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*Poorly written notes with rough drawings of upright staffs are pinned to noticeboards and trading posts around Vailor* "Iy am bying wooden uprite stiks and stafs. If you hav ane yu want to sel, senb a berd to Argoth Irongut in Kal'Akash. Iff it iz a staf yu want to sel, Iy can pey for sum uf it with golden ingots, tu repai the cost uf making it." *An address for which to send mail to is scribbled at the bottom*
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Needles and Blood. Forenote: This lore is merely the request for LM clarification instead of actual lore approval. Needles So I see a lot of people roleplaying they have hypodermic needles like they are casual and easy to produce things in the roleplay environment we exist in. There was this big idea once upon a time we exist kinda like what the 14th century looks like, unless another piece of lore over-writes that bit of real life history. So, using that knowledge, the creation of such needles is basically near impossible. Something more roleplay correct would be the use of goose feathers. Back in ye' old days needles were made from them. They were big, weak, kinda hard to use things and pumped with a cows/pigs bladder, not with a class tube and pressurized syringe like some people roleplay. So, I am merely asking the LM's, can we enforce something more realistic instead of vacuum syringes and hypodermic needles, better just.. well, making the setting more immersive and less "Here is casual IRL stuff." So here is some ideas on how to roleplay using goose feathers for syringes: It would hurt a lot. It would probably leave a lot of bleeding and a risk of damaging blood vessels. Its not hygienic at all. They can be crushed, or split. OOC source: http://www.exchangesupplies.org/article_history_of_injecting_and_development_of_the_syringe.php Blood! [specifically blood transfusions] So, another thing I witnessed today was the use of a blood transfusion, and the actual mentioning of blood types. Now, this popped into my mind as "A freaking disaster!" Why you might ask? Well, the fact we live in societies that have lived long enough is that we have a lot of races with their own blood types. You then have even more races interbreeding and creating even more blood types! You are talking 6 races with different blood pressure constraints, immune-systems and in fact one is even immortal! Aha, but surely that's not a case human to human, even if there is a 1 in like 8 chance you get the blood group right and they are compatible. Well, sadly no, because we have mixed race blood groups everywhere, and frankly how do we know blood groups exist? There has never been a study. Any studies that did would have resulted in every failure resulting in catastrophic immune response from the person injected with foreign and non-compatible blood. So the moral of the story is, blood transfusions and even mentioning blood types in character just shouldn't exist. The idea is dangerous, the implied risks as stated above, as well with the syringes being formed from goose feathers and the idea of injecting air bubbles into a vein would make the concept of blood transfusion ineffective and not used. Similarly, blood types.. well, they just wouldn't/couldn't have been studied. OOC notes: Well frankly, its just logic. I understand we are in a fantasy setting.. however, if think we should use RP tools and RP technologies because its just more immersive then going "Yeah I casually have glass hypodermic syringes, don't ask me where I got them though!" SupremacyOps agreed with me to get go, it just makes sense.
