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Threepwood Strain (spoilers)

StoutFilesStoutFiles
edited November 2009 in Tales of Monkey Island
This makes no sense at all. A Threepwood strain of the Pox makes sense if Guybrush has it, or if Guybrush's family has it, but Elaine is his wife. They share the same last name...that's it.

Also, considering they didn't do anything physical there would also be no excahnging that would make her pox any stronger than anyone else Guybrush has encountered. He's spent more time with Winslow infact.

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  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited November 2009
    I wrote my theory on this in another thread but I am too lazy to retype it or to even link the thread...... I guess this post is pretty useless ignore it..... why am I still typing? Oh ok I went digging for it..

    My thoughts on it
    Irishmile wrote: »
    I think since Elaine and Guybrush where there when it started they would be patient 0-1 ... or would the medical world look at LeChuck as patient zero? Anyhow they would have the same strain and viruses often mutate into newer stains so De Singe named the first one the "Threepwood stain" being the first person who appeared to have it in his hand, I do not think he was referencing the host DNA (GT or Elaine) but the virus itself.

    Also since it is a Virus and LeChuck carries it he would also be the key for a vaccination although I doubt they would have the science to do so at that point... Grog Machines yes, decent medicine no
  • WoodsyblueWoodsyblue
    edited November 2009
    I think it was becasue Elaine was right near it when it Guybrush first caused the pox. It wasn't until Guybrush blurted out that Elane was right there that DeSinge decided he needed her.
  • StoutFilesStoutFiles
    edited November 2009
    Elaine didn't get the Pox until after it had affected all the pirates after being released by the winds. Only Guybrush's hand was affected in the encounter on the ship...doesn't matter if Elaine was there or not.
  • WoodsyblueWoodsyblue
    edited November 2009
    The physical affects of the pox are only visible when a person gets angry. Elane must have contracted the super concentrated pox on the ship at the start and it didn't start to manifest itself until Chapter 2.
  • GuruGuru214GuruGuru214
    edited November 2009
    StoutFiles wrote: »
    Elaine didn't get the Pox until after it had affected all the pirates after being released by the winds. Only Guybrush's hand was affected in the encounter on the ship...doesn't matter if Elaine was there or not.

    Not exactly. Both Guybrush and his hand seemed to get worse as time passed. The pox probably has an incubation period, not to mention that we barely saw Elaine at all after the cutlass incident, until she showed up full of pox in Spinner Cay. Besides, Guybrush's pox rage in the face-off against Bugeye shows that his hand wasn't the only thing poxed.
  • WoodsyblueWoodsyblue
    edited November 2009
    Guybrush, just like Elane, had the pox the whole time. Think about it. All though Chapter 1, 2 and the beginning of 3 he had no physical symptoms (except the hand of coarse) then when he gets angry at Bugeye at the end of Faceoff you see the Pox visibly on his neck and head. Just because the characters don't look green doesn't mean they don't have the pox inside them. They only start turning green the more times they get angry. If Guybrush hadn't of cured himself with the pox he would have been like Elane by the same stage in the story.
  • StoutFilesStoutFiles
    edited November 2009
    The physical affects of the pox are only visible when a person gets angry.

    So we're ignoring the spots, skin color, and coughing?

    I guess we can stretch it to this conclusion so as not to create a problem in the story, but Elaine's symptoms were equal to the other pirates at Spinner Cay.

    The only reason she seems so crazy in Episode 4 is because she's constantly kept angry (rushing to the trial, fighting with Morgan/Guybrush/DeSinge), and anger brings out the worst in the pox.
  • WoodsyblueWoodsyblue
    edited November 2009
    The pox causes anger, when then feeds the pox, which makes it stronger, which gives the carrier even less control and even more more angry. It's a viscous cycle.

    And the spots, skin color, and coughing only show up the more the person gets angry. At first they are not there or visible.
  • LupLup
    edited November 2009
    Woodsyblue wrote: »
    And the spots, skin color, and coughing only show up the more the person gets angry. At first they are not there or visible.

    guybrush and elaine are an example for this.
  • StoutFilesStoutFiles
    edited November 2009
    And the spots, skin color, and coughing only show up the more the person gets angry. At first they are not there or visible.

    Any proof of this and it not just being based on length of time exposed to the pox?
  • WoodsyblueWoodsyblue
    edited November 2009
    My above example. In Chapter 3 Guybrush starts with no physical symptoms of having the pox. When he gets angry at Bugeye at the end of Faceoff and does the whole pox angry thing you immediately see the parts of the pox on his neck and face.
  • LupLup
    edited November 2009
    StoutFiles wrote: »
    Any proof of this and it not just being based on length of time exposed to the pox?

    well if you stare long enough at Winslow's face on this picture you'll see the proof.

    winslowgiene.jpg
  • MaxilyahMaxilyah
    edited November 2009
    Lup wrote: »
    well if you stare long enough at Winslow's face on this picture you'll see the proof.

    winslowgiene.jpg

    I see it! It's all so clear now.
  • LupLup
    edited November 2009
    Maxilyah wrote: »
    I see it! It's all so clear now.

    amazing right? it's so obvious! why didn't we get it way earlier?! :O
  • adventureaddictadventureaddict
    edited November 2009
    Lup wrote: »
    well if you stare long enough at Winslow's face on this picture you'll see the proof.

    winslowgiene.jpg

    Oh god! This picture is haunting me everywhere I go now!
  • RandulfRandulf
    edited November 2009
    I don't know, but I presume the strain stays pure in Guybrush and Elaine simply because they were so close to the "epicenter"; the pox mutates along the way to other pirates. However, if that was the case, De Singe's plan for a massive airborne infection will likely fail.
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