First Aid for Fandom | Thursday, period 1

[sharp_man]

"Good morning," Hannibal said, nodding to the students. "This is the class on first aid for Fandom; if you aren't in the right place, you may leave, but you might want to remain regardless." He waved to a table off to the side. "There are coffee, tea, and pastries."

He smiled. "Which might be considered their own sort of first aid, knowing the reliance people often place on mild stimulants such as caffeine and sugar."

He was drinking coffee himself, as it happened. "For those of you who may not know me, I am Doctor Hannibal Lecter. I generally teach cooking or food-related classes, but I thought I would take a slight detour this semester, since this is a subject many people sorely need."

Pun fully intended, naturally.

"If you are wondering, I am in fact a medical doctor as well as a PhD. I received my doctorate from Paris Descartes, and completed my internship and recertification at Johns Hopkins as a trauma surgeon." Because high school students here absolutely cared about his credentials.

"We will be covering any number of first aid procedures and practices, but as today is traditionally for introductions, please," he gestured to them, "introduce yourselves by name, let me know what sort of place you're coming from, and tell us all what sort of experience you have in healing or medicine and what you would hope to encounter in this class. And please, all of you, feel free to rearrange your chairs and desks in any way you like, sit on the floor, or walk about, as you please."

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[sharp_man]

Introductions time!

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[era_two_triangle]

Peridot

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[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer Smith

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[spell_chucker]

Khadgar

Listen to the lecture!

[sharp_man]

Marvel at Hannibal's sterling credentials from places you probably haven't heard of!

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[era_two_triangle]

...

"What's a PhD?"

Seriously, those credentials probably would have meant more to her if Peridot knew what in the universe they were supposed to mean.

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[sharp_man]

Really, Hannibal had more or less expected these sorts of questions.

"When somebody from Earth says that they are a doctor, it can mean that they are a medical doctor, or that they hold a degree called a doctorate of philosophy, which is abbreviated PhD," he explained. "That is an advanced degree that means they have learned quite a bit in any one of many subjects."

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[era_two_triangle]

"And your PhD is in....?"

Peridot didn't mean to drill you further on those credentials, Hannibal, but 'many subjects' didn't narrow things down very well, and 'philosophy' wasn't something that she really had any experience with.

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[greenexorcist]

Shiemi didn't know all of those locations, but she did know that becoming a doctor was difficult so she was impressed. This was going to be a nice class!

Introductions!

[sharp_man]

Your name, a little about your world/country, your medical experience, and what you hope to learn.

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[era_two_triangle]

"I'm Peridot," Peridot said, deciding to skip over her Facet and Cut in this class mostly because she'd rattled it off twice already this week and there didn't seem to be much point. "And Homeworld has... no organic life at all. None. So my medical experience is about the same. My function was engineering and research on the Kindergartens that our people are created in, not maintenance once they emerged."

She paused, and then added, "It would be... useful... to learn... maintenance? For human bodies. Now that I'm going to be here among them for a while, that is."

Forever. Probably forever.

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[sharp_man]

"Welcome, Peridot," Hannibal said. "We will be learning many sorts of minor damage repair and assessment here, so I hope you will indeed find it useful."

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[somethingwithturquoise]

"Like, I'm Summer," she started, hand to her heart for a moment before gestures accompanied her introduction; gotta keep that dynamic movement factor going, after all. "Summer Smith. I'm from, like, Earth, but totally not, like this Earth? But my Earth is, like, totally no longer ruled by a stupid lame Galactic Federation, so that's totally yay. I have, like, pretty much no medical experience, but, I'm, like, totally going on adventures with my super awesome grampa and my dumb stupid brother all the time, and they can get, like, pretty wild, so it'll be, like, so totally good to have those skills."

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[greenexorcist]

Shiemi sighed, casting concerned glances at Summer from where she sat. Her roommate had been acting so odd lately.

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[sharp_man]

"Welcome, Summer." Hannibal frowned; her language patterns had clearly changed. He wondered if something were wrong.

"I'm pleased to see you here, and hope you will indeed learn something useful."

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[spell_chucker]

"I'm Khadgar, and I come from a place called Azeroth, which I realize most people haven't heard of," he said. "Where I'm from, anyone can receive basic first aid training to tend to minor wounds and brew simple antidotes to poisons. However, those who do more serious healing are our priests, paladins, and druids. As a mage, I don't really have the spiritual connection for that. But I know that's not how it works here, and I didn't finish the training I would have gotten at home, so if I'm to be truly useful in a crisis, I think I should know more about how to help the injured."

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[sharp_man]

"Welcome, Khadgar." Hannibal nodded. "I'm aware there are others here with healing powers, but yes, what we will be learning is more physical means of first aid. Is there anything in particular you'd be interested in learning?"

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[notamascot]

"My name is Kaylin Neya," she said, "And I am from Elantra which is home to a number of different sentient beings besides humans. I don't know have any medical training or anything, but I can heal." When she takes the damn bracer off, at least.

"I guess they signed me up for this so maybe I can learn other things, too."

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[sharp_man]

"Welcome, Kaylin." Hannibal smiled at her. "I do hope this will prove useful. If nothing else, you may learn how better to assess which injuries will be most in need of your healing, and what you can do without using your abilities."

Because you were bad at self-care.

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[greenexorcist]

"Ano. My name is Shiemi Moriyama. I'm from True Cross, in Japan. I am the daughter of a supply shop for Exorcists, and we deal in a lot of medicines and herbs as well. Also I garden so I know a lot about natural remedies. And we take some classes in Cram School for healing and for first aid."

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[sharp_man]

"Welcome, Shiemi." Hannibal gave her a little bow. "Or do you prefer Moriyama-san?"

Talk to Hannibal!

[sharp_man]

"Oh," Hannibal mentioned, "by the way, I am still looking for an assistant, should anybody like to volunteer for the position."

OOC!

[sharp_man]

Only a slight detour from his usual classes.

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[notamascot]

Kaylin wouldn't volunteer, but if he asked her to be his assistant, she'd agree - probably in a bit of wide-eyed uncertainty.

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[sharp_man]

Oo, awesome! He will probably take her up on that; thank you!