To Your Health

Aside from the Virus, there were only a few times in "The Tribe" that they dealt with any issue of health.

Easy enough to recount them: Trudy's post-partum (Season-1), Ram confined to a wheelchair (Season-3), Lex's absessed tooth (Season-3), Selene's injured hand that got infected (Season-5).

That always puzzled me because after the Virus & all the adults died, the world should've been swept by even more disease & more death. No more running water or sewer systems that worked, rotting corpses, rats to spread disease, bad food, tribe wars ... hell, even the least scratch on your hand or skinned knee could've/should've been fatal.

Strangely enough "health" was something addressed early on in our rpg. As players built characters and decided their backgrounds, it was probably just common sense that led them to build in a knowledge of first aid or herbs or possession of some of the last stashes of drugs & medical supplies.

Today we have a dedicated healer "Krystal" as part of our cast & a highly trained medic in "Eris." (And possibly another healer-type character that we don't know much about yet.) Probably a very good thing, since our game has dealt with everything from horrific battle injuries to chicken pox to pregnancy to a 2nd round of the Virus.

When I think about it I'm not sure which is actually more realistic.

-Chyna

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