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

[theflyingone]

Unfortunately all I can offer is basic patching up, just enough to keep someone from dying before they can be attended to by a proper physician. The supplies I have were limited to what I was caring at the time of my arrival, and I have already used some of them. However, and I am sure Leonardo will agree, any of the medical textbooks in the library are at your disposal, and Riddick may be able to forge the tools illustrated. You might ask Leonardo the extent of his knowledge yourself; his anatomical drawings are very well-informed.

The danger has passed, yes?

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, it's passed.

And yeah, duh, of course I should have thought of Leo--I mean, I know all this shit. I've seen his anatomical drawings in books and they're amazeballs. I've just been so used to him using magic for this stuff.

[theflyingone]

By all means, if this magic is quicker and more effective, use it. However I do worry about incompatibilities such this. We are lucky that the only thing that happened was nothing. You are aware that certain substances, for example, react violently when mixed? What if one of the several different magics at our disposal did not agree with someone's body? And many cures, taken in large enough doses, are fatal.

[thornsofmalkav]

... oh jeez. You've got a point.

[She's suddenly glad she just has to use vitae to heal things and then just drink more blood.]

[theflyingone]

We should at least query a patient about what makes up their body if they are not human, any allergies, conditions they know of... We are not barbers here, or we should try not to be.

[thornsofmalkav]

Or surgeons. Or barber-surgeons, I guess.