Hello!
The whole healing section kinda baffles me. I'm reading and rereading this section over and over and I'm surprised these questions aren't coming up more often in forums. Perhaps I'm the only one who feels this way. But right now, the only one rule that for me is 100% clear is the Treat Critical Injury rule. Pretty straight forward. The rest though ...
1) The rest/activity section says you can engage in a restful activity with another PC (although later says it can be with an NPC too) for a short scene, and you (not the other person) can then heal up two conditions, once per day. Now ... is that once per day per character or for the whole party? Can the group go have a couple of drinks at the tavern to heal up one PC, and then do some quiet reading at the local library to heal another character, and then take a walk in the park to heal a third character, all in the same day? And for that matter, how long is each scene?
2) The Heal Physical/Mental Conditions requires the doctor and all patients be out of commission for the whole day, and only then heal three conditions if the healer succeeds on his or her roll. If the patient is in bed all day, does that mean they cannot use the rest activity above? Because choosing between 3 condition clears that may fail, or two condition clears that are automatically successful and allow you to get on with your day, the choice seems really really obvious.
3) Healing conditions via a paid medical service is done in lieu of a rest activity above, correct? You can't do both? So does that mean you have to choose between two free condition clears OR whatever condition removal is done by the paid service/establishment? Or do you get the services of that establishment ON TOP of the two free condition clears? Or perhaps only one person counts it as an activity and gets the two free condition clears? Ugh. That whole paragraph hurts my brain.
4) Semi related: The coin costs for each service and establishment ... is that on a per character basis, or is that the cost for the whole group to take advantage? A personal doctor is kinda pricy, although I imagine the cost might cover a Broken fix and two removal clears spread across anyone present rather than just focused on one individual maybe? And then there's stuff like hostel/hotel rooms and train rides. 3 'coin' *per person* is pretty ouchy.
Thanks.