hadriel | Code - 001 [Voice]

( No voice because that's none of your business stranger. )

Is this supposed to be self-reporting or are you looking for gossip from others ?

Neither.

Research. Thinking of making some changes.

Research and changes for what, exactly?

Making this place a better fit for people who don't exactly check all the boxes in the 'pieces included' category.

Right now it sort of sucks in that department.

Edited 2017-06-03 01:02 (UTC)

Hmmm

If I'm understanding what you mean by the metaphors does that make you some kind of psychologist or something like that? Or do you just have a passing interest ?

[Ah. There has been a miscommunication]

I don't mean the mental kind of pieces. I mean literal pieces. An arm or a leg etc. etc.

( Somehow equally ironic to her situation. )

My bad! It's a common turn of phrase where I come from.

So you're a doctor, then?

I guess it is where I'm from too but now I'm realizing its sort of vague. I apologize for any confusion I might have caused.

And no, I'm no doctor. But I'm a person who has an interest in making this place more disability friendly.

That's pretty nice of you! I'm sure people coming here with disabilities will appreciate the effort.

It might also be smart to be preemptive since there's a hundred different ways to get a limb lobbed off around here.

Exactly.

[She gets it]

And I wanted to get a sense of who had what sorts of needs, y'know?

I don't personally know anyone with that kind of need here, sorry.

But I do know someone back home without an arm. I think even starting with the basic modifications for people without hands/arms and feet/legs is good since those people could come here at any time. and then of course there's wheelchairs to consider.

Do you have any suggestions?

[Amos sprawled upside-down over a thick limb in the orchard, raises and eyebrow, and says with a little grin:

Way to be vague and slightly creepy, chief. Miiiiight wanna work on dat.

[His voice is full of good cheer, though, his accent snappy as usual.]

[He's going to keep his responses to voice, if you don't mind, Sir. Or even if you do mind. He doesn't exactly view that as his concern.]

Don't really see how its the latter. But duly noted.

Edited 2017-06-03 15:37 (UTC)

Where I come from, asking who's got working parts might mean whoever's asking is actually looking to chop you up for parts.

[Amos has run across more than one poor soul rendered into their bloody component pieces for magical reasons...or the more mundane reasons of revenge...or hunger.]

Nah, I'm not looking for any spares.

You mean that in the figurative or the literal sense?

[He has a feeling he knows which one, but it never hurts to ask in a place like this, where there just might be other mechanical folks running around.]

I'm realizing I should have been more specific, but yeah, the literal is more what I was going for.

Guess it depends on which parts you're talking about. I can't say any of us came here in mint condition.

Well, i'm talking about the sort of thing that makes the day to day stuff a bit more difficult.

You mean something more like a missing limb?

That would be more along the lines of what I was getting at, yeah.

Hm. Can't say I know a lot of people here with a visible handicap of any sort, but if there's any way to help you with that day-to-day stuff, all you need to do is ask.

Ask? Ask who?

Folks on the network, like you're asking now. The Clinic, the Guard. Someone you know, or someone you don't.

The name's Nick Valentine.

[That'd be his way of offering to help.]

Nice to meet you Nick. The name's Whistler.

I've met some of the Guard folks. Miss Maketh, for one. She got me some things to help when I first arrived.

She's a good egg.

[You know, most of the time. Nick knows her heart is in the right place, and that's what matters.]

And you can count me among those Guard folks you've met, now. Well, meeting over the phone.

So far she's done nothing but good by me so I'd have to agree with you.

[A beat]

Aha! So you're another one. How many of you are there? Guards, i mean?

Not nearly as many as I'd like, but we get by. With all the comings and goings here in the city, we tend to be shorthanded.

I would volunteer but I'm afraid I'm not much help where fighting is concerned.

Not all of us are, but it takes all kinds to make it work.

Even blind-kinds?

[His interest is piqued]

[ Welp. This isn't creepy or anything. ]

Do you need medical help, or are you asking this on behalf of a friend??

Neither. I am asking as a general survey due to the lack of resources for people with physical disabilities in this cave.

[Geez people are so distrusting]

I was thinking of making some changes to fix that.

[ Hey, your message sounded strange, buddy! ]

Oh...that's actually really thoughtful. Smart. Probably necessary, now that I think about it.

I came in with everything intact. So did someone else I know, from my world. Any of the basic needs we've needed have been met, too? They should be for people with disabilities too...

Any ideas on how to make that happen?

Well thank you.

I was hoping people could help me get some ideas. My case is pretty specific, so I know what i'd need, but its not really community spirited to only help myself, is it?

[ None of this applies to her, specifically, as she's admitted. However, Caroline loves to plan, to coordinate, so she responds accordingly. ]

If there are available resources, then any project can be started and completed. You just need a good plan from the get go, with clearly defined milestones.

If there are enough people here who wanna help, then it can be made into a community project.

First things first, like you said, you'd want a survey of the people who would really need help. That way, you know what starting points the project would focus on.

[Wow. It sounds like she knows what she's doing much more than he does]

Have you done this sort of thing before?

[Why does this guy's voice sound so familiar--]

Well I mean, that depends. You talkin' physical or mental there, dude?

'Cause I can guarantee that anyone who ends up here more'n likely has a screw loose already. Gods here really seem to know how to pick 'em, if you ask me. S'like the reality show no one asked for.

[Don't worry, he's including himself in that equation.]

[Absolutely no reason anybody could ever think of. No idea why you would think its at all familiar.]

Well loose screws aren't a thing I can help with. I was more thinking on the purely mechanical level. Can you walk? Can you talk? Can you pick stuff up? You get the idea.

[...uhhh.]

Not that I'm exactly the paragon of sensitivity, but you do realize that sounds condescending when you put it that way, right?

Whatever the semantics you want to use, those are the questions that need answering. And in my experience, the person who picks their words most carefully isn't necessarily the one who is actually going to help you out or who actually knows what they're talking about.

They're just the ones who don't want you to think they're insensitive.

Edited 2017-06-13 18:13 (UTC)

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