OPEN MINGLE: Search for the Cure

[anti_nonsense]

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.

Comments

[whattaprick]

"Not very scientific," Lambert comments, but he's grinning. He's the last one to care about proper laboratory procedure, and he's arguably worked in worse conditions when there wasn't much more than a campfire and his waterskin around. So, he's the last to judge.

"Did you need something, or are you just looking for a break?"

[anti_nonsense]

Lambert gets an unimpressed look at his comment, but she goes on to address his question instead.

"I'm here to work, obviously," Rita retorts, folding her arms. "Healing potions and salves aren't my usual fare, but I have some idea of what goes into them. Thought I'd see if I could use some of the equipment here to run some tests, maybe come up with some useful chemical solutions."

[whattaprick]

"What, is Strange getting on your nerves already?" It wouldn't surprise Lambert if he did. The bigger surprise would be that it hasn't happened sooner, considering...

"Anything's worth trying right now. Can you list down the ingredients?" Lambert asks, nodding towards a corner of the table with some sheets of paper --some scribbled over already, some clean -- and writing implements. "Not all the ingredients are named the same, or readily available around here. Might have to make some substitutions."

[anti_nonsense]

"Not any more than usual," Rita says with a shrug. "I think he's off messing around with rats, or trying to talk the stone away, or... something." Maybe both of those things. Strange's magic is weird.

She makes her way over to the indicated table, grabs a clean sheet of paper, and starts jotting down a list of ingredients. Fortunately, she'd been making similar notes just earlier, so it's all fresh in her mind. Magic resin, aer agaric, eggbear claw, nia fruit, holy water, soul grass... those are a few of the more unusual items she lists. She also makes note of some oddly mundane ingredients as well: orange, peach, savory and basil. Holding out the list for him to see, she explains, "I can make do even if I don't get all of these... but the more, the better."

And while she's at the table, she picks up some of the other notes and looks them over out of curiosity.

[whattaprick]

Strange's magic is absolutely weird, that's for sure. The particular set of notes Rita's picked up seem to be about discussing the best way to turn rose petals into a workable reagent, whether crushing the leaves and incorporating them whole would be better or if they need to be processed into something else. Lambert has apparently decided turning them into oil would be best way to handle it.

Others are clearly recipes substitutions, ingredients crossed out (some with heavy emphasis, like the results might have been particularly unfortunate).

In the meantime, Lambert's finished glancing over the list, and he nods at Rita when he's done. "Some of these should be easy enough to find in the cookhouse, but it's the same for me. Can't do much more than just try it out and see what works... testing it's going to be a different story, though."

[anti_nonsense]

"Shouldn't be a problem," Rita replies, sounding confident. "I already have potential substitutes in mind for the rarer ingredients. I'll get some of the other volunteers to get them for me." No sense in having the poisoned people run around when there are plenty of healthy folks to do it for them.

"I'm sure we'll have plenty of idiots willing to help test the solutions, too." She doesn't look at all concerned about the testing process.