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]

Precisely.

( And he thinks, then, of his mentor. The Ancient One tapping into the powers of the dark dimension. Wanda and her slippery slope. The way Stephen himself had reached into the Darkhold. Hypocrite. The other sorcerers often recoiled from his methods, but still, at the end of the day— )

I’ve always thought a scalpel is a scalpel is a scalpel. A hammer is a hammer, and can be used to smash down a wall or build one. There’s hardly any spell that can’t be bent towards good ends; in the end, the tool is what you use it for.

[aberratic]

Precisely.

[ it's so nice to talk to someone who understands. ]

Nothing is good or bad or evil or benign by nature, it all simply is. It's up to people to use our tools for good or ill, even necromancy.

[ and blood magic—though she's not about to say that out loud, not even to someone as sensible as stephen. ]

Am I correct in supposing that perspectives like that aren't so common here? There seems to be a... dearth of nuance, I suppose, in Thedas.

[portalling]

You’re correct, yes.

( There’s a brief pause, and Stephen can practically hear an imagined voice in the back of his head which sounds very much like Captain Gwenaëlle Baudin, words of reason and censure in his ear, )

I do feel bound to mention that their lack of nuance isn’t unfounded; this world has seen terrible things happen at the hands of magic and uncontrolled mages. They’re not unreasonable for being fearful. Which doesn’t change the fact that I wish they’d be more open-minded and nonjudgmental and my life would be much easier if they were,

but still. We should be careful who we say such things in front of. Riftwatch is used to these sentiments but the locals aren’t.

[aberratic]

I don't plan to condescend to the natives about the need for nuance in the way they talk about their lives, don't worry. I'm fairly invested in avoiding the kind of censure that would earn me.

[ which doesn't mean she doesn't believe it. just that she won't say it. ]

Well, I can promise you I at least would be thrilled to hear more about your magical escapades. They sound fascinating!

[ rip to mobius but she's different. ]