Eberron Experts: Jorasco General Hospital (Stormreach)
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"Docter, there's an ugly lycanthropic infection in C18, planar delusions fueled by an alleged sorcerous geas in G6, that noble Cyran refugee in B23 demanding a second opinion that avoids amputating his warforged-shattered leg, and the director wants to see you; something about A9's progressive petrification being beholder-borne, not medusa like you diagnosed. The victim's adventuring party is justifiably irate, it seems, and apparently under some cosmic time crunch.
Meanwhile, an insistent Korranburg journalist delivered a bottle of your favorite Zil whiskey, no doubt tempting you to bend your exclusivity deal with Morgrave University.
Oh, and you missed a sending from your spouse. Apparently, if you can't manage to, quote: 'drag your self-absorbed hide to your own offspring's Shadow Carnival try-out tonight, then you can find your precious magecraft wand collection at the bottom of the Thunder Sea, and don't even bother looking for your family because they're moving back to Wroat to live with your in-laws,' end quote. Shall we start with the amputation?"
Details
What: This game uses
The Ward: Acute Care Edition (a recently released medical drama game Powered by the Apocalypse), set in the fantasy noir world of Eberron.
Tone: We will explore the dramatic and messy everyday lives of healing professionals within a strictly hierarchical Jorasco-run healing ward in Stormreach, perhaps the only civilized city on the cursed continent of Xen'drik. Tone will likely be similar to the show Scrubs or other shows about people's lives in a medical profession: mixing seriousness with humor, overlaid with a healthy dose of fantasy and crime noir tropes because it's Eberron.
"Rating": Content will definitely be mature since the game focuses on medical and personal drama that will inevitably include blood, romance, addiction, and unwise ways to cope with stress. Nevertheless, we will fade to black and use tactful cinematography to avoid anything happening 'on-screen' that you wouldn't see on a Netflix streaming show.
Mechanical Focus: Gameplay mechanics focus less on success vs failure and more on hard choices, natural consequences, and PC-to-PC drama regarding reputation/rivalry/friendship/romance/etc., while characters juggle the professional, personal, and social theaters of their lives.
When/How: The game is set shortly after the end of the Last War and the terrible Day of Mourning (the Eberron default of 998YK). Negotiable expected posting pace of 1 post per day or two. Expected game length is the equivalent of a live 4-6 session arc. Follow the link above to see more information and submit a Request to Join (RTJ).
Who: You play the apprentices (interns), attendants (nurses), wardens (orderlies), journeymen (residents) and master healing experts (specialists) that do the heavy lifting within the strict but relationally messy hierarchy. While the halflings of House Jorasco command from the top, their magical healing abilities are stretched far too thin for Stormreach's needs, so PCs can be any race filling any of the roles, all with at least some respected expertise in both medical and non-medical pursuits, and all serving one addiction or another (blatant or otherwise, tangible or intangible). Players should enjoy embracing the relational drama inherent in the high-stakes, high-stress environment of a fantastical, medical-magical healing station.
Why: I love Eberron as a world, especially the economic power of the Dragonmarked Houses. I'm eager to deeply explore the fantastical and dramatic daily lives of Eberron's civilian inhabitants rather than just the epic exploits of its adventurers and world-savers. Magic is treated as a tool in Eberron, so I'm curious how they use it in medical applications.
If this game works out, I'm eager to adapt the system to explore the non-medical exploits of many other teams of professionals serving throughout Eberron in a larger Eberron Experts series/anthology of loosely connected short-form story arcs. Each story features a tightly themed set of Eberron professionals like Morgrave academics, Korranburg journalists, Orien couriers/rail-dogs, Sivis notaries, Kundarak bankers, Deneith blademarks, Vadalis magebreeders, Medani inquisitives, Phiarlan performer-spies, Ghallanda hostellers, Lyrandar sky-sailors, and heck, maybe even Thranish adepts, Eldeen druids, Thronehold diplomat-lawyers, Q'barra homesteaders, Dhakaani empire-builders, Arcanix cosmographers, etc. Who knows!
Additional World/Historical Context
Despite the unaccountable losses that the Last War wrung from Khorvaire, there is one thing it provided in abundance: demand. Demand for healing services, desperate adaptation, and ethically flexible innovation.
While House Cannith's profits soared through non-partisan sale of warforged and other arms, and both Houses of the Shadow-marked illicitly boomed on furious espionage under the guise of promoting cultural exchange and morale, we thrived on suffering, whether we liked it or not. Every delivery of a bloody wound or messy new member of the Five Nations' arms race dropped in our laps lucrative new frontiers of an uncontested monopoly.
After the Day of Mourning, the war has officially ended, but we all know that Khorvaire's suffering has only just begun.
House Jorasco's coffers overflow at an all time high, while the overworked, under-equipped practitioners burn out faster than an elemental airship with a cracked Khyber-shard. Hundreds of halflings with Marks of Healing only go so far—and charge exorbitantly for their famous services—so it falls to us to stand in the gap and bring some brief moments of relief before the world sinks once more into War. We take it one all-nighter at a time, so wash up, prepare your spells, put on your game face, and stick a bloody hand in.
