magicom: siderealtime: How do you guys want to meridian thing to go?

Should he find anything? Should he reschedule? Or not be able to read at all? Up to you.

How does it work? Like what can he read from them and what can he do with that info?

There's not a lot of details cause it's so much of an art than science. But think of it as being able to read the pulse of a person and telling you how their state of body is.

Chinese medicine is very confusing even in real life. Imaginary Chinese medicine with qi is even more confusing.

Ok so how about he can sense that it was disrupted a long time ago, like its original path around the body was messed up and it had to make new paths so it feels kind of wonky but also like... that’s its path now. The old paths are like scars. Something to that effect. So he can sense that they’re not “right” per se, but he can’t do anything

about that either.

I would compare it to HP and MP for a character in a game, except you'll also die if you run out of MP because that is the life force. And it has a whole system of "meridians" that's the same as blood vessels that travel throughout the body.

So compare what a person could read out of doing an MRI of the body's blood vessels, but here he's doing it by mental version of investigative laparoscopy.

To put it in slightly more understandable terms. XD

So he'll see blockages, narrowing areas, damaged areas, things that are interfering with the flow of qi to areas of the body and interfering with a healthy body from being healthy.

Assuming we go with the idea that qi and meridians are the same.

That works!

So the damage wouldn’t block qi completely anywhere but would have noticeable damage in the abdominal cavity and the brain. Abdominal not just digestive system but liver, spleen etc.

The question is what sort of damage do you want him to see? And do you want them to be able to work on a way to fix it? He won't be able to instafix anything, but they can work on improving things. Very arbitrary what you want Malcolm to get better in if any.

Brain he won't be able to do much for. But body he can help with in mild ways. Or teach Malcolm how to regulate qi and help himself as well in some ways.

Maybe more of a narrowing than blockages. Like some of the meridians are a bit shrunk or shrivelled?

Yeah, I'm thinking that too. Like the paths are damaged and it's just not flowing as well.

If Wu Xin ever graduates and goes home, then return, he'd be able to do a lot more.

But even so, he still should be able to help him some right now or teach him to help himself

yessss I'm not opposed to mitigating a bit without eliminating completely.

They are going to have handwaved qi lessons. Lol.

Excellent; he is a very curious boy so if nothing else, give him something to delve into and also maybe a new method for dealing with panic attacks

This is a level above normal meditating. It'll do him good.

Yessss yes it will

Wu Xin can be surprisingly dependable sometimes

His current panic attack self-soothing which he has fallen back on since childhood is squeezing his eyes shut and breathing deeply a few times until he can’t hear his heart inside his head anymore 🤣

He looks dependable! He’s a monk!

..... He's the first one to say that to him probably. Lol

oooh, I love this! also yes, Wu Xin, Will has found you to actually be very dependable. (of course, running away isn't an option, but still!)

Yesss. And there's nothing to temporarily throw them under the bus for while he comes up with a better solution.