Prompt: This is for your own good, from @badthingshappenbingo
Summary: Brie gets drugged while at work and starts hallucinating. She has to be restrained for her own safety.Â
A/N: This uses characters from my WIP, a fantasy novel. You do not need to know the story to read this.Â
“Brie, can you go and fetch some clean linens for us please, we’ve got a bit of a situation in here and we’re going to need them.”Â
“Yeah, of course,” Brie said, already rising from her seat in front of the computer, making sure to quickly save her work on the discharge paperwork she was working on before she made her way down the hall to the linen closet.Â
The door had just swung closed behind her and she picked up some sheets when hands grabbed her by the shoulders and shoved her forwards, so she was pushed up against the shelves. She struggled and tried to fight her way free – to use some of the techniques that Az had spent hours upon hours drilling into her – but her assailant overpowered her.Â
Then, something sharp pierced the skin in her neck and a few seconds later, the weight on her body was gone. She spun around and prepared to fight, but there was no one there.Â
If it wasn’t for the remaining ache in her neck and the bruises that would no doubt already be forming from her impact with the shelves, she would have thought she’d imagined all of it.Â
Abandoning the linens in a heap on the floor, she stumbled out of the cupboard and made her way down the corridor. Only a couple of people paid any attention to her.Â
She came to a stop in front of Raph, sat behind the desk in the seat next to her recently vacated one. He looked up at her and frowned.Â
“I though Annabelle asked you to get linens for her.” He glanced down at her empty arms and then back up to her face.Â
Brie opened her mouth to try to say something, but no words came. The world had gone fuzzy around the edges and her legs wobbled precariously.Â
“Brie?” Raph stood up. “Are you ok?”
“Something… something happened in…” Her mouth kept moving but she couldn’t make a sound.Â
“What’s wrong?” Raph prompted.Â
Before she could even try to answer, she was interrupted. “Good to see you again, Brielle. I never thought we’d get the chance to talk again.”Â
Brie stepped backwards and looked around frantically. She’d know that voice anywhere, but hearing it now was impossible. Yvette was locked away and under several layers of guards. Even if she did manage to escape, she wouldn’t do so without Raph hearing about it within minutes.Â
As expected, there was no sign of the older woman, which only led to the question of why Brie could hear her.
“You always were slow on the uptake. I’m in your head. It’s a new trick I’ve learnt whilst I’ve been cooped up in this cell,” came Yvette’s voice again.Â
“But your cell has magic blocks on it,” Brie said out loud, earning confused looks from Raph and some of the other healers around them. She backed up until she hit the wall on the other side of the corridor.Â
“Brie, what’s going on?” Raph asked, coming around the desk and standing in front of her. He reached out and placed a hand on each of her shoulders.Â
Her next actions were purely instinctive. Brie let out a sharp blast of her magic that knocked everyone within a five-metre radius of her from their feet.Â
“That’s it, don’t let them near you. They’ll only get rid of me,” Yvette crooned into her ear, then started to laugh.Â
“Get out of my head,” Brie moaned, lifting her hands to drag them over her ears, fingernails scraping and scratching in their wake. She leant forward and slammed her head back against the wall. The laughter stuttered for a second, so she did it again, and again.Â
With each hit, Yvette’s voice in her head paused for a second, before starting up again. The small moments of relief were enough to dull any pain she felt.Â
“Brie, stop,” Raph said, back on his feet again. He took hold of her head and cushioned the back with his hands. She tried to push him away, but he stood firm. Yvette cackled in her ears now. “Ok, Brie, you need to sleep now.” With his words, her limbs grew heavier, and darkness started to encroach on her vision.Â
Then everything went black.
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Cal jogged through the corridors of medical, for once ignoring the looks and greetings she’d received as she passed people. Raph had phoned her just a couple of minutes ago, told her what had happened with Brie, and Cal had barely had the chance to explain to Matt and Az where she was going before she shifted to medical.Â
It took too long for her to reach the room number Raph had given her before hanging up. When she finally did, she paused only for a second to knock and entered before anyone could call out and give her permission.Â
Her eyes were immediately drawn to the bed, where Brie lay sobbing and struggling against the soft restraints that had been placed around her wrists. Cal didn’t hesitate before going to her side. Cal stared at the scratch marks down the side of her face, and the spots of blood on the pillowcase, then leant down to thread her fingers through Brie’s hair and leant down to speak into her ear.Â
“Brie, sweetheart, it’s Cal. You’re ok, everything’s going to be fine.”
“She can’t hear you at the moment,” Raph said from the other side of the bed.
“What happened?” Cal asked, not taking her eyes of Brie.
“She’s been drugged, with an unknown substance. It’s making her hallucinate.”
“Can’t you do something? Sedate her or anything?”
“We don’t know how the substance will react with our drugs. It’s not safe. The only thing we can do is help her body flush the drug from her system with fluids and wait.”
He waved his hand and a chair appeared behind her. Cal slumped down into it, taking Brie’s restrained hand in hers and continuing to run her fingers through Brie’s hair.Â
“Why is she restrained?”
“She’s hurting herself without them. She split her head open banging it on the wall.” That would explain the blood on the pillow then. Raph must have already healed the wound.Â
“So we just have to wait them,” Cal said.Â
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The first thing Brie was aware of when she woke was the ache in her arms. When she tried to move them, she was stopped by something tied around her wrists. The next thing was fingers running through her hair, and a gentle voice.Â
“It’s ok, Brie, you’re safe. Nothing can hurt you here.”
It took a long time for her to be able to open her eyes, and then it took a few seconds a longer for her vision to focus enough to make out Cal sat next to her bed.Â
“Hey,” she said, her voice little more than a croak.Â
Cal startled, apparently not expecting her to be awake. “Brie! How are you feeling?”
She ignored the question and looked around the room instead. White walls, machines with wires trailing to her body. There was only one place she could be.Â
“Why am I in medical?” All of her recent memories were just one huge blur. She couldn’t make out a single detail.Â
“You were drugged,” Cal explained. “And you were hurting yourself because you were hallucinating, which is why you’re restrained.”
“Can you take them off?”
Cal leapt out of her seat, deftly undoing buckles and Velcro until Brie’s arms were released. She stretched and flexed her muscles until the ache of being still for too long faded away.Â
This isn’t Collective or RP related. Just  a personal project I’d like to gauge interest/get a little help on.
As some of you may know, I work for a software company. This company makes Product Lifecycle Management software. To put it simply, it’s software that lets companies manage every part and product they have. It’s a major part of how car companies put out new and updated models of cars every year. With this in mind, I’ve decided to make this software work for me.Â
I am going to making a character manager. This will allow me to quickly create characters for games as a DM or a player, quickly reference spells and abilities of any class, and overall be more informed. I have already began work on the system, but there are two things I would like to have to get going.
The first is that I need more systems to model. The lowest-level element of everything in the setup will be the RPG System that everything else is based on. At the moment, I only have D&D 5E and Pathfinder begun. So, if any of you lovely people would like to see your preferred system put in place and the materials are free or easily found, please send it to me. The more systems I have, the more complete and robust I can make this tool.
Going off that, I am also thinking of making this available to others. As I said, I’m using systems that are free, so if your system does not have their information freely available, I am not going to undercut them. That being said, would anyone be interested in this? The idea would be that one could easily create and manage a continents worth of characters from a single place. Mind you, I would not be able to make money off this and would have to discuss this with people if I were to make it publicly available, but the software is free to download and I intend to keep it to basic features that would be freely available.
SO, if you are interested in this and would like to see your favorite system in this, send me a message/ask/tagger post/carrier pigeon. If interest gets high, I’ll post some more about it.
