welcome sleepies, to our very first meme saturday! every month a little mod-hosted meme will go up for us to play around with admist the chaos, and this theme was chosen by popular demand! we've all heard about texts from last night, but have you heard of......
MURMURS FROM LAST NIGHT
strange things happen in the night. maybe you drink, or dream, or get high as a kite, and it's hard to hide it! especially when we're all collectively connected in a way! the rules are quite simple! you may even know them by now.
π post a top level for your character and include a few text starters, like the ones provided.
π interact.
π thrive.
π if you wish for your threads to be game canon, the sky is the limit (just make sure your thread partner is okay with it!).
π We might have some special guests later.
So you do have a little bite somewhere under the nobility. Oh, but only for the greater good, of course.
[Silco's seen what people will justify to themselves, all for that greater good - in their own minds, at least. It's never been more than another lie people tell themselves, to him. But he's amused anyway, rather tickled by Julian's response. It feels very appropriate for him, with all those ideals.]
Given what we've seen already, I would expect that sort of spine might be needed here - nearly as much as your medical skills.
I'm curious about the oath, though. Is that something doctors normally swear, on Earth? 'Do no harm'?
The expeditionary force I'm a part of can get called on for defense during invasions. One needs some bite to bite back. Note the "invasions" part because we really are sticklers for it.
And really, "first, do no harm" is only one of the oaths. Actually more like a maxim by the person the other oath is often attributed to. The other is far wordier and we take it upon graduating medical school.
[He rattles it off in a casual way that suggests this is shortened but that he has the longer, full form easily committed to memory.]
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
Respecting the hard-won knowledge of past physicians, applying all measures that are required, avoiding both overtreatment and nihilism.
Remembering that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
...And so on. It goes on a bit, but I'd say the most important part is: I will remember that I do not treat an illness or an injury but a sick sentient being, whose illness or injury may affect the person's family, society, and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick. I will remember that I remain a member of society, as well as have special obligations to all my fellow sentient beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
Plus also a part about remembering you're not God. That one's important and often ignored.
But yes, we take an oath, and yes, I take it very seriously, and yes, it is quite difficult to reconcile when it comes to dealing with the people regularly trying to stab me in the heart.
[The stray thought comes, unintentionally, an echo of his thoughts of these apparent heart-stabbers. Angry. Outraged, only filtering through because of the sensitivity of the Murmur right now. Abusingyourpower, killingkillinginfrontofme, killingring, mypatientsmine, shovedmeinabox, starvedus, blightedapeople, newborninmybloodyhands, motherdead, myoathmyoathmyoath, how dare they]
[Ihavehadenough.]
[Then, like someone noticing they've left a sink dripping, there's a conscious recognition of it and the sense of it forcibly getting shut off. Embarrassed, he doesn't comment on it.]
[For all that Silco might have commented about Julian's bite, he wasn't quite expecting that - the anger, the outrage on behalf of the vulnerable. Silco is not a kind man, nor a good one, but that was what drove him at the beginning. Seeing his own people exploited and used, treated like they didn't matter except for how they might enrich others.
Even in those days, he wasn't as idealistic as Julian, but he was kinder. Less extreme. But still angry, dedicated to his cause, ready to fight.]
Quite a lovely collection of words. The doctors in my world make no such vow.
[At least, not in Zaun. You can't expect a back alley surgeon to swear to do no harm - nor a mad scientist who's only interested in advancing his own agenda. Still, in Silco's opinion both of those things are better than no medical care at all.]
I can even believe that you might take it seriously. I imagine it must be difficult to decide when, exactly, 'doing harm' is necessary in order to prevent more violence.
You shouldn't be ashamed of your anger, doctor. Channeled properly, it will only help you fight harder.
[Something to remember - that Julian isn't completely the shiny, clean exterior he seems to like to project.]
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[Silco's seen what people will justify to themselves, all for that greater good - in their own minds, at least. It's never been more than another lie people tell themselves, to him. But he's amused anyway, rather tickled by Julian's response. It feels very appropriate for him, with all those ideals.]
Given what we've seen already, I would expect that sort of spine might be needed here - nearly as much as your medical skills.
I'm curious about the oath, though. Is that something doctors normally swear, on Earth? 'Do no harm'?
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And really, "first, do no harm" is only one of the oaths. Actually more like a maxim by the person the other oath is often attributed to. The other is far wordier and we take it upon graduating medical school.
[He rattles it off in a casual way that suggests this is shortened but that he has the longer, full form easily committed to memory.]
I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:
Respecting the hard-won knowledge of past physicians, applying all measures that are required, avoiding both overtreatment and nihilism.
Remembering that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.
...And so on. It goes on a bit, but I'd say the most important part is: I will remember that I do not treat an illness or an injury but a sick sentient being, whose illness or injury may affect the person's family, society, and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick. I will remember that I remain a member of society, as well as have special obligations to all my fellow sentient beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
Plus also a part about remembering you're not God. That one's important and often ignored.
But yes, we take an oath, and yes, I take it very seriously, and yes, it is quite difficult to reconcile when it comes to dealing with the people regularly trying to stab me in the heart.
[The stray thought comes, unintentionally, an echo of his thoughts of these apparent heart-stabbers. Angry. Outraged, only filtering through because of the sensitivity of the Murmur right now. Abusingyourpower, killingkillinginfrontofme, killingring, mypatientsmine, shovedmeinabox, starvedus, blightedapeople, newborninmybloodyhands, motherdead, myoathmyoathmyoath, how dare they]
[Ihavehadenough.]
[Then, like someone noticing they've left a sink dripping, there's a conscious recognition of it and the sense of it forcibly getting shut off. Embarrassed, he doesn't comment on it.]
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Even in those days, he wasn't as idealistic as Julian, but he was kinder. Less extreme. But still angry, dedicated to his cause, ready to fight.]
Quite a lovely collection of words. The doctors in my world make no such vow.
[At least, not in Zaun. You can't expect a back alley surgeon to swear to do no harm - nor a mad scientist who's only interested in advancing his own agenda. Still, in Silco's opinion both of those things are better than no medical care at all.]
I can even believe that you might take it seriously. I imagine it must be difficult to decide when, exactly, 'doing harm' is necessary in order to prevent more violence.
You shouldn't be ashamed of your anger, doctor. Channeled properly, it will only help you fight harder.
[Something to remember - that Julian isn't completely the shiny, clean exterior he seems to like to project.]