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Ardith Medic Dev III Fixing Ark Again

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  1. [14:35] Tahldrig gestures for Ark to sit down once again, or pancake.
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  3. "Alright Ardie, this is your show. Remember the basics. Take your time, and try to make sure it doesn't hurt Ark." Tahldrig is really looking forward to seeing Ardie display her knowledge. "I'm right here to guide you, so if you have any questions do not hesitate to ask."
  4. (Tahldrig)
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  7. [14:36] Ardith asks, "Right...Uh. Does the Lax essence work on demons even?"
  8. [14:36] Arkgvunde , as if on cue, pancakes to the ground. It looks weird when a literal tree monster tries to turn flat..
  9. (Arkgvunde Vel'heim)
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  12. [14:36] Arkgvunde Vel'heim says, "Sort of."
  13. [14:37] Arkgvunde Vel'heim says, "Most medical reagents still do what they're supposed to on Demons, albeit at a reduced level."
  14. [14:37] Tahldrig says, "Mhm, but you can counter that by using more lax. They're bigger than us."
  15. [14:38] Ardith says, "Yeah, yeah. "
  16. [14:38] Ardith says, "Makes sense..."
  17. [14:47] Ardith goes about preparing a few things. Namely the abundance of Lax Essence she's no doubt going to need. Ark is a good boy. Thankfully Tahldrig keeps the clinic neat, tidy, and well stocked.
  18.  
  19. She returns with a tray of tools and the canister of pain killers, offering it up to the demon.
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  21. "So just...chug this down I guess. Oughta' be okay, right? It's not like you're always drunk anyway," she says with a little snort.
  22.  
  23. Good thing he's flattened himself. No need to climb all over the giant demon as she goes on an expedition to extract all the thorns from his lofty branches.
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  25. Even better, he's a demon. Her occultic aura won't be making him go haywire. It's especially vile today too. With a small scalpel and a pair of forceps, she goes about making small incisions and removing the thorns from where they're decidedly not supposed to be.
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  27. "So...so take 'em out like this? Should I use flashpowder or anything to close 'em up?"
  28. (Ardith)
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  31. [14:49] Tahldrig carefully watches as Ardie begins to inspect the thorns. "Mhm, but take a close look at one of the thorns. There's a reason Ark wasn't able to get rid of them on his own. Can you tell me why that is?" She's of course talking about the mana that flows through the thorns. The mana seems to be disruptive, otherwise Ark would have already healed. "You can stitch the wounds closed, Ark is a nature magi, so that means the plant fibers I use in my thread will be even more beneficial to him."
  32. (Tahldrig)
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  35. [14:49] Ardith says, "I goooot...No idea."
  36. [14:50] Ardith asks, "Good question though. Ark, why can't you take 'em out?"
  37. [14:50] Ardith asks, "And you doped up enough there, big guy?"
  38. [14:50] Arkgvunde Vel'heim says, "It's from an, runed sacrificial altar."
  39. [14:50] Arkgvunde Vel'heim says, "I wasn't kidding when I said that I offered my life to Ixchel and she refused me."
  40. [14:51] Ardith says, "Yowch..."
  41. [14:51] Arkgvunde Vel'heim says, "...Did get a little power out of it... At the cost of being a little hurt."
  42. [14:52] Tahldrig says, "The mana within them is making it what hurts. Even with removing the thorns, if you notice, there's still something there affecting the area, you'll have to find a way to draw out the mana before a prosthetic can be applied."
  43. [14:53] Ardith asks, "Sooo...another rune, maybe? Or is there a tool that'll do that?"
  44. [14:53] Arkgvunde Vel'heim says, "Alternatively, you could replace the thorns with Mythril ones and it'd look cool, but it's very time-consuming."
  45. [14:54] Tahldrig says, "Or you could use your occult magic to siphon out the energy, syncing it up with Ark's occult to find the mana that doesn'tbelong."
  46. [14:54] Ardith says, "Oooh...Yeah. That sounds way easier."
  47. [14:54] Ardith says, "...In theory."
  48. [14:54] Tahldrig says, "Then we can fill the holes with mythril spikes so she looks bad ass."
  49. [14:57] Using occult magic sounds right up her alley, of which there's an abundance of. And if there's one thing her occult magic does fabulously is twisting and corrupting things. On occasion killing.
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  51. All she does is brush her finger tips against the wound. Given Ark's very nature she runes less risk of, say, making them worse. Her own mana, intertwined with that of an Archon, seeks out what doesn't belong within the demon and sunders it.
  52.  
  53. Much better.
  54.  
  55. With a certain pluck she goes about removing the rest of the thorns with a similar method, one by one, occasionally looking back to the demon to make sure they're in no undue pain.
  56.  
  57. Not that she could tell. Ark still doesn't really have expressions.
  58.  
  59. "Wait, so mithril thorns or are we stitching these bad boys up?"
  60. (Ardith)
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  63. [14:59] Tahldrig says, "Thorns, since the mana made it so the wounds won't heal, we have to replace the lost tissue."
  64. [15:00] Ardith says, "Gotchya. Think you can make them up? I don't know fuckall about working with metal."
  65. [15:06] Tahldrig grins as she opens the mithril kit and points to the side compartment. Inside lay numerous mithril screws, mostly used for binding prosthetics to a person. "If I use my lightning to fuse them together, we can then fit them within the holes left behind. We'll have to do a little stitching around the area to tighten the skin so they don't fall off while the screws secure themselves."
  66.  
  67. During Ardith using her mana along side Ark's to negate the foreign mana, Tahl kept a close eye over it, reaching out with her cosmic mana to feel at the energies within the room. This serves as an eye of sorts in order to 'see' the mana being removed.
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  69. Tahldrig takes a few moments to take some of the mithril screws and attaches them onto a meshing sheet with her lightning magic. The meshing would leek into Ark's skin to help nullify the foreign mana, but as with all mithril, it wasn't going to be perfect.
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  71. A few spikes are added atop after Tahldrig used the heat that cosmic magic holds within it to re-form some of the screws.
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  73. "Alright, all you have to do is fit the prosthetic and spply it with some of your own mana in order to activate the runeworking that lays within it to help bind it to Ark's body."
  74. (Tahldrig)
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  77. [15:13] It seems simple. Ardith plucks up the first of the metal thorns, sliding it with a flinch back into the Kaor's skin. A little of her mana and the magic in the meshwork activates, fusing to demon flesh with great efficiency.
  78.  
  79. One after the other after the other.
  80.  
  81. "Ugh...it's neat to watch, but doing so many is boring," she laments.
  82.  
  83. With a bit of clumsy fumbling, she follows behind after with the needle and plant fiber thread. As Tahldrig instructed, tightening the loose patches of skin to where they out to be with the newly fashioned spines.
  84.  
  85. "So...that's it? I figure demons don't have to worry about infection really, right?"
  86. (Ardith)
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  89. [15:21] Arkgvunde sat mostly still for this one, still laying flat on the ground like last time. They're perfectly content to say nothing for a long time, allowing Ardith to meander about their body and do what they can to expel the foreign magical reagents.
  90.  
  91. ...And add Mythril spikes to it in place of those draining thorns.
  92.  
  93. With what is basically a runed tiara tattooed on their face, a physical restoration of their Autumn Form, and getting Mythril spikes, Arkgvunde questioned if this was the medical episode or the playing-dress-up one. Probably medical, considering an Occultist is stitching Demon flesh together...
  94.  
  95. It kept their comments to itself as both Ardith and Tahldrig effectively double-teamed all of the Ark's most persistent, Mythril-able wounds. Slowly, but surely, Ark un-pancaked themselves off of the floor when all was said and done.
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  97. Tahldrig is not going to have a fun time with all the leaves AND thorns all over the floor.
  98. (Arkgvunde Vel'heim)
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  101. [15:22] Ardith says, "...Hel yeah. That looks /badass/."
  102. [15:23] Arkgvunde Vel'heim says, "I'm a pretty princess."
  103. [15:23] Tahldrig says, "Breathtaking."
  104. [15:24] Tahldrig sits down on the floor to take a little break. "Too much work today, wonderful job though Ardie!"
  105. (Tahldrig)
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  107.  
  108. [15:24] Ardith says, "Yeah. Lotta' work."
  109. [15:24] Ardith says, "Turned out good though. Thanks."
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