third reflection -- gathering data;

[monochrome_mirror]

I need information, City.

My work is all that I am. I was created, and I exist now, solely to serve one purpose, and once that is expired, so too will my life. With that in mind, I am going to apply myself to the greatest extent, to the City and to its problems at hand. I am searching for the answers to the following questions, and will likely have more in the future:

Does the City have a rigid medical on-call system? With instant communication, are there facilities for rushing the injured to hospital facilities?

Insofar as there is a police force, is there a way to draw their attention to crimes? Do they have ways of reaching the crime quickly, or are they slow and on foot?

Are there systems in place to restrain those who have been driven to madness or violence by curses?

Are there capable persons who can assist those who have been damaged mentally by curses and/or other occurrences here?

Who in the City actually knows magic? For the magically powerful, are there counters should they be cursed or turn criminal?

Are there any monitoring systems here, either magical or technological?

Is there a database of City residents, with contact information should they choose to give it?

Do the City deities discourage organization and break up groups?

Are there any combat protocols in the City, for settling disputes physically should the participants desire to, or is that done on  a case-by-case basis?

Are there any public factions that I should know about? Is territory claimed in the City, aside from individual businesses or homes?

Has there ever been a formal legal system in the City? Not a police force, a formal judgmental system.



I will post more as I think of them, but right now, I believe that is enough. A bit scattershot, but I am trying to determine the strength of the City's intelligent infrastructure.

Thank you.

Comments

[monochrome_mirror]

It isn't arbitrary, but I would agree that it seems the City could keep me alive even if I somehow managed to be unable to approach my work at all.

Pardon me, but I don't believe we have been introduced. I am Shikieiki Yamaxanadu -- relatively new to the City, but I am trying to learn as quickly as I can about both this place and its residents.

[intheblanks]

I can see that. It's a long list.

I'm Doctor Chase. I work at the city hospital, where we have doctors, EMTs, a phone and screens scrolling the network in the emergency department.

The police also, I believe, have a phone.

The deities are the legal justice system. At least any case I've heard of getting that far has gone through them. For the most part disagreements are worked out on a less formal system.

There are people and creatures here capable of restraining anyone in any state. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. It would be near enough impossible, some curses, to restrain everyone who might benefit from it.

[monochrome_mirror]

Well met, Dr. Chase. Thank you for your answers -- they are most useful, and it is good to know that at least some areas of the City are functioning well and smoothly.

...The deities are the legal system here? They seem unreliable and even cruel, to say the least.

Some of the curses are incredibly widespread and hostile, then?

[intheblanks]

Unreliable and cruel are a couple of common traits among absolute dictators. Some of the curses are tantamount to mass murder - with the proviso that most of the victims wake up again the next day.

[monochrome_mirror]

If they didn't revive the dead, then, they would soon have no more toys with which to play.

I presume that if any concerted effort to battle them were feasible, it would have been done already. Yet, I am not the sort of person to sit down and accept fate, nor do I particularly believe in a fully controlled fate.

What can be done to mitigate their efforts?

[intheblanks]

Now you're asking questions above my pay grade.

[monochrome_mirror]

You don't ask them yourself?