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Chapter 34 - Peste timenda ad muros eunt

    Karolína and Pavol have requested a council. Not that I think that they are wrong. We have problems. If I need to order my on robot to fry myself, something is wrong. If one of us ends up with a broken pelvis, something is wrong. I just doubt that that is something we can solve by a simple change we might discuss.


    On the other hand a discussion is a good idea nevertheless. We are the only people from our world. Breaking apart the group does not look like a good idea to me. Nobody of us really wants to live in some village alone. Realistically we’ll end up in Greenstone or book a passage thence.


    But frankly that does not look attractive to me, as we’ll look alien and being aliens arriving just before an epidemic is not a good long term strategy. But I do not want to be the one spreading doom and gloom all the time.


    I get an unexpected visitor.


    Z: Good morning.


    P: You are improving it.


    Z: Thank you. I wanted to ask whether you are still handing out awakening stones.


    P: Yes. They were stored in crates of five each. Do you want me to call the ritualist?


    Z: Nope. I gave capitulated, but not that far.


    We are stepping to the ritual disks.


    N: Mommy!


    S: Mommy! We were worried about you.


    A group hugging session starts. I carry Natalija.


    Z: I got the tablet. She really can read minds. This is horrible.


    P: Not to make too fine a point, but isn’t omniscience a big thing in theology?


    Z: That stuff was supposed to be confined to baptisms and weddings.


    She left out funerals.


    Stjepan and I draw in tandem. We are getting good at that. Zora produces another awakening stone.


    Z: Lidija looted that.


    P: Cool.


    We are getting spectators. Our meeting is starting out to be even less formal than our meetings usually are.


    KN: This will simplify things. We will be waiting in the shade.


    Nice from her.


    Z: When I fired my gun. I could claim that I needed to protect the children. But no, I didn’t want to be alone.


    P: So we are forming a team.


    Z: No, we are not forming anything. We are standing together. But we cannot go on doing this. I don’t want to go on.


    P: It sure wasn’t fun.


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    <td style="width: 28.7141%">Gun:</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


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    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">[Tools of the Magister]</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">Iron 1 (10%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">[Rotary Gun]</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%">Might</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Attack</td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">Iron 1 (15%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">[Eye of the Infantryman]</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%">Knowledge</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Perception Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">Iron 0 (0%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">(unused)</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


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    <td style="width: 24.8112%">0%</td>


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    <td style="width: 28.7141%">(unused)</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


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    <td style="width: 24.8112%">0%</td>


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    <td style="width: 28.7141%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%"> </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">Fire:</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%"> </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">[Dry the Tinder]</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Attack/Spell</td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">Iron 0 (71%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">[Alacrity''s Reward]</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%">Swiftness</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">Iron 0 (90%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">[Wreathed in Flames]</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%">Knife</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Attack</td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">Iron (0%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">(unused)</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">0%</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">(unused)</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">0%</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%"> </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">Magic:</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%"> </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">[Dragon Wings]</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">Iron 1 (57%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">[Eternal Moment]</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%">Lightning</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">Iron 1 (11%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">[Dragon''s Treasure Chest]</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%">Adventure</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">Iron 1 (49%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">(unused)</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">0%</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">(unused)</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">0%</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%"> </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">Onslaught:</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%"> </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">[Dive Bomb]</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Attack</td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">Iron 0 (43%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">[Rune Trap]</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%">Rune</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Attack/Spell</td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">Iron 0 (91%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">[Exploding Fist]</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%">Ruin</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Attack</td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">Iron 0 (8%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">[Limit Breaker]</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%">Defiance</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">Iron 0 (0%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 28.7141%">(unused)</td>


    <td style="width: 21.4659%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.8112%">0%</td>


    </tr>


    </tbody>


    </table>


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    [Eye of the Infantryman]


    See when people aim at you.


    [Wreathed in Flames]


    Cost: Moderate ongoing


    Cooldown: None


    Wreath a melee weapon in flames. It then inflicts additional heat damage.


    <hr>


    Gabrielle is nice enough to stand a virtual watch, so that we all can gather.


    PN: I think we must stop reacting and start planning. That must start with an honest assesment of our status.


    DT: Right. I am at a loss. Most of our team mates are captured. We have no idea, where they are held. The trail is cold now and would lead us anywhere but to them.


    GP: Before you ask, no, I am sorry.


    KN: Won’t they send a message with their demands?


    OL: We have a pretty much global agreement. Prisoners are acceptable; hostages are not. At least among noble families. You cannot give in to blackmail, but you better give your opponents an incentive to return prisoners alive.


    PN: That seems designed to prolong wars.


    P: Adventurers are not soldiers. I had this discussion with a superior. You cannot win against the monsters. There will always be new monsters.


    PN: But this is not against monsters.


    P: Essences also mean that adventurers are necessarily mostly members of the upper class.


    RC: Fascinating. In your …


    GP: No.


    A few seconds of silence.


    DT: Maybe it would be more effective to talk about the epidemic.


    Z: Will we get help?


    DT: Good healers are always busy.


    L: But you have healing potions.


    RP: Yes, but they are a finite resource. We can cure anybody, but not everybody. Nor do we know what this disease is.


    GP: No.


    RP: Hence one of the strategies is is to allow this to burn itself out and cure the people who are going to die, as long as the potions last.


    Z: Do you think somebody is using this disease as a weapon?


    OL: That really gets the Adventure Society to hunt you down. Besides, bandits rarely have good access to potions.


    KN: Nevertheless we ought to do something.


    L: Can you heal infectious disease? I cannot. Infected wounds, other diseases and poisons, but not systemic infections.


    KN: No. I also cannot do that. How many people are we talking about?


    DT: Hundreds, perhaps in the low thousands. Provided it is limited to the fortress town.


    PN: How much antibiotics do you have.


    P: Not nearly enough. Besides, it may just as well be viral.


    RC: Antibiotics?


    GP: Later.


    RC: I’ll get an explanation?


    She nods.


    P: May I propose a compromise?


    DT: By all means.


    P: We could send you, Russell, Karolína and Pavol to the walls and let you talk to them. Maybe the symptoms are distinct.


    PN: Good idea. And you?


    P: I could apply awakening stones to Lidija.


    L: Sure, I’ll take those.


    RC: Purgation, Life, Knowlede or Light have good chances.


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    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Guardian:</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">[Mantle of Frenzy]</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Ability/Spell</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    Iron 1 (8%)


    </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">[Rune Tortoise]</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Rune</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Familiar Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Iron 0 (1%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">[Spoils of Victory]</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Sacrifice</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Aura Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Iron 1 (6%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">[Peek under the Counter]</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Knowledge</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Perception Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Iron 0 (1%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">(unused)</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">0%</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Void:</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">[Spike of Void]</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Attack</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Iron 0 (73%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">[Blood Harvest]</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Sacrifice</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Iron 0 (90%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">[Bait and Switch]</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Swarm</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Iron 0 (0%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">[Heretical Helix]</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Knife</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Attack</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Iron 0 (0%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">(unused)</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">0%</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Shield:</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">[Reflective Barrier]</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Ability/Spell</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    Iron 0 (26%)


    </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">[Crystallize Mana]</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Iron 0 (9%)</td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">(unused)</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    0%


    </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">(unused)</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    0%


    </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    (unused)


    </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    0%


    </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    Renewal:


    </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    [Regenerate]


    </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Ability/Spell</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    Iron 1 (39%)


    </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    [Lay on Hands]


    </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Hand</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    Iron 0 (0%)


    </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    [Grand Renewal]


    </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Knowledge</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">Special Ability</td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    Iron 0 (0%)


    </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    (unused)


    </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    0%


    </td>


    </tr>


    <tr>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    (unused)


    </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%"> </td>


    <td style="width: 24.9506%">


    0%


    </td>


    </tr>


    </tbody>


    </table>
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