Washing your hands with fairly strong alcohol between each patient, wearing masks over your mouth and nose, and scrubbing clothes worn in the sick room with lye.
[ a beat. ]
I suppose wearing socks is wise as well. [ obviously ] If you're familiar with any of this, I apologize for taking up your time.
Our best interests — to which he's unwilling to sign his name, and has apparently sworn you to secrecy.
[ he sounds exactly as skeptical as you'd think. takes it (and his eyebrows) down a notch, to continue: ]
I'm not wholly opposed. Masks seem a basic precaution, [ miasma! ] And we've funds for bucking the wash when this is done. But if you go into Kirkwall today, you will hear half a dozen folk remedies, and any as plausible.
Those which we choose to employ are a gamble not of coin, but of the trust placed in us. If you're told to carry a rabbit's foot, and you still take with fever, will you listen when told not to go out?
-- that they're not his, that seniority doesn't mean that anyone will listen to him, is beside the point. the point by now is mostly 'being difficult', with a side of knowing who to blame should some moron light their own alcohol-soaked hands on fire.
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Washing your hands with fairly strong alcohol between each patient, wearing masks over your mouth and nose, and scrubbing clothes worn in the sick room with lye.
[ a beat. ]
I suppose wearing socks is wise as well. [ obviously ] If you're familiar with any of this, I apologize for taking up your time.
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And none of these suggestions cause harm. At worst, it's just a waste of some strong alcohol.
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[ he sounds exactly as skeptical as you'd think. takes it (and his eyebrows) down a notch, to continue: ]
I'm not wholly opposed. Masks seem a basic precaution, [ miasma! ] And we've funds for bucking the wash when this is done. But if you go into Kirkwall today, you will hear half a dozen folk remedies, and any as plausible.
Those which we choose to employ are a gamble not of coin, but of the trust placed in us. If you're told to carry a rabbit's foot, and you still take with fever, will you listen when told not to go out?
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[ unsure whether or not outing tony would be helpful or not. ]
Who's to know if your healers are washing their hands with water or strong liquor, so long as it's done discreetly?
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[ seriously, who.
-- that they're not his, that seniority doesn't mean that anyone will listen to him, is beside the point. the point by now is mostly 'being difficult', with a side of knowing who to blame should some moron light their own alcohol-soaked hands on fire.
which he has definitely never done, thank you. ]
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I'd assume they could be discreet if their patients and their own well-being were the topic at hand.
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[ warden. ]
Give me a name, and I'll sign mine off on it.
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[ ilias must not be in the room ]
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[ looks directly at sawbones ]
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[ 'local mage forcibly detains chantry sister' yeah that'd go over great ]
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Complete with threats to feed them to the Speaker's mount?
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[ or embarrassing?? what is that horse ]
Thank you, for the consideration.