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“So how can we get in there if the Guard is watching the entrance?”
“That entrance is actually a long stretch of normal construction, with only the last few rooms having turned into a dungeon so far.”
“But there’s a well-hidden back entrance as well. I’m not sure if it opened during an earthquake or if someone dug their way in at some point.”
“You’ll be using that secret tunnel.”
“If we’re really doing this, we’ll have to be very careful. Even just one bite or scratch from a plague zombie leads to infection.”
“Well, that’s not entirely accurate.”
“Infection, yes. But you CAN recover from a mild case, given enough time.”
“Okay, yes, technically. But it’s not worth the risk.”
“If we do encounter real zombies, and someone gets bit, we need to seriously consider backing out of the dungeon.”
“This plague has no cure once it takes hold.”
“wow sounds scary”
“i’m glad i’m immune”
“…what”
“i’m a plant”
“seriously guys come on”
I’m not sure i trust.
Why not?
Botanya has no reason to lie about this. She also has a weird amount of self-knowledge from nowhere, so she probably knows her weaknesses and immunities.
Also it’d be really weird from a DMing standpoint to have it not be true. It’s always fair for the DM to mislead us (like with the bull – he never said it was cattle, we just assumed), and it’s usually fair to have something a adversary or shady character says be a lie. But to have an otherwise trustworthy character confidently present a fact that it’s reasonable for them to know in an expository manner about something that would get a character killed (or ruin a dungeon almost immediately), then have that turn out to be completely false? That’d be pretty bad DMing, honestly.
Also she’s a plant, the natural enemy of zombies.
I like Happy Lara.
And happy Ricki too. The boys are all “Say what now” and the girls are all “Heck yeah”
I assume mushrooms and flytraps are immune too, but what about Golly? Can any animal catch zombie plague?