cold weather PSA from your local doctor! [video]

[imahealerbut]

[Now that we’re officially in the middle of winter, it’s a good time to make a PSA about staying warm and healthy in one of the harshest seasons of the year. She should probably have done this earlier but ah well. RL is a drag the Public Service Announcement capabilities of technologies are new to Wen Qing.]

Greetings, Wanderers.

[It’s a public announcement. In her time you did it by forcing everyone to show up at a meeting hall. So Wen Qing’s speaking more formally than she usually does.]

Winter is a dangerous time, and as we are a varied group some of you may not have gone through winter before. Cold temperatures make the human body more vulnerable to illness and infection, and if you really don’t watch yourself they can kill. So keep warm and watch yourself carefully. If you experience numbness, dizziness, an irregular heartbeat, or other unusual things- find someone to help you and get to the Heillhaus if you can.

Secondly, not all of you are human. I’m not sure about how other beings react to the cold, or in general. If you have specific needs I’d appreciate if you could report it to someone at the Heillhaus so the physicians are aware. If you practice hibernatory behaviour over the winter I’d advise you tell someone about it too, so people don’t get alarmed.

That’s all. Thanks for listening.

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[tealeafs]

[ For some reason Chizuru seems oddly nervous as she replies.. ]

.. um. [ This is so difficult! Why can't there be a privacy option on these network comments. ] Are you at the Heilhaus right now..? I have something to say, but I think it's better if I do it in person.

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[mindseer]

[Video, because she wasn't going to antagonize her more while revealing a pivotal weakness. Nope, she was smarter than that.]

Already let 'em know this one, but trolls are kiiiiiinda cold blooded, so I already play careful with this sorta weather. Long as the aquatic bloodlines aren't here, we're probably fine, but I'm definitely absolutely loooooving this weather so much.

When's spring again?

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[ragnarsson]

If anyone dies from the cold, they deserve it for being an idiot that wasn't taking proper precautions.

[Ivar, not everyone comes from a place where winter lasts nearly six months of the year. Stop being mean. Or not. This is his default nature.]

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[sanityinruins]

Some of us do come from places where winter and snow are legends told to scare children.

[ragnarsson]

[Just ignore Ivar while he rolls his eyes.]

Stories are told for a reason, you know.

[sanityinruins]

I realize that. However, those who never been in this weather would not know the first thing of it, now would they? I'm sure if you were in my lands, you wouldn't know how to survive the heat just like I would not know what to do first in the cold.

[imahealerbut]

[.....huh. Well, she's of the idea that anything wrong should be settled off-network, too, so this is fine.]

That's fine, I am at the Heillhaus now.

[ragnarsson]

I would survive, as I always do. [Now he's just being deliberately obtuse when it comes to the point.] If anyone doesn't learn and adapt, then they deserve to lie down in the snow and die. Or lose a few fingers to frostbite. That always teaches a great lesson.

[imahealerbut]

Cold blooded? Like snakes?

[Well that sounds concerning. Don't snakes hibernate or something? She's not as familiar with animal physiology.]

Thanks for informing the physicians. Honestly, the winter solstice celebrations here are sorely lacking in bonfires.

Spring is in- [this is where autotranslate gets a little fucky; if Terezi has a month-based calendar system she might get the translated Peach Month, if she doesn't know what a month is she'll have to figure out what the hell táo yuè means.] -where I come from. But it might be different here. I don't trust this place.

[But then again, telling her 'March' might not have been any clearer.]

let's action it up?

[tealeafs]

Yes. Then I'll come over quickly, please wait for me.

[sanityinruins]

Of course you will. But you aren't everyone in this place.

[ragnarsson]

More's the pity for the weak-hearted little sheep. Hopefully they will all learn before turning into icicles.

[imahealerbut]

[that's real edgy, Ivar.]

I’m not about wasting manpower when it’s easily preventable.

[ragnarsson]

[Yup. Gonna cut himself on all that edge if he ain't careful.]

Haven't you ever heard of survival of the fittest?

[mindseer]

Yeah, a little like those things. But we're not 'quite' that cold blooded, even if the aquatic types would probably loooove to sleep through the winter wrapped in blankets and such.

[She shook her head and snorted. It was funny to imagine Feferi bundled, sniffling and bitching about the cold.]

Uhhhhh.... nope, that one didn't come through. You're talking about fruit or something? Peaches grow in that month or some such thing, I'm guessing? What is that, like April?

[Good news! She'd learned the Gregorian calendar from humans, so there's that!]

sure!

[imahealerbut]

Alright. Ask for me at the front desk if you can't find me.

[Wen Qing will indeed be on duty at the hospital, keeping one eye out for Chizuru.]

[tealeafs]

[ True to her word, Chizuru does go over there quickly. If not just since what she's about to talk about gives her all kinds of nervous jitters which she'd rather not be walking around with all day.

So she makes her way over to the Heilhaus, at least able to find Wen Qing relatively easy considering the other is also on the lookout for her. ]

.. Hello. Thank you for making some time for me. [ Maybe it's a little overly formal, but this is just how Chizuru is. She even nods deeply like it's a near-bow. ] I'm sorry that I couldn't tell you what I'm about to say over the network, but it's something I don't think I'd like a lot of people to find out..

[imahealerbut]

Why should man live like beasts in the wild when we can bend nature to our will? The entire point of settled society is to conquer natural pressures.

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[asgardsflight]

Oh, oh! I know a little about this one!

[ About... being cold? Honir looks incredibly excited it about it though... ]

Ivar says you can get so cold that bits fall off of your body, so you should kill an animal and wear it.

[ :) ??? ]

[sanityinruins]

You do make things sound so bleak, doctor.

[imahealerbut]

[When she spots the other woman Wen Qing stops what she's doing and heads over. The formality is familiar territory for her; she nods deeply back, then folds her arms behind her back as she waits for the full story.]

It's not a problem at all. I know you wouldn't come all the way here for something frivolous.

It's smart that you held back on the network, honestly. So many people don't seem to realise that gossip gets around. [Like the Borderlands network drama. Ivar outing himself as an asshole. Et cetera.] What's the issue?

[imahealerbut]

What?

[The term “April” means nothing to her. Damn these terminological differences.]

Three months from now. Do you know what a month is? Or about- hm- we should be halfway through the winter.

[imahealerbut]

As a doctor I'm concerned with the bleak parts of winter, Ye Zun. But apologies are in order for painting you such a negative picture.

I was sure you would've discovered the more pleasant parts of winter on your own.

[mindseer]

Human thing, based off their lunar cycle I wanna say? Something close to that anyway. There's twelve of them in one of their years. I've had to get used to it, since it's how humans tell time instead of sweeps.

But ok. I think we get it. Uhhhhh, March is... I wanna say two months and change from now? Maybe?

[tealeafs]

[ There's the briefest moment where Chizuru almost seems to beam with pride when Wen Qing tells her that it was the smart thing to do. Apparently that's what the tiniest bit of praise already does for her.

But she sobers back up when she speaks. ]

You were talking on the network about not being sure how other beings react to the cold. So I wanted to make sure you knew that.. um, I'm not sure if other beings would retain their ability to be cold-resistant in this place if they were back home. You see.. [ She pauses for a moment. This is the hard thing to say, but she came here determined to say it, so she can't back out now. ] I'm not human either. But ever since I showed up in this place, I've found myself just being a regular human, as far as I can see.