Dogtown Emergency Service - Open Network - Video

[setthetone]

Who: John Carter
Username: Carter
Warnings: None so far; potential discussion of Dogtown related injuries and happenings, will warn accordingly in the threads

[The video starts... awkwardly. The angle is slightly off at first and when Carter wants to begin, the phone falls over. There's some fumbling, blurry images, noisy mic sounds, but he actually manages to salvage this a few seconds in. It's not a disaster, just... off. The slightly clumsy handling of someone who learned about a new technology later in life and has only been using it for a couple of months.

Also, not enough to warrant editing this out, sorry, he's lazy and probably doesn't know how to do it.]

Uh, good morning. Sorry about that?

For those of you who don't know me, my name is John Carter. I'm an emergency doctor and I work in medical. I'm looking for volunteers.

I'm worried about the Dogtown situation. We've had several people on here warnings us of invisible bullets, madness inducing birds, blood river monsters... and who knows what else is waiting for us in there.

[A sigh. He looks worried.]

Thing is, I've treated several people now who got hurt. Really hurt. Now, it's never been an inviting place, I know that, but I don't think it's ever been this bad. And I don't think people are gonna stop exploring anytime soon, so...

I want to set up two mobile clinics outside the entrances so those of you who go in there have quick access to medical supplies and treatment if things go wrong. I already talked to ADI and they're willing the fund the bill. If people want to help out, that'd be great.

And if you head out there, be careful.

Comments

[easilyamused]

I think I'll take you up on that. I'm always on the lookout for interesting reading material.

[setthetone]

Great. Maybe we can swap some notes.

Not that my colleagues aren't great but sometimes you talk treatments with them and then you ask them a question and they give you their we haven't used that drug in fifteen years look and it's awkward...

[easilyamused]

You'd think the people here at ADI would be used to the time-displaced by now. At least it's early century, and not the 1940s.

[setthetone]

Or, you know, the year 3000. Man, I don't know if I could handle that.

[easilyamused]

Maybe if it was just a temporary visit. The cultural landscape and linguistic shifts alone would be fascinating, to say nothing of the technology.

Though if the last century's been any indication, I'd give the world good odds of regressing on that front in the next millennium after someone does something spectacularly stupid.

[setthetone]

You're an optimist, huh?

Let's just hope whatever apocalyptic event we're trying to prevent here isn't going to be what causes it.

[easilyamused]

Empires rise and fall, often in part due to terrible governance. It's part of the normal lifecycle. As interconnected as everything is, especially now, that's going to have a massive ripple effect.

It's a pity there's no real way of knowing just how strongly the Entities have been involved in previous catastrophic events on this world - there are some differences that stand out, but much of the history here is very similar to the history of my world, at least in the broad strokes that make it into the records.

[setthetone]

[That's... actually something Carter hadn't considered before and he

His own life, back in his own world. All those terrible, sometimes traumatic events he had witnessed - had there been Entities involved at some point? He doesn't like it. It feels like a loss of agency at worst and an excuse for all those terrible people he's met at best.]

Do you think...

[He frowns, not sure how to word this, looking troubled.]

Do you think they're confined to this place? I mean something must have brought us here across the worlds. I just... hate the idea that they might exist in my world, too.

[easilyamused]

I think it's likely they exist in other worlds - not necessarily all of them, but some. But it doesn't follow that they're as strong elsewhere as they are here.

The fact that we have so many people here with inborn supernatural abilities, who've outright stated that they never had to bind themselves to anything or terrorize people in order to use those abilities is enough on its own to suggest that the Entities certainly aren't the dominant power everywhere.