstone hasn't a healer.  I'm sure you and your men at arms don't fancy being garrisoned in what amounts to a backwater.  You're soldiers, better purposed for other things."  Brue drew herself to her full stature.  "I think, Captain, these Fairy Cap mushrooms might be the answer, may be a cure.  And since I wasn't here when the plague started, haven't yet taken sick, and have been deputized, mayhap I'm the right one to go to fetch them.  Folks're less likely to miss me than someone more important like Greycastle or the Coinmaster.  And the town can't spare Janelle, no doubt about that.  I'd rather thought you might permit me through the gate, mayhap give an escort to the Wealdath and back.  That way, you know where I am at all times, maintain control over the venture."[/section]  Brue finished.  She eyed the Captain, waiting his reaction.[ooc]I need to look up inspiration, how to use it.  Suffice to say I definitely want to apply it to the roll I'm about to make.[/ooc][roll0]</blockquote>

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