The Clinic The Clinic of Doctor Petricious is an interesting place to say the least. Located at the edge of the Wolf's Den, Doctor Petrious resides performing countless despicable experiments for "the greater good of medicine and healing", though anybody who has sit in on a session with him and an involuntary subject will see that there's nothing medically relevant. The Doctor is a madman with a hunger for blood, screams, pain, tears, suffering, begging, and he loves every moment of it. Petricious's Clinic is so much more than a clinic.
But, it is still a clinic. The Doctor, when he's not performing experiments "for the greater good of medicine and healing", is actually busy fighting diseases, sewing up gashes (fighters of the Blood Pits frequent this place), and bracing shattered bones in splints. He's not cheap, but he's the only doctor in the whole town. Still, despite how well he keeps his work separate from his 'experiments', most of Sunberth refuses to see him when they are truly ill or hurt, because what's a festering infection oozing with puss compared to having your skin peeled from your back? That's how many see the place.
The Clinic itself is an old building, once a simple one-roomed house, where all furniture has been replaced with operating tables and cabinets of surgical tools. The place is far from clean, but Sunberth itself is no better for denying infection. The most notable feature of Doctor Pretricious's Clinic is not the clinic itself, but the shack behind it. There's a small building that actually steps below ground, a building strong and secured, barred and locked. That's where Petricious keeps his living subjects, be it before or after some experimentation. It is in there, that's what the people truly fear becoming a part of. Many passing people will tell you that you can often hear their screams of pain begging for someone to release them, but who would risk that fate when Petricious could be anywhere, looking for a new subject to abduct?
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Doctor Petricious Petricious the Doctor, he is notorious for many many things in Sunberth, none of which he'll promote or deny. He simple doesn't care for Sunberth chatter and rumors, but he's not entirely segregated from the city altogether. It is known by some that many prominent faction leaders employ Doctor Petricious for various duties. The Doctor, who will sacrifice a perfectly good subject for the sake of large financial gain (which means more tools/subjects for future experiments), has been known to be excellent at loosening the lips of those under his scalpel. Torture is what makes the birdies sing, and Pretricious is second to none, and he loves to do it, pay or no pay.
However, Petricious oddly enough doesn't hold value in death. He is a doctor after all. Often times, if a subject has undergone tremendous experimentation and lived, but is so messed up he or she cannot be valuable for more, then they are released. More than once a year can you see a naked man smeared in his own blood, disfigured beyond recognition, stalking around the city in a haze of confusion. They don't usually live long in that state. Infection, fever, starvation, blood loss, insanity, and so on. The possible symptoms of being released are vast and each of them deadly.
Gnosis: 2nd mark of Cordas. 1st mark of Vexation.
Medicine 94, Philtering 80, Herbalism 76, Poison 59, Torture 79, Interrogation 72, Projection 60, Weapon: Hatchet 55, Weapon: Bonesaw 25, Rhetoric 40, Intimidation 80 |
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