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Today the Danger Shop was set to resemble a rural, third-world village, complete with creaky but stable houses, more than a few people around (in actuality, probably many more people than would really be present in a small town like this), and a steady current of light rain with puddles rapidly forming in the dirt. Hope you were ready to get a little muddy, students!

In addition, each student was armed with a very limited first-aid kit, some of which had faulty hinges, just because.

"This is your final," Bruce said, swinging his arms. "It's wet and you'll be distracted, but as soon as I'm done talking, each one of you is going to be accosted by someone in this village who needs your help. And when you're done there, you'll be accosted again until time runs out. Use your supplies, don't offend anyone, and remember you're here to help."

Bruce had really enjoyed programming this, and the little details like the ambient dialogue of passersby (which was rarely in (broken) English, and far more frequently in rapid Bengali) and the growing size of the puddles on the ground were enough to make any good game designer weep.

"Ready? Go."

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Wet, muddy, and/or dirty!

Sholeh Zeela a Zhahar

Chaz Villette

Billy Kaplan

Marasiah Fel

Surreal SaDiablo

Snow White

Cassidy

Evan Sabahnur

Alex Aaron

Rain, puddles, houses that may look startlingly rudimentary to students who haven't traveled much, plenty of people chatting away in languages students might not understand...

A woman rushes up to you and ushers you over to her young son, who is choking and needs CPR. Hope you remember how to do that.

There was a moment of panic when Sholeh saw the little boy, tears rolling down his face that was slowly turning colors. She froze, paralyzed by fear and indecision.

*You studied this,* Zhahar murmured. *What's the first thing to do?*

::Ask if they need CPR,:: Sholeh said. ::Right? That's right, right?::

*Well, they don't speak the language much, but he's getting kind of purple and they're both frantic, so I think that's a given.*

::Okay, right. Well...if he's choking, the first thing we need to do is...clear his airway!::

*Good girl! You can do it!*

First, Sholeh performed the Heimlich maneuver on the boy, because it didn't matter how many times she breathed into him if his throat was blocked. By the time the item was dislodged, though, the boy had gone slack and unconscious in his arms.

::Zhahar! What next! What do I do!::

*Relax and take it easy, Sholeh!* Zhahar commanded. *You can't help him while panicking! Lay him down on his back.*

Step by step, Zhahar walked Sholeh through the steps of CPR. When the boy opened his eyes and breathed on his own, Sholeh couldn't help but give him a hug.

Billy had to admit, he was a lot calmer than he thought he'd be at seeing someone choke, and he was really thankful he remembered the steps for CPR.

This one can vary depending on how mean you want to be to your character. Just after completing the first task, students will turn to get their bearings and immediately spot an elderly man with a serious injury on his leg and what seems to be quite a lot of blood loss.

Either bandage it or deem it a more serious injury and fashion a tourniquet.

This injury looked really nasty. Sholeh coaxed the old man into sitting and asked him for his shirt, which she folded and made him press onto the wound. While he was doing that, she ran over to find a few sticks and grabbed the gauze from her first aid kit, after fighting with the stupid hinges.

From there, she was able to make a tourniquet for the older gentleman. Zhahar watched her closely, but only offered words of encouragement as she worked. "There!" Sholeh said when she was finished. "Nice and tight. Can you wiggle your foot?"

The man looked at her blankly, so Sholeh moved his foot and looked up at him, going from a weak smile to a concerned look. This, the old man understood and waggled his foot by himself, giving her a smile and nodding. Sholeh beamed at him and scampered off to the next patient.

Blood still made Billy feel queasy and of course the guy needed a tourniquet. Thankfully, that helped stop the flow of blood a little and made bandaging him up easier.

A girl comes up to you and reveals an infected burn on her arm. It's not serious, probably only first-degree, but the infection makes it hard to tell. Classify it and use that 90%-empty tube of burn cream in your first-aid kit.

Sholeh was indeed thrown by the infection. Before she did anything else, she found a cool tap to rinse the girl's arm and only after the pus started to fall away did she realize that she was looking at an infected first degree burn rather than a much scarier third degree burn.

She washed the burn with a bit of soap from her first aid kit, then patted the girl's arm dry with her own skirt, being careful to use some fabric that hadn't been in contact with anything else. Once the arm was dry, she gently massaged the remains of the burn cream on it and wrapped it with the last of her gauze.

"Keep clean and dry," she told the girl earnestly. "It will heal."

After everything else, the burn wasn't so bad to look at. Billy resisted the urge to heal it with magic, fairly certain that that would be considered cheating, and used the burn cream instead once he'd carefully cleaned the wound.

When he's not running around solving medical problems.

Who looks at home here, as much as he ever looks at home anywhere.

I'm flying today, so mod your interactions with the simulation people if you want, or let me know if you want me to NPC when I get a chance!

First-Aid and Basic Medicine | Tuesday | Period Two

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Final Exam

Task 1: CPR

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Task 2: Bandaging/Tourniquets

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Task 3: Burns

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