Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-28428152-20190204231042/@comment-9041013-20190206012210

"The Scourge! The Great Dying. Come now, you know, the, uh… (taps temple furiously) …what is it they call it, the… the… ah, no matter. The Pestilence, yes. It abounds outside these walls, you know. So many have succumbed, and many more will continue to, until such time as a perfect cure can be developed. (Leans back in its chair) Fortunately, I am very close. It is my duty in life to rid the world of it, you see. The Cure To End All Cures!" - The Plague Doctor.

This whole story kept sending me vibes of SCP 049. His voice won't get out of my head whenever someone mentions the Black Death, truly a masterfully crafted character nowadays.

As for your story, as per usual, I don't see any real issues with this (nor the length really, the way you write usually manages to keep a reader in the story, so it's not a big deal).

I was wondering when the aliens will show up when the Angels of Death were first mentioned, I was kind of worried that it would muddy the rather gloomy and tragic setting and point of the story. It didn't, they were placed rather perfectly in the fold.

The whole story revolves more around just how horrible living during the medieval period in Euroasia was, which is in itself scary. Moreso that short period during the first major outbreak of the Black Death. Your timing couldn't be better as sadly we are seeing a comeback in previously "dead" diseases. Perhaps we do need to good ol' doctor to present us with his cure. It's kind of amusing how terrible life was during that one thousand year period between the fall of Rome and the Reneissance. I've read somewhere that after surviving the first few years of life in the stone age, the life expectancy of people was around the early to mid fifties, in contrast with the medieval times when it was about thirty... Jee and we romantize this terrible period so much.

Your work here might shed some light on the matter!

It's funny how any story you come up with, I enjoy and vise versa it seems. I do like how you're trying to make CPs seem more like actual horror stories rather than "an internet thing" which usually causes the authors to not try to be the best they could be.

I found one thing kind of weird though, that "leper tax" thing, couldn't find any mention of this, but I'm going to guess it's just something you came up for the corrupt priest to go with.