WEEK 4.

[trustwellness]

WEEK 4 Three more have died this past week. Milla Maxwell was killed for breaking a rule, Chiyuki was murdered, and you all had a hand in executing Yoshikage Kira. It seems like this isn't going to stop any time soon. How many more will join them this week? Saturday is given to regrouping and rest; on Sunday morning the clock chimes as it always has, but at least there are no bodies to find today. It seems you're safe for now. The night before wasn't necessarily a peaceful one, however; you'll probably feel a bit groggy when you wake up, and it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost... Despite the Wordsmith's reaction to the last trial, it seems as though you've been rewarded once again for a job that was...well, it was done, even if he didn't explicitly say it was well-done. Another door has opened in that stairway, it seems, leading you further down into the building; once again, there are more rooms down there, more things to occupy yourselves with. Or perhaps just more means to get creative with regards to how you take initiative with your fellow Apprentices. APPRENTICES REMAINING: 23 APPRENTICES REMAINING: 22 APPRENTICES REMAINING: 20

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[OOC: Welcome to week four of Trustfell! Feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget to save those threads for coins and the activity check!

If you'd like to get in contact with the Wordsmith, you can do so through letters or the switchboard!]

Comments

infirmary

[firstaid]

[While just using this time to stretch her legs and explore the fourth floor, the infirmary seems like a great place to check out. The stuff here is different and she's not really sure how some of the things work, like the surgical kits or the IVs. She's not going to mess with it though. Her specialty is healing with magic, but otherwise (even if magic is useless here).]

Do you know how some of this stuff is used? I've never seen anything like it.

[plentyfriendly]

[Estelle's voice is enough to - partially - snap Phi out of recalling all this for the third time.]

...Some of it, yeah. Dr. Ziegler would probably know more, but I'll answer what I can.

[firstaid]

[She does give Phi a bit of a worried look. Since they haven't talked as much, she doesn't feel quite right pressing on the topic. Perhaps someone who she's closer to will be able to do that.]

I'm just looking at the needles and what look like knives. Are these for surgeries?

[She's read about them, but never really seen them.]

[plentyfriendly]

Yep.

[For the scalpels in particular...]

The body is a pretty delicate thing, so you need a lot of control when you're cutting into it to remove something from it or add something like a pacemaker.

[firstaid]

A... pacemaker?

[Her eyebrows furrow at that. She's definitely not thinking about a device that aids the heart. She's literally thinking of a 'pace' in terms of traveling.]

[plentyfriendly]

A kind of machine that's designed to help people with heart disorders.

[firstaid]

There are machines that can do that?

[She doesn't know anything about Raven and how Blastias in her world can replace hearts so... It's a profound concept.]

[plentyfriendly]

Yeah. A lot of the things that go on in a human body are partly electrical, so a controlled external source of current can do something like regulate a person's heartbeat.

[Didn't he basically straight-up die, though? Technology can't fix that quite yet.]

[firstaid]

I suppose that makes sense? [She tilts her head... no it doesn't make sense...]

[plentyfriendly]

If you say so.

[Moving on...]

If I'm not mistaken you were looking at these syringes too, right?

[firstaid]

Yes, I was. I'm a rather unfamiliar with them.

[plentyfriendly]

There are some kinds of medicine that it isn't safe to swallow, or just affects the first thing it gets to, and that's what these are for. The fluid inside is injected directly into the bloodstream.

[firstaid]

But if it isn't safe to swallow, why would it be safe to inject it in a person?

[plentyfriendly]

Because it would damage the throat or stomach, or a digestible amount of it would be too much and just make it worse.

[She'll need to come back and investigate this room another day. Tomorrow, maybe.]

[firstaid]

You would think anything that would damage the throat or stomach would also damage your veins.

[Then again, medicine where she's from is the magic bullshit type.]

[plentyfriendly]

I guess I was mostly thinking about quantity. Do you have vaccines where you're from?

[firstaid]

[She shakes her head.]

I don't. Everything we use back home is via magic.

[plentyfriendly]

...Magic. All right. I'm assuming this is some set of forces that are at least partially understood that you just happened to call that.

[Poor Clarke.]

Anyway, a vaccine is a kind of preventive medicine that's essentially a weaker version of whatever virus it acts against. If you took too much you'd probably get actually sick.

[firstaid]

So it works to make one immune, then. I suppose that does make sense.

[There's also magic for that, but she won't say anything.]

[plentyfriendly]

That's right. It prepares the immune system to deal with the virus at its full power.

[She nods in addition to saying these words.]

[firstaid]

How intriguing. Something that's not magic that's capable of that.

[She's thinking...]

I wonder if Rita has studied anything like that? [She's talking to herself here.]

[plentyfriendly]

Someone you know?

[Phi might just need to listen, right now.]

[firstaid]

Yes, she's a friend of mine back home. She's a scholar that studies magic and blastia, but also science. I wonder if she could be able to work with medicine as well.

[plentyfriendly]

I guess my assumption about "magic" being a science was right, then.

[Things make sense.]

Still, if she's worth her salt it'd definitely be possible for her if she worked at it. I'm pretty well-acquainted with a great scientist myself, although... he's a bit of a hardhead.

[firstaid]

Yes, science and magic have the same basis in my world, I suppose. We call it magic, but it's used for cleaning water, lighting things, and every day things. What's used to power things here is the equivalent of Blastia in my world.