[Espy]

Well, I guess it's either that or Rurik's healing, yeah? I mean, if people rummage through his pockets enough, they'll eventually come across two syringes of Water of Eden.

[Lawtan]

Rurik can help without others...just is more effective the other way.
*Note, may be wise for someone to help Rurik keep Dante alive...mainly because I may not be able to post much tomorrow...
Night, Espy.
I think that fixed it...
*Still laughing over how my "sugar-sleepiness" (Eat too much sugar = sleepy/drunk effect...including headache...) pulled Salone into the world of Hell.
Kadia: Hmm...who was that attractive character who poofed in and out all of a sudden...

[Espy]

Figured you all'd appreciate my new title. Now, off to...uh...drag myself home.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Umm, I hope I'm not being too critical here but it doesn't seem terribly realistic (even though we are in hell) to have Kadia grab something out of Rurik, open it, put in *2* IVs and have anti-venom work in the maybe minute or two that has passed since the vipers exploded from the angel. (I've had a whole lot of IV's and a hell of a lot of needles in general).

Just me nit-picking again...

That said, peppermint tea sounds great right about now. :)
*goes off to rummage through tea collection*

[Lawtan]

...it is the future. I'd predict that IV's/Injections will be sped up like many other things for the future. (Knows IV's take hours/days)
Rundown on venom
1/2 resisted
1/3 neutralized
1/3 pumped out
Yes, that is over 100%

...will anyone mind Rurik picking up Dante to carry to Kadia/Thomas?

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Galla don't read this.

It's more a question of actually getting them in, and preventing infection. I mean, you need to apply a tourniquet, find a vein, cleanse the site, insert the catheter, and hope the vein doesn't burst (Not. Fun.). The prospect of doing that while in the throes of combat is... highly unlikely.

And on the other note, there's nothing preventing us from flooding IV fluids into the system *now*, the technology is certainly there, it's a matter of overloading the system, something I'm not quite sure you can just handwave away with "future"

(And besides, just me, if it was me, I'd rather have her crawl into a corner wracked with agonizing pain, vomiting uncontrollably, and end up having to stick herself a dozen times while her head's swimming and vision's blurring and she can see more of the snakes slithering near, before she finally gets the antitoxin flowing properly and blacks out -- but I'm gathering you may not be as keen on tormenting your characters as some of us are. :P)

Anyway, that's more or less the sort of thing I mean when I talk about consequences in writing. Just cause it's in a Sci-Fi or Fantasy setting, doesn't mean realism doesn't apply. It's actually more important than in other genres, since you're already asking your audience to buy into a whole bunch of crazy hypotheticals (what if God was dead, and the barriers between Heaven and Hell were deteriorating, and humans had to become monsters in order to survive, etc?) you need to give the readers some kind of grounding, and you do that in the little things like starting an IV that they can relate to.

And, she's very lucky that Thomas thinks so robotically -- she's human, and hasn't actually abetted a true AI, so her only real offense is reacting the way she did, he doesn't have a legal mandate to eradicate her at the moment, though she's clearly made herself apparent as a danger to the mission, he won't tolerate any further disturbances from her. The kiss and plucky taunting he couldn't really care less about, in his mind it was just a tactically stupid thing to do, he's neurologically incapable of taking things personally. :P

[Lawtan]

Hmm...I'll have to work a bit better on that...maybe start looking up the patent designs for such things...
I was going to have her wracked with pain...but I didn't want to take her out of the fight...especially when she has a chance to redeem herself from being a danger by helping out.

No read-y!

Tourniquets are a last resort, as that will likely kill/destroy the limb. Keep wounds down from the heart, apply pressure (like a half-cracked open door), etc.

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Not what I meant. You apply a temporary tourniquet to the limb to raise the veins. It comes off once the IV is in. I spent 8 months in the hospital last year, probably had 200+ IVs; I know how this stuff works. :P

[Gallagher]

dawweeee, worried about my delicate sensibiiities, love? Well joke's on you, that just made me want to read it anyway!

... Law no. not the kind he's talking about. one is given to raise the vein for insertion. If the vein is missed because it wasnt properly raised, medicine goes strait into the muscle and things, which not only HURTS but makes your quick recovery even more impossible.

[Lawtan]

Oh...
*Medical knowledge limited to boy scout first aid...and things you don't survive.*

[Suzerain of Sheol]

Originally Posted by Gallagher

dawweeee, worried about my delicate sensibiiities, love? Well joke's on you, that just made me want to read it anyway!

... Law no. not the kind he's talking about. one is given to raise the vein for insertion. If the vein is missed because it wasnt properly raised, medicine goes strait into the muscle and things, which not only HURTS but makes your quick recovery even more impossible.

Intravenous infiltration. Hope you didn't need your arm for anything for the next 3 weeks! Uggggh.

[Gallagher]

Naw, Law, it's all good. That's why we're here to help you get the hang of things.

I mentioned this specifically in the character research thread you made, but the same goes for writing outside of creation:

Even if you think you know how something works, do some quick research on it anyway!

You can have the most unrealistic, fantastical story universe in the world, but how do you make it believable and engaging? With the little details.

[Espy]

Just impulse-bought an Eluveitie CD...-groans-

Hahaha...research. I've done too much (?) research for this RP.

[Lawtan]

*Envies Espy now*
And...I am figuring out how everyone knows so much.
-I learned everything from 30+ year old books-

[Espy]

Wikipedia plus other sites. I used to spend entire afternoons just going through wikis.

[Lawtan]

Mind if I ask what other sites?