Brutal Boot Camp - Day 3

[disciplines]

Who: Alleyne and anyone/everyone going to boot camp
What: Day 3 in a week of rainbows and sunshine and kittens
When: May 13th
Where: A forest right on the border of the Dead Zone
Rating: S for Shenanigans (Shouldn't be more than PG13 at most)

The dawn of the third day. By now, you all should be pretty accustomed to your makeshift beds and tents, your stomachs either empty or angry at you for eating something bad or not enough, a bit sunburned, covered in bites, and not ready to get up at all.

Which means time to wake up, of course. Today covers some more survival essentials. This is what you came out here to learn, isn't it? They don't call it the hard way for nothing. Rise and shine, soldiers, it's time to wake up and move out!

[First Aid | Spearfishing | Notebook Hunt]

[OOC: There's still time to join! Throw them in anywhere on any day! Open to anyone ever! Prose or action-spam is perfectly okay! Day 1 | Day 2 | IC Info Post | OOC Info Post]

Comments

First Aid

[disciplines]

[Today starts off with Alleyne making makeshift bandages and splints from the flora around her. Sticks and stones may break bones, but they can also help set and mend them. She also seems pretty occupied mashing up stuff into a thick, gooey paste. What is that vile concoction shes working on?]

[sexyhitchhiker]

[has been here all this time yea

And she's staring at the gooey paste. God, whatever happened to rubbing alcohol and sterilization techniques?]

[ex_avenged224]

[WHAT'S WITH THE FACE she just stares at this girl staring at the paste.]

What's wrong with you? Are you ill?

[sexyhitchhiker]

[blink. She coughs, trying to assume a more neutral demeanor.]

Um. No. Thanks, but I'm just...trying to figure out what all this stuff does.

[vague hand gesture at all the plant things]

[ex_avenged224]

You don't have medicine where you're from?

[THIS IS MEDICINE ...]

[sexyhitchhiker]

Yeah we do. It's just usually all prepackaged and in pill form.

[what you got here is a mushed up salad, lady.]

[ex_avenged224]

[Squinting ... for a long time ...]

"Prepackaged"?

[sexyhitchhiker]

[oh man]

Where everything is all wrapped up for you. Have you ever seen all the bags and cans of stuff in the kitchen? That's pretty much prepackaged food.

[ex_avenged224]

[lmao slow blink] I ... had always thought the castle did that for us.

[sexyhitchhiker]

No, they're common in stores where I come from. So all the meds and bandages are like that too.

[ex_avenged224]

How strange. Who makes them, I wonder?

[sexyhitchhiker]

[ummm]

Factories, companies. People mass produce these things and then sell them.

[ex_avenged224]

Mass production? Are there no artisans in your world? No tailors to make bandages, or doctors to make potions?

[sexyhitchhiker]

I thought tailors just sew clothes.

And doctors usually figure out what's wrong with you, not make medicines. That's left to the drug companies.

[ex_avenged224]

During times of war, when bandages are needed and in short supply, a tailor may be asked to create such a thing with the scraps from his work. Otherwise you're correct, any layperson may stitch together cloth ...

[BUT WAIT this makes no sense, so she stops talking and just stares for a second.] "Drug companies"?

[sexyhitchhiker]

[oh yeah. That makes sense.

Good thing she's not the sort to use the phrase "pharmaceutical company."] They make medicines. Manufacture them and sell them. We just call them drug companies for some reason.

[ex_avenged224]

Strange, to have entire companies for the purpose of creating medicine.

[sexyhitchhiker]

I'm pretty sure they make a lot of money. And if you can make a ton of money, you can bet that people will do it.

[ex_avenged224]

Hm. I suppose that is true, if doctors do not have the skills to create medicine where you are from.

[peeta_bread]

[Peeta is wearing about the same expression. He has quite a few scratches from being so clumsy. He leans in near Natsuki, speaking in a whisper.]

We don't have to eat that or anything, do we?

[sexyhitchhiker]

[keeping her voice down as well. Don't want to give the crazy nature people any ideas.]

I really really hope not. Not that I'd want to put that over a cut or anything either.

[peeta_bread]

Ugh. Me neither. I mean... is she sure that's even safe? I guess she is the instructor, but... [That just looks nasty, man.]