[OPEN] I've got ideas, but it's nothing I picked up at school

[misdirection_hex]

WHO: Vandelin and anyone else!
WHAT: Concussions. (Among other things.)
WHEN: Any time during the month.
WHERE: The library and the clinic.
NOTES: Always happy to add another starter!

1. Library

There's very little that Vandelin actually misses about the Circle, and still less that he would ever admit to missing--but the one thing he'd appreciate having back, even if he'd never cop to it, is a library that accommodates short people well. Perhaps Hasmal's library had been designed by an elven mage, or perhaps its low shelves and abundant stepladders were simply coincidental conveniences, but he'd never had any trouble reaching a book he wanted back there.

Well, there's nothing for it. He's not about to just ask someone for help. Checking carefully to make sure nobody's watching, he places a chair in front of the shelf, stacks a couple thick textbooks on top of it, and gets climbing.

2. Clinic

The chair had looked stable. Vandelin will maintain until his dying day that his makeshift stepladder had been a perfectly decent idea while it lasted. He has, in fact, been insisting this all the way to the clinic, with slightly slurred words, to the annoyance of the guy who's taken it upon himself to escort the poor concussed elf there so that he isn't wandering aimlessly around Darktown with a huge target on his back.

The walk has at least done him a bit of good, and he is slightly more lucid when he makes his way through the door, off-balance and bruised and leaning on his staff. "Is there a...wait, or can I just see a healer?"

3. Wildcard

Surprise me!

Comments

[crowncitizen]

"I'm not that short!" Prompto, buddy, at 5'8", you're barely average for a human male. Though it's true that he wouldn't have much more luck (as much as he doesn't want to admit it), the sight of the chair wobbling still makes Prompto a nervous guy. He sets down his book and hurries over to grab the chair to steady it.

"You do know that it's not supposed to wobble, right?" Because that's a lot of wobbling. "That's the opposite of steady. And I think it's as unsteady as it looks. Is getting that book really worth the inevitable fall?" Because you're definitely gonna fall, man. Please don't make Prompto have to admit first aid.

[misdirection_hex]

Vandelin watches Prompto grab onto the chair with a 'pal, you are overreacting embarrassingly' sort of a look. Naturally, should the chair actually fall, he'll be eating crow even harder than he'll be eating the floor, but if he is allowing for this as a possibility, you'd never know it.

"I just think we have very different definitions of the word 'inevitable,'" he says, shrugging as he continues browsing the shelf like time isn't of the essence. Were Prompto not helpfully steadying the chair, he might be trying to hurry things along, but as long as he is volunteering the help, Vandelin supposes he might as well take advantage.

"Really, what would you do in my situation?"

[crowncitizen]

Overreacting won't likely end up with someone having a bruised skull, or worse.

"Uh, yeah, yeah we do." Prompto watches him closely, hoping he's not going to take forever to pick a book. Just because the chair's steady, doesn't mean the book he's standing on are. "If I were in your situation, I'd find a ladder. You know, the things that are meant to be climbed on? Or find a taller person."