[open]

[inflictwounds]

Who: Hieke & open!
When: September
Where: The infirmary, the faculty lounge, elsewhere
What: The school year is starting, which means it's time for physicals! Also, free food for the staff.
Warnings: There might be some references to injuries and other traumas in the physicals, but nothing major.

the infirmary;
[It's the start of a new month, and the start of the new school year. Everyone - student and staff alike - will receive notice that they're due for a new physical, so if they could please report to the infirmary at their earliest convenience, that would be appreciated. They can try to avoid their physicals, but that just means being hunted down by Ekkehardt, and nobody wants that, now do they?

Arriving to the infirmary will find it's been redecorated for the fall. Gone are the vibrant Outlands flowers, and in are some pots of what look to be...mushrooms? And some tiny pumpkins. Hieke's trying his best, okay.

The daemon is there, like always, and he looks up whenever anyone enters and motions for them to step into a small room that...doesn't seem to have been there before?]

This won't take long.

the lounge;
[Hieke is someone who makes good on his challenges. He said he could make better food than what was served to them at the meetings, and he's going to make good on that. So, come September, staff will find the lounge has been stocked with all manners of treats, ranging from sweet to savory. All of them are expertly crafted with the sort of quality that can only come with dedicating your entire life to learning how to cook, and having that life span centuries.

Or, for the tl;dr version, it's all really fucking good.]

I told you it would be better, didn't I?

[Hieke doesn't often seem smug - hell, he barely seems confident, but this has brought out his stubbornness.]

elsewhere;
[Hieke is generally always available, and can be found at other places around campus. He still frequents the library and can occasionally be found walking his mushrooms at night. Generally, if you need him, he's there.

This is also the wildcard prompt.]

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infirmary;

[unlogic]

[Desidera goes to the infirmary within about an hour of receiving the notice, knocking lightly at the door to announce her arrival as she steps inside. She looks around at the decorations, noting that some of those mushrooms look like they're wiggling around in their pots, before catching sight of Hieke and following his direction to enter the other room.

She's not aware that the room hadn't been there before, so its existence doesn't get any noticeable response out of her.]

[inflictwounds]

Good afternoon.

[He claps his hands together.]

This is going to be a pretty simple affair - I'm going to scan your general physical condition, and you'll be on your way. It shouldn't take more than a couple seconds.

[Mainly because as he's talking, he's already scanning for her, looking for anything that would be classified as abnormal or strange.]

the infirmary;

[yokeye]

[Normally, Toki would have forgotten this physicals summoning minutes after receiving it, but he has Marcel around to keep track of things. As a result, he's here the next day, early in the morning. He waves at the cute little potted mushrooms, picturing them growing up to color with crayons and bake cakes like their older brethren.]

Hieke~! Hello! I brought you something~!

[It's another painting of mushrooms. Toki frowns a little at the appearance of the new room, but doesn't say anything, because it could have been there all along and he never noticed it.]

[inflictwounds]

Oh, thanks.

[He looks at the painting, before reaching out to take it. He's a little surprised by it, but...

He'll take it.]

Do you have time to do your physical?

[You can never be sure with Toki.]

FOR ANYONE WHO HAS TO BE COLLECTED FOR PHYSICALS

[spelleton]

[ Not wanting your simple, painless checkup? Ekkehardt will find you and attempt to convince you to come in. Failing that, he may actually drag you there, which would be embarrassing for you, and is something he's reluctant to do, but.....

He'll do it if he has to. ]

[opheliaafterdeath]

[They very much don't want a simple, painless checkup. Hieke already scanned them once and that was enough, thank you very much. Nekane got the notice and promptly got rid of it.

But the problem is they had work they had to do at the school itself that they can't do in their apartment and staying in their office leaves them as a sitting duck for one of the staff to poke in. And more importantly they can't go into the library if they stay cooped up.

Dilemma. But if they're careful then maybe they'll have a chance of getting and out quickly.

At least until they see Ekkehardt round the corner and they promptly try to backtrack the way they came. Sorry, they forgot something in their office, be right back!]

[badinfluenza]

[you wouldn't drag a child, would you?

...Though depending on things, he may realize he doesn't have to. As much as Charlotte is determined to avoid going in, ducking out of sight and dodging what faculty she can, Ekkehardt might be one of the ones that can more easily ping her as an undead construct, rather than a little girl or a vampire or whatever lie she felt like perpetuating that week. There's a lot of willpower in this one, but in the end she's still a golem, and golems are designed to obey.

So what'll it be when you set your sockets on the fifteen-year-old apparently allergic to color, Ekke?]

[trademark_skull]

[Go ahead and try. He refuses to have weird people all up in his business, poking and prodding.]

[It's not like he gets sick anyway!!]

[bolderfell]

[Therion wavers for a good, long while. Of course it's against his nature to let anyone scrutinize him in any serious way, medical or not, but if skipping the examination just draws more attention, doesn't it defeat the purpose?

In the end, though, the rational answer gives way to the unreasonable fact he just does not want to do this. If he's caught, he can just pull the New Kid card and say he didn't know he had to, right?

So Therion lies low, and when he runs out of the things that could conceivably keep a new student busy, he carefully slides a subtle glamour over himself. As he huddles in the computer lab, all bundled up in his hoodie, it's hard to notice him there at all.]

[aibolition]

[He's sprawled on a single lounge chair in Lumiere's third floor common room. A book in his hands and his legs over the arm of the chair. He wouldn't seem to have noticed the man coming up to him except--]

I heard about the physicals. I don't need one. I have a doctor back home, whole family of them. [A family who hates and/or barely knows about him. He looks up then.]

I'm guessing you're the guy they're sending? Or is it something else? The school come to its senses?

[He grins, as though the idea of confrontation is a good thing.]

[lastexit]

*Not that Maya didn't love physical exams, or demon nurses, but she had the very definite feeling there wasn't a ton of point. Not even thinking about it being a magic exam (which would also get nowhere), her nature screwed with basic mundane physicals.*

*Watching Doctors grow concerned as they desperately search for her heart and breath rates with a stethoscope is no longer as funny as it was.*

*So Maya's on the roof of Lumiere. Headphones over her ears as she waits for someone to yell at her for not going to her physical.*

[heromedal]

[ Rex just wants to be left alone to do shady shit, is that so wrong? Besides, he doesn't need the real Hieke, he made his own Hieke!

Honestly, this time though it's less a conscious choice and more he forgets everything when he's working on stuff sometimes. Everyday concerns don't seem important when you're coming one step closer to understanding how the universe works. So Ekke can find him in the Forge, floating cross-legged amidst some mechanical components that are equally defying gravity. An exploded-view drawing in the real world. He's slowly rotating vertically, like his head is heavier than the rest of him, a finger on his beauty mark to signify he's thinking those mind consuming questions that put him in his own world. There could be another Grimm attack, and it'd take him a minute to stop what he's doing.

It's why he's got a proximity alarm. All it does is turn off the music coming out of the speakers on his workbench. That's a surefire way to wake him up and his head snaps around to find the cause, though he stays upside down in mid-air. ]

...What did I do this time?

[ Their relationship might be a bit better, but that's still where he goes first with Ekke. ]

[descolation]

[Unlike most of the others (or all of the others...) the reason Desco hasn't yet gone for her checkup has nothing to do with avoiding one. No, it's much simpler than that...she forgot. So when Ekkehardt goes to see her, it actually seems like she's open to the idea. Until she gets one of her own. Probably thanks to all the time she's spent with Avery.]

Ok! Desco will go, but on one condition.

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[Well, Moriarty is definitely around...

But he's definitely not coming in of his own volition. Unfortunately, he has no idea Who Ekkehardt is - so he's in his office, looking up with a quiet blink as the man enters (and the sensation of spiderwebs hits the other in the face, like he's walked directly into a web).]

Hm? Yes? Can I help you?

[fistsofchange]

[Lin didn’t fight it. She respected doctors and healers too much. The only problem was that Heike was using magic to do the physicals, and Lin’s body was highly resistant to magic. She sat still and cooperated, but no matter how many times he tried it he got nonsensical results, like he was scanning a houseplant or a table instead of a human being.]

[inflictwounds]

[Well, the thing is, none of that actually happens? Hieke was informed well ahead of time who's resistant to magic - Bai Lin isn't alone in that, after all, and there's no point wasting his time or ability.

So instead, what happens when she shows up is Hieke looks up at her, turns to rifle through a stack of papers, before finding the right one and grabbing a pen.]

Alright, so, we can't do this the standard way, so instead what we're going to do is ask some questions. Well. Question. Just the one.

If a fight were to occur anytime in the near future, do you feel fit to join it?

[deuteranope]

[Much to pretty much everyone's surprise, Maverick drops by the infirmary with only his hands in his pockets as a sign of reluctance. He's not even really frowning! A miracle.]

'Sup, Doc.

[It's...weird, now. Especially considering nothing of their time in Japan has been threaded, so who knows just how grateful and ashamed Maverick really has to be? No matter what, though, it's certainly true that gratefulness and shame are in a healthy...unhealthy? supply. So: help rescue someone's stupid jackass of a boyfriend, get him showing up without complaint for physicals or maybe a magic lesson. Either way, 'sup.]

[inflictwounds]

[And here Hieke thought Maverick would be one of those Ekkehardt would have to drag in.

The boy just keeps surprising him.]

Hello.

[He stands from the desk, motioning towards the newly appeared room.]

Let's get this over with, huh?

[Because he's sure the less time Maverick spends with him, the happier he'll be.]

Infirmary

[ofexperience]

[Physicals! V hasn't had one of these in a long time, and he realizes it's generally a good idea so he'll roll on by fairly early on, cane in hand.]

Good morning, Hieke.

[inflictwounds]

Good morning!

[Hieke seems to be in a good mood today! Though, V will notice that he has his glamour up this time...]

Are you here for the physical?

Infirmary

[strings_theory]

[Who would have ever expected Jolyne to not have to be dragged kicking and screaming for this physical shit? Physically she knows she's pretty much fine, mentally and emotionally is another story. But no one asked that, so this is chill enough.

She's yawning as she's wandering in, stretching her arms above her head for a brief second to try and get her blood moving.]

So how's this shit work? Like last time I dealt with one, it involved all kinds of not pleasant taking things off, kinda hoping that's not the case here. [She could still do that, but they have magic, why not use it?]

'Sides, other than the lasting scars and shit, pretty sure I'm fine.

[inflictwounds]

You won't have to take anything off.

[He's at his desk, going through a stack of paperwork - presumably student files, if the way he stops and pulls a sheet out of the stack is any indication.]

It's a simple, magical scan, looking for any injuries or illnesses that might need to be addressed. Scars and things like that are irrelevant.

infirmary

[stavros]

[Kokoro stands stiffly, nodding a greeting.]

Renovations, then?

[inflictwounds]

Something like that.

[What does that even...mean...]

Infirmary

[bejustorbedead]

[Ky arrives as scheduled, his hair had grown out to his shoulder blades since he had it cut a few months ago]

What do I need to do for this?

[inflictwounds]

Not much - just try not to zap anything vital.

[Is that...a joke...]

Infirmary

[soft_focus]

[Hieke is probably very familiar with Reira, considering the months spent recovering at Daybreak after being retrieved from the Outlands. This is probably the first 'annual physical' she's ever been to however, so it's going to be an interesting experience indeed.

Reira, ever herself, doesn't really pay much mind to Hieke's statement. Instead...um...]

...where did the flowers go...

[inflictwounds]

They're back in my apartment.

[They're gone forever!! Except not really. That would be lame.

Hieke looks through a stack of papers for a moment, before finding the one he needs.]

They're fine.

Infirmary

[inkedspell]

[Sarona has been around for three of these now, and isn't surprised when the announcement goes out. She comes into the infirmary and nods a bit at the new decor, only to pause at the sight of the new room.]

Changing this up a bit?

[inflictwounds]

We needed somewhere more private - some people get uncomfortable doing exams in the open.

[There's a pause.]

Even though nobody else can really see anything. People just feel exposed, I guess.

Infirmary

[buddinghopes]

[Hieke probably saw Lia shortly after the Grimm attack recently--brought in after expending far too much energy in the fight. She seems to be good as new by now, given the way she's bouncing into the place.]

Hi, I'm here for the physical?

[inflictwounds]

Oh!

[He looks up from where he's been doing paperwork, before nodding.]

Ah, good, this won't take very long.

Infirmary

[foolishjustice]

[It takes some...convincing, but Akechi eventually makes his way to the infirmary willingly, if reluctantly. He doesn't quite meet Hieke's eyes, already dreading the lecture he's going to get.]

Let's...get it over with.

[inflictwounds]

[Where's your enthusiasm, Akechi?

Hieke nods his head towards the door, gathering a file from his desk.]

It should be quick.

Library

[descolation]

[Desco never really thought much about Hieke. It wasn't that she disliked him, it's just that she wasn't a frequent visitor of the infirmary. Her biology allowed her to heal most injuries she suffered faster than most humans, and she'd been steadily improving her skills as a fighter so sustaining injuries in need of treatment happened less frequently than before. Still, her opinion of him, when she did think about him, was pretty positive. He was someone who helped people at the school. Couldn't be more simple.

...until she found out he was actually a daemon.

Even though Desco isn't exactly a fan of daemons, despite being one herself, this alone isn't the problem. Valvatorez was a daemon and Professor Atchison was probably one, too. Both weren't exactly paragons of virtue, either. Of course, in Avery's case, that was a good thing, but the situation with Hieke was different. He hid being a daemon. She's not dumb enough to believe that was enough to prove him guilty of being the kind of daemon she was out to stop, but she's also not going to rule out the possibility that he's up to something.

Over the past couple of days, Hieke might have gotten a feeling that he was being watched or followed. Today, in the library, is one such day. Although it doesn't seem like anyone is around, there is a suspicious looking fort crafted out of books a good distance away from his usual spot. A slot has been made into one of the walls, almost as if someone was using it to spy on people.]

[inflictwounds]

[Hieke might not exactly be the smartest person in the world - there's a lot of things he just straight up doesn't know, and a lot of things he simply doesn't understand. He is, however, perceptive. He's learned how to notice things going on around him and can generally figure out what that means.

He notices the feeling of being followed immediately, and he...initially doesn't think much of it. He's used to being distrusted, after all. It comes with the territory.

The fort is a little far, though.

He stares at the pile of books, at the place where the slot is facing, and he hesitates for a moment before clearing his throat.]

Is someone in there?