Talk:Corvo's Mask/@comment-187.37.173.163-20121022012153

I think you could say that Corvo didn't get the plague while on prison because he was isolated from almost all people and only entered in contact with guards that took elixirs on a daily basis. Also, the spymaster and the high overseer wanted to keep Corvo alive waiting for him to sign the confession or for the day of his execution to arrive.

I think the mask somewhat protects you from the plague, but the game happens over the course of very few days and Corvo is taking both known elixirs continuously, so there are 2 possible options that come to mind:

1. Corvo was infected during the events of the game, but since everything happens so quickly and he is taking elixirs maybe he was infected only close to the ending of the game (unlikely since this is not mentioned in the ending).

2. Taking elixirs+mask negate the plague (plausible).

3. The outsider protects him from the plague (I think this makes the most sense of it all, maybe because personally I believe that the Outsider was the true reason the plague started, manipulating events and making the spymaster think it was his idea).