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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.

[personal profile] mylastchance 2017-12-02 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
He looks to Lambert, feeling slightly confused.

"I don't need to know what they look like to grow them."

Knowing the properties could be helpful in case there was one Lauren knew that could be a good replacement, but other than that he doesn't understand why he would need to know that.
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[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-12-02 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Susan watches from his seat as they talk about it before chiming in to hopefully help Lauren out.

"But if you know what they look like, we can try to find them, right? Maybe there's some growing somewhere!"
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[personal profile] whattaprick 2017-12-05 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Right," Lambert nods at Susan. "And I'm just telling you what it looks like is just so we know if it's just the same plant by a different name, or something completely different."

Hell if he knows how different plants work, honestly.

"Can you grow plants from cuttings, too?"
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[personal profile] mylastchance 2017-12-06 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
He thinks it over. Honestly, it's not something he's ever done before, but that didn't mean he couldn't. It might take a bit of extra effort and focus, but if the conditions were right it should be possible. He nods.

"Do you have some?" Of course it would also depend on what state the cutting was in.
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[personal profile] wild_magic 2017-12-06 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Susan smiles as his brother nods. He admittedly doesn't know a lot about plants or what Lauren can or can't do, but in his mind Lauren is basically the best and can do anything. It's always nice when he hears that he's right about that.

"Lauren can do anything with making them grow. He can even talk to them and ask them questions! And one time, he even made friends with a tree!"
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[personal profile] whattaprick 2017-12-06 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
"I do," Lambert confirms. He'll turn and poke around his own desk a bit, and then come up with a glass bottle that seems to hold ... a short segment of stem, one end in water and the other a furled bud with blue petals. It's fairly fresh, only cut a sometime today ... but he's also not going to say where it came from.

'Hey, can you grow this part of a plant person into a whole plant' isn't probably something to lead off in conversation with, ever.

"It's magic, so I've got no idea if that changes anything," he explains, sliding it across the table for Lauren's inspection. "But this is the only one of it we've got, so having more would help. It's a rose." Specifically: it's a rose that grew off Syr after he used the Blue Rose to run the Prince through. Again, probably not something to share. But there's the lingering traces of magic on it, something that makes it more than just an ordinary plant.
Edited (slightly edited for clarity) 2017-12-07 04:18 (UTC)