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[inflictwounds]

Who: Hieke & You
What: Infirmary catch-all & a call for help
Where: The infirmary & elsewhere on campus
When: February
Warnings: Potential discussions of injury, probably.


a; the necessities

[The infirmary has seen a lot in the first month of the quarter alone - friends were born here and eventually taken away, people have been sick and injured and that's not even including the injuries people didn't go to the infirmary for. But come February, Hieke is a little bit more prepared for things. The infirmary is kept as tidy as ever, and he's even decorated for the holiday!

There are vases filled with flowers on his desk, and he's awkwardly taped some heart shaped decor to the wall. There was an attempt and that accounts for everything, even if he doesn't know anything about Valentine's Day.

However, the infirmary isn't only for the sick or injured. Students taking Hieke's class are more than welcome to stop by to ask for help or ask general questions - there's an office set aside for him, but he spends all of his hours in the infirmary anyways. It's the best place to catch him.]

b; the network (un: hieke)

Good afternoon.

I'm sorry to bother everyone, but I'm looking for something. A mushroom - native to the Outlands - that's not dangerous or anything, just a little mischievous. It managed to find out how to open the windows in my room, and now it's loose and locate and summoning magic were something I never spent much time studying.

It's about a foot tall, with a pale orange cap, so it should be pretty distinct. If you see it, please let me know! And mind the spores.

c; the wildcard

[If you want anything else or need Hieke for anything, let me know!]

Comments

A

[eudaimonikos]

Hey.

[Michael wanders in, looking around at the Valentine's decorations idly. He's only been here once before, when he brought Tyzias in after her whole incident. This guy probably knows that he stuck around in her room until she woke up....ugh.]

I need you to show me how to fix humans when they break. You teach some kind of class on that, right?

[inflictwounds]

[He knows a lot of things, but he's at least got enough tact not to bring it up.]

Yeah, I do. [There's a slow, slow raise of an eyebrow.] Do you have any prior experience at all?

[eudaimonikos]

I have...some knowledge of anatomy.

[He means maiming.]

[inflictwounds]

Well. [He doesn't know what he expected.] That's...a start? You at least know where all the important bits go.

[eudaimonikos]

I do, yes!

[Awesome! He's gonna be great at this!]

And I can usually tell what's happened, if it's an injury. Oh, once I actually helped someone who'd lost an arm! ["Someone", he says, like he's not known friends with Robot Arm Tyzias]

[inflictwounds]

[He's confused, but he's got the spirit.]

Right, right. That's good! Knowing the cause can really help when it comes to actual healing.

[The briefest of pauses.]

But, uh, do you know anything about medicine at all? Not that you need to, but...

[eudaimonikos]

[Michael considers what he knows of modern medicine.]

I know bloodletting doesn't work. You're not still doing that, right?

[inflictwounds]

I've never done it. [He, admittedly, never had the need for it.] But I think humans stopped doing that long before most of the students and human teachers here were born.

[eudaimonikos]

That's good, isn't it? I mean, I bet I would've been great at it, but that's good!

[.........so the takeaway here is probably that no, he doesn't know all that much about modern medicine.]

[inflictwounds]

It's...good that they've found better methods to heal themselves without magic, I guess?

[Neither of them are probably all that qualified when it comes to medicine, to be honest, but that's valid.]

But I guess this means we can skip the first aid portion.

[eudaimonikos]

Sure! I get first aid!

[Blood goes on the inside and so do bones! Obviously this is all the first aid knowledge required!]

[inflictwounds]

We can go straight to the hard stuff.

[He holds up his hands.]

Have you ever tried to restart a heart?

[eudaimonikos]

No. Never really came up.

[Tyzias's arm was probably the worst thing he's ever had to personally address, and at that point he'd only been kinda trying.]

[inflictwounds]

Because you've only ever tried to stop them?

[Because, you know, that's valid.

Hieke scratches at his cheek, humming under his breath thoughtfully.]

You know, you could always just attend my classes if you want to learn. I'm not sure I'll really have the time for special lessons?

[Because the children on this campus are hellbent on getting into incredible amounts of danger.]

[eudaimonikos]

Well - that's a side-effect. Just stopping it directly would be dull.

[You've gotta get creative and shit, bro]

I was hoping to do that, actually! Just didn't wanna start auditing you without any warning. People get weird about that. [Okay, they mostly get weird about literal daemons standing in dark corners and watching them silently.]

[inflictwounds]

[Somehow, that answer doesn't surprise him. It's almost like he felt it coming.]

It'll be fine - and I'm sure the students won't mind, either. Not that it's really their decision, but...

[They might find it kind of unsettling, probably? But it's fine! They can still learn, even with a daemon standing in a dark corner.]

[eudaimonikos]

Sure, sure.

[He doesn't have to literally stand in a dark corner. But he does tend to lurk a little.]

I'll be there, then. I've gotta say, these students are killing me with their insane attempts to die.

[inflictwounds]

[He can stand anywhere he wants, really. Hieke won't be bothered.]

I've never seen humans act like this before. Maybe I'm out of touch, but you'd think they'd have some self-preservation...

[eudaimonikos]

I've usually met with stupid or desperate ones in the past, but they mostly made some kind of effort. I'm really glad we've got that class about contracts...

[He's made his share of sneaky ones, but he's pretty sure half the kids here would just outright trade their soul away for a six-pack of Mountain Dew.]

[inflictwounds]

I'm not sure it'll help many of these students, if I'm being entirely honest.

[Not a lot of foresight, even among some of the seers.]

They have to want to learn, and most of them...

[eudaimonikos]

Well, at least no one will be able to blame us!