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"What's your favorite consonant?"

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on May 14, 2013, 06:31:45 am

Just because it's an expy of Christianity doesn't mean they call it Heaven.

My understanding of Middle English is not what it used to be--in fact, it never was quite as good as it used to be--yet the Old English word was heofon so it is trivial to point out that people here arent really calling it heaven. However, they also probably don't call a bear properly a bear in this language. Yet it was a bear that we fought, rather than besting a wild snargleflob. Mal speaks their language fluently and helpfully translates everything into culturally similar English words. In our character's possessions, we have a copy of the New Testament, for example.

Wow, I took my attention off this for, like, a month at most, and we replaced the count and survived a plague! Great job!
And maldevious is going to be a daddy? Congratulations and happy, happy mother's day to your beloved!

I'm telling ya, they're gonna be gone, with our elites killed.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on May 13, 2013, 04:07:43 pm

I already said I wanted them to do what Stone deemed the bare minimum. You know, that one guy who was a farmer but is a baron now? Also, for some reason I thought the farmers had fled into town.

Let's quarantine all discussions about last month to the confines of last month. The reasons have been said there already.

Also, people don't flee to towns during epidemics. Even in the old days. The principle that you get sick if others nearby are sick has been understood for most illnesses such as the common cold since time immemorial.

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the deceased are in Heaven/Valhalla*/Whatever

Heaven. We've established that christianity, with actual christian symbols and themes, is the only religion here. This is how it must be in order to have verisimilitude with the real middle ages. Mal doesn't want to emphasize the religious aspect, but it is still there in the background. Personally, though, I think a crusade or two might be just the thing... especially after we've finished sinning our way to the top, and at last discover an urgent desire for salvation.

Let's hold off on receiving merchants and visitors from outside, but ease back into normality within our own community over the next month. At the very end of the month, send letters to all of our acquaintances inquiring of their health and the extent of the plague in their localities. I want to see how big this event was. It certainly was not The Real Deal on the scale of the Black Death, but we lost a good 20% of population anyway. Based on replies from elsewhere, we may wish to continue the external quarantine, and to quarantine the messenger, too, if really bad.