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Rita Mordio ([personal profile] anti_nonsense) wrote in [community profile] lostcarnival2017-11-19 10:55 am

OPEN MINGLE: Search for the Cure

Who: Anyone involved in the cure development effort! Or poisoned people, last-minute volunteers (and voluntolds), nosy people, whoever!
When: D5 onward. Efforts will continue through part of the moon visit.
Where: Medical tent, the laboratory in the Supervisor Grove, the Big Top, and more!
What: Working together to develop an antidote! This is an open mingle log, so feel free to make your own toplevel and tag around! Most of the actual work doesn't need to be played out on-screen, but this is a chance for participating characters to meet, chat, or interact while working!
Warnings: Potential for medical squicky stuff, testing on (undead) animals

After a public call to action over the radios, several people have volunteered their skills and resources for the cause of curing workers afflicted with the Prince's poison.

Over the next several days, they meet at various locations to collaborate on a cure. In the medical tent, affected characters and their symptoms are examined through medical, magical, and spiritual means. A file on a desk there is also used to consolidate information, and volunteers may go there to report their findings or to look over reports of what others have learned.

Lambert has volunteered use of the laboratory he and Sans share in a spare trailer in the Supervisor Grove, so that individuals with knowledge of chemistry, herbs, or potion-making may attempt to concoct helpful solutions. From D7 onward, he’ll move the equipment to his cabin on the moon, where work can continue through the visit.

A portion of the big top has also been roped off and may be used as a working space. Trying out some weird spell or ritual? That might be a good place for it, away from the delicate lab equipment and sick people.

Of course, those are only the main bases, and people may take their work to wherever they find suits them best.

When enough progress has been made, there will be a need for practical testing. Foster has made use of his necromancy to procure them some undead rats (ranging from normal-sized to weirdly gigantic) to test on. For later-stage tests, some brave volunteers may be needed.

For reference, the characters in leadership roles are:

Oversight: Peridot (+ Mari, Herbert)
Magic: Strange, Rita
Medical/Chemistry: Herbert
Herbs/Potions: Lambert
Spiritual: Ginko

Anyone is welcome to join the effort at any point. Completed cures will be administered at a later time, during the vacation on the moon.
wild_magic: (18)

[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-11-25 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
"How I'm feeling... How can that affect it?" That doesn't quite make sense, does it? If it's medicine or healing or something, he'd think it could work no matter how he felt about it.

Plus you know, asking another question in return means he doesn't have to tell someone how he feels. So that's a plus.
dontpokethat: when i say things (i think i speak for everyone)

[personal profile] dontpokethat 2017-11-25 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
"How you're feeling can affect a lot. Like... hm. Do you know what a placebo is?"

No, he's not about to tell Susan that's what the cure is, because that would be both counterproductive and untrue. But it does kind of lead into his point here.

Don't think he's forgotten to get back to his first question, Susan.
wild_magic: (32)

[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-11-25 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
He shakes his head, never having heard the word before.

"What is it?"
dontpokethat: that blaming me for them doesn't solve anything (i've caused enough problems to know)

[personal profile] dontpokethat 2017-11-28 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
"It's... when you tell someone you're giving them medicine, but what you're giving them doesn't actually do anything. Now, normally you shouldn't do that, but the thing is, there are some cases where it actually helps."

As for why he brought that up: "See, feeling like you'll get better actually makes a big difference with things like this - even more so with this poison, we think. So I need to check in with each of you to find out how you feel... which means I do need you to make sure and be honest."

He knows how people around here get, okay.
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[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-11-29 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
"So... It's like lying, to help people feel better." Which honestly is the only kind of lying that really makes sense, but he still doesn't know if it's right. But it seems that isn't quite the point here, even if Ginko seems to think it's related somehow.

"But anyway, I feel better." Better than what, and how much better, and what that means, that's all up to interpretation. But at least he feels better than, you know. Right after the hunt, or when he was sure they were going to die in jail or face the same fate as Sans.
dontpokethat: goodbye forever (ive already forgotten what you said)

[personal profile] dontpokethat 2017-12-08 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Something like that." Look, he can't go around telling kids that lying is okay, whether it's relevant or not.

He raises his eyebrows slightly. "You know that doesn't tell me anything."
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[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-12-08 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
His gaze flickers away for a moment, not really wanting to talk about his feelings, but... It doesn't hurt to say something, at least.

"My chest doesn't hurt any more, and I only feel sort of sick. And things are getting better, now that we aren't stuck there any more, so that's good." If Ginko wants a more direct answer he may need to specify, but at least that's some more details.
dontpokethat: it could have been some other times also. who cares (it was the best of times)

[personal profile] dontpokethat 2017-12-12 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Alright. Those are all good." And that is definitely, genuinely true. "I needed to know something slightly different, though. I guess another way to put it would be... I need to know what you think about all this. The poison and all."
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[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-12-12 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that's what he thought. He fidgets a little as Ginko says it, already trying to find a way to really weasel out of it, and it takes him a moment to respond.

"I don't really like talking about that stuff." Maybe being direct is the best way? Probably not, but he can at least try.