Sime/Gen Roleplaying: Bender Cove Township Scenario
Episode #236: The Usual Difficulties (5/3/98)
Chogwilly staggers up the front steps of the Sime Center.
Chogwilly is clutching his head.
Chogwilly: Oh my god, I have the WORST HEADACHE!!
Chogwilly: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~MIGRAINE~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chogwilly falls to his knees, then staggers up again.
Chogwilly: ~~~~~migraine and skinned knees~~~~~~
Chogwilly: OH god you HAve to HELP me.... aiiighh!
Chogwilly slips on a throw rug and falls on his tailbone.
Chogwilly staggers up a 3rd time, clutching his head and his rear.
Chogwilly: ~~~~very painful tailbone and head, and skinned knees~~~
Chogwilly manages to reach the desk, where he falls over it, nearly impaling himself fatally on the notes-spindle.
Chogwilly: Ahhhh!
Chogwilly: ~~~migraine, bruised tailbone, skinned knees, jabbed in the stomach with a metal spindle, and has paper clips stuck to his face~~~
Chogwilly collapses over the front desk and goes still.
Chogwilly: [occasional moans]
Chumpchange drags himself up the front steps by his fingernails.
Chumpchange: OoooooooOOOOOooooo ooo..... ~~~~nauseated~~~
Chumpchange scrabbles at the front door, manages to claw it open, and crawls in on his belly.
Chumpchange: UuuuuuuUUUUUuuuUUuuuuuuuuUBBBbbb [barely contains an urge to hurl]
Chumpchange curls up in a ball on the lobby floor.
DartMouth walks up the front steps of the Sime Center. ~~~sharp pain~~
DartMouth opens the door carefully and enters.
DartMouth has blood coming out of his mouth and is holding his mouth with his hands.
DartMouth sags to a seat in the lobby.
WheelMan staggers up the front steps.
Patrice enters the lobby, takes in the situation and leaves quickly. "Katryn! Katryn, come quickly."
WheelMan falls in the front door.
Mytag has put Darrel to bed with some fosebine but isn't sleepy.
Patrice [yelling at the top of her lungs for her channel]
WheelMan's clothes are ripped and he has an obvious wheel track running up his body from crotch to forehead.
Mytag hears yelling coming from [predictably] the lobby and goes tearing in.
Hammerman walks up to the Sime Center and tries to open the door, then realizes he can't.
Patrice: Where is Katryn?
Hammerman sits down on the front step, cradling his smashed fingers.
Patrice: We need a channel now!
Mytag sees one one the floor moaning, one on a couch, bleeding and one lying apparently dead in the doorway.
Mytag: Oh, shen.
ParrotFud staggers in, clutching his bleeding ear.
ParrotFud trips over Wheelman and collapses on the lobby floor, injuring an elbow.
Mytag grabs a renSime and tells him to get an emergency kit from the infirmary and whatever channels he can find.
ParrotFud staggers up and goes to the front desk.
Loggsy walks into the Sime Center with a torch.
ParrotFud: Hello... I am in urgent need of medical assistance. [hoarse voice]
Mytag goes to the one in the doorway and feels for a pulse.
ParrotFud is still clutching his ear..
Mytag: Have a seat please! Just get out of the way.
Wheelman is alive but badly injured.
Wheelman has evidently been kicked by a horse and run over (length wise) by a wagon.
Mytag checks to see what injury he has.
Mytag: Patrice - check that one. [points to, err, Chumpchange]
Chumpchange is still curled up in a ball, emitting waves of nausea.
Loggsy lights the torch and moves forward.
Mytag: Probable internal injuries, possible broken bones. Someone get a stretcher and get him to the infirmary!
Mytag takes the kit from the renSime and instructs him to get some stretchers.
Loggsy walks up to the desk and lays the torch on the desk, setting it on fire.
Mytag goes to the person bleeding from the ear.
Mytag: What happened?
Jirelle runs into the lobby just in time to see what Loggsy did.
Jirelle: Wow!
ParrotFud: I was attacked by a bird!
Mytag slaps a dressing on it and instructs him to hold it firmly until a channel can see him.
ParrotFud: Okay.
Mytag: A bird did this?
Mytag: Just keep still.
ParrotFud clutches the dressing to his ear (what's left of it)
ParrotFud: Thank you.
Mytag turns to the other bleeding man.
ParrotFud sits down on a couch.
Mytag: Let me see your mouth.
Jirelle leaps wildly to the desk and grabs the torch, scorching herself in the process.
Loggsy turns and leaves.
DartMouth removes his hands revealing a bar dart stuck in his mouth.
Mytag considers, checks to make sure it is indeed a dart and not barbed, grabs it and pulls it out.
DartMouth: Ow!!!! [sort of: awwwgghhhh]
Mytag: We will get a channel to control that bleeding ASAP. In the meantime, hold this on it.
Mytag hands him a hand towel.
Mytag checks to see who is left.
Jirelle throws the torch out in the street then runs back, trying to slap out the fire that has caught here and there on the desk.
Jirelle: Oo!! Oo! Shen.
Jirelle immediately feels guilty for swearing.
Jirelle: I mean... sh.. uh... shoot!
Jirelle: [slap slap]
Mytag sees the fire.
Mytag: Oh, Shendoni!
Katryn: [sprinkler system goes off]
Mytag: Jirelle get away from there!
Katryn: Patrice!
Katryn sees Patrice coming down the hallway.
Katryn: What's the matter?
Mytag grabs a towel, wets it from the water jug, then throws it on the fire.
Patrice: You're needed in the Lobby now, Hajene.
Patrice: There's a fire and some injured people.
Mytag: Jirelle - get over here. [points to the guy that has been run over] Zlin him for internal injuries.
Jirelle gets soaked as the water drenches the fire, killing it.
Mytag goes to the one curled up in a ball moaning.
Katryn runs down the hall with Patrice.
Jirelle: But... [thinking someone aught to turn off the sprinkler system]. Okay Mytag.
Katryn: Oh my gosh....
Jirelle runs over to WheelMan.
Mytag ignores the fact that it seems to be raining.
Patrice goes into support mode for Katryn BEFORE channel enters the lobby.
Chumpchange: ~~~ewwwwwwuuugghhhhhlllrrrunnhhnnhn~~~~
Patrice follows the channel closely.
Mytag: Katryn, see if you can stop the bleeding on those two.
Mytag: Patrice - turn off the sprinklers! Please!
Jirelle kneels beside the wounded man, in the pouring rain, and zlins him.
Mytag: OK friend, what's the problem?
Katryn will of course do anything -- almost anything -- Mytag says.
Katryn: NO!
Katryn: Patrice, don't leave me.
Patrice: Right here Hajene, I won't leave you.
Chumpchange: Poison... my mother in law's chicken... ughhhhhhh.
Jon Drake heads out of his office toward the lobby.
Patrice is standing close by Katryn's side.
Chumpchange: I've been puking for hours. [woozy]
Mytag: Katryn - forget them, zlin this one for poison!
Jirelle goes to find someone with a stretcher for WheelMan.
Patrice puts a hand on her channel's arm to strengthen their contact.
Mytag gets up and runs to turn off the water, then runs back.
Jon Drake hears the chaos in the lobby before he gets there.
ParrotFud sits miserably, clutching the now-sodden wadding to his mangled ear, and shivering in the gray downpour.
Mytag goes to the two bleeding.
DartMouth is sitting there clutching his mouth.
Mytag: Can you both walk? Come with me and we will get you into the infirmary.
DartMouth: [they almost look like the no-see no-hear no-speak monkeys]
Mytag sees JD enter the lobby.
Jon Drake sees what is happening in the lobby and rushes to assist.
DartMouth nods and he and Parrotfud stagger after Mytag.
Mytag: Jon! Help Jirelle.
Jirelle runs back in carrying a portable stretcher.
Mytag helps the bleeding people to the infirmary.
Jon Drake moves to help Jirelle.
Jirelle skids on all the water and passes through the lobby a lot more quickly than she had originally intended.
Jirelle: Whoop!
Jirelle: ~~brief moment of terror~~
Jirelle skids to a stop next to WheelMan.
Jirelle: Oh, Jon Drake. ~~grateful~~
Jirelle: Thank you.
Jirelle lays the stretcher down near him.
Jirelle: I think we can move him, he walked in here by himself.
Patrice whispers to Kat: "Are you all right, Hajene?"
Alea hears the alarms and is drenched before the water finally cuts off.
Katryn: Fine.
Patrice: Shouldn't we be working?
Jirelle: Can you give me hand, Jon?
Katryn: Take whatever patient is ours to a room.
Katryn: Of course.
Chumpchange moans and groans as somebody moves him into an infirmary room for Katryn and Patrice.
Alea pulls herself out of bed and goes to the crying baby.
Patrice attempts to guide Kat to room Chumpchange is in.
Jon Drake makes ready to help Jirelle move him.
Katryn follows the people bearing Chumpchange.
Katryn goes into the room and reaches for Chumpchange's arms.
Jirelle and Jon Drake shift WheelMan over to the stretcher.
Jirelle: Ok, let's see if we can find a room.
Patrice moves in close to assist Katryn.
Alea gets to Aiesha and lifts her into her arms, trying to quiet her.
Jon Drake nods.
Jirelle helps Jon Drake carry the patient into a treatment room.
Katryn zlins him closely.
Katryn: Food poisoning, Patrice.
Katryn: Go over there and get the yellow bottle and pour one serving into a cup.
Jirelle zlins the patient.
Katryn: You'll be fine. Just give us time
Patrice follows the channel's instructions and hands her the cup of medicine.
Jirelle: Wow, JD, you're pretty good. [grins at him dripping wet, obviously relieved he is there]
Jon Drake: Just trying to help, Jirelle.
Jon Drake smiles.
Jirelle: Hmmm... this guy has been really run over.
Chumpchange: ~~nausea.. woozy... light headed... weak~~
Patrice: You will be fine.
Patrice pats Chumpchange's arm reassuringly.
Katryn: Drink this.
Katryn smiles even as she looks around for a trash can.
Patrice raises the patient's head so he can drink.
Patrice hands the channel a large basin.
Alea walks slowly, laboriously to the door, looking out to see what is going on.
Chumpchange moans, and burbles the liquid, but drinks it.
Patrice takes empty cup
Jirelle uses JD's support, and deep zlins the patient.
Jon Drake holds a steady field.
Katryn: Stay with him, Patrice. In a few minutes he will start throwing up.
Katryn: After he is done throwing up, then give him two yellow tablets.
Patrice: Yes, Hajene. Where are you going?
Patrice: OK, will do.
Chogwilly is still lying across the front desk.
Chogwilly: ~~migraine skinned knees sore tailbone impaled by a note-spindle clothes burnt off his back soaking wet shivering~~
Chumpchange: Ooooghhh... I feel even worse now.
Patrice: That's okay. Here, hold this, you are going to need it.
Patrice positions the basin under Chumpchange's chin.
Katryn: You have food poisoning.
Chumpchange had been puking for hours before he showed up... is sore all over.
Katryn: This should get rid of anything left in you.
Chumpchange: OOOOOohhhhggg
Chumpchange: [dry heaves into basin]
Patrice: ~strong support for channel~
Jirelle comes out of it.
Katryn: Then we'll give you some medication that will help you rest--sleep--and you'll be better tomorrow.
Katryn: Weak as a kitten but better.
Patrice hands Chumpchange a wet towel when the spasms subside.
Jirelle: Well, he has bruising, but amazingly no bones are broken. I'll do what I can for the bruising... we should give him some fosebine too.
Jirelle: You are one lucky guy. [to WheelMan]
Chumpchange finally stops heaving and slumps back.
Patrice: You will be okay now.
Patrice offers the pills Kat ordered.
Jirelle projects need, trying to help the bruising.
Chumpchange miserably takes the yellow pills.
Patrice: How did you get sick?
Chumpchange lays back looking weak and pasty faced.
Chumpchange: My mother in law's chicken salad... ugggghhhhh.
Chumpchange: I hate that stuff, I never should have eaten it.
Patrice glances at Katryn in alarm.
Patrice: How many other people ate it?
Katryn doesn't see too much poison in the system.
Katryn knows the rest will have to just work itself out.
Chumpchange: Uhhh.. probably a dozen.
Patrice: Hajene, perhaps we should send a team?
Katryn: I can't make that decision.
Katryn: I will inform the Controller if he's not busy with Muryin.
Patrice: She's gone. Want me to go look for him? Or stay here for a while?
Katryn: No. I'll find him.
Katryn: Stay here with the patient.
Katryn leaves.
Chumpchange: I think Bobby and Doodie went home already, they live in Eastcove.
Patrice smiles at Chumpchange.
Patrice: You will be okay now, I think. Just rest for a while.
Patrice takes a seat by the bed.
Jirelle finishes and goes to get the patient some fosebine, then rests on Jon Drake's field for a while.
Chumpchange closes his eyes.
Veraik enters the back door of the Center then goes to his bedroom to shower and change.
Patrice quietly tiptoes from room when Chumpchange falls asleep