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Tainted Waters
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concordancemodsGreetings everyone! We've got a happy party post coming right up for you. (Only a few hours until it's Fete Day. We can't wait!) But just in case anyone was getting comfortable, things are going to get a little shook up.
Around midday of the 7th, some poor bloke who was hunting rats in the Waterway for his dinner came out shrieking with fright. He claims he spotted some bloated terror shuffling through and barely escaped with his life. A few minutes later, he succumbed to something poisonous. Probably those rats he was eating.
Or perhaps not.
Someone with an axe to grind with the current ruler of Dalmasca has poisoned the water supply for the city. The first signs of the taint should show in the elderly and children living in Lowtown closest to the source. Then any adults who qualify for too much of a vagabond to be admitted to the outdoor fete. For the children and elderly and anyone with a compromised immune system, there is a 80% fatality rate, with the first deaths coming in the wee hours of the morning of the 8th. Adults will show signs of sickness as well if they've been consuming the local water with a 30% fatality rate over the next few days.
tl;dr: Somebody's poisoned the water hole! (On the day of the fete. Nice, huh?)
***
Q. What does this mean for you and any party goers?
A.
- If you are in Dalmasca and consuming the water in the morning? You're fine. Anytime after the noon hour, it is entirely at your discretion if your character begins to feel ill around midnight, or if they feel any of the effects at all. You may be more hearty and hale than your next neighbor, or you may have spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder. Totally up to you. For the record, any of the local water will taste off, bitter and metallic with a hint of... no you really don't wanna know. This is where it's worth noting that the downtrodden poor still living in Lowtown really don't have the luxury of spitting out bad tasting water, which is why the bulk of the illness and deaths will be here.
- For partygoers, the wine that Tomaj is serving has been watered down to help it last longer. If you've been imbibing his wine, you have potentially been exposed, though again with having the alcohol to temper the amount consumed? You may not get sick at all. If you do, that's your choice and you'll start feeling it in the morning. Probably just assume it's a nasty hangover at first. (Internal party guests have the good stuff not watered down. Now ain't that fishy that the high and mighty are the only ones being spared the suffering?) There are other baristas and culinarians who will be present at the fete with food and drinks that have not been exposed to the poisoned water. If you'd like your character to dodge the poison bullet, it's just fine for them to have passed up Tomaj's booze for someone else's.
Q. Will this impact the party?
A. Nope, everyone should eat, drink, and be merry for the duration of the fete. The first signs of something gone wrong won't start until the wee hours of the 8th. And even then, it'll start in Lowtown.
Q. Can white mages/healers/etc esuna/poisona/whatever off the poison from anyone ill?
A. Indeed they can! It's a magically induced poison rather than a physical toxin being dumped, so magicks will work to heal the sick. Antidotes and remedies will also work, however after about 3 days all supplies of both will have run out entirely.
Q. How long will the taint last?
A.It'll take around a month for the waters to be cleansed of the poison by some hard working mages, clerics and alchemists. Meanwhile, all drinking water for Rabanastre will have to be collected in buckets and barrels from the rains out on the Giza Plains. Lucky that it's the rainy season, eh?
Q. Can we go hunting through the waterway to find the bad guy who did this?
A. Well, you can, but he's long gone. Or maybe he was just the imagination of a guy on his deathbed. Poor bloke was eating rats for supper. But search away! Just... don't drink the water.
Q. Do I get something for catching both of those goofy movie references in this mod post?
A. Well, um... I hear Althea makes good candies?
***
Feel free to ask questions here or make plans. Or just squint at your plot mod for being evil. She really is.
Around midday of the 7th, some poor bloke who was hunting rats in the Waterway for his dinner came out shrieking with fright. He claims he spotted some bloated terror shuffling through and barely escaped with his life. A few minutes later, he succumbed to something poisonous. Probably those rats he was eating.
Or perhaps not.
Someone with an axe to grind with the current ruler of Dalmasca has poisoned the water supply for the city. The first signs of the taint should show in the elderly and children living in Lowtown closest to the source. Then any adults who qualify for too much of a vagabond to be admitted to the outdoor fete. For the children and elderly and anyone with a compromised immune system, there is a 80% fatality rate, with the first deaths coming in the wee hours of the morning of the 8th. Adults will show signs of sickness as well if they've been consuming the local water with a 30% fatality rate over the next few days.
tl;dr: Somebody's poisoned the water hole! (On the day of the fete. Nice, huh?)
Q. What does this mean for you and any party goers?
A.
- If you are in Dalmasca and consuming the water in the morning? You're fine. Anytime after the noon hour, it is entirely at your discretion if your character begins to feel ill around midnight, or if they feel any of the effects at all. You may be more hearty and hale than your next neighbor, or you may have spent the last few years building up an immunity to iocane powder. Totally up to you. For the record, any of the local water will taste off, bitter and metallic with a hint of... no you really don't wanna know. This is where it's worth noting that the downtrodden poor still living in Lowtown really don't have the luxury of spitting out bad tasting water, which is why the bulk of the illness and deaths will be here.
- For partygoers, the wine that Tomaj is serving has been watered down to help it last longer. If you've been imbibing his wine, you have potentially been exposed, though again with having the alcohol to temper the amount consumed? You may not get sick at all. If you do, that's your choice and you'll start feeling it in the morning. Probably just assume it's a nasty hangover at first. (Internal party guests have the good stuff not watered down. Now ain't that fishy that the high and mighty are the only ones being spared the suffering?) There are other baristas and culinarians who will be present at the fete with food and drinks that have not been exposed to the poisoned water. If you'd like your character to dodge the poison bullet, it's just fine for them to have passed up Tomaj's booze for someone else's.
Q. Will this impact the party?
A. Nope, everyone should eat, drink, and be merry for the duration of the fete. The first signs of something gone wrong won't start until the wee hours of the 8th. And even then, it'll start in Lowtown.
Q. Can white mages/healers/etc esuna/poisona/whatever off the poison from anyone ill?
A. Indeed they can! It's a magically induced poison rather than a physical toxin being dumped, so magicks will work to heal the sick. Antidotes and remedies will also work, however after about 3 days all supplies of both will have run out entirely.
Q. How long will the taint last?
A.It'll take around a month for the waters to be cleansed of the poison by some hard working mages, clerics and alchemists. Meanwhile, all drinking water for Rabanastre will have to be collected in buckets and barrels from the rains out on the Giza Plains. Lucky that it's the rainy season, eh?
Q. Can we go hunting through the waterway to find the bad guy who did this?
A. Well, you can, but he's long gone. Or maybe he was just the imagination of a guy on his deathbed. Poor bloke was eating rats for supper. But search away! Just... don't drink the water.
Q. Do I get something for catching both of those goofy movie references in this mod post?
A. Well, um... I hear Althea makes good candies?
Feel free to ask questions here or make plans. Or just squint at your plot mod for being evil. She really is.
