anti_nonsense: (read a book read a book)
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.
kingsroads: (this won't end well)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2017-11-28 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Well that's not an answer to his question. Strange frowns for a moment, before he continues rummaging through other people's stuff, trying to find anything remotely close to leather gloves. This trunk doesn't have any, so he moves on to a different trunk, still talking to Lauren as he does so.

"I've only started handling them. I think they're suspicious." Of what, Strange doesn't clarify, though he has a long laundry list of reasons why rats and mice might be suspicious of him which he'll explain if asked. "Besides, I'm trying to see how my magic affects the stone on the poor devils. You'd think they'd realize I'm trying to help."
mylastchance: (⚡ 070)

[personal profile] mylastchance 2017-11-28 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
"We're the reason they're stone in the first place." He answers back with an aggravated huff. It's not something he blames Strange for specifically. It's not even that he's against using the undead creatures for cure testing. He does wish there was another way though. Undead anything makes him uncomfortable, and petrified undead creatures even more so. It just sounded cruel, turning undead creatures to stone just so you could manipulate them with all sorts of possibly unhealthy magic. He saw the necessity of it, so he kept his mouth shut. That didn't mean he wasn't still a bit angry about it. Still, it wasn't like that was Strange's fault.

Lauren actually has a pretty good idea of where some gloves might be, so he digs through someone's bag before pulling out a pair and handing them over to the magician. "Just try and be gentle with them."
kingsroads: (just sort of huffy and taken aback)

[personal profile] kingsroads 2017-11-28 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm always gentle," grumbles Strange, who isn't as gentle as he thinks and has a tendency to blaze through things like a bull in a china shop.

"Besides, I asked you to hold the rat, didn't I? I can certainly enchant it myself if needed, but it's easier if someone else keeps it from squirming."

It's all said in a matter of fact tone. Strange is fine with rats, when they're not trying to bite him. It's the 'small animal trying to make a break for freedom' aspect of enchanting a rat that he's going to have a few problems with.