Talk:Weepers/@comment-149.159.125.109-20121012163318/@comment-3410662-20121015153653

Okay, I have to ask this now; PLEASE stop putting text inside those scrolling boxes. I may be ADD, but that doesn't mean I'm incapable of reading an entire article and noticing every bit of text.

I'm not excusing the mentally ill for their crimes, but the Weepers aren't simply mentally ill or mentally impaired; they're not responsible for their actions since the plague seems to be damaging their reasoning and increasing their aggression until they reach such a point where murdering a city full of completely innocent men and women seems like a good idea.

Yes, they go through corpses quickly. The reason Weepers are left alone is because they're already infected; since the Rats seem to be okay with devouring any normal corpse, it's presumable that they'd be willing to eat plague-ridden corpses as well. I'll need to test that at some point, but I think I've seen rat swarms in the Flood District cleaning up after me in the past.

The whole 'but no one knows about Corvo being the Masked Felon' was dealt with a few posts before; presumably they'd be more terrified of some masked madman than a disgraced Lord Protector, at least at first.

I don't think anyone could argue that the Lord Regent is setting a far worse example than Corvo would if he follows the Low Chaos path, but the fact remains that by following his example (EG killing Weepers) you're still inspiring fear and hatred in the populace. In a plague, the protesters could be considered a health risk. People were talking about that with Occupy Wallstreet when we don't even have many seriously dangerous contagions (excluding HIV/AIDS, and apparently there's going to be a cure for that soon too) left in North America; imagine what a protest like that in the middle of a Black Plague-esque situation could cause.

The regime is no longer trying to spread the plague by the time the game starts, or even by the time the Empress dies. He brought it in to eliminate the poor, but it got out of control (No, really?! First rule of bioweapons: have the cure BEFORE you unleash it (Second rule: don't unleash it)) and he was having serious trouble containing it.

The last part of that paragraph brings back another issue I always have with games with difficulty level; which level is considered the 'canonincal' level of difficulty. I usually just assume it's the highest difficulty, since generally people can't survive bullet-wounds to the face, but Corvo seems a special case; he's already aided by supernatural forces, he's in a world we know very little about (hoping the DLC remedies that), and he's wearing an unknown amount of armour. For all we know, the canon difficulty is easy and he's capable of soloing squads of twenty guards with nothing but his sword and a single Sokolov elixir.