>>34633219
>"She's breathing poisonous air! Each breath she takes could spread it to anyone standing near her!"

Well, it's not exactly how airborne diseases spread, but it's close enough considering Jack comes from an era where humans can't into microbes yet.

Also, this is my first time catching a thread in two weeks, feels good.

>>34633219
>"She's breathing poisonous air! Each breath she takes could spread it to anyone standing near her!"
As much fun as those joke options are, this is serious and we don't want it biting us in the ass later.

>>34633219
>sweating sickness
>could only find one survivor when I was looking it up
>she was later accused of witch craft
We are in deep need of some hoodoo right now

>>34633219
>"She's breathing poisonous air! Each breath she takes could spread it to anyone standing near her!"

>>34633219
>"She's breathing poisonous air! Each breath she takes could spread it to anyone standing near her!"
close enough

Poisonous air! writing!

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"..Is that a toxic miasma, created from the ailments of the flesh, slowly seeps into the air from filthy places like swamps and graveyards. Sometimes the wind carries these poisonous clouds for miles into villages and towns. Making even more people sick, and as they are illed, they too breathe the same toxic fumes."

"..That's."
The princess goes from confused to worried. Camille answers for her,
"Quite a story, Jack. But it also goes against every explanation for sickness we have." She says with a smile, "You're probably just panicking."

"Whar? How do you explain illness, then?"
"Why that's simple!" She laughs.

She walks inside the room and points to something along the doorway,
"What happens is that evil spirits drift about in the world, looking for those whose souls are unprotected. All you have to do is make sure is lock the evil spirit away and wait for it to get bored and leave! And it can't jump to anyone else here, because look-"

You walk inside the doorway, and you see that there is a tiny white string lining the perimeter of the room.

"This white string is made from an enchanted rope, and keeps the spirit from leaping into anyone else who sees her. So everyone in here should be just fine." She says with a smile.

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>>34634206
>Using actual magic voodoo to prevent the spread of disease
In their world that probably actually works, but unless their spirit barrier is calibrated to repel microbes as well as ghosts we're all fucked.

>>34634206
Oh god damn it they are backwards retards, shove them out and board up the damn room

>>34634206
>inb4 pandemic:dog days edition

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>>34634206
>Slowly back out of the room covering your mouth and flee the country. This place will be a dead zone soon

>>34634206
We should maybe point out the mortality rate of this disease.

>>34634282
>>34634285
>>34634327
Like >>34634280 said, that probably works for illnesses in this world.

But they're not dealing with a sickness from their world, this is from OUR world, and it won't follow the same rules.

>>34634206
O Lord.... this bad.

>>34634206
Also Announcer, I just wanted to let you know that I'm enjoying this quest so much, I actually go back and reread previous threads, over and over while waiting for new ones. Especially over the weekend.

>>34634364
Everyone-1?

>>34634206
Holy shit we're all gonna die

>>34634411
it wasn't that bad. From what i'm reading it killed a lot of the people that caught it, but if you survived for 24 hours after initial symptoms you would probably survive.

>>34634364
absolutely we should also try to explain this >>34634366

>>34634366
I seriously doubt that, they probably never have to deal with disease because how their world works, so for the few guys that got a cold they tried this shit and it worked

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>>34634366
M-maybe diseases ARE actually ghosts but because real humans aren't magic we never knew about it and just found a different way to deal.

That could also be true, right? RIGHT?

>>34634510
>humans aren't magic
tell that to the witches of salem

>>34634497
I doubt the Barrier really applies to illness, or if it does, it's probably not /that/ convenient.

>>34634206
This is some plague doctor level stupid

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>>34634206
You feel dumbfounded, "And that is what you think creates illness? And that a string is going to prevent it from spreading?"

"Eyup! She probably has a really persistent spirit, so lots of maids need to be constantly showering her with the good remedies of the body, water, food, clean bedding. That sort of stuff."
You can feel your body physically clench, your posture tightens.
"Lass, d-does it have to be 'lots of maids'? Maybe just one or two would be good enough?"
"Nope! She needs lots of positive life energy, evil spirits hate that kind of thing."

Your hands clutch to your head.
"Oh! So you think it's okay to keep treating her?" The princess looks overjoyed by this news.
"Yup! Just be sure to wear white, that repels the bad feelings in her-"
"WAIT! WAIT! HOLD ON!"

You regain your composure, but you are two seconds away from building a raft and paddling as far away from this place as possible.

"..Is there any treatment or anything you had in mind that could possibly relieve this ailment?" This is a magic place, right? It should have magic treatments.

The princess ponders to herself, "There is this mushroom that is supposed to treat fevers and sweating, they use it at the bar in town. I didn't really know if it would work on repelling an evil spirit. But now we must absolutely treat our hero and make sure she does-"
"WAIT!"
"Hmm?"
"Can ye just, keep a few maids feeding her, and not go in yourself?"

She looks really irritated now, "Mr. Albator, if you're suggesting that I cut down on the number of staff tending to her, then you can forget it. She is MY hero, she is my responsibility. If I have to nurse her back to health myself, I would do it without a second thought."

"Then-"

>"I'll go RIGHT NOW to that bar and get those mushrooms, even easing her fever might help her recover faster."
>"I'll go in the morning and get the mushrooms."
>"I'll ask around and see if anyone else knows something about illnesses."
>Other?

>>34634671
Repeat this.
>>34634366
It's a disease from Jack's world. It follows the rules of Jack's world, not here. Which means you could end up killing your maids by not cutting your staff.

>>34634671
>"Eyup"

>>34634671
>You listen and you listen good, shit back home ain't like it is here, we ain't dealing with no damn spirit, and there ain't no damn positive life energy either, we are dealing with the likes of something you have never seen, and it could damn well kill everyone in this damned kingdom, so you shut the fuck up an listen. Send someone to go get some mushrooms, you will limit the people treating her down to one or two maids, and everyone else will not be allowed in this damn room. Am I fucking understood?

>>34634671
>Other: Get somebody else to get the mushroom, stay here and co-ordinate operations

Also, make it damn clear she or some other champion brought a disease from our homeworld with her, and it doesn't work anything like what they have here

>>34634671
>"I'll go RIGHT NOW to that bar and get those mushrooms, even easing her fever might help her recover faster."

>>34634671
>"I'll ask around and see if anyone else knows something about illnesses."

They have an archmage, right? Maybe he has actual magic and not shrooms.

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>>34634671
>>"I'll go RIGHT NOW to that bar and get those mushrooms, even easing her fever might help her recover faster."
We might not be fans of the French, but I'll be damned if this one dies because of fluffy tailed stupidity.

Also we should point out as others said this is clearly a disease from our world. It probably doesn't follow the same... err "logic" they have here

>>34634756
Fuck, addendum, get some sort of cloth mask for ourselves,maybe stuffed with herbs. It probably won't do much but what the hell, it's what doctor's from Jack's time did for plague and shit.

>>34634671
>"Look, maybe what you said is how sickness works here, but this is from MY- er, OUR world. It follows different rules."
>For now, I'll go get those mushrooms NOW, maybe it'll help her keep her strength up to lessen her fever

>>34634671
>"I'll go RIGHT NOW to that bar and get those mushrooms, even easing her fever might help her recover faster."

Has Jack happened to listen to any ravings of mad women in bars that might help? I mean witchcraft from our world would help a lot now

>>34634822
O Lord lets do this!

>>34634826
>>34634822
Seconding this, get us a mask, and recommend the same for anyone going into the room

>>34634671
>>"I'll go RIGHT NOW to that bar and get those mushrooms, even easing her fever might help her recover faster."

And >>34634716 too

>>34634822
Right, it does us no good to catch the sickness our self. Better to prevent the sickness from ever getting than trying to cure it later

If they refuse to follow plague quarantine procedure, will we have to kill her to try and prevent an outbreak? Jack did mention last thread that those with the sweating sickness back home get thrown into the water to die, after all.

>all this panic
>it'll turn out camille was right

>>34634983
If it does, I'll be relieved and we can eat some crow for being wrong.

That's okay. But even if what they're doing prevents it from spreading, it's clearly not doing much good in helping her get better.

I love the responses you guys have!


So, to recap things to do

>Tell them it's a disease from your world and doesn't behave at all like one from theirs
>That they probably should have realized this sooner
>Get some masks with herbs to keep the poisonous odors out for the maids
>Get the archmage and Aligot to look for a cure disease spell

And going and getting the mushrooms yourself barely edged out finding someone else to do it. You can leave someone here to enforce the quarantine on the room. Someone such as Aligot, perhaps?
Maybe you would want to take Camille with you in case she gets any ideas?

>>34635020
Also, I'm writing!

>inb4 we come back and they ignored the absolute hell out of us

>>34635020
Sure, we can leave Aligot in charge. After stressing that if he let's quarantine lax, he could end up being responsible for the deaths of thousands of people due to plague.

>>34635020
Yeah, get Aligot to take the helm while we're gone. He gets shit done as long as the job doesn't involve flirting with women.

>>34635020
I guess we can have Aligot can try to keep the quarantine. Not sure how effective he'll be but it's better than nothing stopping them from coming and going. Make sure we look him in the eye and be completely serious when we ask this. If he sees US serious, he'll probably believe it.

And Camille doesn't believe us anyway, so lets just go get this Mushrooms STAT.

>>34635152
This can only end in fun...

>>34635152
I bet camille is gonna try to sweet talk him into letting them treat her their stupid way

You know I wonder...

If diseases from our world come here, do they get stronger like we do when we got here?

>>34635279
All the more reason to take her with us.

>>34635279
>>34635370
...Actually, this is a good point. We should make Camille come with us so she doesn't try to convince the others to do it their way.

>>34635417
A good point.

>>34635417
Seconded.

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You grab Camille and the princess by the shoulders.
"Listen, both of yers, this. is. important. This isn't a disease from your world, this isn't even anything your world has EVER seen before. In my world, this was the most serious thing that could happen to a village or town, and you're letting your maids go in without a facemask or protective clothing. Aye'm not a doctor, but you need to listen to me just. this. once."

Camille doesn't seem amused, but sighs instead. The princess is the only one that looks convinced by your conviction.

"Okay Jack, I'm pretty sure we know what we're doing, but I don't really see the harm in entertaining your little game. "
She walks into the room and spins on her heel,

"So, what do we do first to repel disease? Stand in our heads?" She laughs like that's the funniest thing anyone ever said.
"No Lass, You need facemasks and adequate air in here, first."

You turn to the maid, "Get some of those masks that I saw the butchers using earlier, the ones they use to keep blood out of their mouths. You'll need enough for every person on staff. Pack them full of peppercorn, and do not share masks."
She nods, looking very confused at your orders. She wanders off down the hallway.

"Camille, you're coming with me."
"What?! But I need to stay here and-"
"I'll need help looking for these mushrooms, and I'm worried you'll just tell everyone to go into the room anyway. Let's go get someone to wait here in our stead."
She looks irritated at your comment, but you're not going to argue with her at a time like this.

>Cont.

>>34635597
Shes mad because we're right

>>34635663
Fox women.

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>>34635663
No bully the fox, they clearly haven't had the bone-deep terror of plague beaten into their collective conscious like humanity did.

>>34635791
She laughed at us, We are a pirate, the very idea of plague would make us visibly pants shitting terrified, and she laughed at us anyway. I will bully all I want.

>>34635827
So how long until we run into a plague demon?

>>34635827
Right. When the guy renowned for not giving a shit gets scared, then it's time to get worried.

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>>34635597
You walk into the Library, it's far larger here than it is back in Biscotti. You could easily get lost in a library like this for days at a time. Maids and scholars hop back and forth from bookshelf to bookshelf, taking books off and putting them back. The sound of papers shuffling is almost enough to drive anyone mad.
You're already mad, so you don't have time for this.

The silence is broken with a magnificent yell, "Aligot! ALIGOT! Get yer ass over here at once!"

There's the sound of some maids gasping and some scholars averting their eyes. You wonder to yourself if being a tremendous wuss is a prerequisite for being a scholar.

Aligot gingerly shuffles his way from the back of the library.
"Jack, what are you doing here?"
"I'm giving you yer first mission, Aligot." you grab his arm and pull him into the hallway.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm supposed to be deciphering that circle, what is more important than that?"
"Too long to explain, but someone is sick."

He stops, "So you want me to do something? I don't know anything about healing, maybe the archmage can help?"
"If he does, go get him later. Right now you're going to keep people out of a room."
"Uh, what?"

Your entourage approaches the room, the princess continues to stand outside pacing back and fourth.

"Simple Lad, if a maid comes here, and she doesn't have a facemask on, you don't let her in."
"..Jack you do realize that I don't have any authority here, right?" Aligot folds his arms.
"Then grow some authorities. I'm going to find a remedy, make sure you are still standing right here when I get back." You draw an X on the stone floor with your foot.

Leaning into his comfort zone, you cock your eye in the same way the Quartermaster used to when he wanted something done,
"Or else."

"Uhh." He backs against the wall, "Y-yes Jack."
"Good! I'll see ye in a few hours. Come on Camille."
She sighs, "Aye aye, Captain."

>Cont.

>>34636166
>she called us captain
I feel so fuzzy inside

>>34636166
>Leaning into his comfort zone, you cock your eye in the same way the Quartermaster used to when he wanted something done,
>"Or else."
I like Jack more and more.

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>>34636166
On your way out the door, you pass by Antonin.
"Antonin, Aye got a special job for you."
"Hmm?"
"Go to the room that the princess is standing outside of, and make sure that no one gets in that room without a facemask. There's a sick patient inside."
"A sick patient? Who is it?"
"Your Hero."

He pauses for a few seconds, looking toward his feet.
"I was wondering about that. I think I have a few questions for the princess myself if that's the case."
"Just remember, no one gets in the room without a mask."

He nods and waves as he walks off down the hallway. You're pretty surprised that everyone seems to be going along with you. Maybe it's because, deep down, they realize that they don't know what to do either.

You and Camille saddle up on her silly looking bird and head toward the direction of town. It's much closer to the castle than the town around Biscotti, so you should be able to make that trip to the bar in no time flat.

A half-hour later, the night is slowly starting to wane, dew falls onto the grass, and the matted dirt surrounding the village is swept up by shopkeepers opening their stores for the morning.

The bar has since filed out its patrons, leaving only a bored bartender polishing the furnishings and the counters.

"Sorry Folks, but I ran out of that a while ago. We're not like the fancy Inn back in Biscotti. Here, if you can't take your liquor, we just let you pass out until the morning."

"Is there any place I can get it? Someone's life, and maybe the lives of many more, are at stake."
The bartenders chuckles, like he thinks you're being dramatic.
"Well, you could try going to the Inn in Biscotti."
You know that this is at least a four to six hour round trip.

"Or, there's a nearby marsh where they grow. The wildlife there can be mighty fierce, but I remember simply going there and picking them when I cared enough to get 'em."

>Go back to Biscotti
>Try the marsh
>Ask somewhere else, you don't have time for this.

>>34636865
Marsh is faster.
Go Marsh.

>>34636865
>>Try the marsh

>>34636865
>Try the marsh
Oh boy...

>>34636865
>Try the marsh
Let's make sure we've got a good description of this shit, before we go and pick the wrong weed.

>>34636865
March to the marsh

Going to the marsh!

Writing!

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>>34636865
You pull Camille out before she has too many drinks. Spending some time browsing the potion shops, you eventually come to the conclusion that it's a wasted effort. You would think this
You take a note on what the mushroom looks like from the apothecary before setting off to the marsh.

The road starts to slowly decay and drop off. The once cobblestone-paved road decays into a light trail, and then a dusty path, and then a barely visible line of sand amongst the foliage and the trees.
You certainly hope Camille knows where it is, because you are completely lost right now.

"We're pretty close now" she says, adjusting her weight on the bird as it slowly starts to tread over muddy streams and moist ground.
"The girl at the shop said that it should grow under the shade of trees by the riverbank. Let's go on foot from here, Jack."

You both dismount and leave the bird someplace visible, one wrong turn out here could very easily mean getting lost for days.
Walking through the overgrown paths and mazes of trees. You come to the edge of a small lake.

"Over there!" Camille says, jumping onto a tree that has leaned over into the water.
On a root or some kind of small lump of sand, are three mushrooms with a red arrow pattern across their tops.

Camille swings on the tree and tries reaching for them, but is too short to grab them.

You get onto the tree with her, hooking your legs around the trunk of the tree, you hang upside-down to grab at the mushrooms.

>Roll 1d20, best of three

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>34637912
Grabbin' shrooms

>>34637935
Nice.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>34637912

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>34637912

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>>34637973

>>34637935
>>34637976
Alrig-
>>34637973
You son of a bitch cocksucking motherfucker

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>>34637973

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>>34637973

>>34637912
Chill out guys, 1s don't autofail us in this quest.

Welp here comes the plague.

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>>34637912
"Alright, almost got it lass, allmost, just a little more."

You whip your hand around and grab a mushroom firmly. You pass it up to Camille as she puts it in a sack.
"Aye'll grab a couple more fo-"

You can hear a light cracking noise coming from the base of the tree. You were aware it wouldn't hold your weight for very long, but felt it would at least be longer than this.
"LASS! GET OFF!"

Camille takes a running leap off the tree. You arch your arm along the trunk and start swinging until you have a good back and forth pace going, before propelling yourself onto dry land. You're pretty thankful of the super strength at times like this.

Both of you press and kick the base of the tree to see if it budges, but to no avail. It seems pretty sturdy right now.

"Okay, Aye'll-"
You're cut off by the sound of a branch chipping and breaking from the tree. It falls onto the small mushroom patch with a heavy thud.

Off in the reeds at the bank, you could have swore that you heard a yelp.

The small mushroom patch shimmers and then submerges beneath the water.

"What?" Is all Camille can squeak out.

In the grass and weeds surrounding the bank, you can hear something crawling and moving. You can see something faintly illuminated by the sunlight. Wrapping and coiling beneath the surface, only barely disturbing the calmness of the lake.

Suddenly, with a yell, a figure explodes from the lake. It clearly has a kind of human shape to it.

At least, the top part of her is lady shaped.

"Who the fuck are you, and what the fuck was that for?!" She screams, brandishing a set of shapely claws. She grits her teeth as she whips and splashes at the water.

Along her back, you can see more of the same mushrooms growing along her body.

"Give me one reason I shouldn't turn both of you into little balls and hang you from the trees."

>Apologize
>"Give me the mushrooms and no one gets hurt."
>Offer her something?
>Attack her
>"¡Que te jodan!"
>Just back away

>>34638696
>Nice, uh, "Mushrooms" lass.

>>34638696
>>"Give me the mushrooms and no one gets hurt."

>>34638696
>Apologize

>>34638696
>"I got a sick person and the only prescription is more mushroom"

>>34638696
>"Are you as retarded as the cat people when it comes to medicine and disease?"
She lives in the swamp, she probably knows shit about diseases

>>34638696
>Apologize and ask for the mushrooms.

>>34638696
apologize and explain the situation

>>34638809
I like this and complementing her on her Mushrooms

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Folks it is Midnight here, which means it's time for me to wrap it up. I got to wake up early, anyway.

Thanks for the thread everyone, next thread will open with the results of this thread.

So, how do you feel about scales?

>>34638982
Scales are good so long as they are properly balanced

Also, have a good night!

>>34638982
Will good it was a one.
They not fluffy. Not at all!

also my apologies on the shorter-than-usual thread. You guys deserve more than 8 story posts for a whole episode.

>>34639064
Work is important so we understand, maybe work on getting that pastebin setup for us though over the weekend.

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>>34638982
>So, how do you feel about scales?
Pretty good really. We should recruit her! Then we can have scale tail rubs anytime

>>34639110
I'll do that, thanks

>forgot name of quest
>ctrl+f fluffy
There we are.

>>34639215
I love that we can do that to search for this.

>>34638982
>scales
The important question is: does she have a tail to fondle?

>>34639389
Yar, but she would likely wrap you with it if you tried.

>>34639421
I fail to see the problem.

>>34639421
Then we just fondle harder.

>>34639431
It not fluffy that the problem!

>>34639495
You got to have some diversity.
>implying scaly tails aren't superior

>>34639631
Yes I'm saying the are not.

>>34639631
>implying tails in general aren't superior

>>34639690
You have the right to an opinion, even if it's as objectively wrong as that one.

>>34639720
Fluffy tails are life! Fluffy tails are love!

>>34638982
Oh shit I completely missed the thread, anybody got any idea when the next one will be?

>>34640556
Tuesday and Thursday

>>34640595
Cheers, bud, I'll have to put that one on my calender.

>>34640651
Will I think around 2 or 4pm pacific time.

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>>34638982
>how do you feel about scales?

Pretty ok, but we'll have to clean her up first, she's clearly filthy, and not even salty ship filthy like we're familiar with, just regular nasty swamp filthy.

I think this calls for a bath so we can scrub her back. That's assuming we don't just end up punching out the angry snake lady because GOTTA GO FAST, of course.