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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eltab" data-source="post: 8037688" data-attributes="member: 6803337">The local leadership is "a hydra" - a bunch of people each doing their own thing, not working together.  Use Dangerous Liasons to get a feel for the local nobility: other people (especially lower-class people) are just pawns to be played with.One noble is all for a lockdown right away in his neighborhood: he wants the plague-ridden peasants off the streets and out of his way when he and his family / entourage get outta town, probably on a breezy day (to "blow away the vapors / miasma")Two important leaders are more interested in blaming each other for every bad-news item that happens, than in addressing the problem.The local cleric of the god(dess) of disease is giving out advice for how to catch the plague, not how to stay away from it, because that is what his deity wants.  Folks come to him and ask "What should we do?" and he answers them, ignoring the fact they really mean "What should we do to protect ourselves? "Somebody has found a treatment - but the hoi-polloi or the rabble don't get to make important decisions or tell The Important People what to do.Somebody's gonna do it: "It's the halflings / elves / dragonborns / humans fault, they brought it with them!"  (Pick any race / group that is locally a small fraction of the population.)  Maybe a pogrom starts, maybe nobody will show up to be in the middle of an angry mob.Rumors that sound reasonable are flying: fresh fruits & veggies make you strong to shrug it off, take a bath every day (the muddy river doesn't count), it is a vapor in the air so carrying something that smells strongly (spices or perfumes not troglodytes) will break it up, get sick to your stomach to purge it out of you, chugging beer means you won't feel sick, snake oil cures anything so it will cure this too.  One rumor could even be part of the solution.</blockquote>

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