video | un: Mercy

[valcurie]

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. )

Comments

[melodiouspacifist]

I think it's totally different, yeah. This storm is just weird. It's not like the darkness, and I'm betting it destroyed all of my pathways too. [If the dark corridors are gone, he really can't get back and it's a completely different matter.]

That's really too bad for them, that's the best part. I've been to lots of worlds!

[valcurie]

Your pathways? What's so special about them, out everything on these destroyed planets? ( is he like especially fond of his stone-laying work or something? she figures there might be something else here, something like magic. )

And you're lucky. What's one memorable thing you've seen?

[melodiouspacifist]

[Her instincts are completely correct.]

They allow for teleporting and moving between worlds. I could get home from here if they weren't destroyed somehow.

[He smiled.]

Singing fish in Atlantica. [Always gonna be his answer.]

[valcurie]

And I'm assuming you've already tried to do so? Could you remake these paths if those places weren't destroyed?

...Singing fish? Like a choir?

[melodiouspacifist]

There don't seem to be any around here, but that might change, but the route to other worlds seems to be completely cut off. [He looks thoughtful.] I...maybe? I'm not sure. They seemed to just exist.

[He grins brightly.] Like a choir! With shell instruments.