thebastion | Day 203 | The sick are recovering! (Open)

WHO: Colin, any recovering folks, any visitors.
OPEN: Open like a door
WHEN: Day 203 (BACKDATED)
WHAT: The cure has been found and administered. Check up on the sick, why don't you?
WHERE: The hospital
FORMAT: However you want, go nuts
WARNINGS: Recovering people, probable sass, and of course, Colin.

After six days of paranoia, and three days of absolute terror, things were finally looking up. A cure had been delivered, and with it, the calamity survivors had been able to synthesize more than enough doses of cure for the plague to safeguard the Bastion. It had been administered to the sick, and now all that was needed was to make sure that everyone recovered.

Colin, of course, was going to be visiting everyone to make sure that there weren't any complications. It wouldn't do to have anyone in danger after they'd made it through to the end. He had yet to take off his environmental suit though, his own paranoia was significant.

(OOC: I figure this will be a good opportunity for people to do a little more mingling, and get their bearings after the plague. The quarantine has been lifted, though Colin still wants people washing their hands frequently. If you want Colin to check up on the sick, he can do that! If you want someone else to check up on the sick, by all means! The threat is passed, now rejoice, hug your sick loved ones, and let's move on!)

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Well, when you're no longer camped out on the stoop near death's door would probably be better than when you are.

But that?

[Colin points to the whiteboard.]

All well and good. I encourage you to keep it up. But if you're doing it to distract yourself, you're just going to make a mistake sooner or later. Because distracting yourself means something else has your attention and you're trying to avoid it.

Math is best done with a clear head.

.... Or brain damaged, because for some reason, pure insanity is great for math.

Distract myself, or just tunnel vision-

[ Sorry, Duke just caught that last bit and this is a laugh-coughing fit.

Time to sit and laugh for a little bit. Or cough, its a mix because one sparks the other, but Duke's still amused about something. ]

That.. could explain some things-

[Colin grins, and he reaches out to grab a cup of water from the nearby pitcher. He holds it out to Duke expectantly.]

Shall I assume that laugh was directed inward, at someone you know, or at me?

[He doesn't sound the least bit offended if it's the latter.]

[ Yes thank you. Careful slow drinking for now. She still sounds pretty hoarse. ]

A mix of the first two. Maybe there's a reason the best mages tend to have difficulties with people.

[ Her twin, the girl with the fire temper in that guild. ]

Shame, I couldn't have give you a better shot at me if I'd put it on a tee.

[He looks amused, and he waits for her to catch her breath.]

Do you get what I'm saying, though? I wouldn't be pushing you if I didn't have cause to believe it was in your best interest.

You'd have some retort set up already. [ No, honestly he hasn't seemed that crazy yet. Suit aside-

And now just a grimace. ]

Bottling is bad.

[ The knight just doesn't know anything else to say to that. Clearly because Duke has no idea how to even touch the subject. ]

[Don't you forget, that suit let him move about and get supplies. To say nothing of getting sterilized in fire. ... Okay, maybe the fire was a little crazy.]

Bottling is fine. Bottling has a time and a place.

Bottling and putting it aside to deal with when it's less imposing? THAT is bad.

I don't expect people to magically deal with all their problems immediately. But setting them aside, hoping they go away? That just lets it fester. Get bigger. More menacing. And a lot harder to deal with.

[ It looks funny, and Duke is pretty sure he's living off of his own body wastes. She thinks that that might count as crazy-

And Duke doesn't really have a response to that. Partially because there's a bit of her who isn't terribly sure what he's talking about. There's a lot of things she's not been mentioning to people. ]

... Depending on what you're talking about, those stages might be pretty far along.

[Not yet. There are reserves before the suit starts recycling. He hopes to be out of the suit before THAT happens...]

Do you actually want to talk about it? Or should we keep talking in metaphors and riddles?

I'm trying to tell what you're talking about in specific, because I thought I was handling everything.

[ Clearly, a mix of both options.

And because clearly, if Colin is talking about one thing, then Duke doesn't need to let him know about others accidentally. If he doesn't already know about them. She's having trouble telling that now. ]

[Colin just gives Duke a flat, unimpressed look.]

REALLY.

[He doesn't even bother to disguise the lack of belief in that statement.]

[ Yes, actually, she did think she had things under control. The plague was uncomfortable on a few different levels but it wasn't like that was going to happen again, right?

On the other hand, his disbelieving single word reply has her wondering if her guess about him knowing what was bothering her was completely unfounded. Or was he just trying to get her to say something about it.

So what to say? ]

I may be a few years short of forty, but I'm not terribly contort able with being seen naked when it isn't on my terms. [ It's truth, and also avoiding the point a bit as well. ] it probably saved my life and all, but ...

... Understandable, I suppose. Not ever culture can be one where the living body is simply a day to day object.

[Colin nods to himself. He doesn't believe that's everything, not by a long shot, but she's seemingly clammed up. Hopefully it's not something that will get her killed in the future. Her issue with baths alone was bad enough...]

Still, you didn't make things easy for those of us treating you.

[Have a smirk, Duke. And a look that says "I know you're not telling me everything."]

[ She doesn't have problems with them when she's bathing herself! ]

... Be glad I didn't have the energy to splash you?

[ She remembers being too hot and too cold and not wanting to do anything more than being a pain. Unless that counts as not making things easy? ]

I'd have saved that for later and gotten you back as is suitably appropriate.

[Totally honest, this one.]

But you were basically dead weight when we had to move you. I had no intention of letting it be literal.

[ She has to stare at him for a moment.

Okay, so don't get into a childish fight with this one, it might last forever- ]

Not the easiest to move, true. [ Deadweights, and when Duke is a bit taller than Colin, makes it tricky. ]

... Thanks.

[He doesn't see fit to correct her about his abilities. It's a handy surprise to have.]

Think nothing of it. I'm sure you'd have done the same for me.

[He isn't really, but it's one of those nice things people say, and he's learned to say it expertly.]

I might not haul you into a tub. A shower and keep you propped up, and then listen to the people who know what they're doing with the doctor stuff, more likely.

[ Or Duke might have been out on the "lets go find a cure" trip, because that might be easier for the knight to do. ]

Yeah, well, you needed to be immersed. Your heat had to be lowered, and a pulse of water wouldn't have done it.

[He gives Duke a smirk.]

You can toss a water balloon at me later, if it makes you feel better.

Or spray me with a hose, since it occurs to me that I don't think we have balloons...

[ She was actually thinking of leaving him tucked upright in a shower for a while but oh well. ]

.... Unless we could get sausage skins. But those might gross people out.

[ Intestines for water balloons? Sure. ]

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