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Plague doctors mask.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:01 pm
by HolyLight
I feel this should be made more intresting.

A Plague doctors mask should need to be filled with extract from flowers to fully negate the effects from becoming infected.

A plague doctors mask without it should not give you automatic protection.

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, some doctors wore a beak-like mask which was filled with aromatic items. The masks were designed to protect them from putrid air, which (according to the miasmatic theory of disease) was seen as the cause of infection.

Re: Plague doctors mask.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 9:36 pm
by JohnCarver
Interesting idea.

Re: Plague doctors mask.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 10:23 pm
by HolyLight
In the same breath, i feel it should either be player crated and/or made cheaper if something like this happened, due to the extra effort required to make it effective.

Re: Plague doctors mask.

PostPosted: Wed Dec 17, 2014 10:53 pm
by DarkNacht
Dried lavender or other flowers was the most common thing to fill the mask with, iirc.