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[GreatWyrmGold]

No.

I expect Sir Stone, who has worked as a peasant his whole life, to know what the bare minimum is and to order his people to do that.

[Gervassen]

I daresay you've never managed large groups of people. Allowing people outside to do what they deem the bare minimum requires scheduling the movements of 300 people so that they don't interact in a small town. How many gates do we have? How do you ensure people aren't passing close to each other at choke points and main thoroughfares? That quickly breaks down into chaos. Lockdown is lockdown. If we do this, do this right.

You still seem to think the town is filled with farmers, but while we have do have small parcel farms, I mostly see people with urban skill sets when I look at the town sheet. The bare minimum for those people is stay inside completely. As for the farmers themselves, they need to stay at their farmhouses. No coming to market, or getting supplies, or fixing broken equipment. If they have plots across town from their houses, as could often be the case due to buying and inheriting other plots, no travelling futher than a few hundred meters from their homes to weed their parcels. If the crops take a hit to their yields in two weeks, then it can't be much.

Say our farmers lose 10% of the crop. That's fine. Why? Because we already have lost 10% of the people who used to need food. Lost as in they're dead now. The more lax our lockdown, the more people die. If this reduction of people to feed is your plan to avoid food shortages, namely ensuring that we have about 30% fewer stomaches left alive or thereabouts, then you're devilishly clever.

[Origami_Psycho]

We have the people do nothing.  As you said, it's summer, and all that really needs to be done is the fields weeded.  The farmers don't live in town, in fact, most of our population will be farmers, and as such we can just confine them to their farms, and maybe have the rangers make the rounds every now and then to ensure that's going on.  But the townsfolk have absolutely no pressing business to do, and therefore we can afford to keep them in their houses without exit permissible for at least one or two months.
EDIT: Make sure everyone understands that breaking quarantine is punishable by death, and be sure the tell the men manning the barricade that no-one is to enter, not even the king.  Actually, especially the king, we don't want him dying on our land from plague, it would look real bad on us.

[tryrar]

I'm with Gerv. Unless they have a clear and legitimately pressing need to be outside, NOBODY but those assigned to deliver food and clear bodies(which are clear and legitimately pressing needs) should be in the street. They can communicate any additional needs to the guys doing those tasks and our guards

[Maldevious]

Year 6, June

Thank you for keeping your arguments civil. Go team!

With the plague pressing on into June, and the losses from the previous month, you take some more drastic steps. All travellers from the fair are dispersed, and told to return to their homes. Farmers are told that there will be no markets until further notice, and to stay on their own land and not interact with neighbors. Your citizens are put on notice that they are not to leave their houses, and that soldiers will be around to collect the dead and distribute food. You make it clear that the guards have orders to kill anyone found breaking the curfew.

Life grinds to a halt in Feroshire. The quarantine is effective, and, thankfully, no one seems willing to break it. You send a rider to the Abbey, asking for help from a monk skilled in the healing arts, and are relieved when one returns with your rider. He seems less enamored with bloodletting, and advises a simple diet, rest, and drinking cool water to those afflicted. Given the lack of success the bloodletting has had, you agree to this course of action.

A few weeks pass. The measures seem to be effective. Fewer people fall sick this month, and those that do tend to pull through with the new regimen of care. A few of your soldiers fall sick, but they are immediately separated, and thankfully all survive.

June is nearly over. Word from the surrounding farms is that the harvest should be more or less unaffected. Only a few active cases of the plague remain in Feroshire. What will you do in July?

Spoiler: "Baronet Samuel Stone" (click to show/hide)

Age: 25 - February birthday
Spouse: Lady Marna Stone - Age 22 - April Birthday
Children: Sir Isaac Stone - One Year Old - March Birthday

Good Health
Excellent Fitness

Literate
Natural Archer
Good Swordswman
Fine Man of the People
Above Average Rider
Above Average Woodsman
Above Average Heroic Combatant (fighting against the odds)
Average Etiquette
Average Lancer
Average Shield User
Average Armor User
Average History
Poor Legal Mind
Poor Rhetoric
Poor Medical Mind

Spoiler: "Equipment and Possessions" (click to show/hide)

Weapons
Militia-grade Short Sword
Fine Longsword
Iron-tipped Lances

Armor
Steel Plate Armor
Mail Shirt
Brigandine Armor
Fur cloak and leggings
Iron Shield
Steel Barding for Destrier

Transport
Felucca
Mottled Grey Hunter
White Destrier

Housing
Brick and Lumber Manor
Fine Furniture
Stag Skull
Bear Skull
Bear Pelt Rug
Falconry Mews
Small Hunting Lodge in Northern Forest

Misc.
Bear Claws
Average Clothing
Silver Sun Necklace with Gold Pendant
Bound New Testament
Book of Laws
Cask of Beer
Stone Weights
Draft of "The Incursion of the Sea Raiders and the Battle of Torchester"

Spoiler: "Feroshire (Capital Town)" (click to show/hide)

Treasury - Medium
269 Citizens

Services and Housing
Nice Communal Housing
Mix of Wood and Brick Housing
Nice Inn
Rowdy Inn
Medium Theatre
Small Courthouse
Small School and Scribe
Communal Cellars

Defense
Wooden Palisade with watchtowers
Stone Tower (91% complete)
Stone Walls (81% complete)
Three longboats
Fake Town for river defense

Trade and Travel
Brick Roads
Large Dockyard
Medium Brick Paved Market
Two-way Ferry
River Parlon (dredged to allow deep draft vessels)
Gravel Road to Carshire
Gravel Road to Silverhills

Industry
Large Clayworks
Smokehouse
Watermill (Lumber Mill and Grindstone)
Growing Medium Shipyard
Brewery
Stables - Large herd of horses
Medium Furniture Workshop

Spoiler: "Your Land" (click to show/hide)

Medium (5x city size) population (Loyal)
River Parlon (fertile banks on both sides, light forest to the north)

Settlements
Feroshire - Your capital
Silverhills - Small village by the mines - Palisade

Farming
Nice parcel farms south of the river (four field crop rotation)
Fair parcel farms north of the river (four field crop rotation)
Fine Communal Farm (four field crop rotation)
Medium Vineyard - Ice wine experiment
Grand Flock of Sheep
Medium Flock of Cattle
Communal Grazing Land
Muddy holes in ground (fish ponds without enough water or fish)

Defense
Fortified Average Barracks, Armory, and Obstacle Course with Furnaces and Forges
Jousting practice field

Trade and Travel
Gravel Roads
Large Warehouse

Industry
Large Fishing Fleet
Fortified Mines near Silverhills (silver, copper, gold, iron, gems)
Metalworks in Silverhills

Misc.
Trash Pit
Graveyard

Spoiler: "Your Forces" (click to show/hide)

Ranged - Longbows, iron short swords, fur armor, mounts
Two elite Archers
One elite Ranger
Six veteran Rangers
One regular Rangers
Nine veteran Archers
Four regular Archers

Melee - Iron halberds, iron brigandine armor, iron short swords, mounts
Two elite Halberdiers
Eleven veteran Halberdiers
Six regular Halberdiers

City Guard - Short bows / Iron short swords, fur armor, wooden shields
Seven regular Wall Archers
Ten regular Watchmen

Reserve
Mandatory Bow or Halberd Training for Able-bodied Men

Spoiler: "Your people" (click to show/hide)

Skilled Potters
Above Average Jewelers
Above Average Trappers
Above Average Miners
Average Metalworkers
Average Wine Makers
Average Horse Breeders
Journeymen Masons
Journeymen Furniture Builders
Journeymen Weaponsmiths
Journeymen Armorers
Novice Siege Engineers

Spoiler: "Nearby" (click to show/hide)

Market Town of Carshire - Gravel Road
Folesden - Land of Count Foles - Downstream
   * Curbiston - County Seat of Folesden
Land of Sir Denton - Upstream
Land of Sir Percival - Adjacent to Sir Denton's land, across the river
Hemswood Abbey - Far Upstream - Known for dark beer
Lands of Duke Erran - Across the river to the north - Used for hunting
   * Torchester - Duke Erran's Capital - Damaged metropolis with a bustling port located on a wide estuary

Spoiler: "Known Lords by Rank and Relationship" (click to show/hide)

King Edward Geronos IV, Lord of the Falls, Keeper of the Flame, Seer of the Dawn - Known

Duke Erran - Fond

Count Arthur Foles - Your Liege Lord - Friendly
Count Gorgan - A fine fighter - Introduced
Count Zanders - Dislike

Sir Derrick Denton - Slightly warm but distant
Sir Alan Percival - Close Friend
Sir Uriel Lope - Count's Marshall - Formal but respectful
Sir Melvin - Lady Marna's brother, Duke Erran's nephew - Close friend
Sir Ivanson - A renowned jouster - Acquaintance

Lady Marna - Wife - Loving
Lady Iris - Lady Marna's mother, Duke Erran's younger sister - Cordial

Isaac Stone - Your First Son - Todler

Spoiler: "Important Citizens by Occupation" (click to show/hide)

Luther Logan - Sword and Mace - Squire
Fin - Captain of the Militia
Oswald - Ranger Captain
William Dent - Steward, Mayor
Victor Irlof - Master of the Market, Treasurer
Curtis Stumpf - Miner, Councilman
Ian Wood - Carpenter, Councilman
Marge Kannity - Brewer
Gunther Agnacious - Philosopher - Tutoring Arthur Foles

Shipwright
Architect
Armorer
Weaponsmith
Horse Breeder
Scribe
Healer
Wool Merchant

Spoiler: "In Fond Remembrance" (click to show/hide)

Sir Alan - Your first squire - Killed in the Battle of Torchester
Sir Blake Denton - Your good friend and confidant - Killed in the Battle of Torchester
Tor - Your first Captain - Killed by the brigand "Ox" in a forest skirmish
Count Aaron Foles - Fell drunkenly to his death from the balcony of a whorehouse
"Count" Owen - Executed for "murder"
"Countess" Foles - Executed for "murder"

[Origami_Psycho]

Continue the quarentine for one week after all cases have vanished

[10ebbor10]

If our town is easily dividable in areas, I propose we give it free area by area, as the last deaths dissappear. If not, well, we can gradually reduce the curfew.

Also, try to get a list off all those who died. Can come in handy.

[Plato Play-Doh]

If our town is easily dividable in areas, I propose we give it free area by area, as the last deaths dissappear. If not, well, we can gradually reduce the curfew.

Also, try to get a list off all those who died. Can come in handy.

+1. Also, see about comforting the families of the deceased. Send gifts to each individual, along with a handwritten letter (send it in the hands of someone literate, maybe even a member of our court, to show our sincerity, so that they can read it to the people who cannot read themselves). Hold a public funeral for all that died, and see about building some form of statue in the center of town in their memory. In fact, we should do something similar for those who perished in the War of the Sea Raiders. The Sea Raiders one should have the faces of Alan and Denton upon them, while the one commemorating the victims of the plague should be a man with no facial features holding a hoe and shears, and sitting in front of a desk with...something...on it. I'm not sure what yet. Also, when the wall is built, have a statue of a pheonix atop each gate, to symbolize all of the hardships that we have faced, and how we "rose from the ashes" each time, stronger than before.

[Urist McDwarfFortress]

Well, that wasn't so bad. I'd say we keep up the strict quarantine for another few weeks, let this plague completely pass and then open back up sometime around the end of the month.

Install watch posts at the borders, make sure no new sick people come into our lands.

[stabbymcstabstab]

Lets thank the monk and remember to get him next time there is a sickness bloodletting just seemed to make it worst.

[GreatWyrmGold]

-snip-

I already said I wanted them to do what Stone deemed the bare minimum. You know, that one guy who was a farmer but is a baron now?
Also, for some reason I thought the farmers had fled into town.

If our town is easily dividable in areas, I propose we give it free area by area, as the last deaths dissappear. If not, well, we can gradually reduce the curfew.
Also, try to get a list off all those who died. Can come in handy.

Continue the quarentine for one week after all cases have vanished

Lets thank the monk and remember to get him next time there is a sickness bloodletting just seemed to make it worst.

+1 to the above.

And I also suggest we hold some kind of ceremony in honor of those who died. Maybe a bit of a religious thing, to rejoice in how the deceased are in Heaven/Valhalla*/Whatever, to make it an uplifting rather than depressing event.
Oh, and give the abbey some kind of reward. They might not want plain old money, but we should find some tangible way to thank them.

And maybe see if the monk is willing to stay or teach the current healer in...well, effective medicine.

[10ebbor10]

-snip-

I already said I wanted them to do what Stone deemed the bare minimum. You know, that one guy who was a farmer but is a baron now?
Also, for some reason I thought the farmers had fled into town.

Point is, you'd have to oversee everything to the finest degree, which would be a bureaucratic nightmare.

[GreatWyrmGold]

-snip-

I already said I wanted them to do what Stone deemed the bare minimum. You know, that one guy who was a farmer but is a baron now?
Also, for some reason I thought the farmers had fled into town.

Point is, you'd have to oversee everything to the finest degree, which would be a bureaucratic nightmare.

Or...tell them what to do and have them do it, like we normally do.
I'm assuming that summer farming isn't a huge drain on managerial resources, especially since it would have come up by now.

[Gamerlord]

Let's check in on Marna and Isaac. Bit worried we haven't heard anything from them.

[Origami_Psycho]

They were with us the whole time.
Also, when we start accepting visitors again, have them all be checked for disease.