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Hello there! ( the image that appears is of a smiling blonde woman, healthy and bright looking, dressed now in pristine weight to present herself, projecting poise and elegance and friendly invitation to hear her out. her German Swiss accent is quite strong, though, so hopefully no-one is overly attached to their w's. ) I hope everyone is doing well this evening. I am coming onto the network to reach out to anyone I might not have been able to yet. My name is Angela Ziegler, and I am a doctor from Earth. Human, as you can see. ( a light, pleasant laugh and an even more pleasant smile ) You may also know me as Mercy. It's my agent name from when I was in service to a global peacekeeping organisation known as Overwatch.

I'm from the 21st century, so the treatment that I can offer you is science based ( a slight pause here as if she's considering one last time how to phrase this ) rather than magic based, but I have a good deal of practical experience with general medicine so there's almost nothing I haven't seen or dealt with. My expertise is in applied biotics, and I also have experience with gene therapy, prosthetics, and cybernetics, if there is anyone here who may need more specialised care. My qualifications also include emergency and trauma response so, if you ever find yourself wounded and in need of immediate attention, please do not hesitate to contact me. Think of me as personal 999 for refugees!

If you do come to me for any kind of care, I promise to do the best I can help you, while upholding all the oaths I've taken as a doctor to do no harm and to protect my patients. I'm not charging anything at this time.

And, if you'd like to humour me and help me to understand our group a bit better, I have a set of questions: do you believe you have a soul? What makes you think you do or don't have one? And is such a belief common where you're from? ( she doesn't mention religion, because it isn't strictly speaking a religious idea. she's known plenty of atheists and nay-theists who thought there was something beyond intelligence that made people paramount to other species. whether they called this unique internal animating light a soul or not, it didn't really matter. )

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Ah, then it sounds like we ended up taking the same kind.

Mmm...I think there was another one she was giving people, only the negative effects were much more pronounced. From what I understand, it's a neurotoxin more potent than nearly anything even chemists could have managed to engineer. In my world, at least.

Waitwaitwait--are you saying the medicine she gives everyone is a neurotoxin??

[ w h a t

No seriously back the heck there for a moment Mercy and walk him through this. Did he drink the potion equivalent of licking a from?? or that one tiny blue octopus? ]

( even if she can't be seen, she still raises her hands. )

I didn't mean to alarm you. I can't be sure, until I have the necessary data. I've only overheard one account in passing, and the way it was described, I think there is something in her potions which would be extremely lethal in higher doses.

However, they are also effective, so if I could study them in a lab...well. I think there's a chance at making some real medicine.

What you mean like cold medicine and stuff like that? I think these guys use magic or herbs for that stuff.

[ And from his tone of voice he's obviously of the opinion that this is a very hippy-like alternative methods as far as he's concerned. It's cool sure, but the future had giant red hypodermic needles that fixed your body for you.

Herbs and tea are for Maliwan execs. Not Hyperion folk. ]

( and Mercy's invented something that's basically like a magic panacea. her own tone reflects much the same sentiments: homeopathy has never impressed her. it's just that here, the danger it prevents is immediate, rather than hidden, in the sense that the harm it does has more to do with the actual help being refused when one chooses herbs over carefully engineered medicine. )

It's an effective treatment, but I think they could do better. There's no reason to accept brutal side effects when we might be able to do better.

My vow to do no harm, that is important to me.

Oh...you guys have vows and stuff? Like what?

[ Rhys is woefully uninformed when it comes to these matters due to the fact that he isn't a doctor, doesn't actually know anyone who is...and both available ones on Pandora and Elpis happened to either be crazy or not have a medical licence or both. ]

...Don't doctors have some kind of oath they take in Pandora? I don't imagine they let anyone practise medicine. You can't just trust anyone random person with the ability to write prescriptions.

( clearly, she has no idea. she just gets to learn more and more about the horrendous people who would call her 'colleague'. )

Yoooou would be surprised. I don't think there's actually any kind of "certification" on that planet at all. I'm pretty sure you can just hang up a sign and call yourself a doctor and you'd have as much experience as anyone in general from that place.

[ And that's not just his casually assholish streak coming out either. The one prominent doctor on that planet? Is not actual a real doctor and doesn't have a medical license. ]

Edited 2017-08-18 12:41 (UTC)

Mein Gott, was du beschrieben hast, klingt wie die Hölle auf Erden.

( she's so upset she sets down her device for a moment. ) Have you actually have ever had a basic medical examination? And, honestly, I'm surprised you ever trusted me. Perhaps it was good I didn't lead with the fact I am a doctor? When I say what I am, I am used to that meaning something to people.

Wh...no, look. Come on it's not as bad as it...

[ Actually. ]

...Okay yes it is as bad as it sounds buuuut! But: it's not like I lived on Pandora for most of my life. I actually had a pretty cushy job before it didn't work out, great health plan so long as you didn't die.

[ Since that's technically how the Big Promotions happened at work. Someone wanted your job and they spaced you for it. ]

I'm fine with doctors, seriously. Don't worry about it. How d'you think I wound up with a cybernetic arm?

[ That last bit there is him trying to lightly joke and lift the mood. He didn't expect her to sound so sincerely upset by this. Pandora has always sucked and he figured what little healthcare there was outside of Hypos sucked too. Heck he spent most of his time on Pandora being beaten up, he should know. ]

( congratulations, he's triggered her!! though to be fair it's not his fault that she takes helping people so seriously. he's trying to ease her tensions, she thinks, and that only makes it worse.

so she works on reining herself in immediately. )

Even a butcher-surgeon can remove a limb.

...But, tell me, what do you mean you have not always lived on Pandora? Did you work on a space station or something? Some kind of lunar settlement? ( his world is kind of confusing. )

Edited 2017-08-19 13:02 (UTC)

[ That's an understatement... ]

Yeah, actually. I was back on Eden-5 until I got out of school and started interning for Hyperion. Once the Helios space station was finished out in the borderlands I transferred out there. Worked there for a couple of years until a promotion got stolen out from under me, went to get back at the guy by stealing his deal and...uhh. Long story short it didn't go well.

So yeah I lived on Pandora for a bit but it wasn't, like, a forever thing. Just until I could get Atlas--that's the company I started running before the world ended--back on its feet.

Settling on one planet forever is something you can do, sure, but you don't have to. People hop ship for vacations all the time. Aquator was especially popular among the upper execs.

[ before Rhys accidentally killed most of them. ]

Edited 2017-08-19 13:39 (UTC)

( yeah that's pretty complicated...

at some point she sets her device down and wonders if she shouldn't be writing all this down? )

You were caught trying to get revenge?

And, excuse me for being dense, but I don't understand. If Pandora was such an awful place, why would you base your company there? Were other planets like Aquator too expensive?

Yeah we, uh... Stole ten million dollars to try and grab a deal out from under someone. Only what he was supposed to be buying turned out to be fake and Hyperion doooesn't exactly like it when people steal from them. It all sort of worked out in the end?

But yeah. Pandora's...like probably the worst place in the galaxy to be honest. But it's got Eridium which everyone wants, and more than that it has Vaults. They're like super-secret alien treasure caches guarded by giant monsters. Sucks dealing with them but the stuff inside of them is worth millions.

[ AND Rhys totally hunted one of those bad boys down. Not to brag or anything. ]

( ten million dollars.... has futuristic inflation made that, like, the equivalent of one hundred of hers, or is Rhys actually capable of such grand larceny? maybe she ought to give him another once-over just to be sure next time. even if he's already learnt his lesson. )

It sounds like a bit of dumb luck worked out in your favour. I pray you wouldn't try it again.

( ah, so millions are a lot. ) Did you ever manage to get any Eridium, or any of those loot hoards?

[ hey now... Come on :c He had help! Vaughn was the numbers guy, it only took him a few seconds to abuse his accounting prowess for the greater good. Of him and Vaughn and Yvette. ]

Actually...we did find a Vault, yeah. But get this--the moment we opened it? The universe went and ended and I never actually got to see what was inside the dumb thing. I was totally ripped off by that Storm.

( but who was the mastermind? not the one getting revenge? of course, revenge isn't something she likes to take, so her eyebrows always raise when someone else does. )

I believe they call that a cocktease. Or a cosmic middle finger.

[ Rhys was definitely the mastermind. He was the one who found out about Vasquez buying a Vault Key, and he was the one who came up with the idea to steal the deal with Vaughn and Yvette's help. ]

Yyyyep. Sucks.

[ he wanted his alien treasure?? ]

Well, I hope you get a chance to redeem yourself. Find some worthy treasure here. Becoming a treasure hunter seems like a fitting profession for this world, doesn't it?

( maybe he can mastermind that, too!!! )

From the looks of things, yeah. But I have to admit it's not really the sort of life I've ever pictured myself living? Maybe when I was a kid playing pretend and stuff, but honestly? Running a business has always sort of been my dream. Vault Hunting, finding alien treasure... That's Fiona. I can barely keep myself out of trouble most of the time.

Why not make a business out of it? Ventures like that are costly.

Or are you more interested in providing services to people? There are a lot of types of business.

Well actually... People who can fight and who have magic or really good skills are going to go out on those missions and stuff right? So it's pretty likely they'll be coming back with a bunch of loot. It'd be pretty handy if they had someone who could buy it off them and turn a profit, maybe even supply them with items they'd need.

[ LIKE AN NPC MERCHANT ]

Who knows? Maybe something they bring back will turn out to be valuable enough to turn into a product.

Hm. So you want to become an adventures' broker? I wonder if you could also turn a profit financing those missions as well. Like funding an expedition.

That sounds a bit romantic, don't you think? Funding the dreams and wanderlust of adventurous souls.

I don't know about romantic but from a business standpoint that might not be such a bad idea.

[ One can practically hear the gears inside his head are already starting to turn. ]

I'll have to do a little more canvasing of the market to figure it all out. And...save up a bunch of money. Obviously.

( and thus, the wheel of capitalism turns. )

Now, is that something I could claim royalties for? ( teasing, obviously. )

oh my god that is horrendous, get me my freudian slippers

you heard it here first folks: mercy called rhys a stud EAT YOUR HEART OUT GIO/ABELAS

i hate u so much

u love me

iie you broke my kokoro

puts a piece of tape on it

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