Challenge #04222-K204: Responsibility in Action
The right thing to do... that's... sometimes hard. I've an entire city of badly infected people. If even one individual gets out, the surrounding countryside will be in immense danger. But if I keep them trapped here, I'm removing their freedom, and treating them like prisoners. What do I do? -- Anon Guest
The plague had come to Lessermont. The local healers had caught it before the merchants who brought it could move out, and the local Lord was wise enough to close the city down. All gates out were shut and locked with the Lord's key. Patrols along the gate were doubled, and orders given to never let anyone out of the city.
No exceptions.
Lord Mariaster explained it in a way that Arrin Gudshild would never forget. "Certainly," m'lord said, "you may be offered more money than you have ever seen. It may be tempting. I know it will be tempting. You will have more money than a lord, and could pay for a whole new life. But what will you pay the widows and orphans you make by letting one entitled body with money out of the city? How many deaths will weigh your soul down when you go to judgement before the Dread Daughter[1]? It won't be worth any gold then."
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