Principles of First Aid, Danger Shop, Morning, 5/23

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

Elliot is seated cross-legged on a table in the front of the Danger Shop, wearing a lab coat and looking only a little nervous. When most of the students have assembled, she begins.

"Hi, I'm Elliot Reid. You can call me Dr. Reid, or Elliot, or... just don't use the E.T. voice, or I will have to beat you senseless. And yes, it's a boy's name, I'm not a boy."

"We have a lot to cover if you guys want to be qualified for Red Cross certification at the end of the term. I'm handing out the syllabus, which I stole from Red Cross of Singapore. Because we only have so much time, I'm going to kind of skim a lot of this. I also have made up first aid kits for each of you; take them, use them, love them. If they get you in trouble, don't blame me."


"The basic idea of First Aid is to, you know, keep people from dying or becoming horribly disfigured on the spot. Now, if you don't know what you're doing, you end up hurting way more than you help. So first rule is, don't do anything until you have assessed the situation and called 911 if necessary. Even if you happen to be a doctor, you call 911. Got it?"

She glanced down at the syllabus.

"So anatomy is one of those things I'm going to skim. You have bodies. They have all kinds of funky things about them. If you want to know more, there's a good Web site for you to play with loaded on those computers over there."

"And now to the fun stuff." A little gleefully, she illuminated another section of the danger shop. Three small rooms came into view, each containing a Danger Shop-generated scene of chaos. "You guys have been divided into completely arbitrary teams. Each team should go to a scene, talk out what you're going to do if you want, and then each of you should demonstrate how you would react. I know it's early and it's summer, so don't wait for everybody if there are people missing from your group."

"And when you're done with that, come back and we will play with triangular bandages. They're useful, they're compact, and they make a really decent bikini if you're desperate."

[OOC: OCD is up. Play. The scenarios are like life-size dioramas; you can interact with them, but the people are just computer-generated models. Mod them as necessary.]

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Team C, Scenario 3

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

Scenario:There is a beach full of people who are rapidly becoming extremely and obviously sunburned, and who all appear deeply asleep. Some of them are also being nibbled on by a herd of angry badgers; others are almost underwater due to the rising tide.

Also, your nose itches.

Team:Z Delgado
Shawn Farrell
Briar Moss
Peter Pevensie
Seras Victoria

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I'm not entirely sure these people deserve to be saved if they don't wake up when hungry badgers are trying to eat them," Peter said with a frown. "It's called self-preservation yo. I suppose there might be an alarm bell somewhere we could ring to wake them up?"

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

"They may be asleep because of some sickness or drug," said Seras, "In which case they A) Don't deserve to die and B) The alarm won't wake them up. Maybe we should start by splitting into groups. One drags the people out of the water, and the other chases away the badgers?"

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Like something on the beach put them all to sleep?" Peter considered the possibility. "I don't want to sound timid, but badgers can be awfully vicious creatures. Maybe we ring the bell in hopes that it startles some of them and also perhaps calls us other assistance if we end up actually having to chase them off."

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

Overhearing, Elliot held up her rape whistle. "I always carry this," she said. "Borrow it if you want. And it's not a bad idea to try and make some noise. Even if they don't wake up, you've only wasted a few seconds."

She glanced over the beach. "I think teamwork is a good idea on this one, Seras."

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

"Thanks Dr. Reid," said Seras, "Right, so one of us blows the whistle to scare off the badgers while the others start pulling people out've the water. If the badgers don't run, we start trying to scare them off ourselves."

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"I'll pull if you ring," Peter said. "Or Dr Reid has a whistle (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/874764.html?thread=41342988#t41342988) that we could use."

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras nodded.

"Okay."

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Rather tentatively, Peter entered the scenario and began pulling people away from the advancing tide.

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras, for her part, ran into the midst of things, blowing on the rape whistle with all her might.

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Wearing a triangular bandage over his nose and mouth, Peter handed Seras another one. "Briar thinks we shouldn't breathe the air because it might be the cause of the sleepiness."

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[greenmagebriar.livejournal.com]

"Well, can I also point out that if your nose is itching it may be because there is something in the air making everyone asleep? It may be a good idea to somehow filter out the air you are breathing or try, I don't know, not breath."

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter looked at Briar with appreciation. "Good call, that one," he came back out of the scene and grabbed a few triangular bandages. He tied one over his nose and mouth which probably made him look a bit like a bad guy in an old western and handed one to Briar and one to Seras.

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[greenmagebriar.livejournal.com]

Briat tied the bandage around his own face. "Are we allowed to bring in our own um, things into the scenario? Because a *handwave since mun knows nothing about plants* leaf will pretty much wake the dead." His voice might be a little muffled.

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"The professor said to 'demonstrate how you would react' thus, I think your solution would count. Shall we try it?"

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[greenmagebriar.livejournal.com]

Briar shrugged and grabbed his mage's kit. After ruffling around in it for a few minutes he took out two small leaves and handed one to Peter. "Let's try it then." He went into the room.

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"Just wave it under their nose then?" Peter asked, examining the leaf.

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[greenmagebriar.livejournal.com]

"Break it, and yeah, pretty much."

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Watching Briar, Peter broke the leaf and started waving. He figured that if people did wake up, he could try to get them to leave the beach.

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras watched Peter waving the leaf.

"That's going to wake them up?" she asked.

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[blonde-doctor.livejournal.com]

"Peter's right," Elliot said. "But only stuff you're carrying. You can't run to 7-11 in an emergency. Well, usually. Unless the emergency is at 7-11."

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter understood perhaps a third of what Elliot said so he nodded to her and took the leaf Briar had pulled out of his mage's kit.

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[greenmagebriar.livejournal.com]

Briar shrugged. "My mage's kit is always with me."

Re: Team C, Scenario 3

[multiplez]

Z frowned. "We need to get them out of the sun. They could be getting sun poisoning. Or skin cancer."