Setting
Our aim is to provide a tailored and comprehensive medical care of an award winning standard free of charge to everyone within the Multiverse. In partnership with The O'Connar Fund For Emergency Care, it is our promise is to offer fast, high quality treatment to anyone in need of it.
We are a large city hospital, with over 1000 beds occupied at any given time, and our staff is trained in all the eccentricities of Wing City's population. Need a wizard to fix your ailments, rather than a surgeon? The hospital can provide. Need a doctor who can deal with your powers exploding left right and centre while they fix your gaping wounds? No problem. Our staff are all highly trained to deal with the problems faced by genuine Wing City residents. No power is too powerful for us to deal with, and no race is too obscure; we offer a wide range of powered doctors, and our xenobiology department works day and night to meet your non-human needs.
Our staff is well versed in the more dangerous side of life in Wing City, despite the hospital and grounds being declared a demilitarised zone. We warn those who would cause this organisation harm that our staff are all highly trained, and acts of wanton violence against staff, patients or trust property will be dealt with severely.
You have now arrived in the hospital itself; please feel free to check in at the front desk, where you will be pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, look around and see if you can spot the department you need.
Feel free to use NPC Staff:
Nurses: Julia Farthing, Charge Nurse John Brown, Sister Isa Ling.
Pharmacists: Rob Miko and Jenny Sing.
Physio and Occupational therapists: Tora Laue, Jesetta Carmichal, Toby Forello.
Mental Health Professionals: Maximums Senningate, Rebecca White.
Health Care Assistants and Orderlies: Tim Roe, Harriet Roaring, Kelly South, Anita Talanta.
Porters: Nick West, Arron Viking, Kieran Lon.
Cleaning Staff: Charlotte Howley, Jin Ton, Surry Billingate.
Catering Staff: Phil Crowler, Jess Wright, Tommy Gazette.
Security: Mic Field, Tobias Boxing, Larry King, Sarha Farmer.
Emergency Medical Staff: Mecca, Truman Roth, Lilly Hakkat.
Transport Drivers: Freddie Borrow, Harmon Jett, Amy Usell.
An ultra-modern building for the most part, WCH also caters to beings from alternate timelines and continuities of altered or regressed medical technology. They guarantee that there is a ward to suit all patients, no matter where they are from or how dangerous their powers might be. Feel free to write your interaction into the correct ward setting for your character, if such a ward isn't already available.
NPC staff are versatile and there to help; they will step in for any needs that your partner players cannot fulfill. They will also intervene if things become out of hand, dangerous to staff, patients or property, or someone becomes violent.
The building is owned and run by Mr Horatio Castle, who is constantly looking to improve services and make WCH a better, safer place to be treated.
"I-I will think about," Norma said in consideration. She had never thought about arming herself against creatures before because of how she was raised. The woman did not realize that there was more than just people to be wary of or have to defend one's self from. He raised a valid point and it was something to consider in great detail.
"I will think about it for you," the woman said wrapping her arms around his neck even though it tugged on the intravenous line connected to her hand. The pain wasn't anything to worry about in comparison from the comfort she gained from such intimate contact with Kvan. Everything would be alright as long as he did not leave.
"Don't worry too much about it. I just want you to stay safe, that's all. And as long as you're willing, you can stay aboard my ship, since I don't think you have a place to stay. I mean, you've only been here for what, maybe a week and half? Sure, you might have been able to get a home since then, but it didn't seem like you had when I met you." He smiled and did not move away from her as she hung herself about his neck. He enjoyed it, to be honest, though he could still feel the mental storm that was Thor raging in the back of his mind.
He brushed the feeling aside with a flick of his thoughts, not realizing how easy it would be. He imagined himself forcing the thunder and lighting to stay around himself, rather than the spirit of Thor and was pleased to find that, not only did it obey, but the god actually seemed to be pleased with the action.
"I am very glad, Kvan. Thank you so much for being here for me. You don't know how much it means for you to say that and offer your home to me," Norma said tightening her grip around him and then allowing it to loosen after a few seconds.
"You are a very good friend to me," she added before drawing back away from Kvan slightly and showing him a small smile. Norma looked rather pathetic and vulnerable in that moment with the dark circles around her eyes and the dried lines of tears that had run down her face earlier. And yet, through everything, Norma was still able to smile for him.
"Our home, as long as you're there. It may have been mine before now, but since you plan on being there, it's yours as well." He grinned and felt his cheeks grow slightly hot. He was being a fool, he knew it, but he couldn't control the feelings or his words.
Norma's gaze dropped lower on the man's face and she began to lean forward as if moving in slow motion or the world had slowed down. Lips began to part but just before Norma rested them against Kvan's, she stopped. The memory of what happened before when they had attempted such a thing, even in jest, flared in her mind. She did not want him hurt.
Instead, Norma sighed and pursed her lips together and her eyes closed while a sad expression dawned. How it must have felt to want to kiss someone but not be able to unless the other was greatly harmed and ripped away. It was terrible.
And there seemed to be no punishment forthcoming. All seemed sound and well with the god's spirit. Kvan nearly cried out in triumph, only to remember not only where he was, but also who was immediately before him. He grinned slightly more than he already was and then, as she paused, he took control of the situation.
The contact between their lips was brief, no more than a second or two, but his jubilation and relief at the profound lack of sudden pain was evident. He pulled back once more and looked at her, his face slightly flushed and covered in a fool's grin, but otherwise normal.
Norma was almost in denial of what had happened. She blinked several times to make sure that she was awake and when she accepted that, Norma started to look him over. Even her hands grasped at him by the shoulders. Kvan was not hurt and he was still there, sitting on her gurney.
"I-I don't … I don't understand. Why," Norma asked in confusion while her mind attempted to wrap around the facts of what had happened. While Kvan was jubilante, she was even more confused.
"I convinced Thor to let me," he replied, figuring what she was asking was obvious enough. "He'd been angry because I had thought he was knocking me away from women...sorry, from love because of my thoughts. I figured him as nothing more than a stupid and brawny guy, but he's wildly intelligent. I realized it, and he finally accepted me. I'm....I'm in control now." The feeling of certainty that struck him as he said it was odd, and he actually squirmed a bit as Thor simply vanished, melding more fully with Kvan's mind.
"You l-love me," Norma asked while her face went through a myriad of mix emotions. She didn't understand it at all. If Kvan did love her, Norma did not see why or know the logic behind it. She had done nothing for him aside from cause him more trouble than she was worth.
"Kvan, I-I … what?"
"I-I....um...." He couldn't do it. Something inside him was now stopping him from confirming what he'd said, though he knew that he felt exactly as she'd heard. He could feel the last vestiges of Thor laughing gently at him, but it was replaced quite quickly by the tense anxiety of how he could tell her how he felt.
"Please tell me," Norma said while drawing her hand up again and placing it on his cheek so that he would look at her again. "If you love me, then tell me. I just want to know the truth because I don't understand what love is," she admitted wholly," I've never felt it before."
"I do. I do love you, Norma. At first, I thought it was something else, due to the fact that you can make yourself look exactly like Aria, the last woman who held my heart. I have been with women since her, but none of them have had such an effect on me, either because I wouldn't let them, or because I was not in the right mindset to feel anything beyond the most base of emotions. However, I realized , as you stepped off my airship to find Phasma, that I hated not being around you."
"Maybe … Maybe I can love you too," she said in a small voice, almost drifting off to sleep.
"… one day."
She was rushed to the emergency room at first, but she was removed early upon the discovery of her blackout. She was now laying down on a hospital bed in one of the many rooms, an IV in her wrist. Her stomach had begun to eat itself because of severe malnutrition. In other words, she had not been eating. At all. She was severely dehydrated, as well.
On the bed, Ariel was pale, skinny. She looked like a corpse. She almost was one.
Jack slid down a stair, as the elevator was busy and started to walk with the rushing trolly. He snapped his fingers above Ariel's face. "Wake up, I told you to come earlier, oh why, oh why do people always ignore the medical professionals? Is it because we all have god complexes, fuck if I know." One of the nurses brought up her finger in shock as the Doctor swore. "Oh come on, not like my boss is watching." "So?!"
"Ugh..." she mumbled, trying to steady herself. She looked around. A hospital room. A hospital room...a hospital room...
Did...she finally wake up? She looked to Jack and the nurse. Her eyes widened. "I'm...did I actually go into a..." she trailed off, laying back into her bed. She looked at the IV with a bit of distaste and horror.
"Did I...just wake up? That crazy place I was in really was a dream, wasn't it? Wing City? This is the real wold now, right?" She wiped her eyes with her sleeve and focused on Jack.
"...wait. You were..."
She wasn't really awake, was she? "I'm still in the coma dream." she said, hand clapping over her mouth. She was not out of Wing City, was she? What kind of nightmare would have her get knocked out because of under eating...
"Listen, if I'm still in the dream, I think I can just go. Um, if I can..." She fiddled with the IV, wincing as she did, "...just get this off...and leave...and your fifty bucks are in my pocket, I swear. I didn't even spend it. It's yours, you can have it."
"I'm completely fine! I'm just...dehydrated..." she mumbled, laying back on the bed. She really did feel horrible. Her stomach rumbled, pained her, and her vision swam.
"Wait...you...morphine?"
"After this, I swear to god, I am going to force you to eat hospital food."
And there it was. All the control she thought she had, the smallest control she'd ever had, that sliver, gone. She stopped fidgeting, glaring poisonously at Jack.
This couldn't get any worse...
"Wow. You didn't seem like this much of a kinky bastard when we were in bed together, you know. I never took you for the type to like being all strapped down."
Savvas would've danced with glee if he weren't worried about upsetting the fruit basket or dropping his balloon.
"So... I talked to one of the nurses. Apparently you've been a very bad person, Caleb. Tut, tut, tut. And here I thought that you were just pure kindness enveloped in a ball of cotton. My mistake."
He was completely helpless to Savvas. "I'm not into you." He managed to get out. "Now leave."