Backdated to the day after Alcuin's dungeon

[thornsofmalkav]

So, uh, is there, like, anybody here who knows medicine? Or at the very least someone else who knows first aid? Healing magic won't work. Magic anything won't work. It's kind of complicated. Or maybe not that complicated?

Well, okay, basically it's that Imriel picked up this passive power negation thing when he was in Newport, which means that anyone in his immediate vicinity loses their magic. And you can't cast stuff from a distance on him either. Which is a problem, because that's, like, the main way people are healing things here.

(Oh, right, if you don't know, Imriel's one of the three youngest Travelers. You'll be able to recognize him because he's the only ten-year-old we have that's not Japanese.)

Anyway, uh, I found that stuff out today because I had to patch him up and my regular way of healing people didn't work and I had to bust out the kit. And then I thought, 'oh shit, what if I infiltrate next Jaunt, who's going to patch him up if he gets hurt then?'

So. Uh. Hopefully there's one of you? Otherwise, I'll see if I can teach people what I know just in case. I took classes from the Red Cross a few years ago, if you want my first aiding cred.

[OOC: First locked thread is secured with Psychic Protection II.]

Comments

[brokers]

I'm trained in field medicine and emergency response.

Although I feel compelled to note that many of the worlds we visit do have trained medical professionals of their own. While the skills and equipment we can bring to bear are sufficient for routine injury, it would be worth our while to take stock of the local options in case someone is injured beyond what we can reasonably treat - or in case there is no one available with the necessary skills.

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah! Makes sense. I mean, some of the places we might not want to go for doctors--like Rome--but some of the others probably do have emergency rooms and shit like that.

[brokers]

That's...a place out of human antiquity, isn't it? I'm sorry I missed it.

[thornsofmalkav]

It was a lot of fun, honestly. I'm still not sure why we were there--Jules broke liminal space and brought us back early before we could conclude anything--but we ended up at this beach resort town and my guess is that we were supposed to hook up these star-crossed lovers? But, like, I was infiltrating, so. [Mental equivalent of a shrug.]

[brokers]

The logic of the Arcana certainly can be puzzling at times.

[thornsofmalkav]

Tell me about it. But I think it was either that, or save the Cassii family from penury. Ah, they were neighbors of my overlay and had lost a bunch and had to get their daughter married off to someone rich to avoid bankruptcy.

[brokers]

In hopes that the spouse would agree to pay their debts for their daughter's sake?

[If she sounds somewhat puzzled, that's because she is. Human marriages: still weird.]

[thornsofmalkav]

Think so, yeah.

[brokers]

It sounds like a drama that would not be entirely out of place on Illium.

...Although there, at least, there would have been access to proper medicine.

[thornsofmalkav]

Illium? Not, like, Troy Illium?

[No, wait, Liara's the blue alien lady, right? It must be some planet, not, like, Troy.]

[brokers]

No, it's a planet on the edge of asari space.

Although I believe your people have named some the planets in the Traverse after figures from Earth history.

[thornsofmalkav]

Or places, I guess.

[brokers]

Oh. I thought... Well, that's embarrassing.

The Terran Alliance primarily reserves place names for their ships, and names planets and moons for people and pieces of mythology.

[thornsofmalkav]

Ohhhh. Right. Well, I mean, Troy is also a given name so I get where we got confused. But, uh, there's a mythological Earth city called Troy that was also called Illium and that's what I was referring to with 'Troy Illium' and not someone's name.

It would be sort of like naming someone 'Troy Troy.' Which I guess means it'll be Emperor Emperor's next alias.

[brokers]

I would like to hear those myths some day - or read them, if they're written down somewhere in the library. My knowledge of human mythology and history remains somewhat patchy.

[thornsofmalkav]

Sure! Though I'd be very surprised if they didn't have The Illiad in the workshop library.

[brokers]

The differences between realities can at times be remarkably subtle, I've found.

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah. True. Sometimes it's, like, the difference in an X and Y chromosome.

[She's thinking of Yua and Souji.]

[brokers]

Or phenotypic expression...

It would be interesting to examine the differences in myth between several distinct but closely related realities.

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah. Yeah, it really would be.