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futurology2016-09-14 12:41 am
grunehexe) wrote in futurology2016-09-14 12:41 am
un: sieglindesullivan / video
[In between the end of the... timeline shenanigans (which, thankfully for everyone, she does not remember) and their departure for the next mission, Sieglinde can be found up to her eyeballs in texts and tomes, mostly unfed, unrested, and occasionally unwashed... But never mind that.]
Audentes recruits. It is I, Sieglinde Sullivan. The Green Witch. Most of you know me, but there are newcomers among us, and so I must extend introductions to you all, unfit as this format may be for the beginning of such a bond as we are forced to share.
[If you're waiting for her to discover how to make a chill network post you can keep waiting.]
I come before you today with a request. I know there are those besides myself skilled in the art of healing, magic, and science. I speak not of the manner of talents ALASTAIR itself bestows to ease our missions, but of knowledge brought from outside of this place. There are two projects I have undertaken which could potentially benefit from the input of others, and so I seek volunteers who would be willing to lend their aid to the cause.
The cases are as follows.
One involves a person whose heart was physically removed from their body via magic, and said organ was used then in order to control them. I wish to see a heart and all capabilities therein returned to them, but as you can imagine, the process carries a great risk, seeing as the magic that removed the heart initially serves also to keep their body living artificially without such a vital element.
The other involves a more scientific matter, as it is in regards to someone whose diet is severely restricted due to some biological difference of the body, particularly the digestive system. Foods they are able to tolerate have been identified, so the next step is to discover what it is about those foods that allow them to pass through the body without causing illness, and to then implement such discoveries into a pill or procedure which could render other foods edible.
For reasons I am sure you understand, I will not give the names nor any hints towards the identities of these patients, as such information is strictly need-to-know... and only those whom I judge capable to work on these projects will be considered so.
[deep breath]
But, if you believe your training or talents may be of some use in any of those situations... your cooperation would be most appreciated. I will field questions here, should you have them.
Good day.
Audentes recruits. It is I, Sieglinde Sullivan. The Green Witch. Most of you know me, but there are newcomers among us, and so I must extend introductions to you all, unfit as this format may be for the beginning of such a bond as we are forced to share.
[If you're waiting for her to discover how to make a chill network post you can keep waiting.]
I come before you today with a request. I know there are those besides myself skilled in the art of healing, magic, and science. I speak not of the manner of talents ALASTAIR itself bestows to ease our missions, but of knowledge brought from outside of this place. There are two projects I have undertaken which could potentially benefit from the input of others, and so I seek volunteers who would be willing to lend their aid to the cause.
The cases are as follows.
One involves a person whose heart was physically removed from their body via magic, and said organ was used then in order to control them. I wish to see a heart and all capabilities therein returned to them, but as you can imagine, the process carries a great risk, seeing as the magic that removed the heart initially serves also to keep their body living artificially without such a vital element.
The other involves a more scientific matter, as it is in regards to someone whose diet is severely restricted due to some biological difference of the body, particularly the digestive system. Foods they are able to tolerate have been identified, so the next step is to discover what it is about those foods that allow them to pass through the body without causing illness, and to then implement such discoveries into a pill or procedure which could render other foods edible.
For reasons I am sure you understand, I will not give the names nor any hints towards the identities of these patients, as such information is strictly need-to-know... and only those whom I judge capable to work on these projects will be considered so.
[deep breath]
But, if you believe your training or talents may be of some use in any of those situations... your cooperation would be most appreciated. I will field questions here, should you have them.
Good day.
no subject
I know how out of touch this makes me sound considering where we are, but just because we don't have an explanation, doesn't make it magic. There's a scientific explanation for everything, we just have to find it.
You've got a microscope, really? What's the magnification on it?
( don't get him started, Sieglinde, he will not stop. ) Enzymes are sort of like biological triggers that cause chemical reactions inside the body. There are tons of them and some are related to digestion. There could be an absence of particular enzymes in your patient that makes it too hard for the body to break down what has been consumed. If we can figure out which are missing, we can supplement them. I mean, maybe, that's just my first thought.
no subject
[Boy. Says the girl who is obviously about, what, twelve?]
High enough to work with blood samples.
[Sorry, Peter, it didn't come with a magnification written on the side and no ones told her how high it needs to be to see blood cells, which... Is the last thing she worked on.]
Hoh, so that is what you call the vital forces in your world? I shall keep note of it.
no subject
( bc u are so twelve kiddo, #js )
It's worth a try, then. Maybe I can ask for a higher power microscope if I need it. They've certainly got advanced technology at their disposal, maybe they've got stuff around here we can use.
( he squints a little, but okay, maybe? )
Not sure, it depends on what your definition of 'vital forces' is.
no subject
Though ALASTAIR's true nature alludes me yet, I fail to see how helping us help their own would be detrimental.
[Vital forces, though-]
Those processes that make up living creatures- differentiate us from the nonliving? Such as how grapes become wine, and milk becomes cheese, and food in our bodies becomes waste and energy?
no subject
( good call, Parker. )
If they want us to keep working for them, you'd think they'd help us out here and there. I guess the only way we'll know is if we ask.
( vital forces seems to be a pretty broad term that covers a whole range of things, and he scratches a spot behind his ear. )
What year are you from, exactly? ( that could give him a better idea of how much she knows of medical science, though Peter can't claim to be an expert on the history of diagnostics. )
no subject
[If that even made sense to him...]
no subject
18— you're from the 1800s. Wow.
( he's stunned enough that he needs time to inwardly digest that. )
no subject
[Not another "2000'er", please.]
From Germany, yes. Wolfsschlucht.
no subject
Guten tag then, uh... I don't think I know your name yet. Hi. Peter. Should have started there.
no subject
[Not important, Sieglinde-]
You may call me Master Sullivan. Or "Doctor", if you prefer.
no subject
( so, no, Sieg. he doesn't. )
Master Sullivan works, sure. Uh... if you can get a blood sample from this patient, I'll take a look at it for you. See if I can find anything out.
no subject
[Peter, please.]
no subject
( yeah, sorry Sieg... he'll work on it... lights a candle for all the pop culture references he can't say in front of her... 🕯 )
no subject
[pour one out...]
I will see about getting you access to the blood samples.
no subject
( mostly Heidi Klum but yeah, not gonna tell a tiny german girl that... )
I'll be keeping an eye out for it. I'd like to help if I can.