"So where's tha patient?"
"Seems like some local toughs ave spotted us, I don't guess we have time tah break some o them?"
"Local toughs? I guess that's up to them."
The local toughs seem to be wary of you at this time of day, though they're definitely sizing you up. However they seem to realize that your group is beyond their means...especially when the pseudo dragon lights upon Marra's shoulder.
You reach the small residence, and Grau knocks on the door. And is met by a young, obviously Varisian, boy who answers, the boy perhaps in his early teens recognizes Grau and invites you all in.
Charlo and Rello are playing quietly in the living room, while Tayce
attends Brienna upstairs. Every few minutes, a spasm of ragged coughing fills the house from above. An acolyte from the Bank of Abadar, is in the kitchen with a bag of herbs, brewing some concoction that smells of cinnamon and anise. Upon seeing the man still there, Grau is obviously displeased and goes upstairs.
Gregor decides to lend a hand, "Pardon me, Brother Dhatri, I think you have done what can for today. I would suggest you return to the church, and see if you can find guidance to help think of more possible remedies." Gregor gently takes the man by the arm and leads him toward the door, giving the sign of Abadar as he does so.
Perception1:
Perception2:
Mai is very polite with her introduction, (she'll speak her name in Tein as Pai and Mai sound darn identical in tein, like l and r in japanese)
"Thank you for allowing us in, My name is Pai.
And How my I help you, While Donagar is looking to treat your daughter, Cleaning, Cooking or almost anything else?"
Perception
knowledge religion
"They could ave jus taken up a collection!]
Speaks to the man in the kitchen
"You there yah want tah help or not?"
"Wha is yer opinion o wha they are sufferin from?"
Sgt. Drakus nods curtly.
"Sir. Ma'am."
Gregor: "Pardon me, Brother Dhatri, I think you have done what can for today. I would suggest you return to the church, and see if you can find guidance to help think of more possible remedies." Gregor gently takes the man by the arm and leads him toward the door, giving the sign of Abadar as he does so.
“If I had been sent for earlier perhaps I could,
but I’m afraid that my duties at the Golden One’s Vault required
me to entreat him for similar miracles already this day. Even if
I could, though, the tenets of my church force me to request a
donation for Abadar’s power—one that I suspect these simple folk
could scarcely afford. What troubles me is this disease is unknown
to me, it could be the harbinger of a new illness. I hope your
Priest friend has the power to help and lacks the mercenary shackles
of duty.”
Nik'o: yes, introductions were made, the quick impersonal introductions of nearly a dozen people in 1 room...
Pai: The younger of the two says: "Cleaning's no fun, let's play!" And "attacks" you with a feather duster...
Perception
1d20+8knowledge religion
1d20+7"They could ave jus taken up a collection!]
Speaks to the man in the kitchen
"You there yah want tah help or not?"
"Wha is yer opinion o wha they are sufferin from?"
Dhatri:"I want to help, but I'm bound by the tenets of Abadar to not give favor where gold is not given. I'm trying to help as well as I can without angering Abadar or my Elders."
"So wha if I offers yah tha coin, seems fair nuff how much yah askin tah fix tha problem. I got nothin gainst commerce no alcohol without commerce."
"I see yer stickin tah yer beliefs an I respect that."
she replies to the little one
"Cleaning is fun, when you turn it into a game."
"Is tha prices o aid set or does yah has lee-way in yer charges?"
"Come on then I has a patient tah see."
she recalls hearing people getting stuff out of the water
If the ship did have a plague on it, and stuff washed nearby and was picked up, it could spread.
The only way to be sure is to ask if she found something and picked it up.
@ the mother in a calm, polite, and diplomatic voice
"Excuse me,
but did your daughter find anything Like a box, a piece of clothing, coins, gems, toys, and picked it up during the last few days?."
Begins to evaluate the patient
Heal check
The creaky steps open up into a bedroom loft above the main
room of the Soldado home. A young girl with auburn hair
lies in one of the beds, her slight frame dwarfed by the bed’s
size and the pile of pillows, afghans, and quilts surrounding
her. Splotches of an angry red rash cover her face and arms,
appearing in irregular shapes and sizes. Suddenly, her
restlessness is interrupted by a violent fit of hacking coughs
that jerk her entire frame, lifting her well off her pillows. The
spasm passes after a moment, dropping her back to the bed,
but seemingly having done little to ease her breathing.
At this rate, without receiving healing or other treatment,
Brienna will die within the next 2 or 3 days.
The young boy answers, "Yes, she found a box full of silver coins, maybe she's sick cuz she spent them all without putting any in the bank, I bet Abadar is mad at her!"
she keeps a calm face as her thoughts go
Oh, sh**.
That plague on the ship may have made it into the city
"Do you know where she found it?"
Dont' be near water, Don't be near water,....
"Be this a regular sickness err is it magical?" asks himself
Casts detect magic and looking around the room.
"Would not put it past necromancers tah tries an make sure they gots corpses."
Dont' be near water, Don't be near water,....
Good question Nik'o, Hope where she spent it are not a high cash flow businesses,
Dont' be near water, Not high cash flow, Dont' be near water, Not high cash flow, ....
Gregor is now highly focused on the child's words, "..and if she spent it all, does she at least still have the box she found it in?"
Gregor, worried at the answer, is unaware of how much more upset he would be by realizing he is thinking the same thing as Pai, Please, do not say it came from the shipwreck and was spent in high business areas. At least have the box for us to examine.
The child puts his index finger to his lips and scrunches his face in thought
Downstairs:
"She didn't mention a box, but she did mention she found it along the river...I don't know where she spent the coin, though she did bring home some bread, eggs, and a slab of bacon."
Upstairs:
still keeping a calm and happy face thinking
Crap on both counts,
Donagar channels positive energy into the girl....
"Yer gonna have tah rest I gots tah request tha right magic tah gets yah healed up!"
Returns downstairs hopefully.
"Shes in a bad way sure nuff. I gots tah get mah prayers an gets tha right spell in order tah save her. Tis a strong sickness fer certain. Not sure when she came down wit it though might have been in her system even longer tha shes been sick."
Moves away to pray for proper spells.
Donagar channels positive energy into the girl....
2d6
"Yer gonna have tah rest I gots tah request tha right magic tah gets yah healed up!"
Returns downstairs hopefully.
"Shes in a bad way sure nuff. I gots tah get mah prayers an gets tha right spell in order tah save her. Tis a strong sickness fer certain. Not sure when she came down wit it though might have been in her system even longer tha shes been sick."
Moves away to pray for proper spells.
She smiles slightly as the energy passes into her, then she's wracked by a coughing spasm, the cloth she coughs into is now covered in red flecks of blood.
Nik'o turns to Pai: "May be we can find the place she bought those if we search from here to the river. We should go fast!"
keeping the happy calm face
Reply @ Nik'o"There is a chance."
she asks the child
"Do you know where along the river she found it?"
"No, I don't...I'm sorry..."The kid is welling up with tears
showing a bit of her motherly side and tries to comfort the child.
"Don't worry about it, little one.
No one can know everything or be perfect."
"Mistakes err expected yer only human o course."
still giving off a motherly appearance and being on one knee
she mouths the words "In a moment" to Nik'o.
she then asks the child
"Can you be strong for your family,
help them out and pray for your sister's well being?"
she stands up from being on one knee, and says to the child
"Good, and Hopefully we find something to help your family."
she looks at Nik'o and gives the "Let's go look."
Feeling useless at the moment, Sgt. Drakus tags along with Nik'o as a bodyguard.
"This just feels wrong, the ship was sunk, then this girl finds coins on the water front, and from Pai's reaction I'm thinking she believes the incidents are related. If this disease is related to the sinking of the ship and spreading infection via the coins, then some serious justice needs to be meted out!"
as the group is outside she tells them quietly
"Well the sh** is out of the bag.
we lost the chance of containment the moment she went into the market and bought food, as people buy food staples each day."
she pauses a moment
"We should stock up on Removed disease potions for us and scrolls for Donagar to use.
And get ready for a nasty outbreak of both the disease and possible rioting."
"This ones not gonna make it unless we get tha magic we needs. It might be worth goin tah tha church o Adabar an buying a wand, potions an scrolls err fine but this looks tah be tha start o an outbreak!"
The cleric of Abadar hasn't left yet, so you could always pay him for the casting, he can cure disease.