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So I've been here for... let's face it, it's been too long already, and my hopes for my old London lifestyle cropping up here are finally waning thin, so I thought that I should put my other skills to use.

I think I'm going to set up a surgery here in New Moore. A private business who won't be in the pockets of those who brought us here, whom none of us seem to trust anyway. And why should we? For all we know, we've all been kidnapped and drugged, so it's about time that one of us, with our best interests at heart, did something about it and set up a safe place for us "fictionals" to come and receive medical attention.

Unfortunately, at this stage, it's still only an idea, so I will need assistance. Should I start this practice, I naturally cannot be the only physician available, so I'm reaching out to you, to hopefully begin some sort of network of doctors and physicians. Is there anyone among us who might be interested in joining me?

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And you've our best interests, 'ave you?

Certainly more than anyone at the hospital you arrived at, surely.

I just want to help people. That's all.

You might be paintin a target on your back, steppin out like this. Seems to me like those with malicious intent have a particular tendency toward breakin the backs of men like you.

Edited 2013-01-04 07:28 (UTC)

Is that a threat?

What? No.

You're stickin your neck out, is all I'm sayin.

I respect that. Good on you. If I had a skill worth braggin about I'd try to do the same.

It's not exactly about bragging. More like... extending skills and services.

I can heal with magic. I'm not an expert, but it can save lives in emergencies.

[ooc: ...and kind of limiting it from canon due to roleplaying reasons of players not wanting IC consequences magically resolved for their muses.]

Having someone on call for emergencies might be nice but...

I'm sorry, did you say magic?

Yes, I'm a wizard.

Do you need proof?

I don't really have much time for games, I'll have you know.

...I can't believe I'm doing this.

Did you read Harry Potter?

Sorry, no. Heard about it, though. Kids are mad about it.

Why do you ask?

Just trying to think of a way to convince you...

How could one convince you of being a wizard? Without scaring you out of your wits, preferably.

Getting hired by them has so far been them leaving me to my own devices but you do have an amazingly good point.

I thought about applying to the hospital, but I've got a bad habit of looking at things a little more closely and... something about it just doesn't sit right with me, and I can't rightfully go along with that with a feeling like this holding me back.

Looking at things closely is a good habit to have. It's all very understandable to avoid the place.
I like the possibility of being included in knowing how they work, myself.

I have come to a startling revelation, Watson. Would you like to hear it?

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What's that?

You are, indeed, a man.
Quite perplexing. I would further wonder, then, if somewhere I happen to be a woman.

I'm sorry, are you insulting me?

Does your gender not suit you? There are surgeries for that.

No, my gender suits me just
fine. Which is why I may
have to punch you for calling
me a woman.

And risk the health of your hands? That would be a shame, Watson.

If it's better suits you, my own Watson was much a woman.
Adequately so, at that.

I've done much more that
would risk my health than
that, I assure you.

I'm sorry I don't really
know what you mean by
"adequately" a woman.

[ He is so amused. Sherlock, stop being an twat. ]

I would hope.
You, a Watson.

How was I unclear?

Well, I don't really
think that one's gender
identity is something
that needs to be earned
or is a status of some
kind.

Certainly it is.
One can be a simple man or a simple woman
but completely inadequate to the customs of their being.

Whereas Watson, mine that is, exhibits great success in all the customs of atypical women. Not to say we are confined to these, I'll mind.

But as a woman, I may even compliment her to add perhaps more-than-adequate. When she's not prattling about.

Interesting. I can't
believe I'm asking
this, but what sort of
relationship do you two
have, exactly?

A positively sobering one.

What is your practice, doctor?
This whole not seeing people thing confines me, you'll understand.

Medicine, naturally. I
served as an army doctor
for many years until I was
forced into an early
retirement by a battlefield
injury. I used to play
surgeon, but I assure you
that I am more than
adequately a physician as
well.

[[ooc: I see what you did there]]

[ Naturally. A military background. Oh, now that IS interesting. His Watson had no such thing, but she still had nerves and her lust for perplexing work was indeed growing. He would almost attribute her desire to employ herself with another as stubbornness. ]

I have no doubts about you, Watson.

In fact, I am more than confident in your endeavor you shared with us today.

But I have a small inquiry.

[[ooc: uhuhu ]]

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Well, I thank you for the vote of confidence.

[ There's a pause. ]

You have a question? About what?

[ You're a bit more easy than his Watson. This entertains him a little. ]

Indeed.

This theory of yours. Drugged or kidnapped.
Precisely how serious are you about it?

Well it has to be kidnapping, hasn't it? I mean, there are instances where we've clearly been drugged, but to actually have those moments stand out among the every day...? What I mean is that our natural state of mind hasn't been altered. Not often, anyway.

Why do you ask?

I'm testing your mental capability as a Watson. [ And we're back to blunt. ]

...And did I pass?

It was sufficient.

Tell me what you have observed about New Moore. Have you found a way to identify it is, in fact, the drowned island?

It's a strange place with a lot of strange people and strange things that happen in it. No one knows why, no one explains why, and no one seems to care.

Aside from rumours and the occasional whisper, it's difficult to find any evidence that all of this was underwater until just a few years ago. If anything, the nature of the things that happen here might instead suggest that the island appeared here just as we have. People and objects find their way through on occasion, so why not landmasses?

You're jumping to theories too soon, I'd say. What are the facts? We mustn't make theories without facts.

Have you gone to the shore? Have you observed your surrounding, Mr. Watson. It's quite clear, after observation, this is not the same New Moore at all.

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I think it's a brilliant idea!

My doctorate's a little rusty, though. That one, at least.

You're a medical professional?

Well. Got my MD at the University of Edinburgh.

1881.

Still, I've done my fair share of patching up since then!

And I've still got a stethoscope!

After all, it's not like human beings have flopped their insides around very much in the last century and a third, have they?

As a recent patient of yours, I can vouch for your skills and your goodwill, should you need it.

Thank you, I'm sure it will come in handy

Of course. It's the least I could do.

Fantastic idea! Don't know why no one's thought of it before!

If you need help, let me know. I'm the Doctor!

Thank you. Any help getting this thing off the ground might be good to have.

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now that I'm not half a minute from leaving, have a proper tag from the airport! Rush makes me dumb.

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