(10-04-2015, 02:31 AM)Aaron Wrote: If its anything less than a broken bone or collapsed organ.

Magically heal dat ish. If not, i like to drag it out.

(10-03-2015, 10:07 AM)Kaiz Wrote: snip

(10-08-2015, 03:19 PM)Garalona Wrote: With Garalona, her background is that she was a traditional chirugeon first and then moved on to studying conjuring after she got out of prison for forging her medical credentials (whoops). The way she figured it, once you get the elements to listen to you; there's no worry of little details like licenses and actually having attended college.

Even so, magic isn't her first art, and she prefers not to use it unless someone is actively in danger of dying. At an event like the Grindstone she'd probably just usual traditional methods to patch someone up and then slap them with a touch of Regeneration so they're at full strength by the time the next bout is up.

To her, magical healing is a lot of effort and energy, and besides that Elementals freak her out. ALL magic does, actually, white magic just happens to be "safest" in her books, comparatively speaking. She'll gladly do an old fashioned surgery, getting herself covered in blood and taking twice as long, just so it means she doesn't have to deal with all that.

I personally really like coming up with characters who have different views on healing and how easy it is/how often it should be done. If someone were to ask her why she can't just cast Cure over them and call it a day, she'd kick them in the shins, tell them to remember that ache, and walk away. She's already done it once before.

(10-08-2015, 03:49 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:

(10-08-2015, 03:19 PM)Garalona Wrote: With Garalona, her background is that she was a traditional chirugeon first and then moved on to studying conjuring after she got out of prison for forging her medical credentials (whoops). The way she figured it, once you get the elements to listen to you; there's no worry of little details like licenses and actually having attended college.

Even so, magic isn't her first art, and she prefers not to use it unless someone is actively in danger of dying. At an event like the Grindstone she'd probably just usual traditional methods to patch someone up and then slap them with a touch of Regeneration so they're at full strength by the time the next bout is up.

To her, magical healing is a lot of effort and energy, and besides that Elementals freak her out. ALL magic does, actually, white magic just happens to be "safest" in her books, comparatively speaking. She'll gladly do an old fashioned surgery, getting herself covered in blood and taking twice as long, just so it means she doesn't have to deal with all that.

I personally really like coming up with characters who have different views on healing and how easy it is/how often it should be done. If someone were to ask her why she can't just cast Cure over them and call it a day, she'd kick them in the shins, tell them to remember that ache, and walk away. She's already done it once before.

Well, Cure's not White Magic anyway.    It's Conjury!  ^_^

Your character's viewpoint is amusing when juxtaposed with my own character's viewpoint - she sees things like "surgery" (or whatever crazy way it's spelled in the game) as barbaric.  Why would you cut someone when you can mend what's wrong without effectively stabbing them?

Perhaps the two will meet one day.  

(10-08-2015, 04:24 PM)Garalona Wrote: Potato, popoto.

I look forward to that happening, too.

(10-08-2015, 09:11 PM)Black Hat Wrote: As Liadan and I share a Free Company and my character, Doc Oak is also a chirurgeon among other medical and alchemical practices geared toward the art of well being; I think it might be wonderful to RP these three (and anyone else interested) having this debate.

Quote:As for conjury, there've been some discussions about its use as a practical balm for minor nuisances. I vaguely remember a reference to some lore about conjury being conditional on the whim of the elementals as to whether it would work on someone or not.

(10-08-2015, 07:56 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:

(10-08-2015, 04:24 PM)Garalona Wrote: Potato, popoto.

I look forward to that happening, too.

It really isn't.  ._.  It's a huuuuuuge distinction.  White Magic is forbidden and hard to access.  Conjury is so easy to pick up that almost anyone can do so, unless they're completely unable to interact with magic (like a native Garlean, for instance).

(10-08-2015, 10:47 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: As I said in an earlier post, while the Elementals can say, "Hey, don't heal that asshat!," that doesn't mean that the "asshat" cannot be healed via Conjury.  What it means is that if you do so, you'll piss off the Elementals.  The only limits on what you can really do with Conjury are the strength of the aether around you and your own skill.  If the Elementals were actively policing the use of Conjury, I somehow doubt that the Garlean conscripts would be able to use it against those within the Shroud/against the Shroud itself.  Yet, the Garlean conscript Conjurers are still able to do so.

(10-09-2015, 01:43 PM)Arik Wrote: As others have said, it really depends on the situation and who I'm RPing with.

If the wounds are relatively minor, I'm fine saying that the magic quickly expedites the healing process-- probably closing cuts, lightning bruises, etc etc and allowing my character to swiftly bounce back.

However, when it comes to more serious wounds which could prove fatal in less fantastic settings-- like getting run with a sword Aerith Gainsborough style-- death is still possible and I very much prefer the healing process to take some time. Healing can very well stabilize a character's health and thus be the make-it-or-break-it factor between my character dying or otherwise being stabilized to live another day, but the healing would not -entirely- resolve the wound.

I've upset many a healer in the past who wanted their abilities to be 100% successful but I chose to retain some amount of said wounds regardless. Luckily, my usual pocket conjurer these days shares these opinions as my own and often even employs traditional, non-magic first aid on a regular basis.