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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thornir Alekeg" data-source="post: 5157250" data-attributes="member: 15651">An illness not seen in the land in over 50 years has returned and has begun afflicting children and young adults who have never been exposed to it.  Last time it was seen, magic rituals were able to cure indvidual cases of the affliction, but it was found that the rituals did not prevent the person from becoming ill again and the plague continued to circulate widely.  An Order of Druids from the east devised a poultice that both cured the illness, and seemed to protect people from becoming ill, but not having been seen in so long, nobody recalls how the poultice was made.The PCs are hired to venture east and find one of the Druids of this Order to obtain the forumla for the poultice.  Once there, they find a frail old woman who can give them the formula, but of course two of the components needed are diffcult to obtain.  One of them is the leaves of the Sarlawood tree.  The trees have been eradicated from settled, cultivated lands as they prevent other crops from growing nearby.  The old Druid knows of a grove of them located in the wilds to the north.  The leaves can be fresh or dried, but you must not use fallen leaves that may be contaminated with a mold that renders them useless.  A large sack of them would be enough to make poultice for a small city or a several towns.  The second component is the shell of stirge eggs.   Three-score eggshells would be the amount needed for a small cities worth of poultice.</blockquote>

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