Medical supplies

"Medical supplies" refers to any number of items which have healing power. The two most potent medical supplies are outsider First Aid Kits and native healing herbs, and sometimes these alone are considered true medical supplies. With proper medical training, these can be used to heal 10 health points and can cure poison or old wounds (e.g. from sharks). A broader definition of medical supplies would include bottles or gourds of special Shartak water, which heals 2 health points but does not heal wounds. Various kinds of fruits found around the island have healing capabilities, usually of one or two health.

Searching for medical supplies in the medical supply huts in outsider towns and the herb huts in native towns, causes these huts to be among the busiest on the island, and they have become almost de-facto town forums. Whenever politicians, social or political activists, or single-issue fanatics want to rally support or spread awareness for their cause, they always hit the medical supply and herb huts to deliver speeches. The large crowds in medical supply huts (York's medical hut regularly features up to 30 people at any one time) unfortunately also attract ghosts, who are attracted at the prospect of gaining XP by banshee-wails. Several native shamans have taken up the job of keeping these huts clear of ghost haunting, with mixed success.