ooc plotting and discussion of medical bay shenanigans

[encourage]

Hello folks of the Meatship! Ishmale THAT CHICK WHO CAN'T SPELL HER OWN HANDLE (Ishfe) popping in to hopefully start some chatter on the ooc side for a few things being brought up ICly later, or ideas of things to bring up ICly via Medical bay. I'll go by headlines:

Medical Mingling Log:

Could function part as a meeting, part as establishing how different people interact on a daily grind, and definitely would be for folks looking to get characters involved in medical making contacts and getting in touch with others in medical. Were you looking for medical training? Did your character want to pick up some tips on First Aid? By all means this would be open to anyone, coming by the 'Bay for just about any purpose.

Yay/Nay?

Medic Field Training Exercises:

Sakura will be bringing this up with Dr. Henderson as something she feels needs to be done; aka taking the medics and healers and doctors who are going to be working in the field and starting them getting used to the reality of this. This would be excellent to crossover with other kinds of training; this would also be a great chance for Medical folks and outside fighter folks to work on basic cover for each other and working under high stress. Very likely this would include running simulations in the sensoriums, and again, would hardly be medic exclusive -- it'd be counterproductive to be so -- but a good launching point for characters to start directly preparing to work on keeping each other alive when at war.

Also an excellent opportunity for people to get used to the idea of being on smaller spacecraft as active medics during battles and responding to and learning the hows and whys of space-fighting and what they may encounter during the course of such battles.

Massage Club:

Sakura'll also be talking with Dr. Henderson about this, and will get the go ahead with a policy of "no happy endings" only far more professionally phrased. Questions on this:

Who wants to join? What level of training or knowledge of anatomy do these characters have? Last I recall off the top of my head was somehting like Yuna, Ronnae, Cagalli(?), and Morgan -- was Nima also interested?

Anyone is of course invited, and the idea is to introduce and instruct people in a variety of ways, starting with learning anatomy for all species on ship (start with human, work outward) and then practicing on willing subjects before ultimately having a resource for both relaxation and also rehabilitation and physical therapy as needed.

Sakura would start this out with a message on the Omnicomms as well as asking around Medical after getting Sam's essential blessing.

Possible Other Things:

Would anyone be interested in seeing species and/or sex specific hygiene and basic physical/health maintenance seminars? What do I even mean? Basically things like, "ways to brush your teeth using what we have available and yes we do have this one thing but here are others" or "options for handling that time of the maybe-month hard to tell around here" or "what bathrooms are available and where" or "basic supplies we can provide for you upon request" and things along that line.

It's be free form as in characters could ask whatever they wanted, and likely broken into groups aimed at male/female/lolonlymemberofmyspecies, and also be meant to try to help characters feel out things they want/need to know, but maybe have either refrained from asking or weren't sure how to go about learning this information.

Any general ideas of things you'd like to see going on in Medical Bay?

I've heard talk of perhaps getting uniforms worked out for when active on duty, working out some kind of buddy system, and so what else is on anyone's minds? Questions, comments, things you'd be interested in seeing, doing, or participating in in the future?

Comments

[facepunching.livejournal.com]

Mingling log!

Also: Soren will be so >:| if they ever make him wear a stupid dummypants medic uniform he's a mage gdi

BASICALLY IT SOUNDS LIKE FUNTIEMS

[encourage]

+ to mingling!

Hahaha hey hey quick ID on the field can be just what you need sometimes WHO KNOWS maybe they'll get armbands 8|aaa

[radiantcourage.livejournal.com]

I'd be up for offering Hoshi with medic field training, as well as a volunteer for massage club. :D

[encourage]

\o/ I'll toss that up as a +1 for general mingling log, since it'd be a good place to pop in and establish who she's learning from/with, and another +1 for massage club -- volunteer to be part of it, or later volunteer to be worked on by it after they've moved on for each other?

/EFFORT TO BE TOTALLY CLEAR

re: massage club, health lessons

[leapoffayth.livejournal.com]

I'm not really a fan of logging things like training, but I wouldn't mind mingling and finding Yunie some friends in the department. She does need to learn more mundane first aid, though she's been a support medic on the field pretty much her entire pilgrimage.

Regarding the massage group, her anatomy knowledge is based on direct observation---she knows bone and blood and some about internal organs, but it's incomplete. She comes from a world where scientific progress is clamped down on, using machines is forbidden, and the fastest form of travel is still chocobo. So she could use a few modernization lessons.

And yes, I think the health lessons would be beautiful. A lot of potential for humor there, I think, though Yunie's not in charge. She'd faint.

[encourage]

Yeah, as far as nitty gritty training goes I'm generally more of a fan of handwaving, if having a basic scenario for, say, medic field training, could be good for building teamwork relationships. And in that case, I'd think an actual stated beforehand general scenario would work best; like "you and this other person are under fire. one of your allies has been hit. deal with it while still under fire."

Modernization for Yuna, but intuitive understanding for sure! \o/ Makes beautiful sense, and a +1 for massage.

Hahaha yes, humor is what I hope for in any situation like that. +1 for health lessons, for the lols.

[theboywhowaits]

Yes to all the things and uniforms. Definitely uniforms and standardized medkits for combat, as well as team assignments.

[encourage]

+1 all around the board in that case! \o/

[morganknight]

Morgan will do ALL THOSE THINGS.

[encourage]

another +1 ACROSS THE ENTIRE BOARD!! 8) I am happy to hear this.

[aaaiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee]

Daja will want to join the massage club! To just be worked on at first, but she would want to also learn how to give massages herself.

Also I am up for ALL THE LOGS! however I fail at having my own ideas

[encourage]

Great, I'll mark Daja down for being worked on, and later learning. \o/

OH GLORIOUS DAY sweetness -- another +1 across the board!

/too lazy to log into Jeka's account

[vision-ya.livejournal.com]

I am in favor of all of these things! So long as the "uniform" is limited to something like a jacket. Jeka likes accessories just fine, but clothes? Not so much.

/hahah laze is nice

[encourage]

\o/ Yeah, jackets are just easier anyway, or probably something armbandish considering materials needed and general lacks of supplies for now.

Re: /too lazy to log into Jeka's account

[governmentninja]

YOU WILL WEAR PANTS AND LIKE IT, JEKA. I DON'T CARE IF YOU DON'T HAVE LEGS.

:|

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Totally want Kaya down for all of this. She's learned healing and massage in the Northern Water Tribe, but obviously she'd want to see what other techniques she could learn as well, just so she have a better understanding of alternate ways of mending alien bodies.

And obviously yes very much to uniforms.

[encourage]

Wonderful! I'll add Kaya as another +1 all around, and happily as part of the leading and sharing with massage techniques (and really, everyone should familiarize with the different healing methods in medical, that could be a lot of fun). \o/

Also +1 to the uniforms!

[rainfell-aqua.livejournal.com]

Voting for medical mingling! Aqua wants to get some training or see how she can help--she points a giant key at someone and says "Heal!"

[encourage]

+1 for mingling! Hahahaha yes, this is good stuff to know she can do and familiarize the rest with.

[ronnae.livejournal.com]

Massage club? Where?! Will they be drinking like at the tavern and the beach party? XD

[encourage]

ONE NEVER KNOWS! sly wink and nudge +1 to Ronnae for that

[atruedoctor.livejournal.com]

I would definitely want Martha to meet all the other doctor staff! She's met a few, but figuring out how to get started would be molto bene.

[encourage]

*grins* it looks like we're definitely doing a medical mingling post, once Clones!Plot wraps! It's always great to get a chance to start connecting with everyone they work with. \o/

[8wings.livejournal.com]

Anwei would be happy to help out wherever she can. And she has past experience with alien anatomy/basic field triage. (VERY basic - she'd appreciate a chance to learn more!)

How about a post grilling the EMH about what some of the mystery equipment does, or trying to figure it out by trial & error?

[encourage]

Wonderful! All the characters leveling in their medical knowledge. *hands in the air!*

That'd be a pretty hilarious post, and probably a good one to sit down and make eyes at our lovely moderators (or at least Karl and Saphie) to see what we could figure out!

[thewunderkind]

Yes to all those things let's see umm..

- Sofia can join in for messaging and maybe teach a bit about using healing herbs and magic healing spells. :|c

- Lash is going to join the massage club, quite probably by accident because this is hilarious in my mind.

- Gandrayda also

- Victoria might want to help our as a nurse assistant and learn skills starting from bottom zero. 8Ub

[theboywhowaits]

*adds Victoria to Rory's 'Nurses in Training' passel, like a ninja :D*

[theboywhowaits]

Actually, if anyone wants to sign up for nursing training, drop me a line. Rory is completely willing to give first aid lessons and other medical training to anyone who is willing to learn.

[encourage]

Want me to have that maybe as a subthread in the general medical log?

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Miiiiingling!

I am so down with the mingling. Not sure any of my characters would be interested in the other stuff, though, except Howard for field training but I'm not so keen on threading that out because I'm super lazy.

[encourage]

+1 Mingling!

Hahahah yes it's all kind of /flops down around here, honestly. field training might work best as an ooc handwave/discussion of what would have gone down