[Gullivers] Scurvy, a fact of life

[Carl Brown]

Scurvy is a fact of life among sea-farers at the time of GTC. Want to do
something about it?
The rule would be an advanced aspect and look something like this:
 

Treat Scurvy


Historically no one person had this Aspect, it was achieved by numerous
people over the coarse of over a hundred years. The character needs
Great understanding of Physic to determine that the specific kind of
acidic principle in citrus fruits and other foods prevents and cures
scurvy. This is best done by formally proving the hypothesis on a long
sea voyage and presenting your results as a book or at the Royal
Academy. A Great breadth of Logistics knowledge is needed to find some
method of storing the foods with the acidic principle intact. Finally,
you need to spread the word of your discovery. A Great persuasion skill
is needed to have a large maritime organisation, such as the Royal Navy,
to adopt your proposals as standard procedure.

Having met these three criteria you may take this aspect and raise
Physic or Logistics to Extraordinary.

Players can invoke this aspect to: treat scurvy aboard a ship, use
logistics to prevent scurvy in a fleet of ships, present your findings
to the Royal Academy, call in a favour from a maritime organisation.

Referees can invoke this aspect to: have the player recognised by
surgeons, naturalists or sailors when they would rather stay incognito,
be heckled by hard-headed old mariners who refuse to believe in the new
'cure'. Earn the animosity of rival fleets or merchants or enemy navies.



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