Creepers

[travelagency]

Who: Misc.
What: The creepers make their first public appearances.
When: After Dorian's post.
Where: Locations listed in starters.
Notes & Warnings: Relating to Creepers

Starters will be below. These are plot relevant. Mod-played NPCs might come in for some threads and players can assume their involvement throughout this. With Dorian's post, Jeffers will send an Emergency Broadcast on the public network telling everyone in the village to stay within the fence, but as usual with any broadcast in any universe not everyone listens.

Comments

[frontier_doktor]

Kingsfoil, kingsfoil-

[He's repeating it to himself to remember what to look for as he takes him into the storage area. Another doctor would probably be more wary, but Visscher's been volunteering his own services for a long time when situations are dire. Whatever (alien?) sort of healer that Lindir is, he trusts him to try. Perhaps unwise trust were it placed in another but he doesn't have the time to worry about background checks.]

[He goes to a very heavily stocked herbal section and finds it not under Kingsfoil, but under Athelas. He looks over his shoulder at Lindir.] Are you not used to gloves? [It's a genuine question, not accusatory.]

[lindir]

[Lindir spots the athelas looking a touch relieved, and takes it off the shelf to take a look at it's quality. At the question, he looks at the floppy latex gloves in his hand then back up at the doctor.]

We do not wear such... gloves, in my own lands. Is it your custom to do so?

[frontier_doktor]

[Hoping that he's not at risk for creating a germaphobe, he nods towards the gloves.] They're a way to keep from spreading disease from person to person. You change gloves between them. We also have a UV sterilizer but this is safer and these are recyclable.

[lindir]

[Fortunetly, it doesn't look like Lindir is about to freak out. Instead he looks a bit curious, with a touch of pity.]

I see. I admit I do not know much of disease. The Eldar do not suffer sickness as Men do.

[frontier_doktor]

There are a lot of species that have very enviable immune systems. But for those that don't? These?

[He puts on a pair of his own to demonstrate, before getting what Lindir was asking for.] How do your people use this?

[lindir]

[Lindir follows suit and puts on his own gloves though it takes him a moment to get passed the rubbery texture.]

Athelas has many uses. It eases pain, encourages healing, gives energy and drives away corruption. It can be made into a poultice, boiled, or brewed into a tea. Even the mere vapors invigorate the body and soul.

[frontier_doktor]

[He wonders what he means by corruption. Infection? Poison? Easing pain would help, though.]

We have a mortar and pestle if you'd like to make a poultice I could apply. If there are actually effective natural remedies I'd prefer them over chemical dependencies. Though I know there's occasionally no avoiding it.

[He sounds as though it's a little regrettable. And he gives Lindir room to take however much he needs.]

We have about twelve patients with injuries from the- Creepers, I suppose, -right now and nine have already been treated and are resting.

He means evil poisons, but I headcanon it would work against infection too.

[lindir]

[Lindir nods once in affirmative.]

I agree a poultice would be the place to start in this case. I may also set some to a boil so that we might all benefit.

[He takes a good amount from the stores.]

There is not much, so I will have to take a cutting to grow more another day, perhaps. It grows quickly and takes to even the least favorable of soils, so I do not doubt we will ever run out entirely.

[Some called it a weed after all... strange mortals.]

I will begin work on the poultices, then offer what healing I am capable of for the three that remain.

[frontier_doktor]

Some people underestimate the value of weeds. The root of Queen Anne's Lace became frowned upon as a dish but was once widely used to sweeten other foods.

[Ramble, ramble. He closes up the stores and makes sure they're locked. But then he has to show Lindir where the equipment is, get him a mortar and pestle, fussing as he's setting things up.]

[The clinic was made for more "primitive" healers to work in as well when it became evident that some of their methods work here.]

Maybe some local plants could help us once we've done some testing. I've been told the apples here have signs of having healing properties, but I've not had a chance to look into it.

[lindir]

[Lindir busies himself with the athelas and mortar and pestle.]

Apples? I have not heard of such a thing before. Then again, there is much here that I have not seen or heard before.