Surgical Skills

Surgical Skills

 * You cannot use any surgical skills on yourself
 * Surgical skills require both hands free and your attention on your patient

Chirurgeon
If you spend at least 30 seconds of appropriate roleplaying treating a character who is bleeding to death, then you can restore a single lost hit. The bleeding character's death count is paused while you treat them. This skill has no effect on a character who is not on zero hits. You must complete this time without being interrupted. If your character is a physick, you may also apply a single herb during this time.
 * You must purchase chirurgeon before you can take any other surgical skills

Physick
If you spend at least 2 minutes of appropriate roleplaying treating a character then you may restore the use of a limb ruined by the CLEAVE or IMPALE call or treat the effects of a traumatic wound. Some traumatic wounds require longer than 2 minutes of treatment, as directed by the trauma card.
 * You can use appropriate roleplaying to treat a range of conditions
 * You can also apply herbs to an affected character to treat them
 * You cannot use this skill on yourself
 * If you spend at least 3 minutes of appropriate roleplaying treating a character who is terminal then you may allow the character to act as if they are not in pain.

If you spend at least 5 minutes of appropriate roleplaying treating a character who is wounded then they regain all lost global hits after ten minutes of rest and relaxation. This roleplaying can only be performed in a tent or similar building suited for use as a physick's chamber - it cannot be performed on a battlefield.

You can also use this skill to attempt to diagnose what is wrong with a patient. You must ask a ref if there is anything else you can tell about your patient, and what you can do to fix the problem.

You can also apply medicinal herbs directly to a patient to treat them. There are five herbs in Empire, each can be used to treat a different effect. You must spend at least 10 seconds of appropriate roleplaying to apply a herb, but it is possible to apply a single herb while spending thirty seconds treating a character using the chirurgeon skill.

Herbs are produced by a Herbalist, and are measured in drams. Any character can choose to start as a Herbalist, which is a profession. A starting herbalist produces fourteen herbs per event, six drams of False Vervain and two of each of the others.

Apothecary
You are able to mix herbs together at an event to produce a potion that recreates the effects of the herbs but that can be drunk by any character. It requires five seconds of appropriate roleplaying to drink a potion.
 * Herbs can be mixed to produce a potion that can be taken by any character

This skill gives you the ability to mix all five of the Apothecary Potions automatically. You can take the extra recipe skill to learn how to make additional potions.

Extra Recipe
You can choose one additional recipe set of potions that your character knows how to make each time you purchase this skill.