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drbyronorpheusWho: Dr. Orpheus and you
Where: The fairgrounds and anywhere he's allowed to hawk his wares.
When: The whole week.
What: Dr. Orpheus, travelling medicine man goes around selling snake oil and sundry curiosities.
Warnings: Possible violence. This is the wild west.
A small cart is stopped by the side of the road, on the campgrounds, on a street corner, wherever he's allowed to park. Two canvas panels roll down each side reading: "Pharmacopeia Extraordinaire: Mender of Mysterious Maladies!" and "Dr. Orpheus' patented Elixir of Vitality: Let it Bring You to Life!"
A lean man in fine clothes that have seen better days can be seen around camping and carefully tending to his horse. He keeps a pistol on hand and a rifle in his cart, yet sometimes the pistol is unloaded.
Wherever people are gathered, he steps down off the wagon to do his patter:
"Gentlemen, Ladies, I humbly offer a staggering selection of tinctures, nostrums, ointments and powders procured from the Far East or used by the crowned heads of Europe themselves!"
He whacks a canvas panel with his cane, shaking the dust loose.
"All these and the jewel in the crown: Doctor Orpheus' Elixir of Vitality! Seventeen varieties of herb mixed to my exacting specifications from Mother Nature's own Pharmacopeia! For the lifting of the animal spirits, the restoration of health. It will put a spring in your step and a song in your heart. Yes, you sir. Even the toughest maladies are no match for it, yet the formula is compounded to be gentle enough for the most frail invalid. Restore lost youth, reverse the hands of time!
Now that is not all, for in my extensive research I have developed other formulas just as pleasing. Losing your hair? No more, I say! No longer will the scourge of Onanism haunt you! For plague, pox, or gout I have just the thing! Even-"
He lowers his voice "Even charms for gentlemen feeling the fire and passion going out of their lives. For ladies, the most recent scientific discoveries. Consultations are free!"
Where: The fairgrounds and anywhere he's allowed to hawk his wares.
When: The whole week.
What: Dr. Orpheus, travelling medicine man goes around selling snake oil and sundry curiosities.
Warnings: Possible violence. This is the wild west.
A small cart is stopped by the side of the road, on the campgrounds, on a street corner, wherever he's allowed to park. Two canvas panels roll down each side reading: "Pharmacopeia Extraordinaire: Mender of Mysterious Maladies!" and "Dr. Orpheus' patented Elixir of Vitality: Let it Bring You to Life!"
A lean man in fine clothes that have seen better days can be seen around camping and carefully tending to his horse. He keeps a pistol on hand and a rifle in his cart, yet sometimes the pistol is unloaded.
Wherever people are gathered, he steps down off the wagon to do his patter:
"Gentlemen, Ladies, I humbly offer a staggering selection of tinctures, nostrums, ointments and powders procured from the Far East or used by the crowned heads of Europe themselves!"
He whacks a canvas panel with his cane, shaking the dust loose.
"All these and the jewel in the crown: Doctor Orpheus' Elixir of Vitality! Seventeen varieties of herb mixed to my exacting specifications from Mother Nature's own Pharmacopeia! For the lifting of the animal spirits, the restoration of health. It will put a spring in your step and a song in your heart. Yes, you sir. Even the toughest maladies are no match for it, yet the formula is compounded to be gentle enough for the most frail invalid. Restore lost youth, reverse the hands of time!
Now that is not all, for in my extensive research I have developed other formulas just as pleasing. Losing your hair? No more, I say! No longer will the scourge of Onanism haunt you! For plague, pox, or gout I have just the thing! Even-"
He lowers his voice "Even charms for gentlemen feeling the fire and passion going out of their lives. For ladies, the most recent scientific discoveries. Consultations are free!"
