text; un: romano; subject: this is finch's fault

[badlydisarmed]

What's a good intro? Welcome to Etraya? Has the despair set in yet? Anyway. For those who haven't met me, my name is Dr. Robert Romano, I'm the de facto Hospital Director here.

De facto means no one's told me I'm not.

Every so often I post to ask the network if there are any other medical professionals around because I'm one surgeon from a non-magical world, and you people drop in with fairy flus and growing tentacles diseases I can't damn well fix.

So, if you're a doctor or a healer, drop in. We'll have an interview, if you're not an obvious psychopath and get a pass on ethics I'll give you an office, we got 21st century Earth medical tech and a wing to treat magical maladies.

If you're in need of a doctor, also drop in, I'll be nicer to you than to the first group.

If you're neither, what are you even doing here? Get a job. Go bag some groceries, the bots keep squishing my bread :(

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un: stampede.

[photosympathies]

Is the despair non-negotiable?

And I'm not a doctor but I know how to patch wounds up in a pinch. Would that help? ( He could take off his shirt and show you all his stellar stitching, but he thinks that might just be unpleasant all round. ) Like if you were down a set of hands, I do not know enough medicine to help out full time. Maybe I don't even know any medicine! This place is way different from my world and there's no worms to grind up in a poultice like Nanny Dutch tried teaching me, so.

... But stitching! If you need it.

un: romano

[badlydisarmed]

It comes and goes for some people.

Are you an extroverted altruist? Those are my second favorite kind of people. We don't have a lot of walk-ins that need stitches, but if you want a job you can drop by and I'll find you something to do.

I have follow-up questions about grinding worms, but first, are you from before the Industrial Revolution. And, if you don't know what that means, have you been coughing up blood?

[photosympathies]

I just like helping out.

( So yes. )

But I have been looking for something to do. And I can carry stuff. Wheel people around. Give me a mop and you'll never find a cleaner floor!

Earth's Industrial Revolution? After. And I haven't coughed up blood in like six weeks!! Is that a thing?

[badlydisarmed]

I'll give you things to do.

Good news: The blood coughing isn't the thing I was worried about.

Bad news: It is, instead, a new thing to be worried about.

[photosympathies]

I'd been a little bit stabbed but I'm all good now.

What were you worried about?

[badlydisarmed]

That's a relief. I was worried about TB and then about some futuristic TB, which would be so much worse.

[photosympathies]

Oh! No, I'm fine. I don't really get sick. I have a hardy constitution,

( There are no vaccinations on No Man's Land though. )

[badlydisarmed]

Or you come from a world with less aggressive pathogens.

[photosympathies]

( it might be because he isn't human. )

Maybe!

I don't know if anyone has ever tested that. The worms were a bigger problem.

[badlydisarmed]

You're talking about giant worms with teeth, aren't you?

text; un: Młynar

[andreadallover]

I have some minor healing abilities and experience with battlefield medicine.

What exactly do you mean by 'fairy flu'?

[badlydisarmed]

It was something I saw in Solmara*, it was like the flu but with sparkles.

*Solmara is Etraya's sister city, I arrived there originally. It was run by another arrival as a dictatorship. The local AI, Aurora's sibling, locked himself up in the hospital, so we had no access to medical equipment and very little in the way of supplies. I don't miss it.

Now I'm writing footnotes too. This is also Finch's fault.

[andreadallover]

Have you encountered anyone who suffered from parts of their body turning into black crystals?

[badlydisarmed]

No, but I've seen one where they turn to stone. I won't pretend I understand magic, but I got a wing full of machines to treat conditions that derive from magical worlds and magic usage.

text, un: superman2

[newsbeat]

Still available to do x-rays if you need them.

[badlydisarmed]

Thank you Superman2, I don't know what we'd do without you.

Unless there's a Superman3, if there is, then I do know.

[newsbeat]

Superboy is only 11 so you've got a while until he can be Superman3.

[badlydisarmed]

I don't think I've ever met Superman1.

[newsbeat]

My brother Hernan. No 1, he didn't know he'd be the first of several.

[badlydisarmed]

Alternate timeline thing?

[newsbeat]

Several.

[badlydisarmed]

Does he have blue eyes too?

[newsbeat]

Sure. Is that strange? Lots of people have blue eyes.

[badlydisarmed]

I was wondering if it was a different babies landing in different places thing, or if it was same baby, different upbringing.

I'm assuming the latter. It'd be an interesting study case for Behavioral Science enthusiasts, luckily for both of us, I am not one.

[newsbeat]

It's actually a half-brother thing. Genetically speaking, anyway. Same biological mother, but I'm fairly certain neither of us existed in the other one's reality.

You're not wrong, though, even then we'd still make a heck of a nature vs. nature study. Not that I want to be studied.

un aurora | text

[arora]

I have no issue with you claiming the title of Hospital Director, as long as you keep in mind the hospital is also my home.

[badlydisarmed]

Absolutely, I'll be the best roomie you've ever had. The bots know to let me know if anyone gets lost looking for the restroom.

XOXO

[arora]

You have been an alright "roomie" thus far, so I will allow attitude.

[badlydisarmed]

Thank you. I am quite literally incapable of behaving differently, but I'll continue to be "alright", I promise.