DONATIONS WANTED

[dissent]

Do you enjoy feeling good about yourself? Knowing you've done a good deed? How about helping those in need in the community? We're only as strong as our weakest link, after all, and right now a lot of people are feeling quite weak.

I know everything's still a bit of a mess, but in the wake of a huge influx of people needing medical help, the free clinic's resources are at an all time low.

What we need:
- Man power. Cleaners, administration, anyone with medical experience who isn't already working.
- Blood donors.
- Herbs, citrus, coffee.
- Bandages. Any spare cloth will do.
- Paper.
- Cleaning products, especially laundry powder.
- Salt, to make saline solution.
- Clear, thin tubes.
- Metal braces.
- Anything we can trade on in order to purchase rarer items such as medicines.
- More hours in day.

If you have items in bulk or with great value and would prefer to offer a discount or a payment plan rather than a donation we should still talk.

Comments

[dissent]

If nothing else you can check people in and write charts. Do you know where to find me?

[dissent]

Glad to hear it.

If you drop by the clinic I can compensate you. Make sure you've eaten if you want to give blood, though.

[milagros]

Don't worry, I know the drill. I was an MD in another life.

( among other things. )

[dissent]

MD?

[milagros]

( right, he's from the same place as "step on what". )

I was a doctor.

[dissent]

[ Anders has at least learned what that is, even if it had never had a title in his world and healer had been such a varied and unstructured role. ]

You probably know more about it all than I do, then.

[milagros]

You'll still pull ahead of me in bedside manner.

( mila having never been obliged to develop one, and not inclined to do so without obligation. )

[mightyfallen]

Dear God, not a sign. You'll make my colleagues jealous.

[ campaigning for votes is so quaint: a testimonial by your favorite future absolute monarch. ]

And to whom do I owe my future gratitude then?

[blind]

I can handle bandages and stitches. Or I could.

No. If you wouldn't mind giving me directions, I'll try to come by tomorrow.

[dissent]

So long as there's one blank side, it shouldn't.

[dissent]

What can I say, I'm a people person.

[dissent]

[ we're gonna pretend there's directions here okay ]

[blind]

[ thank you for these detailed directions anders ]

Thank you. I'll come by tomorrow. Midday, if you'll be available.

[dissent]

Me? I'm Anders. And I'm fairly sure I'm the one that should be grateful, if you're really able to help.

Are you on the Council?

[dissent]

I should be. Though I might be busy. There's a complete bloody backlog of things people want me to look at.

[dogbane]

All right.

Is it for records and things then, or is there some traditional paper medicine?

[He's not even being sarcastic.

He remembers Anders going on about sword fights and horses and things. How would he know.]

[milagros]

The miniature versions are all right. I struggle when they become tall enough to think they have opinions.

[blind]

Are you the most qualified?

[dissent]

Probably not. But I'm in charge. Somehow.

[dissent]

Do you mean children or dwarves?

[milagros]

( there's a delay as mila wraps her head around that question. if she weren't trying to be friendly, the answer would probably be some mila-esque version of 'fuck off, why would I mean dwarves'. )

Assuming you're specifically referring to dwarves and not dwarfs, I assume that if they were real, they'd also have children that start out smaller and reach an adult height and that I would react to them much the same way.

[dissent]

I don't think there's actually any such thing as paper medicine, William.

[dissent]

Yes, sorry, I meant the race. Short, hairy, caste system. Prefer the underground, unlike the rest of us who don't have much of a choice. Though everyone's human in Zion, I believe.

[milagros]

That's right, yes.

( disconcerting, but true. it is a rare day that anyone ever hears mila ever thought anything different. )

[boffing]

Oh.

Sorry I mean you're very good with plants