To: Everyone

[speak_n_spell]

For those who identify as human: what's the worst injury you've survived?

I'm not just asking to be nosy - with everyone coming from different realities, I've been wondering if my understanding of Things A Human Can And Cannot Do is accurate? What if we're all operating from different baselines? It could be helpful to know before we get one another into trouble!

Comments

[itookashot]

Oh I assumed I was going to shoot someone else and then try to heal them. I'm far too precious a life to risk.

(I'm joking.)

(Mostly.)

No my bullets are quite small compared to what you're talking about, I can show you. They might take out part of a skull, but not likely to blow apart anything more massive. The most gruesome shot I take that isn't meant to kill would be kneecaps, those are very bloody. And very satisfying depending on how much they deserve it.

[speak_n_spell]

Oh you can heal OTHER people? We can absolutely try that! But might I propose a knife or a solid punch to the arm instead of a gun. Not that I'm doubting your skill or the finesse of your weapon, but let's start small and work up to flesh wounds.

I've found kicks to the kneecaps very satisfying, I can only imagine the next level.

[itookashot]

I genuinely have no idea. My mother was able to pull poison out of people's blood, so I know there's a healing component, but I've never tried. Might as well.

[ His mother died doing that, not that he's going to say as much. ]

My question is if there are only humans that live in this world? I haven't seen anyone else.

[speak_n_spell]

That's fascinating. We can start small, say more the scale of a papercut or a hangnail for starters.

...oh. Oh that's an excellent point. There seems to be a certain amount of monstrous wildlife, but nothing I'd consider sentient.

[itookashot]

During the Peace Summit, the only non-human-looking folks I saw were in the Summoned. BUT I don't know if they've reacted super negatively to our non-humans? Did they panic when they saw them? Because if not, maybe there are people here, they're just not hanging out in our cities and such.

[speak_n_spell]

I came through the pool at the Outpost around the same time as Goro, and I never saw anyone there behaving any more panicked around him than the rest of us. But the military personnel may have been briefed to expect the unexpected.

[itookashot]

Civilians here don't seem to mind him, far as I can tell, he's made friends and the like. I'd be very curious to know if there are clans of non-humans on the outskirts or maybe they even have their own place somewhere!