Reblogged from Jim Webster, aka Tallis Steelyard:

One problem about plague years where everybody hides in their houses is what do you do about those too poor to have a home? For us at the Shrine of Aea in her Aspect as the Personification of Tempered Enthusiasm our major worry was for the mendicants. Given that they had largely been beggars and vagrants before they somehow ended up with us, the best they could hope for was to return to being beggars and vagrants. So we hatched a plan. As nobody would be using the shrine, we would.

So we brought all the mendicants into the shrine and a number of us remained with them to maintain good order and regular meals. We even went so far as to lock the doors and relied upon hauling food in a basket through an upstairs window. Now to be honest once you have things organised and everybody slotted into a routine, there is only so much you need do. There’s only so often you can instruct the mendicants to polish the brassware before the mirror finish already achieved seems to mock their efforts.

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