New Years Resolutions

[reindered]

Type: text
Sender ID: reindered (Tony Tony Chopper)
To: Open/Public
Subject: Resolutions
Warnings: None off the top of my head??

it's a new year! and people usually have goals, dreams, for the new year, right? so, tell me! we can help each other make them come true! that's what we're doing at home, my crew. we all have our dreams. like luffy wanting to be the pirate king and find the one piece, the treasure that gol.d. roger hid. or nami wanting to make a map of the whole world. sanji wants to cook with ingredients from all the different oceans. and i want to be the best doctor in the world, so i can treat anyone who needs help. so this year, i want to keep learning more about the diseases here as well. keep learning about illnesses from everyone's homes that might need treating here. what about you guys?

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[crack_shots]

Link and I answered the call for something that was turning people... no. Not just people. An entire island into bread. Last I heard, an antidote had been found and is being administered to the refugees who made it to Eltrut. I'm sure they could still use help from someone with your skills.

[reindered]

Ah! If they still need help, I want to try! If there's anything I can do. Maybe with making more of the antidote or something.

[crack_shots]

[ Riju glances up at at the clock. It's still early in the day and her plans for it are light. Plus she hates unfinished business and wrapping this quest up is long overdue. ]

I'm all but certain I remember where I saw the address. Let me look it up and send it to you. I can meet you over there in a bit. If you don't mind an assistant, that is?

[reindered]

Of course! If you've been there before and know more about the situation, that'll be good to have you come, too!

[Chopper agrees to the idea easily, not thinking there to be any reason not to accept her coming along as well. She would be a great help if she's more familiar with the people and setting, the illness there. He's been working where he can with finding out more about diseases not seen back home, but it's a work in progress, and he's wanting to do what he can to help.]

[crack_shots]

[ As promised, Riju rises to the occasion in no time flat. The remaining victims are housed in a special quarantine unit on the outskirts of Eltrut to prevent the spread of the fungal spores causing the condition. She also finds some initial details about the antidote that's derived from another mushroom but it seems like the full recipe is available on site. She sends everything she finds over to Chopper in a lengthy document. ]

Anything we want to bring from on board, doc?

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I think I have everything. I have the documents you sent me, my first aid bag.....and we should be able to find the ingredients for the antidote here, right?

[Chopper tries to think if there was anything else. Anything he had missed. He doesn't immediately think so. He doesn't want her to, either, so he checks in with her about if she has everything she needs as well.]

What about you? You have everything?

[crack_shots]

[ She tosses a pouch into the air that jingles as she catches it again. ]

I'll bring the coin. I think we can pick up most of the ingredients in town on the way. Meet you on the docks?

[ In some ways, this feels vaguely reminiscent of their kitchen adventures when they first met. Only far less delicious but far more important. ]

[reindered]

Right! Yeah, that sounds good! I think we're about ready, then.

[He'd been more focused on his supplies. So it's probably a good thing she remembered they probably should bring money to buy any more or food or the like while they are there. Chopper nods, agreeing to the plan. It's not quite the same without his Straw Hat crew, but he still enjoys spending time with his new crewmates here.]

[crack_shots]

[ Riju is the sort that had it drilled into her if you're on time you're late and if you're late that's inexcusable so she's prompt to meet Chopper and similarly efficient when it comes to shopping the bare necessities. A brief respite for lunch is allowed. They can hardly anticipate the work that might await. But then it's straight back to their mission.

The quarantine site is constructed of makeshift structures nearly an hour's walk from town, secluded so it would be hard to stumble upon by mere accident, but not so hidden that they lose their way. The staff on-site are surprised to see new faces emerging from the path and eye Riju and Chopper warily.

A middle aged woman with her close cropped hair and half moon shaped glasses approaches. She peers at them from behind some kind of medical mask while shuffling through the papers on her clipboard. Riju immediately sets herself to diplomatic mode. ]

Sa'vaaq. We are here representing Captain Zelda of The Seventh Heroine, a small but capable relief ship. [ Hopefully, their ship's reputation precedes itself here. ] I'm Riju and this is our doctor, Chopper.

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[Chopper doesn't mind helping out where he can. This is, at least, presumably, far more his wheel house than some of the other situations they had been in. So he is keen to look into this and do what he can for people affected with this.

He follows Riju to the Quarantine site, almost hiding behind her as the locals stare at them warily like that. But he does nod and wave in greeting when they make it there and meet the woman.]

H-hello. I'm Tony Tony Chopper.

[crack_shots]

[ The woman, a doctor herself judging by the coat, pushes her glasses up, towering over both of them despite her average stature. ]

What's your experience with producing remedies? We've more cases than hands to keep up with at the moment.

[ Curt and to the point, her question seems particularly directed toward Chopper. She doesn't have any use for someone without medical experience. Riju gives her crewmate an encouraging smile, confident that he's more than suited for the task. ]

[reindered]

I've helped treat people with both my mentors. And done so by myself since joining my crew back home and here. I can do it, assuming I have the necessary ingredients. Just tell me what to do, what I need and I can help!

[He's young. Still learning. But that doesn't mean he isn't capable. There's a reason that Luffy had been so insistent on him joining the crew, besides being immediately excited about a talking reindeer. Chopper glances from Riju to the woman, nodding and determined.]

[crack_shots]

We have all the necessary ingredients. If you think you can manage this, we'll assign you to the patients in lodge 7.

[ She slides a slip of paper out from a small pile on her clipboard. It looks like she keeps copies of the instructions for the remedy on hand to ensure her staff are adequately prepared.

Riju looks over Chopper's shoulder as the woman hands it over. It's mostly herbal-based, the main active ingredient a particular mushroom to hinder the spread of the spores that led to the curse she encountered in the first place. It reminds her of the recipe they made together when they first got to know one another. ]

This doesn't look too difficult at all.

[reindered]

Lodge 7? Okay! Thank you.

[Chopper thanks her as she passes him the paper, reading it over and letting Riju read along with him. Not that it is hard for her to do so, given he is currently still in his usual smaller form at the moment. He nods, reading along with what is needed for the treatment.]

Hm. Yes. It seems simple enough. I think I can -- we can do this.

[crack_shots]

[ If Chopper believes they can do it, then Riju has faith in them.

Lodge 7 turns out to be a small bunker made out of prefab metal sheeting. It's identical to a dozen or so in a semicircle that makes up the quarantine site. They enter the bunker into a cramped antechamber. Protective equipment hangs on one wall -- lab coats, masks, goggles. Thick, restrictive materials that makes Riju think she was lucky to make it off the island without contracting the infection herself.

On the other wall sits a table cluttered with a mix of ingredients and various apparatuses, like a bowl and burner, and a mortar and pestle that she assumes they'll need for preparing everything.

She looks to Chopper for guidance, still holding the instructions. The space might be too small for two people to work comfortably. ]

Where do you want to start? If you think I'll get in your way, I can check on the patients while you work.

[reindered]

[He follows easily enough to Lodge 7 and glances around. At least the goggles might be easy to fit for Chopper but the rest might be way too big on him unless he decides to transform. He's not sure if his more human form, being so much larger, might be more intimidating for any of the patients in comparison so he decides to remain as he is for now.]

Let's start by gathering everything. All the equipment and ingredients we need. I don't mind starting on that for now if you want to check on the patients and let me know if there's any who might be more a priority.