002 [Video]

[missiondeterminant]

[Aside from having a new--or maybe not new, but different--hat that may have suffered a little bedazzling, Connor looks pretty much the same as last time he spoke on the network. He has something somewhat less abstract to talk about this time, but it's even more serious.]

Although the Clinic is well-suited to the needs of many here, and that's a great accomplishment in this situation, it's unable to provide assistance to a portion of the population that needs non-standard medical treatment.

[Mostly, as far as he knows, that's a problem for individuals who might be mechanically-based, although he isn't ruling out that there might be other types of beings he doesn't know about who also can't be helped with standard medical treatment. So he's being general right now, trying to account for everyone, which also helps in keeping things vague as far as individual people and what they might need.]

Because worlds vary, finding those with the skills they need to help these people might be difficult, but at the very least we can make sure those who can't go to the Clinic have the basic supplies necessary to take care of themselves. But again, because worlds vary, we won't know what all those supplies are unless we compile a list. I know there's an option on these phones to hold private conversations, if anyone may be concerned about giving specifics information about themselves, so supplies on the list can be added mostly anonymously.

[With any luck that means he can add some things to the list himself and no one will know who they're for. He'd like to avoid ending up in a situation in which he bleeds to death from an otherwise treatable injury just because there's no thirium available here.]

Additionally, since necessary items are likely to require making arrangements with the gods, if anyone is willing to help with that please let me know.

Comments

[braveoff]

[ Objectively, Drake would recognize those points. But the fact is he's been here a year and has had to roll with it somehow -- that's kind of what his entire life has been, and trying to understand and relate to the gods' plight has helped him deal. It's still harmful, and having to do these things to survive doesn't make it right, but he doesn't have a better solution for them so he's adjusted his thinking.

You do what you have to do to survive. ]

No, it doesn't. I think I'm hitting my limit, kinda. But we're stuck, so... we still have to live like this, with them.

I'll cool down.

[ Maybe shifting the topic back will help. Give him a goal again, since obviously he can't get on a boat with his condition. The only people he would've been comfortable going out with had other groups and arrival day is coming up now. ]

How's the post going? Did you get other volunteers? I've been trying to talk Nick into letting me deal for him but he's understandably not into the idea of replacing whole limbs with whatever the gods would give him. This is just more damage than he's ever taken, and I'm worried his mechanic can't rebuild his most of him with just scrap.

[ It's pretty obvious he cares about Nick a great deal and isn't bothering to hide that this is a personal investment. ]

[missiondeterminant]

[Connor does understand the idea of adapting and doing what you have to to survive; he done it for most of his existence, even before becoming deviant and truly realizing how many of his decisions had been made out of a fear he was denying he could even feel. But now that he is deviant, and he made the choice at home to fight right before arriving here, he doesn't want to go back to just trying to survive; everything in him is telling him not just accept all of this, and to do something, but that doesn't seem to be a popular opinion here.

So he forces himself not to argue, because he doesn't believe that'll help--the negotiator part of him says it's better for Drake to just think about things awhile--so he focuses on the change in topic.]

I've had a few volunteers to talk to the gods, but finding out what people need is not going as well.

[He doesn't want to say that he's talking to Nick right now about the issue Drake's brought up, since the conversation is private, so instead he tries being vague.]

I've heard they aren't particularly good at creating technological or mechanical devices; is that true?