From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
I think my character needs to go to a larger city where he has a better chance of hiring a henchman oncologist. On the bright side, maybe if I have to lose a limb from the mortal wounds table it could be the cancerous one effectively removing the diseased tissue.
ReplyDeleteWe'd have to roll randomly to see if it spread to the PC's lymph nodes.
ReplyDeleteThis is the most morbid joke I've made in a long time.
Per henchman oncologist's instructions: if you take small doses of giant centipede venom twice a day for a week, there is a 20% chance the cancer will go into remission. This process may be repeated; however, the usual effects of giant centipede venom remain in effect, and there is a cumulative 5% chance per week of treatment that the venom will subtract 1d8 weeks from the character's remaining time.
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