Corona’s Virus Adventurers Guild
Briefing
Morning Everyone
City watch has thrown us a number of
reports of large groups of people breaking lockdown, they’ve requested our help
in making sure people stay in and observe the rules. I have to say that for once, I’m not inclined
to help and here’s why.
In the beginning, there was doubt,
everyone thought this was just the flu and that it’d roll over soon, gatherings
continued and it’s likely that a whole lot of us caught the damn thing before
the council made a decision to keep everybody locked down. Can’t say as I blame them, Balion citizens
are notoriously independent, or “Stubborn” as most other continents call us, so
responding to calls to stay inside when it wasn’t seen as anything dangerous
was never going to happen.
Now we know it’s lethal, and there’s
still people going outside, knowing what’s out there. You’ve all seen the
junior adventurers on their first run charging into fights with Minotaurs that
are going to use their head for Doomball practice, they do it because they believe
that they can handle whatever’s out there, and that’s why a whole bunch of them
don’t make it through their apprenticeship.
Because there’s no training room for the
real world, and when you find yourself out there, calling time out just means
it knows it’s got you.
And that’s what we’re going to get here…
Can’t threaten them with jail, just
turns the cells into a breeding ground for the virus, and there’s more of them
than there are of us, so sitting outside their house with a meaningful stare
isn’t going to help either. It’s clear
they only care about themselves, so we’re going to work with that…
After apprehending Oldarov yesterday, he’s
offered to help us in return for not being put in jail with magecuffs, so tomorrow
there’s going to be reports of Air Elementals wreaking havoc in public areas,
and we’re going to ignore them. The
following day we’re going to put out an apology that we were too busy trying to
police the lockdown to deal with the Air Elementals, and that if people stayed
inside, we’d be doing a lot better at dealing with actual threats, rather than
truculent tossers…
In other news, the Flame sisters forge
just announced that they’re doing a special on custom weaponry and armour. With
the virus going around, they haven’t been getting the usual repair trade that
they rely on, so if you get chance, put something their way rather than
ordering from Zomaza up in Desel. We don’t
support them now, they’re not going to be around when this all lifts, and I
like having competent smiths on my doorstep rather than having to wait for a
giant workshop to get around to delivering what I ordered three weeks ago. That’s everything for the morning, Idiots and
Ironworks, just remember…
Let’s be careful out there…
