Malton Medical Staff
| Malton Medical Staff | |
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| Abbreviation: | MMS |
| Group Numbers: | 20 Staff + 10 Fans |
| Leadership: | Morgueasm |
| Goals: | Health care with Comedy |
| Recruitment Policy: | open |
| Contact: | Come, talk to us in-game or visit our Forum! |
Welcome to the Malton Medical Staff Group Pages
Who Are We?
The Malton Medical Staff are an active, pro-survivor group who are putting the comedy back into Health care around central Malton. We administer and maintain entry-point Hospitals by keeping a core group of friendly Hospital Staff in each one to provide fast, efficient health care, advice, scouting intelligence and defence. We also are able to respond to medical emergency requests (for example, after a large break-in), perform "medical rampages" and also patrol and maintain the health of the buildings and survivors around the Hospitals we administer.
Liam Kearney said: "It's just so great to have met such fun, welcoming, naked alcoholics with guns and pyromaniac tendencies...I'd swear it was heaven if it wasn't for the smell of sulphur...and the zombies I suppose"
Where are We?
The main Administrative Headquarters where the Malton Medical Staff are based is St. Ethelbert's Hospital in the suburb of Roftwood. We also preside over Eligius General Hospital in Roftwood, as well. In more recent news, we have a Malton Hospital Outreach in Edgecombe at both Margaret General Hospital and Denis General Hospital.
What do we Do?
We run Hospitals, specifically, Hospitals that are entry points (at VSB+2). A Hospital administered by the Malton Medical Staff is clean and hygienic, correctly barricaded, powered and lit and quickly becomes the hub of the local area. Buildings surrounding the Hospital are also maintained by the Hospital Staff.
The many other activities of the Malton Medical Staff are here.
Our Philosophy
Our Philosophy is to talk in-game. Our Staff actively talk to each other and to the survivors in the building, they speak announcements and also crack jokes. At one point, we said everything in-game, instructions, reports, everything. We still do for the most part, but have found that the forum definitely helps us in the long run. You can still spend a night in our hospital and wake up to a wealth of chatter. Be prepared for it!
Through our philosophy of delivering vocal health care with a good dose of humor thrown in, we have quickly become one of the most well-loved, well known and well praised groups in Roftwood.
Are we a part of the DEM?
Lately, there seems to be some confusion regarding this. We are not a part of the DEM. Never have been, never will. We are totally unaffiliated with the DEM, save a few emails here and there with their people. That said, we are neutral about this whole war going on between them and those other guys. We'll heal the injured and revive the fallen regardless of group affiliation because that is what we do.
Join the Staff, or be a Fan
Joining the Malton Medical Staff is easy, just talk to us (in game!). You'll easily be able to recognise a member of Staff since they're the ones who talk so much. If you don't want to be part of us, that's fine too (but not so cool), we have lots of people who are not formally members of Staff, but who follow us around and help us out anyway - they're called the "Fans".
FAQ on the Staff
- What pre-requisites do you have? The only pre-requisistes we have are that you are human, pro-survivor and do not have other group obligations.
- Are you just after Medics then? No! We also need scientists for revivification and military personnel for scouting and Hospital defence. Civilians are also welcome. Staff can develop whatever roles they like and can change roles too.
- But I only arrived in Malton yesterday! Great! We are happy to have Level 1 players along with level 41, it doesn't matter, we're all in this together and just because you may be new doesn't mean we don't like you or would rather not spend AP helping you out.
- It's just healing and barricading? Not quite, looking through the Staff Activities, you can see we actually do an awful lot. There's never enough AP to do all the tasks that need doing. Many of our Doctors carry shotguns too.
- Do you just hang around in one place then? Mostly, we are too large to be a mobile unit. Malton Medical Staff generally stay in Administered Hospitals (unless in exile). Most Staff develop an affinity for their Hospital and really do call it "home".
- Why do you have no forums! We have no forums because all the intelligence, activity, instructions and humour are spoken in game. It is part of our philosophy, plus, do you really want to sign up to yet another forum? We are not just another silent group in Malton, we are loud, vocal, compelling and overall, fun.
Organisation Structure
At the very top of the Malton Medical Staff is the position of "Head Administrator". A position of all-reaching power, the Head Administrator oversees the Hospital activities, guides the Staff and is responsible for their safety and welfare. The Head Administrator always has the last word.
- Current Head Administrator: Morgueasm
Next follow the Hospital Administrators. There is one per Hospital and they are in charge of the Staff for that particular Hospital, as well as the Hospital upkeep and maintenance. The Hospital Administrator answers to the Head Administrator.
The rest of the Staff then follow. There is one group of Staff (usually numbering between 10 and 20) taking care of each Hospital administered by the Malton Medical Staff.
Suburb Operations
Based in the suburb of Roftwood, we administer the two Hospitals, St. Ethelbert's Hospital and Eligius General Hospital there. We also dispense health care and comedy to the surrounding buildings.
The following map shows the medical runs Staff take and the buildings we pay special attention to in Roftwood:
Staff should stock up on FAK's, AP and then proceed to dispense them along the routes shown on the map.
Notable Battles
The Malton Medical Staff are not a violent, war mongering, gun toting group yet being in Malton means we have to fight to live and battle the horde just to survive and sometimes, we get into some very large battles. The very first large battle was against LUE at St. Ethelbert's Hospital and acutally caused the MMS group to form, more about that can be read our "History" below.
Here follows a series of the largest battles in the long and illustrious history of the Malton Medical Staff:
- The Last Stand of Roftwood against the Ridleybank Resistance Front (January 2008)
Recent Parties
A small contingent of the MMS recently took part in the lectures at the Malton College of Medicine in Greentown. Some of the topics included were Alternatives to Anaesthesia, How to Handle a Zombie Attack, and Revivification. You can read transcripts of our lectures Right here! We had a wonderful time and will make it a point to visit again and sit in on some of the fine classes they offer. The MMS recently celebrated the first ever Human/Zambah wedding in Malton at St. Ethelbert's Church in Edgecombe on April 29th, 2008. The Bride and Groom both wore white which didn't last very long as it immediately turned into an Etruscan Gladiatorial event. Even with us all zombified in the end, the happy couple still got their ARRGGGH's in to the FlyingSpaghettiMnstr, who gracefully floated above us all and touched us with his glorious noodles. We partied so well during The Last Stand that we wanted to hold a special Valentine's Day event. We weren't sure if it was going to be a Sweetheart's dance, a Masked Orgy, or another reason to get drunk on surgical spirits and moonshine. We chose all of the above and painted one of the rooms in the hospital black and pumped The Cure through the PA into it for the staff, fans, and guests who didn't have a sweetheart and didn't want to be a part of all the sweetness. Unfortunately most of the day was spent fighting off random ferals. The new update kicked us all in the face and fed us to the strangely unnamed zombies outside. We still had fun, those of us that were alive, and we can only try again!
History
Beginnings
It all started when a survivor arrived at an abandoned and ransacked Hospital after fleeing the horde. He threw out the dead bodies littering the entrance lobby, built up the barricades and finally installed and fuelled the generator he had been carrying almost halfway across Malton.
The suburb was Roftwood, the building was St. Ethelbert's Hospital, the survivor was GreenWing and the stage was set.
Realising that in order to keep the Hospital, he needed survivors, GreenWing made conversation with everyone who passed through the Hospital doors, some left for elsewhere, many stayed silent, but some listened and remained, and even joined in. The conversation spread, people liked it because it was helpful and funny and slowly, the numbers in St Ethelbert's Hospital grew from a tiny handful until it rivaled Eligius General Hospital - the Entry Point for Hildebrand Mall.
The informal set of people collectively called themselves the "St. Ethelbert's Hospital Staff", and GreenWing became the Hospital Administrator and Head Administrator of the St. Ethelbert's Hospital Staff.
The Long Siege
The Hospital was clean, fast, efficient and supported a large area with medical rampages, regular mobile patrols and emergency Ambulance units. The amazing popularity of the Hospital attracted the attention of the undead too, at first break-ins were infrequent - a minor inconvenience - then the Hospital came under a much more determined siege.
For weeks break-ins became common, the Staff valiantly fought back and kept a horde numbering over 20 at its peak out of the Hospital, all while still keeping it a free running entry point! There were many casualties, the Head Administrator was targeted in an attempt to silence the conversation but it still continued and it flowed midst the sound of feeding groans and shot gun blasts.
It all came to an end when St. Ethelbert's Hospital, the home of the Staff fell under the combined attacks of the GMT Breakfast Club and RRF groups: Aux Unit 10 and Group 0, Zombies a Go Go and other ferals. There were many casualties, Staff and patients fled and scattered and the Hospital was ransacked, the conversation finally silenced. But all was not lost. For the Head Administrator had made and spoken of emergency evacuation plans and now these were put into effect.
The Staff regrouped, many familiar faces met up again and the conversation that was silenced restarted and won the hearts of the people who followed and they became known as the "Fans". The Staff and Fans regrouped in exile but were followed by the zombies that targeted them before. Weak from weeks of siege and with the new suburb falling, the Staff and Fans were forced to flee again to yet another Hospital in another suburb.
Forged in Exile
The Staff and Fans regrouped once more and more people followed them. Another unloved and lowly Hospital that began with less than 10 people grew to over 70 in size and became a formidable stronghold while other buildings around were being emptied.
But what's this? Roftwood began to recover, the horde left the suburb in ruins and now the exiled survivors began to return to pick up the pieces, returning to their homes to rebarricade their safehouses.
And so, the St. Ethelbert's Hospital Staff knew it was time to return home, but they returned not as a loose band of Staff with a few fans, they returned as the Malton Medical Staff, forged in the time of exile and ready to bring the conversation back to Roftwood and to spread health care with comedy as far and as wide as they can.
