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>Around the entire town...? Or maybe even just around the poor quarters... Oh dear god.
>Couldn't a wizard in theory make a REALLY big circle, then get creative with the "remains" part of the ritual to make them suitable for demonbinding?
>Like, the circle being an underground set of tunnels... or perhaps comprise of even the geometry of a market plaza if the wizard also happens to be a civil engineer in charge of the construction. If the city is as old as the mines, or at least that plaza, well, I'm sure you get what I mean.
That would not be possible. It would require way too much energy and the circle would be way visible and recognizable. And there are no tunnels nor caves right behind the city.
>Could "remains" be cooked meat? That has been recently eaten?
>What happens if you make the summoning circle very small and then put it inside a living thing?
They could, of course. But the runes and treatment needs to be specific. The digestion would ruin them.
>Could a summoning ritual be accomplished by alchemical means? If so the likely suspect is someone in your own order with advance alchemical knowledge and ways to contaminate food and medicine that were supervised by your people.
Alchemy doesn't have enough energy to fuel the summoning. Not at this level at least.
>If the demons come bursting out of people that's definitely a clear correlation with how things went down at Miner's Rest. But people here show no sign of the disease, so... has something or someone refined it so that it won't show any outward appearance or effect? If we assume it's the same, it has changed its course, although not its end result.
>What remains curious, is the why and how of the disease's spread to town. Last we knew the disease was stuck in Miner's Rest and the Flame guards (and the horses that came later!) there did not appear to fall prey to it, whereas all, person or animal, prior inhabitants did. Perhaps whatever it was that had caused the initial infection had simply left, its work done, and relocated to town.
>Thinking about where to go, about the only one who has any kind of lengthy experience with trying to cure the disease is the Charred One (and that was before we knew of its true demon-summoning nature). Once the Slums are safe enough and people have gotten clear of the recent demon site, we should go to him and see if he's behind it all he's done with the potions he promised and if he can offer any additional insights into beating this hellplague. Also, on second thought, his sudden (if arguably warranted) panic reaction to the mention of demons (as opposed to an incredulous reaction, which many others seemed to go with) might demand some further investigation. Did he already know of the demonic nature of the plague?
There is definitively correlation. And the Charred One has been acting weirdly today. You will have to talk to him, after you have dealt with the current problem.
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