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.
A recruitment drive was still very much in session, though the quiet in and out of potential employees had died away along with the trickle of patients. The halls seemed bare save for the odd cleaner and porter, absorbed in their own tasks and thinking of their dinner break.
In a quiet nook just off of the main entrance, a pale, gaunt looking man was reading quietly, settled on a comfortable chair. Beside him, partially folded, was a sleek, expensive looking wheelchair.
Still, here he was, freshly showered (albeit still in a pair of green scrubs - he didn't think that the pair of three-quarter joggers and t-shirt would've been as appreciated in this situation) and eager despite the overlong shift he'd just finished.
"Wow..." His own lab wasn't exactly ancient, but this hospital was something else entirely. It was either that or he was just too damn excited. Probably a mixture of both. Iante's eyes took in the various doorways and the odd staff member as he strayed further into the hospital, before pausing at the sight of a man sitting beside his wheelchair.
"Sorry," he opened with, voice lowered as if expecting the hospital to be brimming with sick people who required rest already, "but... you wouldn't happen to know your way around, would you?"
When Iante spoke, he glanced up, smiling a little at his appearance. The man would have passed as staff, if the WCGH hadn't provided blue and white scrubs rather than the green that he was wearing. No nametag and no clue where he was going; this was likely a late candidate for the interviews.
"Where are you heading?" he asked, shifting himself from chair to wheelchair in a move that spoke of long experience; he moved stiffly, but he was more than capable of getting himself from A to B. "I know this place like the back of my hand my now."
Brilliant first impression - turning up late, having to ask random patients or members of staff where to go. "I'm Iante. Thanks for helping me."
"Tio. It's nice to meet you, Iante. And I'm pretty sure I can help you find out where you're supposed to be going. What job are you hoping to get, if you don't mind me asking?"
"Is it always this quiet?"
"Set-up has been slow in this part of the world, unfortunately. The general has only really been open to the public for a couple of days, and given the attitude of people in these parts, well, I'm sure you're aware." He shook his head, chuckled dryly, and began to roll himself down the hall.
"There's no need to be embarrassed, you know; there's nothing wrong with wanting a leg into a hospital setting, and this place happens to be a particularly good one. I certainly think I can point you in the right direction."
He moved slowly, making sure that Iante was following and able to keep pace with him comfortably. "At the moment, the hospital is hiring across the board, amping up public awareness and the like; you've picked a good time to apply."
"If you don't mind me asking... why are you here?"
Horatio shook his head in fond-ish amusement, still rolling quietly along the halls. What staff there were seemed to be staying out of the way of them, unconcerned by their passing, however, one man in a wheelchair and a scrubs-wearing escort was rather common in such a setting.
"Oh, but I'm running on at the mouth again, aren't I? So, why am I here... hard question to answer, really. Five Whys," There was a medical joke there; Horatio's eyes glittered. "Why am I here-" He gave his left wheel a little tap. "I'm here because walking is awkward and tiring; it's been a long day. Why has it been a long day? Because the hospital is in the process of opening to the public. Why does that apply to me? Because I am Horatio Castle."
He winked. "And why does that apply to you? Well." He came to a stop outside of his office. "It applies to you because you've passed the preliminary interview, and I'd like to know more. Did you bring a CV?"
Iante's face slowly but surely lost the smile and drained of colour.
"You - you're... Right." Okay. Breathe. Iante steeled himself and gestured to the door. "D'you want me to get that? I've got a CV, a letter from my high school and a letter from my current medical supervisor."
Right into it, then. He wondered if every other interviewee got this experience.
"There's a crutch on the desk, if you don't mind handing it over, and in case you're wondering no, you're not the only one who got a little surprise when arriving today. But I have to say you're handling it better than some."
Horatio winked, putting the breaks on his chair and getting himself in a position to lever up to standing. "I'm afraid I'm not at my most elegant at this time of the evening, but as a prospective member of staff, I'm sure you can handle a bit of inelegance."
"I was wondering," he admitted, figuring that honesty was the best policy. "I'm not sure how you could handle it badly, though. Unless someone started crying or panicking. Or they were rude to you before they realised who you were..."
Great medical terminology there.
He was as good humoured as ever as he resettled in his desk chair, somehow managing to avoid looking vastly more intimidating despite the change in setting. "So, you seem like a down to earth sort of person, Iante, and you're not phased by what I've thrown at you so far; that's good. This is Wing City, and trust me when I say a job here will be interesting."
Long fingers worked their way across a very modern looking computer pad, eyes flicking back and forth for a moment before he leaned back in his chair to view Iante with a grin. "Take a seat; make yourself comfortable, and you'd be surprised how much of a hash someone can make of a situation when a wheelchair is involved."
Smiling internally, Horatio didn't mention that it was one of his greatest weapons when following through on some of his less above board endeavours. Some things were better left for his own private entertainment.
Bomb threats and murder investigations were quite usual in his line of work, so it wasn't as if he was easily thrown.
"I guess some people just aren't used to seeing a person past what they're sitting in?" His grandmother had soon worked that out of him, that was for sure. "Do you want the CV and the letters right now?"
Tapping his finger lightly across his desk, Horatio flicked up a new window on his computer. "As much information as you'd like to tell me, and don't worry; I'm here to learn, not to judge you."
"I've wanted to be a doctor since I was a kid. I'll admit that I wanted to be a policeman first, but then we had this careers day at school and this brilliant doctor came in to tell us all about her work in the ER at our local hospital. I've been pretty determined ever since - clearly determination doesn't get you everywhere, though, and I'm gonna be honest and say that I didn't do that well at school. I'm an assistant autopsy technician and a medic with the Wing City Police Department, specifcally the Special Investigations Branch. The doctor I work under wrote a letter..."
"So, why do you think you didn't do very well in school?" He held up a hand before Iante could speak. "And this isn't a trick question; I'm honestly curious. If you want to make it as a doctor, one of the first things you need to be able to do is examine your own performance. Also, if you want to pass the relevant tests, we need to work out where things went wrong in the past."
"I --" He paused as Horatio held up his hand. "I'm not... It could've been a couple of things. I didn't like school much and my home-life wasn't exactly pleasant - not that I'm trying to use that as an excuse or anything. I love my parents and my Mum tried to help me out as much as she could. I just didn't handle my problems very well and only really pulled myself together in my fifth year. I got most of my grades then. After that, I snapped a bit and left home to go live with an older friend of mine. I had to leave my school and since I wanted to help my friend, I got a job in a hospital as a health care assistant. I was going to take the exams whilst I worked there, but then I managed to get into the SIB with my friend's help and since then I've been training as a pathology technician specialising in criminal forensics."
"Care to take on a little roleplaying, Vince?"
Her lips quirked into an amused smile, but her eyes were dark with the seriousness surrounding the situation.
"Ready, concerned sister of Sana?"
As they walked and stuck close, their shoulders brushing, Vince lead them to the counter, looking at the woman there. "I'm sorry. We're here to see a patient. Family. Where is room 302 located?" he asked her.