Healing & Wounds

In Menhir’s Fate, there are many different ways to heal wounds. From Cantrips and more substantial though occasionally perilous Rites, to Physicians who use their mundane skills or apothecary consumables to keep people upright. Each requires the healer/s to expend time and roleplay with their patient, after which they will regain some or all of their hit points.

When performing your roleplay, please use any tools, equipment or props and roleplay out the situation. This may be using bandages to bind a wound, or surgeons tools to roleplay surgery, or smelling salts to revive your patient (These are not an exhaustive list but some examples of healing roleplay). Please make sure any physreps that you are using are larp safe.

If you intend to Execute using this skill please also roleplay an attempt at healing your victim. Unlike other executions this is a subtle strike and the call Execute may be called quietly.

Physician skills

Physician

2xp (This skill is needed before taking any other Physician skill)

• The character may spend one minute to restore someone from the critical state to one hit point. The target’s Critical state is paused as soon as you begin the roleplay.    
• The character assess and diagnose a Wound. This takes a few seconds of roleplay. The Wound mechanic is detailed at the bottom of this page.

Mortician

1xp

• This allows the character to spend 30 seconds assessing a corpse to work out how long they have been dead. 
• This allows the character to spend 30 seconds to work out how a person was killed. (if the character also has Advanced Physician they can see evidence of hidden execute)
• This allows the character to spend 1 min to be able to restore 1 hit point to an underdweller (This increases with your physician skill)

Advanced Physician

3xp Advanced Physician requires the equivalent of surgical effort to heal the character. (This effort is purely mechanical, you may still use a variety of roleplay effects to heal the person)
The person being healed by this process may not move or take actions (such as casting spells, using faith powers or using vigour skills) but may continue roleplay while being healed by a Physician.
If interrupted the patient goes into a critical state as a result of the healing being interrupted.
This can only be done on a willing target.

• The Physician may spend one minute to restore someone to full hits.
• The Physician may spend one minute to restore someone from the critical state to full hit points. 
• The Physician may spend 30 seconds to reset the time on any poison on the target. 
• The Physician may spend 30 seconds roleplaying with the target, at the end of which they can call Execute on the target. (This will not leave a physical mark on the target) 
• When using Execute with this skill please also roleplay an attempt at healing your victim. Unlike other executions this is a subtle strike and the call execute may be done quietly.

Magical Healing

Magical healing can be done via the Cantrip Heal Wounds and through rites in the Water, Fire, Earth, and Athria Spheres

Wounds

In an adventure or a camp incursion, your character is at risk of receiving a wound card. These wound cards represent things like deep wounds, broken limbs, possible magic wounds and the like. These wounds are particularly difficult to treat and cannot be healed with simple magic and consumables, you must receive the aid of another character after a diagnosis from a character with the physician skill. Once given a wound card by a referee or crew member this card will state the approximate nature of your wound. You must keep hold of the card and only read the Yellow side – if a physician attempts to heal your character then you will need to give them the card so that they can read the Blue side – this will inform the Physician what is needed to heal your wound. Sometimes it will be simple roleplay, other times it may require help from an Advanced Physician or even those with other skills.

Please do not tear or destroy Wound cards. When you are done with the card please return it to a Ref or Nation Support so we can continue to re-use them.

An Example of a Wound card can be found below