SECURITY
Overview
This Department consists entirely of Officers.
To
Roleplay Surgery, as the Physician spends time (at least 6
minutes) Roleplaying Surgical Actions - you must Roleplay
the appropriate signs of your Medical condition.
A
Physician Character can only try to cure a specific
Condition on a given patient as the Lead Physician once per
day. This means that if they choose to stop treatment
(usually because of repeated failures increasing the risk of
the surgery), they cannot try to treat that Condition again
as the Lead Physician (they have exhausted their Personal
Knowledge or techniques trying to cure it). They can,
however, assist another Character to treat that Condition as
Lead Physician later on in the same day.
Any
given session of Surgery is divided into three Phases - Starting, Treatment, and Finishing.
This is to make the Roleplay make sense, reduce the time
that the Surgery requires a dedicated Physician, and provide
a good tension curve.
During
the Start Phase, the Physician gathers their team and begins
the surgery. Any Character with one or more ranks of the
Physician Skill may join during the Start Phase, and decide
on a Lead Physician. You do not need a Referee to begin surgery, but
you do need one to continue past the Start Phase. The Start
Phase takes at least 3 minutes of Roleplay - this time is a
good time to contact Security . Once at least 3
minutes have passed and the Referee is present, the surgery
proceeds to the Treatment Phase. The Lead Physician should
identify themselves to Security and provide the
following information:
§ How many ranks of Physician they
have
§ How many other Physicians are
participating
§ What are the Conditions they are
treating
§ Anything else that is relevant
During
the Treatment Phase, the Physician or team of Physicians
does the surgery needed to remove the Condition, but this
can be a risky process. The risk in this case is represented
by a Medical Scan from the Tricorder. At the beginning of
the Treatment Phase, and every minute thereafter, the Lead
Physician must update his Scan.
§ If they Scan Green, they succeed in
treating one Condition (assuming it only requires a single
success).
§ If they Scan Yellow, they suffer a
setback, and can continue the Treatment, but at increased
risk.
§ If they Scan Red, the Patient
deteriorates, and may suffer a LETHAL wound or some other
negative consequence.
§ If they Scan Black, the Patient
suffers a severe negative consequence and may die.
After
another Scan, the Lead Physician may choose to keep going,
Roleplaying another minute of surgery, and conducting a
Scan, or stop and proceed to the Finishing Phase. The
assisting Physicians must continue to be involved, or the
benefits of their help (increasing the odds of success) will
be removed for the next Scan.
The Lead
Physician may ask how many Scans are in the Treatment
Options prior to the current Scan, and may choose to stop
and proceed to the Finishing Phase before scanning again. If
they complete a Scan, then they must accept the result of
that Scan.
The
Finishing Phase represents the time taken to tie up the
loose ends (or organs) and close up the Wound. During the
Finishing Phase, the risky part of the Surgery is over, and
the participating Physicians can relax a bit. At least one
Physician who was participating must spend an additional 3
minutes of Roleplay to complete the Surgery - at the end of
this time, the Patient regains 1 lost Hit to each of their
locations (or 3 Global Body Hits). Failing to complete the
Finishing Phase may also result in the Patient acquiring an
Infection Condition.
When the
Referee arrives at the Surgery, they will gather some basic
information from the Players present and build a Treatment
Scan. The basic Treatment Scan consists of 2 Green, 2 Yellow
& 1 Red Medical Scan Results. Other factors will affect
what Info go into the initial Treatment Scan;
§ Every Rank of the Physician skill that the Lead Physician has
adds another Green Scan Option.
§ Every additional Physician assisting
adds another Green Scan Option, up to the number of ranks of
the Physician skill possessed by the Lead Physician.
§ Every Level of the Psionic Skill that the
Patient has adds another Green Scan Option.
§ The Condition being treated may add
more Scans of any of the 4 types based on how easy or
difficult it is to treat.
After
every Scan, the Referee may add or remove Scans from the
Treatment Scan to denote the increasing risk of prolonged
surgery.
If a
Green Scan is shown, that indicates a success. The Surgeon
may continue the Surgery to attempt to remove another
Condition affecting the Patient - if that other Condition
has additional Scans that need to be added, then those will
be added for the next Scan.
If a
Yellow Scan is shown, that indicates a setback. There is no
direct negative consequence to the patient, but the risk of
the surgery failing increases. If a Yellow Scan is shown,
then the Referee adds another Yellow Scan to the Treatment
Scan.
If a Red
Scan is shown, that indicates that something has gone wrong
in the Surgery - one of the Physicians may have clipped a
blood vessel, the Condition may have worsened, or similar.
The negative consequence might be another Condition given to
the Patient, or the Referee may afflict the patient with a
LETHAL wound, beginning their Death Count (note that
Physicians who are working to stop someone's Death Count, do
not contribute their Green Scan to the Surgery while they
are doing so). If a Red Scan is shown, the Referee also adds
another Yellow Scan to the Treatment Scan.
If a
Black Scan is shown, that indicates that something has gone
very wrong. Either the Patient will Die during the Surgery,
or has acquired a severe, long lasting and possibly
incurable Condition. The Referee may confer briefly with the
Patient's Player, and will decide on the most dramatically
appropriate and fitting course of action - the Referee's
decision is Final. No additional Scans are added to the
Treatment Scan.
The
longer the Surgery goes on without success, the more likely
it becomes that a negative consequence will occur. If at any
point the Treatment Option has 4 Yellow or Red Scans, some
of them are options of the next level of severity.
§ If there are 4 Yellow Scan Options
in the Treatment Scan, three of them will be removed and
replaced with another Red Scan Option.
§ If there are 4 Red Scan Options in
the Treatment Scan, three of them will be removed and
replaced with another Black Scan Option.
