(no subject)

[atrophied]

[ sitting in the clinic, his feet up on the desk, house sounds almost bored. ]

For all the relative ease of magic, it really took a toll. Quills. Robes. Owls. An entire society stuck in the 1500s while the rest of the world marched on without it. So much for thinking themselves better.

[ a pause while he glances down at the highly, highly sedated form of one allen walker on the floor. ]

Nurse! Clean-up aisle three!

Comments

[save_the_souls]

[you are the worst boss ever]

[Also have a body on the ground, completely out. Hopefully you guys move him to a bed eventually]

[atrophied]

[ a chart is helpfully taped to the headboard when he wakes. ]

AUGUST 14	AUGUST 15	AUGUST 16	AUGUST 17	AUGUST 18	AUGUST 19	AUGUST 20
1:34 pm Napping on the job after walking into a needle. Girl saw you naked and copped a feel. 1:35 pm Probably. 1:44 pm Still sleeping. 4:02 pm Checked you're alive. And I'm without coffee.	10:03 am still napping on the job. 10:04 am no coffee. 10:06 am no coffee. 10:07 am no coffee. 10:09 am where is my coffee. 10:13 am Walker, you're fired. 11:27 am When I come back, I expect my coffee on my desk. 11:27 am Searing hot. 11:28 am Black. 11:28 am Three Equals. 1:06 pm Where is my coffee.	10:15 am Get my coffee. 10:26 am Slashed your pay in half for sleeping on the job. 10:39 pm I'm still without coffee. 2:54 pm Dressed like a drag queen in the clinic. Unprofessional behavior. Gonna have to dock your pay further.	12:34 pm You offended several women and one man with sign claiming "you can help me heal: rub here" and an arrow pointing to groin. 2:33 pm Cake in the kitchen. Offered to get you some, but you didn't answer. 3:03 pm The cake is a lie. 3:04 pm Everything is a lie. 3:06 pm Except the coma. That's real.	9:22 am not dead yet. 3:03 pm You look awful as a blond. Never dye your hair again.	9:43 am reflexes working. smacked yourself in the face. 12:36 pm asked you for money. you didn't say no. borrowed 600 caisos. 12:39 pm add another zero to that number.	9:00 am still no coffee.

[assassino]

I was not terribly upset by the lapse in technology and science... in fact, it was not unlike home! But with magic, of course.

[atrophied]

And here I thought Florence was a magical city. How disappointing.

[assassino]

Only if you are visiting the best brothels!

[atrophied]

And you could be the tour guide?

[assassino]

I could! I even know the best madam.

Action (if that is okay????)

[cyan_maid]

[Comically on cue, the clinic door opens.]

Hello? I'm here to help out today-

[Oooh that's a body on the floor.]

Holy moley!!!

[atrophied]

[ okay. ]

Scrub up. Pick him up. Put him on a bed.

[cyan_maid]

[She pauses for a moment, just to take a breath.] Y-Yessir!

[She starts to scrub up, and when she's nearly got soapy water up to her elbows, she asks,] Do you, er, know what happened to him? Did he just fall over?

[atrophied]

Yes. Now hurry up. Let's move, let's move, he could have a concussion while you're wasting time!

[ doesn't. house already checked. ]

[cyan_maid]

[Aaaaah yes yes yes, Jane's going double time now! When she's dry she immediately goes to Allan and kneels down, carefully and quickly taking him into her arms. He doesn't look exceptionally heavy, but she doesn't lift him without effort either, and once Jane's up she starts for the nearest bed.]

D-Do we know a cause?

action.... also keywords

[savethedarkness]

[one Olivia Mansfield, here known as Emma, bustles in to help with the filing, as she's done for Allen and Martel on a somewhat regular basis. she comes in just in time to catch House's dictation, and nods]

In retrospect, I can hardly say I was a fan, either. [... and then she looks over]

Bloody hell, what's happened to him now?

[atrophied]

Teenagers and needles.

[ you know how it goes. ]

[savethedarkness]

[she gives him a level look, as Allen has never seemed the type] I don't suppose the castle could have had a hand in it as well?

[atrophied]

We'll know in a few hours if he doesn't wake up.

[savethedarkness]

True enough. ... [she looks him over - one of the few she's seen paperwork from, but never met] And you're Dr. House, I presume. I'm Emma. It's good to finally put a face to the name.

Dictated forever

[whichwayyoulean]

You forgot the potentially dangerous potions given to minors. Because that screams 'smart'.

[atrophied]

We give chemicals to high schoolers so I can't really judge there.

[whichwayyoulean]

...Okay, point. But at least they're not asked to ingest aforementioned chemicals.

[atrophied]

You never had to make rock candy?

[whichwayyoulean]

What the heck is rock candy?

dictated;

[lord_wizard]

I believe that was the whole point. Isolation in order to escape persecution and conflict.

[atrophied]

And it worked so well. No persecution and no conflict to be seen for miles around.

[lord_wizard]

The difference here is the source of said persecution. Their world isn't unique in the aspect that people of a magical lineage face that sort of problem from the rest of the populace, though they are the first I've heard of that removed themselves from it entirely by choice.