Editing Pathologic 2 (section)

==Plot==
Artemy Burakh was raised in a steppe town to succeed his father, Isidor, as its doctor/shaman (or, "menkhu"). The town consists of two populations, the colonists who built it and the native "Kin', whose very real earth goddess doesn't like the fact that she was built on, or that her children are being seduced away from her by things like money, science, and basic plumbing. She ''especially'' doesn't like the Polyhedron, a big honking tower whose foundation spike stabs deeply into her body, and whose artisans intended it as a expression of human genius, creativity, and abstract thought.

Artemy knows nothing of the Polyhedron, having been sent away to medical school before it was built. After several years in the Capitol, he is summoned back home by an urgent letter from his father. Unfortunately, he arrives just after Isidor has been murdered...and the douchebag in charge of town justice has deluded himself into thinking ''Artemy'' is the culprit. Since Isidor was beloved by all the locals, and the main thing keeping townsfolk and Kin from killing each other, the town rapidly devolves into a powder keg of paranoia and racist hysteria...

...Even ''before'' the plague hits. Known as the Sand Pest, it is a fatal, highly contagious disease with no cure (other than literally scorching out a victim's innards). It hit the town before, five years ago, but all Isidor could do was prevent it from spreading. As the only competent doctor in town- well, other than the crazy priestess Clara, and the heartless foreigner Daniil- Artemy must do better. The fate of everyone within ten miles depends on it.

''If'' Artemy can avoid getting killed by vigilantes, hunger, and the plague itself. And that's a '''big''' "if".

Good thing he has a lot of understudies.