>I've been wondering is whether it is still the standard operating procedure to ask your patient before taking bleeders.

Um, I work fast, so they'd better say something before it's gone. <g> That is unless it's obviously a pet, like one guy with disease and a single tiny bleeder. (It went unbelievable and I knocked it back down for him.)

Basically if you want to keep it, say so before I start grabbing and then don't grumble that it takes me forever to heal you working around the bleeder. I don't use the crutch and I do pride myself on a job done very fast.

Of course I rarely heal places where bleeders are hard to come by, either, and I'm almost always willing to let folks tend me if I know they're looking for practice.

Also, I don't normally heal corpses. Although if I'm in the mood to, don't complain because I don't ask when healing corpses. Meat is meat and if I want to heal your dead body, well, you're dead even if you can talk. (Had one little idjit threaten to kill me for healing his corpse. I wish he'd tried. It would have been fun to run him around in a spar for a bit until I booted him from the room with innocence.)

Fundamentally though, since I normally heal in places where most folks are very high circle, I get very little back talk. But then I also figure part of my job is being charming and attentive. <g> Doesn't hurt the tips, either.

Oh yes, sharing patients. No hoo-hah to me. I've asked for assists and given them. I can be very, very fast in grabbing patients though, so speak up if you're looking to heal as well. Often enough I'll say, "Please, be my guest." I can grab wounds far faster than I can heal myself so please, go right ahead and don't be shy about joining in if you feel like healing.

Hmmm, what else? If I'm dancing, don't expect me to come running to heal if you're not a friend. I'll respond to a request for healing on the gweth while I'm dancing of where I am if I'm willing, but you'd better come hunt me down and even better, kill a few critters before you leave and give me the loot. <g>

Tips and manners? Well, I'll heal a total jerk if they give me enough sparklies or someone who's willing to sit and chat with me while I heal up even if they're dead broke. (Whether or not they look like they have money. Entertainment is often a nice tip too.) Idjits who drop in, fall asleep while I heal them, (which rarely takes more than a roisen) and then run away with hardly a thanks get noted. They do it more than a couple of times and I don't seem to have room in the queue for them, surprisingly enough. People who give me real goodies, like boxes, master's lockpicks or particularly good classes, get first priority and often get moved to the 'friends' category where I'll go heal them without a second thought.

On the bottom line, if I don't like how people are treating me, I pack up and leave. It isn't as if they can't stop me unless they advance on me, and even then, there are relatively few people I can't drive to missle with innocence. It isn't as if someone can grab my hand and make me transfer the wounds from their body. They can kill me, sure, but that's not going to get them healed. And anyone stupid enough for killing an empath for not healing them is going to be in far more a world of hurt than I will be refilling yet another favor orb. If I get annoyed often enough at a spot, I'll stop going there. No skin off my nose. Places where I'm kept entertained, good classes, friends running in and out to chat for a bit, good tips, I'll set up house and stay for anlaes.

Dio, often enough the puff with a 'tude

Not only does he set up camp and heal but he also has been known to stand on the front lines healing during invasions. I am not talking about in a triage spot, I am talking about up front where you have to climb over the corpse to go charging down the street and clean some more of them out. He was healing once in Riverhaven the whole group of us and stayed on his feet during the entire attack and stood right beside us brawling and throwing critters down while Madigan was leading the charge and a half dozen or better of us were following. Not only did he stay alive by the held the line and town was cleaned out, He kept the rest of us alive as well. By the time we made it back to the healing spot and worked on the dead the front line group was basically all healed up and ready for more action should it come.

DIO ROCKS.


Just A Cleric

By themselves, they aren't much good. However, once you trick them out you can have a very cool, very stylish set of riding leathers to help you enjoy all the EmpathX Games events:

1)Greater Fist luge runs -- all the fun and excitement of riding a cart down the tracks, without the cart (wheels are affixed to the front or back of your armor as desired). And don't worry, with the army of foraging empaths at the bottom of the track you can be sure that not one gobbet of your mangled flesh will be forgotten.

2)Haychute 10-pins -- The empath will don his/her leathers, and get slathered in grease. The empath will then run hollering through the Paladin's Guildhall, dodging guards and other blockers as he/she makes his/her way to the barn out back (is that part of Berolt's farm?). After giving the guards ample enough time to follow, the empath will quickly run up to the hayloft and time his/her slide down the chute to coincide with crashing into as many paladin guards as possible.

J'Lo, no that other one

<<... with a very round heels.

You must also be a Heinlein fan -- I've never heard that phrase outside his books.