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Bonesaw and Beka outside of Angband
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In the weeks after their escape Bonesaw is hard at work, building up a lab and growing food and splitting branches and stitching them into a scaffold so that they grow into a living treehouse. 

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It's hard to tell by looking at their firewood collection habits. If she follows scent trails they don't super smell like orcs?

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Weird! Maybe it will be more obvious once she finds their camp.

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She can track that down. There's a sleeping human and another one who is tending a fire under a turtle shell full of gruel.

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Uh.... What?? She is pretty sure that someone would have mentioned if there were other humans. She... is going to watch for a bit. Maybe nab one of them if she can get them alone. 

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Well, the sleeping one probably won't notice if she nabs the cook. Looks pretty out of it, maybe feverish. There are some breathing sounds inside some lean-tos but they don't have visibility either.

The soup in the shell is being stirred with a stick.

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Well that won't do at all!

Bonesaw will march right in and begin doing a check-up on the sleeping one.

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The stirring human notices that and leaps up and says something in Not Orcish, brandishing the stick.

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Bonesaw shushes her! Her friend is sleeping after all.

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This will get Bonesaw inconsiderately hit with the stick and shouted at!

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It will not get her hit with a stick unless they are quite a bit faster at hitting people with sticks than a baseline human! She can even do the check-up while dodging.

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That alarms the person quite a bit and the shouting continues, rousing nearby other humans who come to see what the commotion is and surround their sleeping sick friend to make Bonesaw's life inconvenient.

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Bonesaw has a vial on her for in case of orcs and she'll only use a bit instead of the full thing given that these are humans but regardless they should all be sleeping soon, unless they are very good at holding their breath.

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They didn't even know they should be trying! They pass out.

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Very considerate of them. 

Finally she can do a proper check-up on the sick one! How is her patient.

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He has a flu. Also was not holding his breath so there's that on top of the flu.

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Bonesaw can give him a a tiny dose of the no-sleep drug she gave Beka when they fled here, that should counteract the sedative and also wake him up.

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He wakes up, frowns at her, looks around and startles violently at the sight of all his tribe members lying on the ground, and tries to get up and run away.

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She will hold him firmly in place. 

"Say 'Aaaaaah'" she instructs, demonstrating for him.

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He does not understand her and his wild-eyed fright does not involve saying aaaaah. It's more of a whining "hnggg" sort of noise.

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Well, he'll have to open his mouth if he can't breath otherwise, so she firmly grabs his nose and scrunches it till the cartilage collapses.

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Success! He is panting for air!

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Goody! That'll give her the opening to inject some things into his tonsils that'll numb his symptoms for the next few hours.

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You'd think he wasn't grateful for the free medical care at all the way he's having a panic attack.

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Rude but not diagnostically relevant! She can set-up a blood transfusion with her secondary circulatory system to make sure he has better antibodies, even if he's moving around a bit while she does it.

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He is actually trying pretty hard to flop-crawl away from her but maybe not enough to sabotage his medical outcomes?

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