Sweep of the Sick

And event that took place in Waterdeep on 7th Eleasis 1376DR.
Waterdeep had many refugees fleeing from the orc hordes and the city was rife with disease. As a consequence a refugee camp was set up south of the city walls.
From the write up:
Corum and Fenrir reported to the North Ward Watch house as auxiliary
watchmen and joined a four man squad, Corum as an Amar and Fenrir as a watchman. 
They were then sent down to the Virgin Square in Dock Ward and joined with
the others in clearing it.
It was a grim task, with many women and children crying and the menfolk being
angry and dismayed. Many of them were sick too, and all were scared of the
watchmen as they descended on them like ravens, dressed in their bird-beak masks.
Those that had carts loaded them up. Those that had tents packed them up, but as
they were all slowly moved from the square they left behind piles of rubbish,
discarded clothes and makeshift huts. Smoke from abandoned camp fires hung low
over the deserted square as Corum and Fenrir helped find and take away the 
dead that were left behind.
Meanwhile this was happening all over the city, in the squares where the
refugees were camped and in the houses were the sick were kept. All of them
were swept up into a mass movement of people out of Waterdeep.
By evening Corum and Fenrir were ready to head out to the camp and it was 
here that they saw the scale of what had happened. Twenty thousand people
had been cleared from the city and deposited into a shanty town fit for 
only five thousand.
The clerics put the sick and the frail in the centre of the camp and in the
tents the city had provided. Fenrir saw some tired and aggravated watchmen
beating a man and went over to talk some sense into them.
After they had left he talked to the man. He said 'What are we meant to do?
We have nothing! Not even a roof over my head for me and my family!'
All Fenrir could say was that he was sorry.
Eventually Corum and Fenrir made their way back to the city. They had helped
as much as they could, or were prepared to at least.
The events of this day would come to be known as 'The Sweep of The Sick'.
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