A Growing Sickness

A Growing Sickness was a virtual representation of one of Kassandra's genetic memories, relived by Layla Hassan through the Portable Animus HR-8.5.Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
==Description==
After returning to the plague-striken city of Athens, Kassandra met Hippokrates, who did his own part to combat the plague.
==Dialogue==
Upon her return to Athens to speak with Aspasia, Kassandra encountered Hippokrates.
*Kassandra: Hippokrates, it's good you're here.
*Hippokrates: Is it? Look around you. Athens is dying...
(If players asked "What is happening here?")
*Kassandra: What do you think is going on?
*Hippokrates: I don't know. What I do know is that it kills without discrimination. Rich, poor, philosopher, or farmer—and I'm helpless to stop it.
(If players asked "What is happening to everyone?")
*Kassandra: What's happening to the victims?
*Hippokrates: Leaking, pustulant rashes, raging fevers, pallid, sweaty skin. I find many dying in their own excrement.
(If players chose "There must be something you can do.")
*Kassandra: Is there nothing that can be done?
*Hippokrates: I try and ease the suffering where I can.
*Hippokrates: The plague is spreading through the victims' excretions—I'm sure of it. The bodies must be burned.
<tabber>
|-|Athens is lucky to have you.=
*Kassandra: Your compassion for the people has always inspired me.
*Hippokrates: Unfortunately compassion is all I have to give. The gods have shown me how arrogant I had become.
*Kassandra: We're only mortal, and the gods like to remind us whenever they can.
|-|You could get sick.=
*Kassandra: What if you get sick?
*Hippokrates: It seems I am immune.
*Kassandra: Then you can continue to give comfort to those who aren't.
</tabber>
*Hippokrates: I need help burning the bodies, Kassandra. Fanatics are roaming the streets, trying to stop me in my work.
*Kassandra: What fanatics?
*Hippokrates: The Followers of Ares—superstitious fools. They believe burning the dead is sacrilege, and attacked me. Can you believe it?
(Accept – "I'll help.")
*Kassandra: These Followers of Ares don't worry me. I'll help burn the bodies.
Kassandra began gathering the bodies one at a time and tossing them onto the funeral pyres.
*Kassandra: May you reach Hades safely.
A number of Followers of Ares fanatics and some of the dogs attacked her as she worked, but she dispatched them all the same.
*Kassandra: That's all of them.
==Outcome==
Kassandra briefly helped Hippokrates during the Plague of Athens, then resumed her way to Perikles' residence.
==Behind the scenes==
This quest is no longer available once Abandoned By the Gods is completed.
==Gallery==
ACOd-Hippokrates-plague.jpg|Hippokrates in the city
ACOd-FoA-Athens-fanatic.jpg|A Fanatic of the Followers of Ares in the city
ACOd-FoA-Athens-priests.jpg|Priests of the Followers of Ares in the city
ACOD A Growing Sickness - Kassandra fights Followers of Ares.png|Kassandra defending herself against the Followers of Ares
==References==
Category:Memories of Kassandra
Category:Memories relived using the Animus HR-8.5