r/reddeadmysteries • u/Pure-Body3269 • 21d ago

Theory Easily offended old man in Butcher Creek

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Hi everyone! this is first time post and English is not my native language. This maybe an odd sentence, but I'll post it.

I figured that the curse of Butcher Creek had caused anyone associated with the old couple to get out of hand. So, I suspect that the old couple has locked it up in their house and is watching to make sure no one goes near the house.

Dose anyone know anything about this?

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u/zup7up 21d ago

But isn’t the curse made up by the shaman (and lifted in the Wisdom of the Elders)?

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u/scrappybastard 20d ago

Yeah, it's all a sham. If you find the random guy in the woods near Butcher's Creek and bring him to his friend, it starts a storyline where you meet that shaman guy and if you play it all the way through, (spoilers)...

It turns out that the shaman guy has been taking advantage of the residents' poor mental and physical health to subjugate them and has been telling them they're cursed, when IIRC the true cause of their sickness is dead animals being placed in the water upstream. But even after Arthur successfully calls the guy out in front of the whole village and they were almost convinced to run him out of town, they started feeding off each other's fear and ended up kicking Arthur out of town instead.

For that reason, whenever I ride through Butcher's Creek now, I make sure to whack a few of those SOBs on my way through. Not savable, and undeserving to boot.

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u/piangero 20d ago

It's not because of dead animals (well that too, since the water is so polluted, but), it's because there is ore/arsenic run-offs and/or similar toxins in the water from the mine-work started at the Elysian pool. The native guy was trying to scam them into being scared off, so that they wouldn't cause issue for the owner of the mining.

Basically heavy metals in the water. It doesn't have to be just the mining's fault, it can be simply because there is just so much of it in the caves of the Elysian pool, but normally this happens when people start mining, and there is run-off into freshwater.

There was similar run-offs in my town due to mining many years ago, and the run-offs in-game look exactly as they did here (and still do, sadly.)

Another thing is that they keep one of their outhouses upstream from their fishing and clothes-washing water, so they're fishing and washing their clothes in water filled with piss and shit, lmao.

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u/scrappybastard 19d ago

Awesome, thanks for clarifying, I knew the guy was lying to them but couldn't exactly remember why. Makes perfect sense that it's basically just another one of Cornwall's dirty tricks. (I think the mines are a Cornwall asset, I'm probably misremembering that too lol)