CUDDLY SNAKES

[soulping]

[ In this isolated chamber, there are enough chairs around the rickety, rotten wooden desk to seat everybody. Some sunlight streams through the boarded windows to give enough light. You have pencils, pens, some scrap paper to brainstorm with, and a formal test sheet to put your final answers on. ]

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Re: DISCUSSION

[barrette]

[ w-waiting for him to come back ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[swordedpast]

[Returning.]

She says she's just "giving us a harmless test," because she couldn't clean up enough to do anything else. That's a little alarming, but she didn't seem to be lying.

Re: DISCUSSION

[barrette]

Then, I guess it's fine to say "scoop out their brain".

Re: DISCUSSION

[swordedpast]

Yeah, we'll surprise her with our bold answers that way.

Re: DISCUSSION

[barrette]

I bet she isn't expecting answers like ours!

Re: DISCUSSION

[swordedpast]

We'll prove we're not as predictable as anyone thinks.

Re: DISCUSSION

[barrette]

Right!

Re: DISCUSSION

[swordedpast]

All right, let's see what we've got.

[Reading off his scrap paper, pausing here and there to add things.]

One: the Hippocratic Oath is a promise doctors make to help people in need and not hurt anyone.
Two: the Four Humors are what ancient doctors called bodily fluids.
Three: you could drill a hole in the skull to let the pain out. If that doesn't work, an extreme option is chopping off the head to end the pain once and for all, although that would violate the Hippocratic Oath.
Four: you could scoop out the faulty parts of the patient's brain. If you needed to follow the Hippocratic Oath even so, you would have to make new brains first to replace them with.
Five: it's sepsis.

Re: DISCUSSION

[barrette]

Those sound like good answers!

Re: DISCUSSION

[swordedpast]

[Reaching for the test sheet to start writing them down properly.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[saburai]

I think those are probably the best answers we have.