conversations.from: system
conversations.value: From the people who brought you the top rated, *NecronomiCOM: Startup Hell*, comes  bold new series that shines a light into the darkness of medical dramas!
  
  Working at one of the country's top teaching hospitals isn't easy. No one gets out of the hospital unchanged — not one patient, not one doctor. Especially, if you work at Miskatonic Hospital.
  
  Ranked #2 among the Top Ten Teaching Hospitals, according to U.S Media & World Events (though there is some controversy about the Mi-Go Clinic holding the #1 spot), Miskatonic is able to choose from among the best to enter their program.  Most well known for their Cardiology & Heart Surgery, Reanimation & Golem Construction Surgery, and Psychiatry departments; MH admits only a chosen few each year.
  
  Can the this year's crop of hopefuls make the grade?  Will the current staff make the cut and retain their coveted positions?  What happens with life, love and eldritch horror collide at... Miskatonic Hospital?
  
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  **NARRATOR NOTES**
  
  Welcome back, NCom cast, and welcome aboard any new cast members.  I want to share a few things for you to keep in mind when creating characters and before we kick things off.
  
  First, feel free to create any sort of regular hospital staff you wish to play as part of this storyline, with the following limitations:
  
  *Do not create any administrative staff level characters (executives, Chief of Surgery, etc.).  Those positions are reserved for NPCs.
  
  *Please ensure that this is a character who would logically be at a hospital for the entire duration of this game (this means that patients will probably not make good characters, so I suggest avoiding that concept).
  
  *Creation of new or editing of existing Nature, Strength, Weakness and Subplot cards is acceptable, and even recommended.  
  
  Second, I have learned in the various games I have played and narrated that Normal Speed is not 2-3 scenes per week.  It is more likely 1 scene per week with 2-4 continuations.  So, let's all be patient with each other, contribute as much as you like, but be respectful of those who cannot maintain a rate of multiple posts a day.
  
  Finally, I run games with an endgame in mind.  This game is planned to run for 4 chapters, with 3-4 scenes per chapter.  It may go longer depending on what we come up with collaboratively, but I do feel that the best stories come to a satisfying conclusion, rather than dying of being drawn out too long.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Med Student: This is a teaching hospital and you’re here to learn.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Driven
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naive
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Resident ER Physician: You’re in your residency at the hospital, facing your dreams and fears daily.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Brilliant
  
  Suggested Weakness: Deep Debts
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Surgical Resident: You’re in your surgical residency and confronting new challenges each day.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Connected
  
  Suggested Weakness: Lazy
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: ER Fellow: You’ve graduated to your ER fellowship after a lot of work and study.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Well Educated
  
  Suggested Weakness: On Notice
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Surgical Fellow: You’ve begun your surgical fellowship at last.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Well Educated
  
  Suggested Weakness: Clumsy
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Novice Nurse: You’re new to the profession and the department.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Supported
  
  Suggested Weakness: Naive
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nurse: You’ve seen a lot of young doctors come through this place.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Experienced
  
  Suggested Weakness: Frazzled
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: ER Physician: You’re an attending physician in the ER with a lot of responsibility.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Experienced
  
  Suggested Weakness: Overwhelmed
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Surgeon: You’re a full-time surgeon in the hospital with all the responsibility that entails.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Precise Hands
  
  Suggested Weakness: Arrogant
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Department Head: You’re the head of your department (ER, surgical, ICU), overseeing other doctors.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Authority
  
  Suggested Weakness: Overwhelmed
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Brilliant: You have a head for medicine’s facts and procedures that makes you a natural doctor.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Attractive: Your physical attractiveness helps you bond with patients and other doctors.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Well Educated: The job may not come easy to you but you’ve studied hard and paid tuition to get good.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Connected: You’ve got friends, allies, and patrons in the medical field that smooth things out for you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Driven: You make up for your shortcomings with drive and ambition.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Supported: You have a wonderful support network from your family, fellow doctors, or elsewhere.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Experienced: Your years of experience have honed your skills and your will.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Authority: You draw power from your authority in the hospital.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Precise Hands: Your hands are precision instruments, helping you conduct procedures with confidence.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Observant: Your perception helps you identify symptoms, notice dangers, and spot lies.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Arrogant: Arrogance can make you reckless or callous or cause you other troubles.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Frazzled: You just don’t have your act together, always coming off harried and messy.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Slow Learner: Medicine is no easy gig and you find all the details a chore to learn.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Deep Debts: Med school costs a fortune and you don’t have a fortune with which to pay it back.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Lazy: Maybe you wanted to be a great doctor once but now you’re lazy, maybe even careless.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Overwhelmed: Too much is going on all the time between work and life. Your distractions cause problems.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Naive: You’re still vulnerable to the hurt that all young doctors must learn to endure.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: On Notice: Your past actions have limited your authority in the hospital. Your status is in peril.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Clumsy: You just can’t seem to do everything right, day by day, no matter how hard you try.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Obtuse: No matter how hard you try, you just aren’t as perceptive as you feel a doctor should be.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Finish Your Residency: If you can just get through your residency and make it to your fellowship, that’s a win.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get A Letter of Recommendation: Don’t just do it, do it so well that they recognize your hard work.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Prove Yourself to Your Parents: Your parents don’t think you can cut it as a doctor. Prove them wrong. Make them say it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Earn A Vacation: You haven’t had a proper vacation in five years. This place falls apart without you.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get Clean Before Anyone Finds Out You’re Not: If anyone finds out, your career could be ruined. You just need a little time to get clean.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Reveal How Your Boss is a Jerk: Your boss is what’s wrong with this place. Reveal that so people know what you go through.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get Married Before You’re Thirty: You had a plan and you’re falling behind. Get married in the next 24 months to salvage it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Fill The Hole in Your Heart: Maybe money will do it? Maybe adventure? Maybe sex? Maybe the right stranger?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get Published: See your name in the journals to prove that your theory is right.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Get Over It: You can’t shake that one bad beat, the one lost patient. Why? How do you get over it?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mystery Diagnosis: Diagnose this one patient so that they get better and everyone knows you can do it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: I Hear Zebras: You’re sure that this time is different. This is a rare, special case. Prove it.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Bring Some Peace: You can’t heal everyone but maybe you can improve someone’s life somehow still?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Secure A Loan: You owe debts. Consolidate, pay them off, or secure funding for more schooling.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get A Patient to Say “Thank You”: Is that so hard? Is that so damned hard?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Resuscitate Someone: Can you really feel like a doctor if you haven’t brought someone back to life yet?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get Invited to the Hospital Poker Game: Some of the top docs play a weekly poker game. Get in there and help your career if you can.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Humiliate That Rep: That rep from the pharmaceutical company needs to be put in their place.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Romance That Rep: That rep from the pharmaceutical company sure is hot. Maybe a fling?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Save This Patient: Save this patient. Do what it takes. Get it right.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Scalpel: A shiny, sharp precision utensil.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Paddles: Not quite the newest model of defibrillation technology but these have saved a lot of lives.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Blood Bag: A bag of blood, ready to use.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Ampule of Morphine: One dose of morphine in a single-serving container.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Key to the Pharmacy Cabinet: It’s just a simple metal key labelled “Pharm.”
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: One Hospital ID Badge: Name, photo, position, and ID number on a simple alligator-clipped badge.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: A Placebo: A sugar pill with no medicinal effect.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Pharmaceutical Sample: A new drug offered on trial by the manufacturer.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Hypodermic Needle: A single, clean, sharp hypodermic syringe.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Strong Sedative: One dose of a strong sedative, regulated by the state.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: ER Waiting Room: A shining example of 1980s design, usually brimming with sick and injured people.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: ER Ambulance Bay: Double doors lead out to the twin delivery spots where wagons can back up to the building.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: ER Reception Desk: Overflowing with documents and charts at all hours of the day. The phone’s usually ringing.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: ER Trauma Room One: A tiled, yellow room loaded with life-saving equipment. Smells like antiseptic soap.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: ER Curtain Room Two: A blue, linoleum-floored room with four beds separated by cheap curtains.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: ER Locker Room: Cramped and dark. This place smells like shampoo and sweat.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Surgery Waiting Room: Clean and bare and cold and quiet. Hear the lamps buzz.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Surgery Locker Room: This bright and shiny room is known for its slimy rubber floor mats.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Surgical Suite One: State-of-the-art surgical suite with top-shelf equipment and a stereo system.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Hospital Cafeteria: The food is, you know, but at least the decor is atrocious and the vibe is usually sad in here.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The Long Sleep: This patient, James, has been in a coma for 18 months. Maybe he’ll never come out of it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The Lost Drug: An ampule of morphine is missing. If it’s not found, it’ll mean trouble.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: “This is now a crime scene.”: The ER suite is closed down until detectives can do their thing. Maybe you’ll notice something?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Go Without: You’ve got to do your best — without sleep, without caffeine, without your drug of choice.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Fire in the ER: A fire’s broken out in the ER! Put it out before something volatile or precious is lost.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Biohazard: We have procedures, but one nick with a dirty needle and things go bad fast.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: MVA: Motor Vehicle Accident. Patient’s badly broken, non-responsive. Can you save them?
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: GSV: Gun-Shot Victim. Patient’s bleeding out, non-responsive. Can you save them?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Person Vs Bus: It’s ugly. This one’s probably not going to make it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Overdosed: Patient’s non-responsive and fading fast. Stick to procedure or try something else?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dr. Jeffrey Cartwright: Head of the hospital’s board and former head of the ER. An impatient, old-fashioned man.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dr. Elise DuPont: The hospital’s favorite surgeon, subject of a magazine article earlier this year.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dr. Wu Jing: Head of the hospital’s teaching program. Overworked but still eager. Fan of raunchy comedies.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dr. Beatrice “BeeBee” Bell: ER doc beloved by patients and students as a teacher. Has a twin sister. Recently divorced.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Mike Martinez, EMT: A fine paramedic smitten with one of the ER docs, though he won’t admit it.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Caroline Goldsmith, EMT: A risk-taking paramedic with almost ten years of experience. Usually the driver.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Luke MacCray: Construction worker brought into the ER after an accident with a power saw.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Delia Chambers: Brought into the ER after a motor-vehicle accident (MVA) that killed her husband.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Walter Brown: A young boy brought into the ER when his parents found him huffing chemicals.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Jerry Grimble: A local homeless man and hypochondriac who’s in the ER every couple of days.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: ER: A shining example of 1980s design, usually brimming with sick and injured people.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dr. Laura Choi: The reigning chief resident at Miskatonic Hospital.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Dr. Herbert West: Mistakontic Hospital's brilliant yet eccentric Chief of Staff.  Though, he has already achieved accolades for his groundbreaking research in resuscitation techniques, he is obsessed with improving upon it with more research.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Greet the Interns: It is customary to meet the new flock of would-be doctors.  Make any sort of impression you wish, it will be a lasting one.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Romance: So many attractive and available people work at the hospital.  Since you spend so much time here, maybe you can mix a little business with pleasure.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Emergencies in abundance: The alert goes out, and all available doctors are called to the ER.  It's not clear whether there's been a major accident, an epidemic or both.  Pick a case and find out.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Psychiatrist: There are many times that someone needs to be seen by the local "shrink."  And its not always a patient.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Broken Brain Bone: Too much work and too little time for himself has made the doctor a bit . . . well, he earns enough money to be considered "eccentric."  
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Pathologist: You specialize in  analyzing known clinical abnormalities that are markers or precursors for both infectious and non-infectious disease.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Morose: Your outlook has been less than positive since your parents death. Though you have hope in your heart, you tend to speak through a fatalistic filter, sometimes at the expense of your social life.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cure the Uncurable: Since the loss of his parents, Ray has dedicated himself to curing one of the world's deadly diseases. He feels that ridding humanity of at least one would be an honor to his parents. If he has his druthers, it would be Malaria.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Iron Stomach: You maintain your composure during even the most gruesome of operations.  Some might even say you feed on the gore.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Two Left Feet: Careful as you are, you often find yourself tripping over your own feet.  Not the best practice when carrying a bone saw.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Neurosurgeon: Like a surgeon, but bills above the waistline, sunshine.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Precise Hands: Your hands are precision instruments, helping you conduct procedures with confidence.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Meticulous: While an asset in the operating room, painstaking attention to detail can be annoying in other areas.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Get Published: Biding time until that one special case launches you from hospital staff to celebrity surgeon.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Clinical Pastoral Intern: Due to the unfortunate circumstances regarding the departure of Father O'Neille, the hospital's pastoral services have had to rely on a well-trained intern.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nurse: You’ve seen a lot of doctors come through this place, and somehow, even more of them leave. 
  
  Specialist in gynaecology and obstetrics but often end up helping whoever needs it most.
  
  ...
  
  Suggested Strength: Experienced
  
  Suggested Weakness: Frazzled
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Experienced: You're still only young (at least superficially), but years of experience have honed your skills and your will. You've pretty much seen everything, both from patients *and* staff members...
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Unprofessional: You have a complete and utter inability to take things seriously. Bit of a problem when life, death and sanity are on the line?
  
  But hey, you're easily distracted and totally desensitised so...
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Maintain the carefully crafted illusion...: If anyone finds out, your career could be ruined. 
  
  As long as you don't do anything stupid or slip up in public, everything should be fine, right?
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Cheery: No matter how stressful or bloody the situation, you always seem to maintain a smile that heartens everyone around you.
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Yanking the Tiger's Tail: It can be very, very hard to resist the temptation to mess with someone who gets angry so easily. So sometimes, you don't.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Committed: For all your mercenary tendencies, you really do care about the patients. When it comes to them, you bring your best skills to the fore.