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[caduceusoncall]

Who: Mercy (caduceusoncall) and OPEN!
What: Practice! Meet the doctor, if you haven't!
When: IC dates May 1st-3rd
Where: Medical Bay
Warnings: Medical talk may come up!



i. May 1st-3rd; practice makes perfect

[The good doctor is less absorbed by books and more focused on patients these days. She's put out the call for others to show up so that she can practice her new skill, as well as update Strange's charts. It makes her a little nervous, still. What if it doesn't work on someone? What if she discovers some anomaly she's not prepared for? What if nobody shows up anyway?]

[Angela puts those thoughts aside as she hears someone enter.]

Greetings. Here for a scan, or is something else troubling you?

[ooc: this is the ic post for mercy's scan permission post, so that we can have an interaction over the scan if you want! feel free to handwave the whole experience by just filling out the form, but if you'd like to talk to mercy or if something unusual would happen during the scan, feel free to respond here! please go here and fill out the form there! if anything abnormal would come up now that wouldn't come up normally, specify that in your reply to this post!]

Comments

[dubiouslychthonic]

I'm more concerned about the what it'd do to my nutritional requirements if it were to progress, but Strange thinks that if worse came to worse they'd be able to use agricultural 3D printers to produce troll blood. And I've been asymptomatic for almost twenty sweeps at this point and I'm confident of my ability to continue to maintain my current status.

[caduceusoncall]

Excellent. I trust your judgement, then.

[Then, as an afterthought:]

In fiction on my homeworld, we have a similar phenomenon called "vampirism". The concept is effectively the same, with some artistic license and poetic flair added throughout the ages, as authors are inclined to do. For example, I doubt you could be classified as "undead", nor would religious artifacts send you hissing into the night.

Ah, but that is me searching for common ground. Your condition is based in reality, while vampires are purely fictional.

[dubiouslychthonic]

"Vampirism" is the archaic term. [The word she uses isn't the same word as Angela used, of course, but the Alternian term translates nearly enough.] It's not true undeath, but one of the possible triggers for the disease progressing entails extensive enough injury and enough of a shock to the system that most rainbow drinkers relate the experience to death anyway.

[She smiles wryly.] I have no more adverse reaction to religious artifacts than any basically secular troll does, though.

[caduceusoncall]

Let us hope that no such situation arises.

[Angela folds her hands together and smiles. She will always worry about the health and safety of her friends and colleagues, of course, but she suspects Jetshard takes good enough care of herself to avoid taking such massive damage as a rule.]

I don't want to hold you up too long. Thank you so much again for coming and for offering such a thorough explanation for me. Do you have any questions or concerns before we part ways?

[dubiouslychthonic]

It's no bother, it was interesting. And may I say, congratulations on picking up an ability that actually lends itself to practice. [Jetshard sighs.] Strange tells me I picked up something in the last dungeon, but it's a kind of medical stasis effect and I haven't been able to figure out if it has any application in the absence of an actual medical crisis.

[caduceusoncall]

Thank you. Medical stasis does sound extremely useful, I must say. I hope you only have to use it sparingly. Do you know if it is a time- or space-based stasis or tied directly to medical situations? Because you might be able to draw it out on, for example, moving liquid or other things that can be observed as stopping or slowing.