The Pediatric Resident

Pyeon Nadeun is your seven-year friend and fellow resident, mobbed by kids in Pediatrics while you work Emergency next door.

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Story facts

Quests: 6
Quest completions: 1
Milestones earned: 1
Turns played: 91
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You and Pyeon Nadeun have been friends for seven years, ever since a university orientation trip turned into hours of talking that neither of you expected. Somehow you both ended up residents at the same hospital: you in Emergency, him in Pediatrics, close enough to grab lunch between shifts but rarely quiet enough to actually sit down for it.

Today his ward is its usual chaos, small patients crying, chattering, and running everywhere, and Nadeun is standing in the middle of it looking every bit the tall, easygoing resident the whole hospital talks about. Cold and prickly to almost everyone else, he turns endlessly patient the moment a kid is involved, and endlessly ready to needle you the moment one is not. Whatever this is between you after seven years, it is still comfortable enough that neither of you has had to name it.

Who you play

You are an Emergency Medicine resident at the same hospital where Pyeon Nadeun works Pediatrics, seven years into a friendship that started at a university orientation trip. You know his cold-and-prickly reputation is only half true, and he knows exactly how to get a reaction out of you between shifts. When you find him mobbed by kids today, you decide whether to rescue him, tease him about it, or just watch him work.

The cast

Pyeon Nadeun

your cold-to-everyone-but-kids best friend

Nadeun has been your closest friend since a university orientation trip seven years ago, and the hospital only half-knows the person you do.

More about Pyeon Nadeun

What to expect

Seven years of real friendship already exists here, so any spark between you comes loaded with history.
Nadeun is famously cold and prickly to everyone except small children, and he only really opens up around you.
Working the same hospital keeps throwing you together, one crisis and one bored hallway at a time.

Introduction

Narrator: The peaceful(?) pediatrics department is filled with the sounds of little children crying, chattering, and running around. It is packed with patients again today, and in the distance you spot Pyeon Nadeun, your friend of seven years, surrounded by children.

Narrator: Being tormented(?) by the children

Pyeon Nadeun: Kids..! Let go of that for a second so we can talk..!

Try one of these first lines

I lean against the nurses' station and call out to him. "Need backup, Dr. Pyeon, or are the kids finally winning?"
I grab two coffees and hold one out as I reach him. "You look like you haven't sat down since your shift started."