Editing Questions/Question 125

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|QuestionFaqPage=Log - June 2025/Event FAQ
|Link=https://enochlesis.dreamwidth.org/4871.html?thread=1646855#cmt1646855
|AskedBy=sterngaze
|DateAsked=2025-06-06
|QuestionText=So, it's obviously a huge problem for the local government that a quarter of the city is now permanently blind (probably including some people in government as well, even). As a cleric, Liem can cast <i>remove blindness/deafness</i>, though only <i>at most</i> twice a day.<br><br>While he obviously can't make a dent in this problem by himself, he does need employment, and after the solstice, he'd like to see if the government will subsidize him curing what people he can, so he doesn't have to charge people who just had their lives potentially ruined. Would the government be on-board with this? Is there a healthcare system that he could utilize for this purpose?
|DateAnswered=2025-06-07
|AnswerText=It is very definitely a huge problem, and not one they were at all prepared to face. There are gaps in places they consider crucial, gaps in bureaucracy, as all corners of the city struggle to adapt to this new crisis. <br><br>Patho-Gen would be absolutely willing to put him to work. He would also be <i>exceedingly</i> well-compensated for this. However. They would be very, <i>very</i> troubled about this ability and his identity becoming well known. The richest parts of the city were struck as indiscriminately as the poorest- and they would do absolutely everything they could to monopolize Liem for themselves. <br><br>Of course, you'd be welcome to go this route, have some sort of kidnapping plot.... Or even willingly acquiesce to healing the upper class, and the upper class only. (Does Liem want a penthouse in Basileios? Because this will get him one. His neighbors still won't talk to him or want to look at him, but by god they will tolerate it for as long as he's curing the people who matter.)<br><br>If he does follow Patho-Gen's recommended advice, and keep this all on the very down-low... he will still be well-compensated, but less extravagantly so. He could have a residence of reasonable standard anywhere outside of Basileios. Questionable practices and ethics of the company aside, there's still plenty of people within Patho-Gen who would not want him or this ability abused- and would try to arrange patients for him in <i>some</i> manner of impartiality. (With some bias towards those in Patho-Gen... but they would also not completely freeze out the lower classes.)<br><br>With only two (at most) people a day cured, it would... not be any time soon that he'd get to everyone. (With a population of around 700,000, that means roughly 175,000 have been blinded... which means a mere 87500 days will see them all cured, if he somehow keeps that two-a-day schedule.).
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