Medicine for the gods

Started by Agertor, July 14, 2016, 08:02:41 PM

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Agertor

Quote from: skullywag on July 14, 2016, 12:23:09 PM
I like this. Its maniacal. More.

Okay if you ask it.


Just as every night the old fort stood quietly. The people merry and their bellies full. The forests provided plenty to these settlers from the stars. Food, medicine and weapons were plenty. Trade with the tribals and other settlers provided steady supplies and livestock with only the occasional raid of the local banditry.

Others would think it strange but this walled off village was happy. Very, very happy. Grandiose statues line the work places with lights glowing from the walls at night as if a beacon of hope.

However within the walls was the cave of a certain doctor. He toiled away every night, the dark caverns lit by occasional lanterns flickering in the dark to give a dim lighting through these tight halls. Humidity and evaporating rains would condensate on the ceiling. It kept this sanctuary to the doctor quite comfortable. Crack, crack, crack. He swung his axe over and over.

Nights like this made good to sneak away prisoners at night into his workshop. He worked as if he found some sort of light, as if a god commanded him. Deeper in the cavern still behind a steel door barring off any light lay the starved and insane. Raiders, law breakers and the unwanted lay in this dark room. The doctor really liked to just... amputate. Replacing legs with pegs and cutting organs out. Experiments were common and the victims would be brought back to the cells with a lost leg or arm, maybe an organ cut out.

Cells they were provided were dark and not fed. His latest experiment on the table was dying of infection. So the good doctor would give him god's medicine. Amputation. He whacked his axe cutting into the leg of his patient who was barely awake from herbal remedies given to him. The patient was kept drowsy, but alert and feeling. The doctor found it necessary that his patients feel as much as they could without passing out. How else would thry experience the same joy as he gave them after all?

Every night screams lined the walls of the cave while music and festivities every night would drown their screams for help which suited the doctor just fine. As long as he helped the colonists as they wished he could just tell them a few escaped here or there. His supply of prisoners was always refilled and when brought into the emergency room, no colonist would question where an organ they needed came. He hated that. They didn't feel anything. The colonists of the settlement got medicine that put them to sleep and made them feel no pain. The best care for them.

"Nevermind them", he would think. He loved his moments in the cave. This couldn't last forever. The god who gave him his orders was brutal and malicious. But he was kind to the settlers. "Why?" the doctor thought to himself. Great joy could be given to everyone! It was his responsibility as a doctor. They needed the best care he could give. But not in the god's way. No it would be done his way. His chance came soon when good medicine wore thin with a lack of trade for some time.

Amputate. It was time to amputate. He finally gave the colonists experiences they could never forget! What joy! This was everything he wanted. God could not protect these colonists. He was god now! He made the decisions and it was his pleasure to see their faces as some died from various infections leaving the nights quieter and quieter over time. His prisoners had all also died soon enough without food or care. Soon the lit walls held just the good doctor. All alone. With his passion unable to be fulfilled any longer. He plunged a scalpel into his heart. His name was...

Dante King

Agertor? Was his name Agertor?

Agertor

Quote from: Dante King on July 14, 2016, 08:32:13 PM
Agertor? Was his name Agertor?

It is a simple riddle really. A very very simple riddle.

Dante King


Merix



Dante King


Agertor

The first letter of every paragraph

falconbunker

What I wonder is how the colonists were stupid enough to allow him to kill em all, still, cool story.

Agertor

Quote from: falconbunker on July 15, 2016, 10:33:10 AM
What I wonder is how the colonists were stupid enough to allow him to kill em all, still, cool story.

God is the player, and in this case me, after I got bored

falconbunker

Oh, from what is said it seemed like the doctor went rogue and just started to slice up people randomly

Agertor

Quote from: falconbunker on July 15, 2016, 02:48:23 PM
Oh, from what is said it seemed like the doctor went rogue and just started to slice up people randomly

That is also true as well. Honestly you interpret it as you will, who am I but the writer. It is you who takes whatever messages you want from a story