Fairy Road Authority quarantines Harmless?

This drastic measure is deemed necessary to protect the rest of the Illyriad population from getting the illnesses currently afflicting many Harmless? players, apparently due to the inferior farming and medical practices of that alliance. The quarantine is effective immediately and until further notice.

1) No player outside Harmless? is to entertain guests from Harmless? towns, unless they are appropriately disinfected with the approved magical and acidic procedure, and are found disease free on two consecutive medical examinations spaced more than a week apart without any visit to a Harmless? town in between.

2) No imports of hides, herbs, animal parts, food, leatherwork, wood or soil from Harmless? towns are allowed under any circumstances. (Stone, iron and metal objects are exempt from the export restrictions imposed on Harmless? towns for the time being, provided approved disinfection procedures are followed).

3) Any quarantined products from Harmless? towns found anywhere outside Harmless? city gates should be burned immediately, and the area cleansed by approved disinfection spells.

We are saddened to have to take such drastic measures, but the evidence of an extremely dangerous plague afflicting Harmless? towns is overwhelming and allow no doubt that complete isolation is the only prudent and humanitarian preventive action possible at this advanced state of disease. The plague has so far had the following globally observed symptoms:

a) Desperate hordes of scouts have left a large number of Harmless? towns, seeking citizenship in towns of other players. The vast majority of those scouts have perished in their ailment after only brief hospitalisation. That scouts so obviously left their hometowns without being prepared is a sure sign that they were seriously ill when leaving. Scouts are always prepared.

b) Compound afflictions of magical nature have been detected as spread from Harmless? towns, including mind affecting brain entropy and swarms of locusts devouring and fouling food and cattle alike, causing significant havoc also in towns neighbouring Harmless? afflicted plague centres.

c) We have a few isolated occurrences of hordes on riding beasts breaking through the magical fences erected around civilized settlements and thus making the town vulnerable for wild dogs and mammoths following the desperately famined Harmless? citizens and wreaking havoc to the orderly storage of food and supplies.

d) Reports have been received on "rabid statements by high-ranking Harmless? officials in the forums", and although this is as yet unverified, we fear that the illness is not contained to the populace.

NOW THEREFORE, pursuant to section 11 of the Bees Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. B.6 (hereinafter "the Act") and the power delegated to me by the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, I hereby establish a quarantine area being the entire Harmless? alliance.

Odd, Chief Road Coordinator