Tanken's |T|raining

[Geo]

((OOC: First attempt at training anything, so let me know if I screwed anything up or if I can improve!))

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First Aid: Healing (9|125 SP)
Rank: "E" (5 Training Points at all Times)
Skill: Skill
Effect: This skill allows a character to properly tend to the sick and injured.Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: While some basic medical knowledge is inherent in this skill (to the extent such can be said to exist), the character’s role is to provide an optimal environment to facilitate the patient’s own recuperative abilities, by monitoring the patient and tending to his needs as required.
• Novice: Diagnose; Tend to injured characters such that their wounds heal at a faster rate; critical care requires 10 minutes/wound; can distinguish whether an individual is dead or merely unconscious.
• Average: Stabilize a character knocked unconscious from trauma; critical care requires 6 minutes/wound; with a successful Average skill check to resuscitate a dying character.
• Advanced: Function as a midwife to deliver children; diagnose injuries; critical care requires 4 minutes/wound
• Expert: Properly set broken bones; amputate limbs; critical care requires 3 minutes/wound
• Master: Critical care needs 2 min. per wound

Look in Task Skills thread found in the Skills and Traits Index for more information. If user has 25 or more Ranks in Alchemy user gains a Synergy Bonus +10 to First Aid: Healing. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

[First Aid: Healing]
0/5 TP
9|125 SP

Tanken pinched the bridge of his nose as he tried to think. This was supposed to be his day off.  But alas, it was not to be.  His brother, Uyamai, had come home in tears and looking like he had been mugged.  The 8-year-old refused to say exactly what had happened, but seeing as he'd just been accepted to Suna's academy, Tanken figured this was the result of some off-campus sparring gone wrong.

And, whatever had happened, boy had it gone wrong. Uyamai sported several large cuts and bruises, not to mention a few puncture wounds that looked like they came from senbon needles.  In any case, the boy sat sniffling in the bathroom that the two brothers shared with their, sister, Fuji.

After a moment of thought, Tanken opened his eyes and heaved a sigh. “All right, stay here. I’ll be right back, and I’ll see if I can’t patch you up.” He ran out of the bathroom, leaving his sniffling brother behind as he raced to the small bookshelf he used to keep his sparse collection of texts. His target was easy to find – a leather-bound textbook called First Aid: Healing for the Curious. It was no secret that Tanken wanted to become a great healer one day, and so the book was the first one he had bought when he’d saved up enough Ryo.

Snatching it up, he started sifting through the pages as he raced back to the bathroom. Setting the book down near the sink, he gave Uyamai another good look. The skin around his eyes was black and blue and swollen. Taking a breath, Tanken nodded, then flipped to the start of the chapter on bruising. When he found the segment on black eyes, he immediately read through the potential signs of larger problems. The big one was finding blood in the whites of the eye or the irises. If there was any sign of bleeding, he would need to take Uyamai to a medical specialist immediately.

Fortunately, a thorough exam revealed nothing of the sort, which earned a sigh of relief from Tanken. Neither was there a nosebleed, which the book said could be a sign of a skull fracture. ‘Well, father always said the three of us could be hard-headed,’ Tanken thought to himself. After reading the next few signs of larger problems, he held up two fingers about half a meter away from Uyamai’s face. “How many fingers am I holding up? Can you see them all right?”

His little brother sniffled again, but managed a nod. “Two.”

Tanken nodded. “And you can see them clearly? No blurriness?” Uyamai shook his head, and Tanken tried to grin reassuringly. “Great, then it’s just a regular pair of black eyes.”

Uyamai’s grimaced, which just seemed to pain him some more.  "C-Can you fix it?"

Tanken shrugged as he skimmed through another page.  "Time is going to have to fix it," he said.  "It's not like I know the Healing Hands technique.  Yet."  His eyes finally spotted his target a moment later, and he breathed a sigh of relief. “But, I think we can speed time along.  The first thing I need is a cold compress. I’ll be back soon.”

While the Hidden Sand Village wasn’t exactly known for its chilly weather and abundant water, it still didn’t take a miracle to get some ice. Racing down to his family’s freezer, he snatched up enough cubes to fill up two cloths, then scurried back upstairs. Uyamai was sitting where he had left him – on the toilet with the lid down to provide at least some comfort. Smiling, Tanken reached out with both small bundles. “Here, take these and gently press them just under your eyes. Not on your eyeballs, but on the skin under them. Don’t hurt yourself, just put a bit of pressure on them.”

Uyamai did as he was told, wincing at the initial contact, but relaxing soon after. Meanwhile, Tanken read through the next segment of the chapter, gathering the relevant information in his head. “Good, now keep them on there for 20 minutes. Then we’ll take the ice off for a bit, then put it back on.”

Uyamai nodded, and Tanken sighed quietly as he started flipping toward the next chapter. There was still work to do, and plenty of it. Several cuts needed bandaging, and he needed to make sure there wouldn’t be an infection. Regardless, he couldn’t help but mentally pat himself on the back as he felt the situation finally start to come under control.

[Father 'Suke]

+5 TP
+14 SP
23|125

Note: Alright, overall great length and great training. Now, I do recommend you listing under or beside your SP count when training that you have the physician trait and the book, keeps us staff from always checking your chara sheet.

[Geo]

((OOC: Crud, I knew I forgot something. Sorry for the inconvenience, good sir. I'll remember that from now on. Follow-up question: Since Tanken started with points in First Aid: Healing, does he also start with 5 extra Training Points? Thanks again.))

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First Aid: Healing (23|125 SP)
Rank: "E" (5 Training Points at all Times)
Skill: Skill
Effect: This skill allows a character to properly tend to the sick and injured.Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: While some basic medical knowledge is inherent in this skill (to the extent such can be said to exist), the character’s role is to provide an optimal environment to facilitate the patient’s own recuperative abilities, by monitoring the patient and tending to his needs as required.
• Novice: Diagnose; Tend to injured characters such that their wounds heal at a faster rate; critical care requires 10 minutes/wound; can distinguish whether an individual is dead or merely unconscious.
• Average: Stabilize a character knocked unconscious from trauma; critical care requires 6 minutes/wound; with a successful Average skill check to resuscitate a dying character.
• Advanced: Function as a midwife to deliver children; diagnose injuries; critical care requires 4 minutes/wound
• Expert: Properly set broken bones; amputate limbs; critical care requires 3 minutes/wound
• Master: Critical care needs 2 min. per wound

Look in Task Skills thread found in the Skills and Traits Index for more information. If user has 25 or more Ranks in Alchemy user gains a Synergy Bonus +10 to First Aid: Healing. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

[First Aid: Healing]
0/5 TP
23|125 SP
Training Aid: Book: Textbook: First Aid: Healing for the Curious

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Book: Textbook: First Aid: Healing for the Curious (Overview)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Book, Textbook
Effect: A book that helps the user how to perform critical care.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A Large Leather-bound book with "B.I.N.G.O. Productions" written on it. No Authors are listed within the book. This book teaches the basic medical study and the role in which is needed to provide aid on a patient. It discusses their needs and how to monitor the patient through various practices. The volume goes through a wide range of study such as how to diagnose, stabilize, and properly set broken bones. This book gives a +5 Competence bonus to the user's skill pertaining to First Aid: Healing, and gives the user a +1 Competence bonus per die roll when learning the skill.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Book Shop.
Cost: 4,000 Ryo

“Uyamai, did you actively jump in front of the kunai or something?” Tanken asked only half-jokingly as he gave his little brother another good look. They were still in the bathroom they shared with their sister, and Tanken suppressed a grumble, knowing he would have to clean the place up before she came in and saw what a disaster area it had become.

Patches of sand and dirt were scattered over the sandstone tile, and a few thin streaks of blood had fallen from Uyamai as he had gotten settled in there. His filthy training clothes had since been tossed into the bathtub, which Tanken considered the safest, cleanest place to keep them until he was finished with his work. Indeed, with Uyamai dressed only in his underwear, Tanken could see the full extent of the “training” that had brought his younger sibling home in such a state.

For starters, he had six small puncture wounds on his left arm. Tanken used senbon needles often in his own combat style, and the tiny holes looked like they fit that description, though he couldn’t be sure. But what really drew his attention were the two shallow slashes on his right arm, each of them a couple of inches long, and a deeper cut on his chest, which was about three times the length of those on his limb.

Fortunately, Uyamai was still holding the bundles of ice to his eyes, so he didn’t see Tanken’s grimace. Sighing softly, he turned to his copy of Healing for the Curious and looked up the chapter on Open Wounds in the table of contents. Quickly flipping to the right page, he nodded as he recognized the mostly familiar steps. Being the son of a former medic-nin, Tanken was at least acquainted with this territory. Still, it wouldn’t hurt to give it a good review, he knew.

He started off by thoroughly washing his hands, then grabbing a cloth from a nearby drawer. He drenched it in water, then added soap to it, wringing and mashing the cloth together to start a lather and get rid of the excess moisture. While it would probably be prudent to take care of the bigger wound first, he wanted to get the smaller ones done before moving on.

He took his brother’s left arm, then gently moved the cloth from shoulder to hand, cleaning the dirt and sand that had accumulated on his skin. After cleaning the rag out, he soaped it up again, then started cleaning the small punctures. To his pleasant surprise, the wounds were shallow, and after a few swipes took care of the surface blood, he saw that they had already started to scab over.

‘Well, at least I caught a break there,’ he thought to himself as he reached up to the medicine cabinet that hung above the toilet. He grabbed some balm his father always had on hand that would stave off infections. Double-checking his textbook, he grabbed a pack of bandages as well. He applied the ointment to each of the tiny, round bandages, then stuck them to the punctures, sealing them.

He repeated the process with the boy’s other arm – cleaning and soaping the cloth, then washing the limb, then cleaning the wounds. Fortunately, they had also started to close. Regardless, Tanken quickly bandaged them, albeit with larger, more square-like patches, as well as with his father’s balm to make sure they healed well.

Now, he faced the more serious cut. The slash on Uyamai’s chest was still bleeding – he could see that much through the thin layer of sand and grime on his little brother’s body. He tossed the cloth he had been using into the tub, then grabbed another one, washing and soaping it up. Again, he cleaned his chest first, then started tending to the wound. Once he got it cleaned, he looked at it closer, murmuring aloud, “I don’t think it’ll need stitches.”

Uyamai nearly came off of his seat. “Stitches?!” he yelped before Tanken grabbed his shoulder and sat him firmly back into place. Fortunately, the boy had enough discipline to keep the bags on the spots just below his eyes to deal with his bruising.

“I said it shouldn’t need stitches,” Tanken retorted. “Calm down already.” Truthfully, he wasn’t sure one way or another. He hoped a good bandaging would help the wound close, but if he needed to, he’d run and get his father’s special kit for more serious wounds. But first, he’d try it the easy way.

Reading deeper into the chapter, he reached for the medicine cabinet and grabbed out a package containing sterile gauze. Opening it up, he removed the roll of gauze and measured out the roughly six inches he’d need to cover the cut. After that, he took some medical tape from the cabinet and cut it into strips. When he was ready, he put the gauze on the slash, then secured it with the tape. After he finished, he stood back to look at his handiwork.

“All right, looking good so far,” he said. “Go ahead and take the ice off of your eyes while I keep working.”

Uyamai nodded, doing as he was told and removing the bundles of ice. The bruising looked smaller than before, and less intensely purple. Some of the skin had turned slightly yellow, but that was an indication that it was healing, Tanken remembered from the book. Either way, Tanken smiled at his younger brother, something which Uyamai returned with hope.

“So, next step,” Tanken said. “Let’s take a look at those bruises on your legs.”

[Father 'Suke]

+5 TP
+6 SP
29|125

Note: you forgot the physician trait to be listed again :P also the +5 originally you gained from a trait is a bonus that can exceed the 125 limit. The amount rolled is always without that bonus unless we are rolling a skill check rather than a skill training roll.

[Geo]

((OOC:  *facedesk*  All right, sorry about that.  I think I've got it this time.))

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First Aid: Healing (29|125 SP)
Rank: "E" (5 Training Points at all Times)
Skill: Skill
Effect: This skill allows a character to properly tend to the sick and injured.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: While some basic medical knowledge is inherent in this skill (to the extent such can be said to exist), the character’s role is to provide an optimal environment to facilitate the patient’s own recuperative abilities, by monitoring the patient and tending to his needs as required.
• Novice: Diagnose; Tend to injured characters such that their wounds heal at a faster rate; critical care requires 10 minutes/wound; can distinguish whether an individual is dead or merely unconscious.
• Average: Stabilize a character knocked unconscious from trauma; critical care requires 6 minutes/wound; with a successful Average skill check to resuscitate a dying character.
• Advanced: Function as a midwife to deliver children; diagnose injuries; critical care requires 4 minutes/wound
• Expert: Properly set broken bones; amputate limbs; critical care requires 3 minutes/wound
• Master: Critical care needs 2 min. per wound

Look in Task Skills thread found in the Skills and Traits Index for more information. If user has 25 or more Ranks in Alchemy user gains a Synergy Bonus +10 to First Aid: Healing. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

[First Aid: Healing]
0/5 TP
29|125 SP
Training Aid(s):
Book: Textbook: First Aid: Healing for the Curious
Physician Trait

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Book: Textbook: First Aid: Healing for the Curious (Overview)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Book, Textbook
Effect: A book that helps the user how to perform critical care.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A Large Leather-bound book with "B.I.N.G.O. Productions" written on it. No Authors are listed within the book. This book teaches the basic medical study and the role in which is needed to provide aid on a patient. It discusses their needs and how to monitor the patient through various practices. The volume goes through a wide range of study such as how to diagnose, stabilize, and properly set broken bones. This book gives a +5 Competence bonus to the user's skill pertaining to First Aid: Healing, and gives the user a +1 Competence bonus per die roll when learning the skill.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Book Shop.
Cost: 4,000 Ryo

Physician
Rank: "C"
Skill: Heritage Trait
Effect: User is trained to the healing arts.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User has +20 Skill points to divide as they wish among all First Aid, Botany, and Herbalist. At each Class Level the user gain an additional +5 Heritage skill Points to place in any one of these skills. User gains +1 Heritage Points per die roll when learning the skill. User also gains a +10 to all First Aid Skills. Through advanced training in medicine and healing techniques, the user can set bones, suture lacerations, and apply a myriad of balms, unguents, and other remedies to speed the healing process. Such care requires 1 minute. This trait replaces 1 Freebies.
Limit: Must start with Character; replaces 1 Freebies.
Point division: 5 in First Aid: Healing, 5 in First Aid: Autopsy, 5 in Botany (Desert) and 5 in Cultivation (Desert)

Tanken crouched down and took his little brother’s left leg into his hands, lifting it up and examining the ankle. It was swollen, at least compared to his other one, and the skin had already turned black and blue. He sighed, setting the leg down and scratching his head. “All right, so what happened to this?”

Uyamai looked sheepishly up at his brother, muttering under his breath, “I… jumped off a roof.”

Tanken stared blankly at his brother, responding with a deadpan, “You jumped off a roof. That seemed like a good idea, did it?”

“You do it all the time!” the younger Zengosaku shouted, leveling an accusing finger at the elder.

Tanken rolled his eyes. “I do it because I spent more than a year at the academy building up my strength,” he said. “You started less than a month ago. Anyway, can you move it?”

Uyamai winced as he slowly moved his foot back and forth and around in a circle. Tanken heaved a grateful sigh. He remembered when his father would examine his injuries when he was younger. If he could move something, it wasn’t broken, and that was a relief.

He rose to his feet, moving back to his copy of Healing for the Curious, still left open on the counter next to the sink. He looked up where to find information on sprains, which the ankle almost certainly was. “Well, this sounds familiar,” he said, reaching up and soaping up a cloth. “Clean your legs up. I need to make up another cold compress.”

Handing the cloth to his brother, he made his way down to the family freezer once more. He grabbed some ice, filling up a sleeve of fabric with it before tying it off. Heading back to his brother, he found Uyamai sitting where he had been left, his legs looking clean, if a bit damp. Smiling, Tanken moved to the younger boy, then knelt to support him. “Come on, let’s get you to your bed. The book said we need to keep that leg elevated, and you need to stay off of it.”

Uyamai nodded, wrapping an arm around Tanken’s shoulder, using him as a crutch as they walked to the room they shared. Tanken let him get settled, then grabbed a spare pillow and put it under Uyamai’s injured leg, keeping it above the rest of his body. Once he did that, he slowly wrapped the sleeve of ice around his ankle, which earned another wince from the younger boy.

Once Uyamai was settled, Tanken went back to the bathroom and got to work cleaning up the mess. Putting his shinobi speed and agility into it, he finished in about 20 minutes – the perfect time to move to the next phase of Uyamai’s treatment. Returning to their room with an elastic bandage, Tanken removed the ice and wrapped the ankle tightly, but not so much as to cut off the circulation. After that, he draped the sleeve of ice horizontally over Uyamai’s face to continue reducing the swelling under his eyes. When he finished, he stood back, nodding with a smile. “Perfect,” he said. “Now, just rest, and I’ll go make you something to eat.”

Ah, the responsibilities of being Uyamai’s big brother.

[Father 'Suke]

+4; 4|5
The first part seemed mostly to be fluff or setting the scenario to me while the last three paragraphs, though small, were the beef of the training. Need a tad more than that for full points though.

[Geo]

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First Aid: Healing (29|125 SP)
Rank: "E" (5 Training Points at all Times)
Skill: Skill
Effect: This skill allows a character to properly tend to the sick and injured.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: While some basic medical knowledge is inherent in this skill (to the extent such can be said to exist), the character’s role is to provide an optimal environment to facilitate the patient’s own recuperative abilities, by monitoring the patient and tending to his needs as required.
• Novice: Diagnose; Tend to injured characters such that their wounds heal at a faster rate; critical care requires 10 minutes/wound; can distinguish whether an individual is dead or merely unconscious.
• Average: Stabilize a character knocked unconscious from trauma; critical care requires 6 minutes/wound; with a successful Average skill check to resuscitate a dying character.
• Advanced: Function as a midwife to deliver children; diagnose injuries; critical care requires 4 minutes/wound
• Expert: Properly set broken bones; amputate limbs; critical care requires 3 minutes/wound
• Master: Critical care needs 2 min. per wound

Look in Task Skills thread found in the Skills and Traits Index for more information. If user has 25 or more Ranks in Alchemy user gains a Synergy Bonus +10 to First Aid: Healing. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

[First Aid: Healing]
0/5 TP
29|125 SP
Training Aid(s):
Book: Textbook: First Aid: Healing for the Curious
Physician Trait

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Book: Textbook: First Aid: Healing for the Curious (Overview)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Book, Textbook
Effect: A book that helps the user how to perform critical care.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A Large Leather-bound book with "B.I.N.G.O. Productions" written on it. No Authors are listed within the book. This book teaches the basic medical study and the role in which is needed to provide aid on a patient. It discusses their needs and how to monitor the patient through various practices. The volume goes through a wide range of study such as how to diagnose, stabilize, and properly set broken bones. This book gives a +5 Competence bonus to the user's skill pertaining to First Aid: Healing, and gives the user a +1 Competence bonus per die roll when learning the skill.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Book Shop.
Cost: 4,000 Ryo

Physician
Rank: "C"
Skill: Heritage Trait
Effect: User is trained to the healing arts.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User has +20 Skill points to divide as they wish among all First Aid, Botany, and Herbalist. At each Class Level the user gain an additional +5 Heritage skill Points to place in any one of these skills. User gains +1 Heritage Points per die roll when learning the skill. User also gains a +10 to all First Aid Skills. Through advanced training in medicine and healing techniques, the user can set bones, suture lacerations, and apply a myriad of balms, unguents, and other remedies to speed the healing process. Such care requires 1 minute. This trait replaces 1 Freebies.
Limit: Must start with Character; replaces 1 Freebies.
Point division: 5 in First Aid: Healing, 5 in First Aid: Autopsy, 5 in Botany (Desert) and 5 in Cultivation (Desert)

Tanken furrowed his brow as he held the thin, hook-shaped needle he’d threaded next to the image in Healing for the Curious. The thin, but durable silken thread was in place on the curved needle, and as he compared it with the picture in the book, he gave a satisfied nod. He grabbed up the needle holder from his father’s kit, then took the needle with it.

“You said I wouldn’t need stitches,” Uyamai said from his bed, glaring up at his older brother.

Tanken arched an eyebrow. “I said you shouldn’t need stitches,” he replied calmly. “But this wound on your chest won’t stop bleeding. I need to sew it up.”

“Do you know how to do it?” Uyamai asked suspiciously. Clearly, his trust had been shaken.

Tanken scoffed in response. “Of course I do. Mother and Father taught me. I patch up my clothes all the time.”

A frown creased Uyamai’s face. “I’m not pants.”

That made Tanken stop and think for a moment. It was true enough. He knew basic sewing, but that was hardly the same thing as putting in sutures. Still, the work needed to be done, and the book had detailed steps for putting in several different types of stitches. After weighing the pros and cons, Tanken nodded at his little brother. “Duly noted. Now keep still. No squirming.”

Ignoring the scowl he got, he leaned over and brought the needle to the top of the cut. It was about six inches long, stemming from Uyamai’s sternum and traveling down over the right side of his abdomen. From the look of it, it probably came from a kunai or a knife.

Taking a calming breath, Tanken put the needle against the near side of the wound, then stuck it through the skin. The curved point made it easy enough for him to angle it, evening it out as it passed into the cut, then pressing against the inside of the far side of the wound.

Tanken double checked the book, then let go of the needle so he could grab it with a better angle. When he was ready, he pushed the needle through the other side of the cut, pulling it up and back toward him. Uyamai fidgeted softly, but Tanken figured it was more about the needle than any pain. The thread followed the needle’s path, easily coming out from the spool and gliding along the trail Tanken had put it on.

With the needle back on the closer side of the cut, Tanken paused to snip the thread and tie it into a quick surgeon’s knot. When it was finished, he got back to work. He took aim under the first stitch, then pushed it through again. Again, it sailed through, and after he repositioned the needle holder once more, he brought it through the far side of the wound. After cutting and tying off the silk, he repeated the process again and again, creating what the textbook called a simple interrupted stitch. Tanken checked the text frequently, making sure he was following the pattern as closely as possible, particularly the spacing between each suture.

About halfway through the process, he switched to the other side of the bed for a better angle, then kept at it. In through the near side, out through the far side. Cut the thread, tie it off, then start again slightly farther down on the wound.

Once he reached the end of the gash, he noted about 12 individual stitches. When he tied off the last one, he smiled, grabbing a fresh roll of gauze and taping it to Uyamai’s torso. “There, all done. That wasn’t so bad, was it?” he asked, more to himself than his brother.

[Father 'Suke]

+1 TP; 5|5
+3 SP
32|125

Note: in future keep track of TP gathered in your post if you don't make enough the first go. Such as this latest post would have been a 4|5 instead of 0|5.

[Geo]

((OOC: I don’t think the physician trait applies to the basic anatomy skill, but let me know if I’m wrong. Thanks in advance for your time.))

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Anatomy, Basic (0|125)
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: Characters with the anatomy skill have a basic knowledge of how the body functions.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This skill includes a knowledge of surgery, dissection, and basic anatomy. As might be expected, such knowledge is enormously useful for corporeal sculpting of corpses, sculpting incorporeal ectoplasm, and even restoring bodies by proper embalming. Without a proper knowledge of Anatomy, Basic, most of the work is guesswork. They know where major organs are located on most species. They do not know much about the anatomy of rare creatures or monsters, but they can make an educated guess in certain circumstances. This skill can help a character know what organs to harvest and other body parts for components or other uses. Including selling them to others.
Novice: Knowing where major organs lie in the corpse of the same race.
Average: Recognizing the effects of disease or poison upon healthy bodies (though not necessarily the exact nature of such).
Advanced:
Expert:
Master: Remembering how minor organs function in humans.

Basic Each time learned user gets 2 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

[Anatomy, Basic]
0/5 TP
0|125 SP
Training Aid(s):
Book: Textbook (Overview) (Anatomy Textbook)

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Book: Textbook (Overview) (Anatomy Textbook)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Book, Textbook
Effect: A book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A textbook or coursebook is a manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Book Shop.
Cost: 3,500 Ryo

As night settled on the Zengosaku household, Tanken decided to light several candles, then ease into bed for some light reading. He had snatched up his brand new anatomy textbook as he passed by his bookshelf, and as he reclined on his bed, he cracked the tome and glanced at the table of contents. He planned on reading the entire thing, so it made sense to him to just start at the beginning.

The book didn’t waste any time getting to the bare bones of anatomy. It started with the skeletal system, specifically with the definition of bones. Tanken murmured aloud as he read, “Bone, a living tissue, is a highly specialized, hard form of connective tissue that makes up most of the skeleton.” He blinked at that. He’d never considered his bones to be alive or to be tissue. He’d always just figured they were… bones. He quickly realized how foolish that sounded and carried on.

Of course, they provided the common sense functions of supporting the body and protecting vital organs, but they also stored salts and produced new blood cells, which Tanken wasn’t aware of. There were two major components of bones, according to the textbook. First, there was spongy bone, which was a major source of red blood cells for the body. It also allowed bones to have a bit of flexibility and helped the body distribute loads more evenly. The second was compact bone, which surrounded spongy bone and had the characteristics that usually came to mind when thinking about bones in general. It was hard, dense and tough, perfect for supporting the body and protecting its organs.

Turning the page, Tanken came face to face with a large diagram of the human skeletal system. It listed all of the major bones and bone clusters in the body – from the cranium to the tarsus. Taking a breath, Tanken began going over each one, taking the time to point out each segment on his own body as he went along. The cranium was the head, of course, which was connected with the vertebrae of the neck. They met up with the top of the rib cage, which was also connected to the clavicle and scapula – known together as the pectoral girdle. The scapula connected the clavicle to the arm bone, more properly known as the humerus. That ended at the elbow, and the radius and ulna both led down to the hands.

Moving down, the vertebrae tapered off at the hips, which were connected to the femurs – the thigh bones. They were the largest, toughest bones in the human body and served as a major attachment point for every muscle between the hips and knees, which were called the patellas. From the knees sprang forth the tibia and fibula, traveling down to the feet.

Tanken furrowed his brow as he examined the feet, which seemed to be made up of more than 20 bones each. In fact, as he counted them out, there were 26 in each foot alone, ranging from the ankles to the phalanges of the toes. Taking a breath, Tanken silently promised to take better care of his own feet.

When he was done, he simply went back to the top, starting the process over and over again. He was going to have the major parts of the skeletal system down by the time he went to bed.

[Father 'Suke]

+5 TP
+14 SP
14|125

Note: correct the physician trait doesn't affect this skill.

[Geo]

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Anatomy, Basic (14|125 SP)
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: Characters with the anatomy skill have a basic knowledge of how the body functions.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This skill includes a knowledge of surgery, dissection, and basic anatomy. As might be expected, such knowledge is enormously useful for corporeal sculpting of corpses, sculpting incorporeal ectoplasm, and even restoring bodies by proper embalming. Without a proper knowledge of Anatomy, Basic, most of the work is guesswork. They know where major organs are located on most species. They do not know much about the anatomy of rare creatures or monsters, but they can make an educated guess in certain circumstances. This skill can help a character know what organs to harvest and other body parts for components or other uses. Including selling them to others.
• Novice: Knowing where major organs lie in the corpse of the same race.
• Average: Recognizing the effects of disease or poison upon healthy bodies (though not necessarily the exact nature of such).
• Advanced:
• Expert:
• Master: Remembering how minor organs function in humans.
Basic Each time learned user gets 2 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

[Anatomy, Basic]
0/5 TP
14|125 SP
Training Aid(s):
Book: Textbook (Overview) (Anatomy Textbook)
Physician Trait

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Book: Textbook (Overview) (Anatomy Textbook)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Book, Textbook
Effect: A book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A textbook or coursebook is a manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Book Shop.
Cost: 3,500 Ryo

Muscles were the next chapter of Tanken’s anatomy textbook. As with bone, it started with a definition of the subject matter. “A band or bundle of fibrous tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract, producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body,” it read. The definition didn’t surprise Tanken, but it was good to reaffirm, he figured. Muscles served as a variety of purposes, depending on what type they were. And according to the book, there were three different groups.

First up were the skeletal muscles. These were the muscles Tanken normally thought of as, well… muscles. They made up the biceps, the thighs, and all the other groups that people consciously moved when they wanted to do something. Connected to the skeletal system, hence their name, they were made of a series of long, large cylindrical fibers grouped up into bundles. Their main purpose was to aid in movement or to resist outside forces, making them doubly important for shinobi, Tanken figured.

After them were cardiac muscles. Obviously, they were the muscles that made up the heart and portions of the largest blood vessels in the body – the aorta and the vena cava. Controlled by the nervous system, their job was to pump blood throughout the body depending on various external and internal factors. Stress, exercise, and overall fitness were just a few of the factors the book listed that affected cardiac muscles. Unlike skeletal muscles, these were all interconnected, branched fibers connected by complex junctions.

And finally, there were smooth muscles. They were what made up the walls of blood vessels, the iris of the eye, hair follicles, and various organs, especially those in the abdomen, like the stomach. Like the last group, they were controlled by the nervous system, working on the unconscious level. They tended to be groups of smaller, spindle-shaped fibers, and unlike the other two groups, they weren’t striped, or striated.

The next page contained a diagram pointing out all of the major muscle groups of the human body. Taking a breath, Tanken readied to memorize them, pointing them out on his own form while he read them off. Biceps were the front side of the upper arm while triceps were the back, while the extensors made up the forearms. Abdominal muscles were, obviously, near the stomach and above them were the pectoral muscles. On the sides were the obliques, and the back was made up of several large groups – erector spinae at the low end, latissimus dorsi in the midback, rhomboids between the shoulder blades, and the trapezius that stretched up toward the neck.

Hamstrings were the back of the thigh while quadriceps were the front. The gastrocnemius & soleus – he paused to read those over again – made up the back of the lower leg. And finally, the buttocks were… well, they were pretty much what they said on the tin. Again, Tanken started from the beginning, starting to fully memorize them for future use.

[Gohan]

30 SP Total+5 TP

[Geo]

((OOC: As usual, thanks in advance for your time!))

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Anatomy, Basic (30|125 SP)
Rank: "E"
Skill: Skill
Effect: Characters with the anatomy skill have a basic knowledge of how the body functions.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: This skill includes a knowledge of surgery, dissection, and basic anatomy. As might be expected, such knowledge is enormously useful for corporeal sculpting of corpses, sculpting incorporeal ectoplasm, and even restoring bodies by proper embalming. Without a proper knowledge of Anatomy, Basic, most of the work is guesswork. They know where major organs are located on most species. They do not know much about the anatomy of rare creatures or monsters, but they can make an educated guess in certain circumstances. This skill can help a character know what organs to harvest and other body parts for components or other uses. Including selling them to others.
• Novice: Knowing where major organs lie in the corpse of the same race.
• Average: Recognizing the effects of disease or poison upon healthy bodies (though not necessarily the exact nature of such).
• Advanced:
• Expert:
• Master: Remembering how minor organs function in humans.
Basic Each time learned user gets 2 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

[Anatomy, Basic]
0/5 TP
30|125 SP
Training Aid(s):
Book: Textbook (Overview) (Anatomy Textbook)
Physician Trait

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Book: Textbook (Overview) (Anatomy Textbook)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Book, Textbook
Effect: A book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A textbook or coursebook is a manual of instruction in any branch of study. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Book Shop.
Cost: 3,500 Ryo

Tanken decided to read through one last chapter of his anatomy textbook before bed. Flipping the page, he nodded to himself, realizing the importance of the upcoming segment. “The cardiovascular system,” he read aloud, “is a network made up of the heart and blood vessels.” He knew that obvious fact, but he kept reading dutifully. The heart’s job was to pump blood through the vessels, spreading oxygen, nutrients and waste products to their appropriate destinations.

Appropriately, the next segment started with the heart. The heart was a muscle that contained four chambers – two atria and atop two ventricles. The process of pumping blood starts, the book continued, when low-oxygen blood flows into the right atrium from both the superior and inferior vena cava. That blood, in turn, is pumped into the right ventricle, which shoots it out to the lungs. After carbon dioxide is exchanged for oxygen, the blood comes back into the left atrium, then down into the right ventricle, which pumps it into the aorta to be taken to the rest of the body.

The next section moved onto the blood vessels. Of course, he learned about the basic three types of vessels – arteries, veins and the capillaries that connected them. Arteries, almost always oxygen-rich, carried blood from the heart while veins, almost always oxygen-poor, moved blood to the heart. The only exceptions were the pulmonary arteries, which moved low-oxygen blood out of the heart, and the similarly named pulmonary veins, which brought rejuvenated blood into the heart to be spread around.

But he furrowed his brow as he read on. “The average human child has nearly 100,000 kilometers of blood vessels in its body. Meanwhile, the average adult has more than 160,000 kilometers within them.” Tanken laughed incredulously as he re-read those two sentences, then grew silent. Soaking that in, he began to realize just how interconnected the human body was. Taking a breath, he nodded to himself and moved on.

Capillaries intrigued him the most. They were fans of vessels that joined arteries to veins, and they were usually microscopic in size. They needed to be, seeing as they filled what the book called “extravascular space,” which is where cells of the body live. As blood cells flow from arteries and into capillaries, they deposit their nutrients into the extravascular space and take on waste. After that, they go into the veins so they can return to the heart and lungs and do it all over again.

[Father 'Suke]

+5 TP
+12 SP
42|125

[Geo]

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First Aid: Healing (32|125 SP)
Rank: "E" (5 Training Points at all Times)
Skill: Skill
Effect: This skill allows a character to properly tend to the sick and injured.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: While some basic medical knowledge is inherent in this skill (to the extent such can be said to exist), the character’s role is to provide an optimal environment to facilitate the patient’s own recuperative abilities, by monitoring the patient and tending to his needs as required.
• Novice: Diagnose; Tend to injured characters such that their wounds heal at a faster rate; critical care requires 10 minutes/wound; can distinguish whether an individual is dead or merely unconscious.
• Average: Stabilize a character knocked unconscious from trauma; critical care requires 6 minutes/wound; with a successful Average skill check to resuscitate a dying character.
• Advanced: Function as a midwife to deliver children; diagnose injuries; critical care requires 4 minutes/wound
• Expert: Properly set broken bones; amputate limbs; critical care requires 3 minutes/wound
• Master: Critical care needs 2 min. per wound

Look in Task Skills thread found in the Skills and Traits Index for more information. If user has 25 or more Ranks in Alchemy user gains a Synergy Bonus +10 to First Aid: Healing. Each time learned user gets 1 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

[First Aid: Healing]
0/5 TP
32|125 SP
Training Aid(s):
Book: Textbook: First Aid: Healing for the Curious
Physician Trait

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Book: Textbook: First Aid: Healing for the Curious (Overview)
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Book, Textbook
Effect: A book that helps the user how to perform critical care.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A Large Leather-bound book with "B.I.N.G.O. Productions" written on it. No Authors are listed within the book. This book teaches the basic medical study and the role in which is needed to provide aid on a patient. It discusses their needs and how to monitor the patient through various practices. The volume goes through a wide range of study such as how to diagnose, stabilize, and properly set broken bones. This book gives a +5 Competence bonus to the user's skill pertaining to First Aid: Healing, and gives the user a +1 Competence bonus per die roll when learning the skill.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Book Shop.
Cost: 4,000 Ryo

Physician
Rank: "C"
Skill: Heritage Trait
Effect: User is trained to the healing arts.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User has +20 Skill points to divide as they wish among all First Aid, Botany, and Herbalist. At each Class Level the user gain an additional +5 Heritage skill Points to place in any one of these skills. User gains +1 Heritage Points per die roll when learning the skill. User also gains a +10 to all First Aid Skills. Through advanced training in medicine and healing techniques, the user can set bones, suture lacerations, and apply a myriad of balms, unguents, and other remedies to speed the healing process. Such care requires 1 minute. This trait replaces 1 Freebies.
Limit: Must start with Character; replaces 1 Freebies.
Point division: 5 in First Aid: Healing, 5 in First Aid: Autopsy, 5 in Botany (Desert) and 5 in Cultivation (Desert)

As the sun shined down on Sunagakure, Tanken figured it was time to bone up on one of his weaker subjects. Bones. That is, how to treat broken ones. Broken bones were also known as fractures, according to Healing for the Curious, which sat open on his desk.

First off, there were seven signs to watch out for with broken bones. If the suspected area was swollen, difficult to move, moved in an unnatural way, was shorter or twisted or unnaturally bent, if there was a grating or grinding noise when moving the area, if there was a loss of strength in that part or if the patient was in physical shock, then it was possible, even likely, that the bone was broken.

A small caption was set aside near that passage outlining the symptoms of shock. Of course, Tanken was familiar with the concept of emotional chock, but he was surprised to learn in-depth about the dangers of physical shock. Shock was brought on by a disruption to blood flow. Paleness, cold and clammy skin, fast or shallow breathing, a fast and weak pulse, a profusion of yawning or sighing, confusion or loss of consciousness were all signs of shock. Considered a life-threatening condition, what with the decreased blood flow and all, it could be initially treated by keeping the patient on their back, elevating their legs and keeping the head below their torso.

“Hmm,” Tanken murmured to himself, mentally noting the symptoms and treatments. “Well, back to the bones, I guess.” Other symptoms of fractures included heavy bleeding, numbness or a bluish coloration of the skin. After identifying whether there was a fracture, step one, according to the book, was to remove clothing from that part of the body. Simple enough, Tanken thought. Step two was to stop any bleeding by applying pressure with a sterile cloth. After that, it was important to stabilize and immobilize the affected area to keep the wound from getting worse. That could be done with a splint, Tanken read.

If no proper splints were nearby, a temporary one could be fashioned out of small boards, sturdy paper or cardboard fixed with elastic bands or tape. If needed, the boards could be padded to reduce discomfort. Then, to reduce swelling, Tanken would need to put ice on the area. After that, it was just important to keep at it until it was ready to set the bone.

Of course, setting a fractured bone, called “reduction,” would be different with each break. Compound fractures – those that broke the skin – are markedly different than hairline fractures, the book stated. In either case, the caretaker needed to move the bone back into position. Sometimes, that would require surgery, which made Tanken realize he needed to study his anatomy a lot more than he thought. Once the bone was set, though, it needed to be immobilized. That was done with a cast, made by surrounding a cloth bandage with plaster so the bones will remain in place while they heal.

With his lesson learned, Tanken began to read again, wanting to commit it all to memory.

[Father 'Suke]

+5 TP
+5 SP
37|125

[Geo]

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First Aid: Cauterize Wound (0|125 SP)
Rank: "E" (10 Training Points at all Times)
Skill: Skill
Effect: A character with this ability can use a hot poker, or other hot metal objects to stop the bleeding in a wound, thereby preventing additional bleeding damage.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The process does, however, render further damage from the hot poker or piece of metal used to cauterize the wound. The process also leaves a visible, ugly scar, the person with this skill can perform it on themselves or to others.
• Novice: Able to Cauterize Minor Wounds.
• Average: Able to Cauterize Light Wounds.
• Advanced: Able to Cauterize Moderate Wounds.
• Expert: Able to Cauterize Serious Wounds.
• Master: Able to Cauterize Critical Wounds.

Look in Task Skills thread found in the Skills and Traits Index for more information. Each time learned user gets 5 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

[First Aid: Cauterize Wound]
0/10 TP
0|125 SP
Training Aid(s):
Book: Textbook: First Aid: Healing for the Curious
Physician Trait

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Book: Textbook: First Aid: Cauterizing Wounds
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Book, Textbook
Effect: A book that helps the user study and understand how to stop wounds by cauterizing them.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A Large Leather-bound book with "B.I.N.G.O. Productions" written on it. No Authors are listed within the book. This book goes through the process and protocols when performing a cauterizing procedure. It gives examples of using a hot poker, or other hot metal objects. It also lists the ramifications of healing in the manner such as infection. This book gives a +5 Competence bonus to the user's skill pertaining to First Aid: Cauterizing, and gives the user a +1 Competence bonus per die roll when learning the skill.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Book Shop.
Cost: 4,000 Ryo

Physician
Rank: "C"
Skill: Heritage Trait
Effect: User is trained to the healing arts.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User has +20 Skill points to divide as they wish among all First Aid, Botany, and Herbalist. At each Class Level the user gain an additional +5 Heritage skill Points to place in any one of these skills. User gains +1 Heritage Points per die roll when learning the skill. User also gains a +10 to all First Aid Skills. Through advanced training in medicine and healing techniques, the user can set bones, suture lacerations, and apply a myriad of balms, unguents, and other remedies to speed the healing process. Such care requires 1 minute. This trait replaces 1 Freebies.
Limit: Must start with Character; replaces 1 Freebies.
Point division: 5 in First Aid: Healing, 5 in First Aid: Autopsy, 5 in Botany (Desert) and 5 in Cultivation (Desert)

Tanken carefully grabbed hold of his kunai by its leather-bound hilt and eased it up from his campfire. He was outside the city walls of Sunagakure, and that alone made him feel more exposed than he liked. Moreover, he was alone in the desert, working on his most recent training – cauterizing wounds. He glanced at his book, aptly titled First Aid: Cauterizing Wounds, then to the nearest cactus in the patch he’d camped out next to. In the firelight, he could clearly see the gouge he’d slashed into its green flesh.

It wasn’t ideal, he knew, but there weren’t exactly people dancing in the streets at the prospect of being prodded with a piping hot kunai blade. And it was indeed hot. The blade of the implement shimmered as he looked at it, a sign of the heat distortion. The campfire wasn’t quite hot enough to make the metal glow, but it would be hot enough to practice with. Taking a breath, he looked once more at his book, rechecking the steps.

Firstly, the book warned, cauterization should be used only when faced with severe blood loss and when no other methods would be sufficient in stemming it. A tourniquet or other way of stopping blood flow would almost always be preferable. Second, the process would likely leave a nasty scar on the affected area, and the patient would need to have the wound regularly disinfected after the cauterization was complete. While many people believed that cautery protected the patient, it actually provided the perfect place for bacteria and other germs to grow.

Nodding, Tanken slowly approached the cactus he had scarred with the blade he now held in his hand. He looked at the vertical gouge, roughly three inches or so in length, then held the kunai diagonally across it. He did one last visual sweep to make sure he’d cleared that area of the cactus of spines before he pressed forward with the flat of the blade. It sank into the firm flesh with a soft hiss, searing into it. Tanken held the blade in place for several dozen seconds as he felt the trunk wilt under the heat, then pulled back.

About a third of the slash had been darkened and pressed in on itself. Nodding, Tanken went back to the fire, setting the hilt down near its edge so the blade disappeared back into the flames. It would probably be best for him to get a tray or rack of some sort so he could easily keep several kunai at the ready, but that was a thought for another time. When the blade heated up once more, he took it by the hilt. The leather he’d wrapped it in was hot, but not scaldingly so. Quickly approaching the cactus again, he pressed the flat of the blade onto the “wound,” holding it in place for about a minute before returning to the fire again.

Once more, he heated the blade up, then returned to the cactus to seal up the last third. When he was finished, he paused to survey his handiwork. The cactus’ flesh was obviously burnt and distorted in parts, and he grimaced as he realized what that might look like on a person. But as he recalled the book’s warning, this was only to be used as a last resort. In that situation, a person would probably be all right with the risks. After Tanken had practiced some more, that is.

Nodding, he looked to another spot on the cactus bare of needles and simply stabbed his kunai into it, giving it a slight twist once it was in. It created a deep gouge, and part of the cactus’ flesh jutted out unevenly. Returning to the fire, he heated the blade up, getting it nice and hot before making his way back to the desert plant. With his free hand, he pushed the part of the cactus that was sticking out back into place, then pressed the flat of the blade diagonally against the main cut once more.

Again, the weapon seared into the trunk, and Tanken held it in place until he was content that it wouldn’t do anymore good. Pulling back, he noticed that a small section of the flesh had split at the bottom of the main “wound.” Smiling at the catch, he decided to make one last trip back to the fire, heating the weapon up and sealing that last of it. Looking back over his work, he decided he’d need to practice some more, but at least he was off to a practical start.

[Father 'Suke]

+10 TP
+41 SP
41|125

Note: in the training aid section where you list your aids, perhaps put the right book title from the spoiler LOL.

[Geo]

((OOC: *facedesk* Sorry about that. I've been making templates up for each skill, and I forgot to make that one tweak. Thanks again))

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First Aid: Autopsy (0|125 SP – currently capped at 37)
Rank: "E" (10 Training Points at all Times)
Skill: Skill
Effect:
Special: ---
Drawback: Autopsy skill mastery cannot exceed his Anatomy, Basic skill mastery nor First Aid: Healing.
Description: By combining medical knowledge with alchemical knowledge, it is possible to gain a significant amount of information from a corpse without the use of Chakra. Autopsy forms the basis of forensic pathology, but Botany and Animal Lore allows the user to test the characteristics of blood and is required for certain advanced actions. The list below indicates the type of information that can be gained with the knowledge the user may know. A user with knowledge of Botany and Animal Lore can team up in order to perform a task.
• Novice: Cause of Death
• Average: Examine Injury and Presence of Foreign Substances.
• Advanced: Nature of Foreign Substances
• Expert: Time of Death
• Master: Abilities that Lie within the body.

Look in Task Skills thread found in the Skills and Traits Index for more information. Each time learned user gets 5 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: Must know Anatomy, Basic, Must know First Aid: Healing.

[First Aid: Autopsy]
0/10 TP
0|125 SP (currently capped at 37)
Training Aid(s):
Book: Textbook: First Aid: Autopsy Studies
Physician Trait

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Book: Textbook: First Aid: Autopsy Studies
Rank: "C"
Type: Main, Book, Textbook
Effect: A book that helps the user how to understand and how to perform Autopsies.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: A Large Leather-bound book with "B.I.N.G.O. Productions" written on it. No Authors are listed within the book. A book that helps the user learn multiple procedures pertaining to the use of Autopsy. The book goes through the various ways of finding a cause of death, how to examine and record an injury, how to identify foreign substances, and time of Death. This book gives a +5 Competence bonus to the user's skill pertaining to First Aid: Autopsy, and gives the user a +1 Competence bonus per die roll when learning the skill.
Limit: These items may be bought inside any Book Shop.
Cost: 4,000 Ryo

Physician
Rank: "C"
Skill: Heritage Trait
Effect: User is trained to the healing arts.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User has +20 Skill points to divide as they wish among all First Aid, Botany, and Herbalist. At each Class Level the user gain an additional +5 Heritage skill Points to place in any one of these skills. User gains +1 Heritage Points per die roll when learning the skill. User also gains a +10 to all First Aid Skills. Through advanced training in medicine and healing techniques, the user can set bones, suture lacerations, and apply a myriad of balms, unguents, and other remedies to speed the healing process. Such care requires 1 minute. This trait replaces 1 Freebies.
Limit: Must start with Character; replaces 1 Freebies.
Point division: 5 in First Aid: Healing, 5 in First Aid: Autopsy, 5 in Botany (Desert) and 5 in Cultivation (Desert)

At his desk, Tanken cracked open one of his most freshly bought books -- Autopsy Studies. It was a grim topic, but one he needed to understand to begin rounding out his studies in the healing arts. After all, learning from the dead could provide invaluable aid to the living. Opening to the first pages of performing the autopsy procedure, he started to read the text.

The first step of any autopsy was to verify the patient. Tanken blinked at that, having imagined the first step to be performing a particular cut. But as he read on, he realized its importance. In a hospital setting it was essential to know you were working on the right patient. But in the field, corpses could be used as traps or decoys. They could be cleverly disguised or rigged with paper bombs. He nodded to himself, reading on.

Step two was planning ahead. As the examiner, he needed to consider the need to collect cultures or samples and store fluids. “Prepare for any anticipated special procedures,” he read along with the text. That made sense. Forward thinking would be needed for plenty of situations. After planning out his procedure, his task was to remove bandages, intravenous lines or other such attachments, if applicable. Once the body was clear, he could start the examination.

With the prep work out of the way, the first part of an autopsy was an external examination, according to the book. First, he would need to touch the skin around the body to check its elasticity and color. He would also need to examine and document tattoos, lesions and scars for future consideration. After that, flex the limbs to test out the state of rigor mortis and examine the state of their finger and toenails. Then, starting at the top of the head, begin to examine the body by touch.

Check the nasal and oral cavities, then examine the neck by touch. After that, check the lymph nodes at the neck and throat, and examine “the position of the trachea and the consistency of the thyroid.” Tanken noted those down on a piece of paper to check in his anatomy textbook for more information. Moving on, an autopsy continued over the chest and stomach, checking for masses or other problem spots in both regions. The exam continued down between the legs of the patient, then down the legs. Once the external exam is complete, Tanken read, it was important to note down any inconsistencies or problem spots so he could refer to them later.

And, according to the book, that would conclude the external exam.

[Father 'Suke]

+10 TP; though next time perhaps more training. I'm being nice this round.
+33 SP
33|125