It's the 1350s and your arm has a massive bubonic plague infection.

Whatcha gonna do?

  • Cut off arm and run away

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • Burn everything

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • Get drunk and fuck everyone

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • Big titties

    Votes: 7 70.0%

  • Total voters
    10

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1000s upon 1000s are being infected - all across Europe (This is unbeknownst to you as you have just disembarked in a seaport town on the coast of Italy from a years-long agricultural consortium in North Africa).

While milling about on the wharf, you are approached by some nondescript unwashed ragamuffin waif. He, or she, abruptly bites you on your exposed left arm in a crazed frenzy (and nothing happens - yet).

You backhand the waif in shock response and half of his or her cheek explodes in black, oozing, pus-like ichor. Then you realize many of the residents shuffling about are seemingly...unwell. And the place stinks. And now some of the rumors you heard back in Africa about The Old Country going tits up aren't mere rumors anymore.

First choice is that you immediately sever your now infected arm with your claymore and get the fuck outta Dodge somehow, escaping into the wilderness.

Second choice, get a torch and start burning everything you see in retaliation before the local garrison pincushions you.

Third choice is that upon realizing you have a 75% mortality rate and it won't be long before you become a roach motel for the Black Death, you say fuck it and go into the forsaken town, get drunk every night and fuck all the tavern wenches, whores and assorted backstage Johnnies bareback until your body melts in an alleyway.

What would you choose?
 
Given the time delay from infection to death, you have little opportunity to do anything but write your will - if you can write. Even if you can write, getting paralytically drunk is your best course of action.

There won't be 'nights' to get drunk. There might be a dozen hours.
 
I have no way of knowing this, of course, but hacking off the arm won't do any good because the infection is the bloodstream and not localized. Burning everything to the ground might be considered a public service, actually, except that people already infected are likely to flee the flames and spread the plague to other communities. So number three. But I might have gone with number four if you'd said 'big buboes'.
 
Given the time delay from infection to death, you have little opportunity to do anything but write your will - if you can write. Even if you can write, getting paralytically drunk is your best course of action.

There won't be 'nights' to get drunk. There might be a dozen hours.

About seven days from infection to onset of symptoms, and another three days until death, if that is the outcome. Admittedly, after onset of symptoms, it's probably hard to get laid. And maybe not so desirable, if your groin is swollen up like a cantaloupe.
 
Just bend over and kiss your ass goodbye ,it's too late for anything to work .
 
Walk (or stumble or crawl) over the lip of the nearest active volcanic crater.

You''ll be glad you did.

If no volcanoes are nearby, seek an alligator pit.

Or slime your way through the town hall, infecting all those political bastards.
 
Walk (or stumble or crawl) over the lip of the nearest active volcanic crater.

You''ll be glad you did.

If no volcanoes are nearby, seek an alligator pit.

Or slime your way through the town hall, infecting all those political bastards.

I don't think 14th century Italy was particularly replete with alligator pits ... although I'll admit that my historical knowledge isn't particularly great, so feel free to correct me.
 
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