video; un: lady

[dohaeris]

[it's sansa, at the sanctuary this time! because her omen is recording this, she holds her blood hound knight on a leash. he wears a handsome leather harness. for her part sansa wears a charcoal dress with ravens around the shoulders, and lady sits next to her in a matching embroidered collar. this is outside of sansa's usual wheelhouse, both literally and figuratively, and she compensates her nerves with extra poise, her hands clasped together in front of her chest.]

Hallo, this is Sansa Stark with the Sanctuary in Crenshaw. We have noticed a number of Sleepers coming into our infirmary with a strange rash very similar to greyscale.

[greyscale, the common childhood illness everyone knows about. sansa had never seen it in winterfell, as it favors warmer, wetter climates, but even in the north they told stories of the strange, violent stone men of the rhoyne, who had contracted it as adults and never recovered. this new illness reminds her very much of that. she has no reason to believe greyscale is specific to her world alone.]

They have mentioned a sudden increase in strength and stamina as well. These are the early signs of a very dangerous sickness, which can turn people into stony, mindless creatures very like greyscale does when it's contracted late enough in life. The treatment is a blood transfusion, a very large one, and we ask anyone who has noticed these symptoms to seek it here or at the Lumenarium.

These transfusions can take a lot of blood, so we are asking everybody able to come here and donate theirs. You will be fed for your trouble, and anyone may seek additional compensation if they want it. Of course Warmblood is best for transfusions, since anyone can receive it, but we welcome donations of all blood types. We have a number of healers and Blood Ministers already here to retrieve the blood safely and comfortably, but we won't turn away any more help, either.

[she smiles as gratefully as she can manage.]

Thank you for your time, prudence, and generosity. This won't interfere with our usual business at the Sanctuary, and everyone is welcome to stay and rest here as long as they like after giving blood. We hope to see a good many of you soon.

[the log for the blood drive can be found here. it's completely open and will run for most of the rest of august as needed. feel free to toplevel with whatever your character is doing!!]

Comments

video, un: GoldenFlowers

[the_obedient_servant]

I have a considerable amount of blood of all kinds frozen in time to be kept completely fresh and preserved, to be used in blood magic. Would that work?

[Yes, it's the child who went around killing people, here to offer blood like nothing happened.]

I won't give all of it, of course, I need it.
[...]

For the record, Greyscale isn't an actual medical condition on Earth.

[dohaeris]

[sansa has learned to be very careful around killers, and chara's brief moments of clarity and anguish are burned into her mind. she smiles politely.]

That would be very helpful, thank you. Anything you can spare.

[she might have offered to make a less dangerous person bloodstone instead. she won't turn them down, if they ask. but then she frowns gently.]

Greyscale is a common enough sickness on my world. I imagine it might be so on some others, as well. It turns your skin to something like stone. Children survive it well enough, but it's said that no one who catches it once they've grown has ever recovered. Their whole body turns to stone, and it's said they lose their minds as well. Those that suffer this sickness long enough certainly do, and they seem to grow tentacles, and become very strong.

[would it be helpful to say greyscale spreads from contact, when she isn't sure how this illness spreads? sansa is reminded of the useless squid statues she'd pulled up from the boats as a seal, but she doesn't know quite what to make of it.]

It's very important we treat it quickly, when the patches first appear, or we'll have a much more difficult time of it.

[the_obedient_servant]

Somehow I doubt that's a common affliction in most worlds.

[Medically, it's a bit insane!!]

I hope you aren't treating these conditions like they're the same.

[dohaeris]

[sansa doesn't really see why greyscale wouldn't exist in other worlds; they seem to have stranger things in common (and it's not as if people truly turn to stone...). but it's not important. she laughs a little.]

Oh, of course not. I'm not a Blood Minister; they just taught me how to do the needles. I've never even heard of anyone doing a blood transfusion in my world; it would be very useful on the battlefield.

I just thought it might help people to know what to look for, so they could come in for treatment.