crystal & medical questionnaire.

[portalling]

FORM: Sending crystal + blank questionnaire available at the infirmary
SENDER: Stephen Strange
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: The form is below! Submit your character’s response as a reply to that sub-thread, and this will also be linked from the Riftwatch orientation & infirmary wiki pages for posterity, so you can edit/submit a new one if details change. Your character does not have to take this super seriously. Strange might just come nag if they don’t.

What with the new faces recently, I’ve been working on the medical curriculum and refreshing the infirmary’s recordkeeping. It’s high time to establish some better-kept patient files.

To that end, we’ve provided a written questionnaire at the infirmary — thank you to Amsel for her neat penmanship — and I’d appreciate it if you could fill out a form for yourself and drop it off. The records will only be referenced by healers in the course of their duties, and otherwise locked away; your personal details will remain private. Having as much information as possible will only help the healers take care of you properly.

If you don’t read Trade or otherwise require assistance filling out the form, say as such and we can have someone sit with you. Any other questions, let me know.

— but also, fill it out.

Comments

[portalling]

Might be, might not be. There’s some lore implying that some of the reason Fereldans are so fond of keeping mabari might be to sense a wolf in human form. There’s a Fereldan fable called Dane and the Werewolf, about a hundred-odd years old, which mentions the idea, but it might also just be folkloric superstition. Storytellers spinning yarns for flavour, and such.

Any odd dreams worth reporting yet?

[sprent]

R-Really? (She didn't mean to stammer but of course she's thought of the mabari that lives with Clarisse and Abby, and now she's wondering.) That's — interesting.

Nothing out of the ordinary. I've been writing things down, as you suggested.

The tower falling was very stressful, but... (Well, nothing happened. To Gela, it does all feel quite strange.) I'm not sure what to think, to be honest.

[portalling]

Well— On this front, at least, no news remains good news.

I’m sorry to ask: Were you ever able to transform on purpose, voluntarily? Have you ever tried?

[sprent]

(Softly,) No. No, I —

It's my worst fear, that it might ever happen again, especially here. So, no. I haven't ever tried to do it on purpose.

[portalling]

Not now — not anytime soon, to your comfort — but if we keep running into dead ends, that’s probably a reasonable next step. Attempting it under controlled conditions, with backup and locked doors, a safe space. If you learned to control it, it wouldn’t be such a terrifying unknown.

places bow a thousand years later

[sprent]

(There is a sharp breath in, then silence.)

... Alright.

(But she knows that if — when — they come to that point, she will refuse, and not let them turn her, or coax her into it. She won't be the wolf again, ever.

Better to not think of it for now.)