MY LITTLE PONIES & GOATS (WHO ARE FOOD FOR DRAGONS)

[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. ]

Comments

[gandere]

Do you think the oath is something that can stretch to all forms of healthcare then?

[unguilded]

I don't see why not!

And if it counts, we'll have at least included everything so we'll still get it right in some way, if that's what it is.

[gandere]

An astute strategy. If we give a lengthy answer that includes everything, we can't be told we were completely wrong, only partially.

She can't take points off partially, can she?

[unguilded]

I'm not sure! Sometimes it's hard to tell how the Echoes choose some winners.

So maybe "an oath to do your best in the field of medicine and in dealing with the health of others, be it physical or mental"?

[gandere]

Yes, let's go with that.

[unguilded]

Okay~!

I'm assuming the "Four Humors" have to do with medicine and doctors as well. Have you ever heard of something like it before?

[gandere]

Yes, and no. It's also something having to do with ancient medicine, but my memory is fuzzy on it.

[ Frowning. ] Naming them specifically would be difficult without knowing much more of that time.

[unguilded]

Can you remember anything in general about them, even vaguely? Maybe we'll get points if we get close.

[gandere]

It must have something to do with Hippocrates, but... I thought maybe it had something to do with bones? There's a femur, of course, but I've never heard of a funny bone.

[ Pause. ] Er, is it possible the question has to do with the funny bone?

[unguilded]

Funny bone ... are there four of them? Do they have different names?

[gandere]

You know, the funny bone? [ Pointing to her upper arm. ] Have you never been hit in the funny bone before?

[ TIME TO EXPERIENCE IT. ]

Come here, I'll show.

[unguilded]

Okay!

[ trots over. :3 EXPERIMENT TIME!! ]

And a pain-killer would help a headache, wouldn't it? And maybe some rest...

[gandere]

[ Sure hope he enjoys being decked right in the arm because that's where she's striking with a fist. ]

How do you feel?

[unguilded]

[ it tingles and IT HURTS.

WHAT THE HELL. ]

--Ow!!

Did you have to do it that hard?!

[gandere]

Huh, you're not laughing? I thought if I hit you harder, it'd make you break into hysterical laughter...

[unguilded]

This definitely isn't laughable!

-- my arm feels tingly, though. Even though it's tingling and it hurts where you hit me.

[gandere]

Tingling huh... maybe that's the funny of it.

So if that's there, then your other arm must have one... Where are the other two funnies?

[unguilded]

... Maybe your legs?

[ looking down at his. ]

If the arms were around the elbow, maybe the knees?

[gandere]

Maybe...

But what does that have to do with ancient medicine? The Greeks were so weird.

[unguilded]

Maybe nothing at all. But since we don't know, a guess might at least count a little, even if it's totally off.

[gandere]

That's true. We can just sound educated by mentioning it was created in ancient Greece and that they had no idea what they were doing whatsoever when they made up this method.

[unguilded]

So, "right elbow, left elbow, right knee, left knee, though we have no idea if that's correct, but if it is, who knows what ancient Greece was thinking or doing when they came up with it"?

[gandere]

They probably were very entertained that those parts of the body bent that way and rolled with it. Have you seen ancient drawings? They're always very focused on the knees and elbows bending funny ways.

[ Attempting to walk like an Egyptian now to emphasize this. ]

[unguilded]

I haven't! Or at least, I haven't remembered.

.........

[ watching her and laughing a little. ]

[gandere]

[ Straightening up, how dare you laugh at her, etc, etc. ]

It's like that!