DIVISION: Forces

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The Forces Division is the Inquisition's army in Kirkwall. It provides security for the base there and also for Inquisition agents on missions, shipments, and guests. It also includes the base's healers, and all the other support staff necessary to the outfitting and maintenance of an army, include smiths, engineers, stable workers, and the like.

LEADER: Commander Coupe | INFO
PROJECTS: Naval Presence, Red Lyrium

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[motherfucking_ghost]

SUBJECT: Sunk Cost
PARTICIPANTS: Korrin, Kara, Church
DATE FILED: Bloomingtide 20
STATUS: Complete
SUMMARY: Swimming lessons! Splish splash! Nobody died. It was fun(?)

REPORT:
Korrin Ataash led the charge with regard to swimming lessons both basic and advanced, helped along by a few others with some experience. This took place on land for verbal instruction and shallow water for physical application. Korrin also made the point to inform people how to spot someone in distress or drowning, as it does not actually tend to look like frantic flailing leading to a heroic and sexy beach rescue as at least some of us have come to expect.

In that respect, both Kara Line and Leonard Church introduced a formalized emergency medical prodedure, CPR ([and here there are several stricken attempts to spell the words a few times] cardiopulmonary resuscitation), used in emergencies when there is no longer a heartbeat, as well as mouth-to-mouth resuscitation used especially with drowning victims (and also usually along with CPR) in order to expel water from the lungs and restore autonomous breathing. CPR involves hard and quick compression of the chest area over the heart at a consistent speed and depth in order to keep blood flowing before finding a way to restart the heart. (Sometimes CPR alone is enough but not typically.) There should also be regular airflow/ventilation from the mouth to the lungs, which here is mostly going to involve mouth-to-mouth--pinching the nose shut and breathing into the victim's mouth to attempt to get air into the lungs. Some giggling and immature comments were had at least until a demonstration. Be forewarned that CPR should not be performed by people not trained, and that cracked ribs are a common complaint (which is perfectly normal and honestly a sign you did it right).

Suggest a training course on non-magical field medicine for the treatment and stabilization of common injuries and battle wounds until a healer can get to them. Magical field medicine for non-healer mages also recommended.

To make the naval forces happy as well, an inventory was taken of the current stock of lifeboats. If possible, suggest the construction of lifejackets/life vests? Material that floats on water and will keep a grown person buoyant, preferably easy to put on and secure, preferably brightly colored or reflective to be easily spotted.

Last of note, Korrin calmly and with humor dispelled incorrect or racist rumors about the swimming abilities of various people (ie dwarves have the Stone in them so they sink to the bottom, qunari are responsible for many of the tales of sea monsters because of their horns, etc). It was a learning experience for all. No one threw any punches, which I would call a success.

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[limier]

Mssr. Church,

While I am pleased that Mage Ataash — who I understand to be experienced on the water — successfully shared her knowledge with our troops, I must insist you and Mlle. Line refrain from doing so with 'CPR'.

The Inquisition is a more tolerant body than most, but you risk your safety and that of our cause to propose employing blood magic upon the dead. I am aware the customs of Rifters often strange to our own, and Mlle. Line a recent arrival. I will therefore forget this matter.

Let us not speak of it again.

Field medicine is an important piece of any soldier’s education. A great number of the Inquisition’s members come from a military or mercenary background, and may have their own technique to contribute. I recommend that you speak with Doctor Karahalios (currently organizing her own research), and consider the means by which existing knowledge may be shared within our ranks.

Further discussion of floating jackets should be forwarded to Sra. Bonaventura, who I trust will have ideas of her own. You might together consider the efficacy of available materials.

Regards,
— Ser Coupe

[[ OOC Note — I didn't hear back from you last month, so I'm going to assume that nothing was threaded for this. I know that the wording was unclear, so no worries! This report itself is a lot of fun. ❤ Future assignments will require that participants thread something that at least mentions the assignment in passing, whether individually or as a group. The prompt will otherwise be re-used the next month. ]]

[motherfucking_ghost]

[The script is much more hurried though still plainly recognizable as Church's writing. Now that the official report writing part is done, he doesn't feel the need to be so neat about it.]

Coupe,

Wait hold on let's do speak of it again because I literally explained how you physically help keep someone from dying on you in certain situations and it has nothing to do with magic??? I don't even use magic, I don't have a magical bone in my body except my rifty hand. And I didn't use my rifty hand. All it does is make a shield.

Church

[[ooc: whoops I must've missed you pinging me entirely somehow, my bad! yeah we only threw together some suggestions in a gdoc and agreed on some points in a pp due to aforementioned vague wording, understood there'll be more Actual Stuff played out in future missions!]]

[limier]

[ There's no reply. Apparently, 'we're done talking about this' means just that.

(Might want to go elsewhere with talk of bloodflow and restarting hearts, Church.) ]