WATER [Open to all players!]

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(OOC: Let me know if I'm doing this wrong--like, if this is the incorrect format for this re-aligned comm or something, I know there's more than one, and I'm sorta a little confused on which is for which?  Anyway, here goes....)

Is this thing on?

[Korra lightly bangs at something, frowning--the screen shakes.  She gives a big exaggerated sigh, then continues.]

Okay, I heard there were some other humans like me out here, so given that, I wanted to ask if any of you guys have found water?  Like, any water at all, a pool, a river, even a freakin' flask of it?  And y'know, same question to anyone, Cybertronians or spirits or whatever--have you seen water?

[Korra blinked, then added in a rush.]

And in case there's anyone who doesn't realize, water's a big deal for humans like me, we need it to survive.

[Korra moves to turn off the screen.]

Okay, that's it, hopefully someone gets in touch with me about this--

[Korra stretched too far or too fast, because she flinches, irritating the wound on her back.  No way is she going to ask aloud for medical help.  If she can find water, she can heal herself, thank you very much.  But then the thought occurred to her--if there were other humans like her, were there like any other healers among them?  What if there...weren't?  A panicked expression suddenly flashes across Korra's face.]

Um, actually, quick head count--are there any human healers out there that can, y'know, heal...humans?

[Korra's expression distinctly reads without words, 'That sounded lame.']

Well, I'll, uh, raise my head first--or is it hand--?

[Korra shakes her head, raises a hand.]

Whatever, I can heal as long as I have water--it's a bending thing--uh, and that's a thing where I manipulate the water to like do whatever I want including heal the human body.  So if there's a human out there who's hurt and has water or can find water, you can come to me for help.

[Korra paused, trying to think of anything else to add.  She slowly shrugged.]

Okay, that's definitely it now...so, um, bye, hope to see someone with info on water soon.

[End transmission.]

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[Korra considered. Saving the drinkable water sounded good, though it wouldn't really be that adversely affected by her healing. Using it against a swamp monster might make things hairy, but again Sifu Katara proved you could work with that. Would her wounds get infected by less than pure water? Korra tried to remember the particulars of her healing lessons. But no, surely Katara made do with such water for healing too. And again, the water wouldn't exactly super touch the wounds, the wounds weren't that serious for that sort of rare penetration. Korra takes off the makeshift cloth bandaging around her chest and back.]

Non-drinkable it is!

[Korra bends the water out. Healing herself rather than others is a bit more awkward position-wise, but doable. The water glows as she activates its healing properties, turning it into a catalyst. She bends it over the gash on her back first. She then bends it over her cut arms, taking turns on each, bending with one hand. Then she bends the glowing water over the slash on her cheek. Chi pathways of her body are redirected by waterbending to increase the speed of skin knitting itself back together. When Korra is done, the water stops glowing and she bends it back into its container. Korra gives out a grateful exhale, stretching out her healed back, arms, patting down her now smooth cheek. Korra spins around, showing off her healed body.]

Ta-da!

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[ Ratchet watches Korra with amazement as she heals herself with nothing but floating swamp water. ]

Amazing...

[ He reaches out, then stops short of actually touching her newly healed skin. ]

And you did that with only the water? Nothing else?

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[Korra's glad he stopped short of touching her. She's still self-conscious about her size in this world and practically everyone else's more intimidating size--at his approach, she'd actually stiffened, ready to recoil. When Ratchet stops, her body relaxes.]

Yep, as long as I have my bending, I just need water to heal me and other people. [Korra frowns.] Though I don't think it can work on you guys--on metal, it only really works with flesh and bone--y'know, stuff that should already have a lot of water....

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[ Ratchet notices the tension then relax in Korra's body, and backs off a bit more. He doesn't want to scare her. ]

So this bending... it works with any water around and doesn't need anything except your interaction. There must be some kind of energy involved, though.

[ He's delighted with this discovery, but also sorely confused. It shouldn't work like this! At least, it doesn't where he comes from. ]

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[Korra shrugs.]

I think the energy is inside me.

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Energy inside you... I suppose I can understand that.

[ Humans run off electrical impulses, after all, so it makes sense that some of them would learn how to harness that no it actually doesn't he's horribly confused ]

So are there limitations to how much you can heal? Do you need a certain amount of water?

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[OOC: Most of the limits based on Avatar wiki here: http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Healing#Limits. This can probably be tweaked in-game, Korra can develop her waterbender healing.]

[Korra tried to remember Sifu Katara's lectures.]

It's really hard to heal internal wounds with waterbending, only the most skilled can do that, and I'm not one of them. [Korra frowned. Then she started to count on her hands.] Injuries like burns, lacerations, broken bones, tissue damage caused by lightning, diseases caused by serious pollution, bruises--that kind of thing's doable.

And since waterbending healing involves working with the flow of chi in a body, if that flow is blocked by something else--like the chiblocking technique--it can't really help.

[Korra blinked.] Both ways. If I was chiblocked, I couldn't access my bending. And if I still had my bending but my patient was chiblocked, I couldn't help the guy.

slow tagger is slow

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[ Ratchet is taking notes. He's going to be grabbing Korra in the future to heal things, for sure. ]

Chi? What's that? How does it get blocked and... how would it be unblocked?

[ This is a completely new idea. You're going to have to play teacher really hard, Korra. ]