Clinic Mingle/Welcome Back Kate!

[pellameno]

Who: clinic staff, visitors, and guests
What: a mingle!
Where: at the clinic!
When: July 12th
Warnings: maybe some medical/injury chatter? please mark your threads!

It's come to Pell's attention that not everyone at the clinic knows one another, what with the staff building back up, so he wanted to do this anyway... and Kate is back, which makes this seem like the perfect time to host a little get together. So on the 11th, once all the new arrivals are all healed up from their stings and scrapes and things at the clinic are quiet again, staff and regular friends of the clinic get a simple text invitation.

Come meet your fellow clinic staff and our helpers as we celebrate the return of its champion, Kate Galloway.

5pm tomorrow night

And sure enough, the evening of the 12th, it's party time. The door's been propped open invitingly and there's soft music playing off a cell phone. One of the exam tables has been very thoroughly cleaned and set with a tablecloth, and there are beverages and snacks courtesy of Pell and Hannibal. (The food is not people don't worry.)

(( This post is open to all clinic staff, visitors, and guests, or even just anyone who might wander by and be like 'wow what's going on in there'? New helpers always welcome. Come mingle. :3 ))

Comments

[lifetothefullest]

It's definitely a challenge.

[He didn't miss the reaction, so he offers his own response in a dryly joking way to hopefully put her more at ease.]

There's also been something of a learning curve, considering how many people here come from worlds with magic or monsters or whatever else.

[dedikated]

Think your world doesn't have them?

( She's just saying. Humans are well aware of the existence of Superhumans and Creatures back home, but their spheres are so often separate that Kate doesn't know a single human outside of the ones manning the tills at supermarkets and in her apartment building. No one she'd consider a friend. There's probably humans who find superhumans so obscure and out of their sphere of existence that they may as well be fictional to them.

So. It could always be that in some other world, the magic is so well hidden that humans know nothing. )

[lifetothefullest]

At this point, your guess is probably as good as mine.

[Being here, and hearing all of the stories from other people about their worlds having those sorts of things--especially when they're hidden from the general populace--that he's started to get suspicious. There were already some stories and individuals from home that raised questions here and there, and now he really wonders; not only that, but that there's potential is... Hopeful, maybe, or comforting. Both, perhaps.]

But I definitely didn't receive any training for dealing with any of it, if so.

[dedikated]

( She exhales, as if huffing with amusement at the idea. There are plenty of professionals back home who deal with powers and their unique differences but- )

Or how to help people who've come back from the dead. ... Bunch of other things, too. I'm guessing.

[lifetothefullest]

That's... Definitely something.

[He can actually handle the death thing well enough, because the effects are--as far as he can tell, anyway--comparable to other situations he knows how to deal with, but she's right in that there are plenty of other oddities. Psychic abilities? Immortals? People being turned in vampires? What's he supposed to do with any of that?

But he's working on it, at least.]

I would say that at least it gives me something to do, but I'm not actually pleased that so many people here have such serious issues.

[The opposite, actually; he's really concerned about a good portion of the populace.]

[dedikated]

( Yeah. That statement is enough to wipe the traces of amusement from Kate's face. Hadriel's track record with the people it brings in and the things the gods do in the name of energy - all things she could have, did, leave behind, entirely forgotten through whatever magic the Door holds. )

Tryin' to keep people healthy's not easy here.

( Because the people have so much baggage, because Hadriel doesn't let you breathe, because there's fuck all supplies or experienced professionals. Because people leave all the time. )

[lifetothefullest]

Yeah.

[It's hard to say anything that wouldn't be an understatement; this place is a mess, and that's even with only one very serious event occurring so far while Lance has been here. That one alone was enough to give people issues for years, let alone any others they've experienced before and then all the problems they had before even coming to Hadriel.]

But it's incredible what people have set up and managed to do here all the same.

[Like making the Clinic to begin with.]

[dedikated]

( Yeah, she could tell you Stories, Lance. )

Do what we have to, aye?

( She's glad people are trying so hard, even if Hope can revive them. With the guard and the clinic, they're not just dying and coming back again and again. )

Never got to meet th' person who started this. Think he left before I got here last time.

[lifetothefullest]

Yeah.

[People are incredibly adaptable, even in the worst situations. As for her last comment, he's definitely curious--]

Who was that?

[dedikated]

( It does seem to be that way. It's why the whole "you wouldn't understand or be able to do anything" mantra of the gods gets under her skin so much.

As for the founder, she pauses before saying his name, then adding; ) Bruce took over after that, and we worked together most of the time I were here. ( A breath, and a quick clearing of her throat. She was fond of Bruce. Coming back reminds her of how he agreed to let her work here after she came in and how understanding he was about things in the mess of this city. )

He went back home a while ago.