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imber_nonusHow did a Gallifreyan Time Lord end up in the Weird Wild West, with no idea of his real identity? Well, since his mun is an enormous geek, here are the details (duly annotated because, like I said, geek).
This back-story is put together from bits of canon, but is not actual Doctor Who canon, just my version of it.
Every Tardis, according to some portions of canon, contains an Eye of Harmony, a shielded singularity that powers the Tardis and allows it to manipulate spacetime in such a way that it can move around in it at will. The primary Eye of Harmony, housed under the Panopticon on Gallifrey, powers all of the others, and links them together. It was this particular piece of highly-dangerous technology that allowed the Gallifreyans to rule the universe for millions of years.
Until they were betrayed.
Exactly who gave a Tardis, and an Eye of Harmony, to the Daleks is unknown, although the primary suspect, The Master, vanished at about the same time (later to be found hidden away as a human himself with no Tardis of his own... very suspicious!) -- but whoever did it, the damage was done. In short order, the Daleks had reverse-engineered the technology and were building their own Eyes of Harmony to power their own fleet of spacetime vessels... and the Last Great Time War was on. (I'm only using a few elements from that here.)
As the very fabric of reality began to disintegrate, the Time Lords came to a disturbing conclusion. The only way to stabilize things was to wipe every Eye of Harmony out of existence, whether Dalek or Gallifreyan. And there was only one Time Lord left who had the ability to do it: a man who had briefly taken up the Presidency of the Time Lord High Council and then relinquished it, but still technically had all of the rights and titles. The Doctor.
The cost, they knew, would be grave. Detonating all of the Eyes of Harmony, all over the universe, would destroy Gallifrey and every Tardis in existence, along with the Skaro and the Dalek fleet. There was little chance that any member of either species would survive... but perhaps, the High Council decided, that was for the best.
Direct access to the primary Eye of Harmony was no longer possible at this stage in the war; it was buried under hundreds of feet of rubble and slag that had once been the Time Lord Citadel, and that slag was emitting heavy reality-warping radiation that even Time Lord technology couldn't combat. But the Eyes in the Tardises were still connected to it, as were the Eyes in the Dalek Fleet. The Doctor worked out a method of using his own Tardis to remote-detonate all of the Eyes, by channeling energy directly from the Time Vortex into his ship's Eye. In doing so, he expected to be the first to die. But the Sash and Rod of Rassilon, which he'd safeguarded and used in the plan, ended up being greater protection than he thought.
Instead of being the first to go, his Tardis was the only one to survive.
And the Eye of Harmony in his ship remained fully functional, if greatly diminished since it no longer had contact with any others.
The Doctor, himself, suffered fatal cellular degeneration from the energies that had poured through, even with the protection of the Sash of Rassilon, but he was still able to regenerate. After recovering from his regeneration, he began to patrol the universe to determine what sort of fallout was left from the Time War and what further cleaning up needed to be done. He tried to remain focused on that and not think about the act of double-genocide he'd committed, and how unfair it was that he'd survived it. There was a great deal of cleanup that needed to be done, though, so he stayed busy. While cleaning up a mess on Earth, he encountered a young woman named Rose who -- for the first time in a while -- made him feel connected to others. He offered to take her with him on his travels, but she refused.
It didn't occur to him to tell her that she'd be traveling through time. Not yet. Not for a while, either.
He moved on and, soon thereafter, encountered a species, the Xedrene, whose world had been destroyed by the Dalek fleet just days before he detonated the Eyes of Harmony. Initially, he tried to help them until he discovered that they had their own plans for him, and his Tardis. They intended to use his ship, and its Eye of Harmony, to create a temporal instability that would allow their pre-destruction world to be pulled forward into this time. The cost, however, would have been a billion supernovae, thousands of them destroying inhabited worlds. It was a cost the Xedrene didn't care about, but the Doctor promptly fled, determined to hide his Tardis from them until the newly-emerged Time Agents caught up with them and ended their threat. (Yes, I made all of this up, thank you!)
He retreated to Earth, using the Chameleon Arch in his Tardis to create a false persona that he could inhabit -- in a humanized body -- until it was safe for him to emerge. In a rare bout of cooperative spirit (and possibly because it was bubbling over with residual power from the end of the Time War) the Tardis actually made use of its chameleon circuit, taking on the outward appearance of a very spirited horse (named, logically enough, Tardis). And thus a wandering Doctor became a frontier physician in 19th Century Wyoming.
Who He Believes He Is
Dr. John Smith believes that he was born in 1835 in Manchester, England, to a cadet branch of an aristocratic family that had, at that point, almost run out of money and had little more than their titles. As one of the younger sons and unlikely to inherit, he pursued a career in medicine, eventually traveling to Harvard's School of Medicine to pursue it further. While there, he fell in love with a woman named Romana, and they ended up marrying. He only learned of his father's death when he received news of it in the mail, along with a pocket-watch that was his entire share of the family inheritance. A few years after that, Romana died in childbirth, along with the baby, and Dr. Smith left the Boston area and began to travel. The Civil war began soon after, and he ended up working as a battlefield surgeon. The war haunts him for some reason (the Tardis did this as a way of giving him an alternate explanation for the lingering grief and guilt he feels over the Time War) and he feels he did things of extremely questionable morality during it. Once the war was over, he headed further west, until he felt an urge to stop for a while in the town of Dustdevil, Wyoming. He's put down some small roots there, but he has the sense that he might, at any time, pick up and travel again (although he's not sure why that might be).
What Will Ultimately Happen
This will probably not actually happen until well after the events of the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
dustdevils game concludes, but eventually, the Doctor will end up in a showdown with the Xedrene. He'll decide that the only way to protect the universe from them, and others like them, is to jettison and destroy the last remaining Eye of Harmony from his ship, and draw the Tardis's power from time rifts instead. But that will be a long time coming. Shortly after that, it will occur to him that maybe Rose Tyler would have accepted his invitation if he'd mentioned that the Tardis could travel in time, and he'll return to the precise spot and moment when he last saw her, to ask her. So at that point, his adventures with the Wild Weird West will be over.
The Doctor's Horse and Pocket-Watch
Since the Tardis and the pocket-watch containing the Doctor's real identity are two extremely powerful items that could destabilize a game easily if misused, I'm imposing some strict limits of my own on IC usage.
First, the horse: Tardis has the outward appearance of an incredibly feisty mare. (The Doctor did always refer to her as a girl, after all!) She's difficult for many people other than "Dr. Smith," himself, to handle. She has what appears to be a brand on one hip, although it's a very strange symbol rather than lettering. (There's a symbol just like it on Dr. Smith's pocket watch.) Should she be stolen, she will be incredibly difficult for her thieves to handle, likely to escape (possibly even simply vanishing from her stall), and will return to Dr. Smith very quickly. Still, even bearing all that in mind, please contact me OOC to discuss anything that might happen to her before it gets played out, so that we can keep the likely IC consequences minimal enough that they don't break the game or any characters' abilities to play in it.
Now, the pocket-watch: Dr. Smith believes that this is the sole inheritance he received upon his father's death, largely in part to the fact that he was across the ocean when it happened and his family couldn't afford to ship him anything else, but also because said family was large and, while aristocratic, of the decaying and increasingly-bankrupt portion of the aristocracy that had little other than their castles and titles left to them. He believes that the watch is broken, and in fact believes that it might be damaged at this point by opening it, so he keeps it as-is, as a memento of a father he hopes he made proud. This isn't particularly something he thinks about consciously; he simply keeps it on him and doesn't think much about why. Because the consequences of him -- or anyone else -- opening the watch are pretty severe (if you've seen the Human Nature / The Family of Blood cycle, you know that opening the watch could bring the Xedrene to Dustdevil, and that's probably a Really Bad Idea), I'm asking again that anyone who wants to do anything with the watch in a plot discuss it with me (and Takhys) OOCly before starting. It's realistic that someone with a psychic glimmer to them would know that the watch is more than meets the eye; that was the case of Tim in Human Nature. But attempts to borrow/steal the watch, or examine it more closely -- successful or not -- have to be kept to a minimum to ensure that the game doesn't veer off-course. Characters who are actually aware of the presence of a soul trapped inside the watch (and I've seen a few who might be) will probably also be aware that the soul in question would prefer to stay that way for the time being, and are also undoubtedly accustomed to sensing loads of strange shit they'd never discuss anyway. Characters who are unaware of what lives within the watch, but just think it might be valuable, may experience a slight repulsion from the watch, something akin to an instinct telling them to leave it alone. Whatever works best for your character. The point is that, while it's something Dr. Smith frequently has on or near him, it's something that he never gives much thought to, and that few people around him should give much thought to either. A bit like it has an S.E.P. Field on it. ;)
Physiology
As far as anybody, including the Doctor, can tell, he's completely human. Canon sources are unclear as to whether this is a fact or a complex illusion. I lean toward thinking the latter because his transformation back to himself, in The Family of Blood, happened with so little fanfare that you can't spot the moment it occurs. Growing a second heart might be a little noticeable, so it's my personal suspicion that he had it all along and it was simply concealed, even from him. Whichever it is shouldn't play too much into the game, although I may give Dr. Smith a bit of uncanny stamina. Still, I'm going to try not to ever have him end up in a position where he'll need his alien physiology, so that this can stay completely ambiguous. (Should he ever get romantically involved with a female character, however, I may decisively have his biology be Gallifreyan, but cloaked, so that reproduction is impossible.)
Clairvoyance
In Human Nature / The Family of Blood there's an incident in which the Doctor appears to have some foreknowledge of events, and subtly sets things in motion to prevent an accident from occurring. So he periodically has little glimmers of the future, even in his current humanized state. For the most part, though, these are going to be incredibly mild. What they may mean is that he's often conveniently nearby when his services are about to be needed, having decided to take a stroll through a particular area, or a horseback ride out into a particular part of the country -- with, for whatever reason, his medical bag -- just when it turns out he's needed there most. It doesn't happen often enough to draw attention to itself, though. There may also be a number of "close calls" where people think "Wow, it's a good thing I stopped to talk to Dr. Smith, or that stagecoach would have run me over/that piano would have fallen on me" but again, it's not a frequent-enough thing for people to start putting together any kind of pattern, and there are still plenty of times he's not on the spot for a particular crisis because he's dealing with another. (Even if he feels the urge to go wandering out by a mine that's about to collapse, he can't exactly do that if he's in the middle of surgery!) In essence, if you need/want him to respond quickly to a particular situation (to, say, ensure that a particular character is injured but not killed in an accident) then he'll have a clairvoyant glimmer and nothing to stop him; otherwise, he won't. ;)
Romance
This is a thorny one. In Human Nature / The Family of Blood, John Smith did fall in love with a human woman, and considered pursuing a relationship with her at the potential exclusion of taking up his Time Lord responsibilities again, so it's entirely possible that he could. However, I'm going to try to avoid that, unless there's a character whose connection to (and sympathy with) him is logical and compelling enough to warrant them developing a romantic relationship. Because yo, it'll end badly. This is why I have him believing that he already lost a wife, in his backstory; if he does fall in love again, he'll need to have really good reasons for not feeling like he's cheating on her. (Yeah, mostly that comes from me being a little annoyed by and tired of every single one of the Doctor's companions of late -- aside from Donna -- falling in love with him.)
Mad Science
Dr. Smith loves to experiment, and doesn't let little things like feasibility get in his way. Some of his experiments will actually be spot on -- for example, he's messing around with Penicillium mold. But a lot of doctors were actually doing so; many began submitting papers on its antibiotic properties to different medical societies in the late 1800s, even though Penicillin was still half a century away from being developed. He's not making Penicillin, though, and the broth he does make is of varying concentrations and effectiveness (and even has the potential to trigger anaphylaxis, so he's very careful about how he uses it). He messes around with electricity and the like, as well, but a lot of people did at that time, and a lot of the things he tries to do actually require more refined equipment than exists at the time. Overall, his experiments are more likely to fail than succeed, but sometimes they do succeed spectacularly well. Nothing long-term ever comes of them, though, because his response to "publish or perish" would probably be to perish and regenerate. ;)
Essentially, whether or not his experiments succeed will be dictated in large part by whether the success would benefit the game or undermine it. Simple as that.
His Hospital
Dr. Smith has his medical office on Main Street, leasing space from Martel LeFevre. He essentially occupies an entire storefront building, with the following rooms:
The front room is divided into three sections, a patient waiting room, a small office for records-keeping, and an examination room.
There are two back rooms, one of which houses several beds, each curtained off, where patients can stay while they recover if they're that ill or injured. The other houses Dr. Smith's personal quarters, and is pretty Spartan. The "hospital room" has nine beds in it; that's a rough estimation that Dr. Smith has made of the number of patients he might receive at one time if there was an accident at one of the mine shafts (and the maximum number of patients he considers himself capable of caring for at any given time, anyway). If more than nine beds are needed, he'll just have to ask the townsfolk to help out.
Please feel free to post questions here.
This back-story is put together from bits of canon, but is not actual Doctor Who canon, just my version of it.
Every Tardis, according to some portions of canon, contains an Eye of Harmony, a shielded singularity that powers the Tardis and allows it to manipulate spacetime in such a way that it can move around in it at will. The primary Eye of Harmony, housed under the Panopticon on Gallifrey, powers all of the others, and links them together. It was this particular piece of highly-dangerous technology that allowed the Gallifreyans to rule the universe for millions of years.
Until they were betrayed.
Exactly who gave a Tardis, and an Eye of Harmony, to the Daleks is unknown, although the primary suspect, The Master, vanished at about the same time (later to be found hidden away as a human himself with no Tardis of his own... very suspicious!) -- but whoever did it, the damage was done. In short order, the Daleks had reverse-engineered the technology and were building their own Eyes of Harmony to power their own fleet of spacetime vessels... and the Last Great Time War was on. (I'm only using a few elements from that here.)
As the very fabric of reality began to disintegrate, the Time Lords came to a disturbing conclusion. The only way to stabilize things was to wipe every Eye of Harmony out of existence, whether Dalek or Gallifreyan. And there was only one Time Lord left who had the ability to do it: a man who had briefly taken up the Presidency of the Time Lord High Council and then relinquished it, but still technically had all of the rights and titles. The Doctor.
The cost, they knew, would be grave. Detonating all of the Eyes of Harmony, all over the universe, would destroy Gallifrey and every Tardis in existence, along with the Skaro and the Dalek fleet. There was little chance that any member of either species would survive... but perhaps, the High Council decided, that was for the best.
Direct access to the primary Eye of Harmony was no longer possible at this stage in the war; it was buried under hundreds of feet of rubble and slag that had once been the Time Lord Citadel, and that slag was emitting heavy reality-warping radiation that even Time Lord technology couldn't combat. But the Eyes in the Tardises were still connected to it, as were the Eyes in the Dalek Fleet. The Doctor worked out a method of using his own Tardis to remote-detonate all of the Eyes, by channeling energy directly from the Time Vortex into his ship's Eye. In doing so, he expected to be the first to die. But the Sash and Rod of Rassilon, which he'd safeguarded and used in the plan, ended up being greater protection than he thought.
Instead of being the first to go, his Tardis was the only one to survive.
And the Eye of Harmony in his ship remained fully functional, if greatly diminished since it no longer had contact with any others.
The Doctor, himself, suffered fatal cellular degeneration from the energies that had poured through, even with the protection of the Sash of Rassilon, but he was still able to regenerate. After recovering from his regeneration, he began to patrol the universe to determine what sort of fallout was left from the Time War and what further cleaning up needed to be done. He tried to remain focused on that and not think about the act of double-genocide he'd committed, and how unfair it was that he'd survived it. There was a great deal of cleanup that needed to be done, though, so he stayed busy. While cleaning up a mess on Earth, he encountered a young woman named Rose who -- for the first time in a while -- made him feel connected to others. He offered to take her with him on his travels, but she refused.
It didn't occur to him to tell her that she'd be traveling through time. Not yet. Not for a while, either.
He moved on and, soon thereafter, encountered a species, the Xedrene, whose world had been destroyed by the Dalek fleet just days before he detonated the Eyes of Harmony. Initially, he tried to help them until he discovered that they had their own plans for him, and his Tardis. They intended to use his ship, and its Eye of Harmony, to create a temporal instability that would allow their pre-destruction world to be pulled forward into this time. The cost, however, would have been a billion supernovae, thousands of them destroying inhabited worlds. It was a cost the Xedrene didn't care about, but the Doctor promptly fled, determined to hide his Tardis from them until the newly-emerged Time Agents caught up with them and ended their threat. (Yes, I made all of this up, thank you!)
He retreated to Earth, using the Chameleon Arch in his Tardis to create a false persona that he could inhabit -- in a humanized body -- until it was safe for him to emerge. In a rare bout of cooperative spirit (and possibly because it was bubbling over with residual power from the end of the Time War) the Tardis actually made use of its chameleon circuit, taking on the outward appearance of a very spirited horse (named, logically enough, Tardis). And thus a wandering Doctor became a frontier physician in 19th Century Wyoming.
Who He Believes He Is
Dr. John Smith believes that he was born in 1835 in Manchester, England, to a cadet branch of an aristocratic family that had, at that point, almost run out of money and had little more than their titles. As one of the younger sons and unlikely to inherit, he pursued a career in medicine, eventually traveling to Harvard's School of Medicine to pursue it further. While there, he fell in love with a woman named Romana, and they ended up marrying. He only learned of his father's death when he received news of it in the mail, along with a pocket-watch that was his entire share of the family inheritance. A few years after that, Romana died in childbirth, along with the baby, and Dr. Smith left the Boston area and began to travel. The Civil war began soon after, and he ended up working as a battlefield surgeon. The war haunts him for some reason (the Tardis did this as a way of giving him an alternate explanation for the lingering grief and guilt he feels over the Time War) and he feels he did things of extremely questionable morality during it. Once the war was over, he headed further west, until he felt an urge to stop for a while in the town of Dustdevil, Wyoming. He's put down some small roots there, but he has the sense that he might, at any time, pick up and travel again (although he's not sure why that might be).
What Will Ultimately Happen
This will probably not actually happen until well after the events of the
dustdevils game concludes, but eventually, the Doctor will end up in a showdown with the Xedrene. He'll decide that the only way to protect the universe from them, and others like them, is to jettison and destroy the last remaining Eye of Harmony from his ship, and draw the Tardis's power from time rifts instead. But that will be a long time coming. Shortly after that, it will occur to him that maybe Rose Tyler would have accepted his invitation if he'd mentioned that the Tardis could travel in time, and he'll return to the precise spot and moment when he last saw her, to ask her. So at that point, his adventures with the Wild Weird West will be over.The Doctor's Horse and Pocket-Watch
Since the Tardis and the pocket-watch containing the Doctor's real identity are two extremely powerful items that could destabilize a game easily if misused, I'm imposing some strict limits of my own on IC usage.
First, the horse: Tardis has the outward appearance of an incredibly feisty mare. (The Doctor did always refer to her as a girl, after all!) She's difficult for many people other than "Dr. Smith," himself, to handle. She has what appears to be a brand on one hip, although it's a very strange symbol rather than lettering. (There's a symbol just like it on Dr. Smith's pocket watch.) Should she be stolen, she will be incredibly difficult for her thieves to handle, likely to escape (possibly even simply vanishing from her stall), and will return to Dr. Smith very quickly. Still, even bearing all that in mind, please contact me OOC to discuss anything that might happen to her before it gets played out, so that we can keep the likely IC consequences minimal enough that they don't break the game or any characters' abilities to play in it.
Now, the pocket-watch: Dr. Smith believes that this is the sole inheritance he received upon his father's death, largely in part to the fact that he was across the ocean when it happened and his family couldn't afford to ship him anything else, but also because said family was large and, while aristocratic, of the decaying and increasingly-bankrupt portion of the aristocracy that had little other than their castles and titles left to them. He believes that the watch is broken, and in fact believes that it might be damaged at this point by opening it, so he keeps it as-is, as a memento of a father he hopes he made proud. This isn't particularly something he thinks about consciously; he simply keeps it on him and doesn't think much about why. Because the consequences of him -- or anyone else -- opening the watch are pretty severe (if you've seen the Human Nature / The Family of Blood cycle, you know that opening the watch could bring the Xedrene to Dustdevil, and that's probably a Really Bad Idea), I'm asking again that anyone who wants to do anything with the watch in a plot discuss it with me (and Takhys) OOCly before starting. It's realistic that someone with a psychic glimmer to them would know that the watch is more than meets the eye; that was the case of Tim in Human Nature. But attempts to borrow/steal the watch, or examine it more closely -- successful or not -- have to be kept to a minimum to ensure that the game doesn't veer off-course. Characters who are actually aware of the presence of a soul trapped inside the watch (and I've seen a few who might be) will probably also be aware that the soul in question would prefer to stay that way for the time being, and are also undoubtedly accustomed to sensing loads of strange shit they'd never discuss anyway. Characters who are unaware of what lives within the watch, but just think it might be valuable, may experience a slight repulsion from the watch, something akin to an instinct telling them to leave it alone. Whatever works best for your character. The point is that, while it's something Dr. Smith frequently has on or near him, it's something that he never gives much thought to, and that few people around him should give much thought to either. A bit like it has an S.E.P. Field on it. ;)
Physiology
As far as anybody, including the Doctor, can tell, he's completely human. Canon sources are unclear as to whether this is a fact or a complex illusion. I lean toward thinking the latter because his transformation back to himself, in The Family of Blood, happened with so little fanfare that you can't spot the moment it occurs. Growing a second heart might be a little noticeable, so it's my personal suspicion that he had it all along and it was simply concealed, even from him. Whichever it is shouldn't play too much into the game, although I may give Dr. Smith a bit of uncanny stamina. Still, I'm going to try not to ever have him end up in a position where he'll need his alien physiology, so that this can stay completely ambiguous. (Should he ever get romantically involved with a female character, however, I may decisively have his biology be Gallifreyan, but cloaked, so that reproduction is impossible.)
Clairvoyance
In Human Nature / The Family of Blood there's an incident in which the Doctor appears to have some foreknowledge of events, and subtly sets things in motion to prevent an accident from occurring. So he periodically has little glimmers of the future, even in his current humanized state. For the most part, though, these are going to be incredibly mild. What they may mean is that he's often conveniently nearby when his services are about to be needed, having decided to take a stroll through a particular area, or a horseback ride out into a particular part of the country -- with, for whatever reason, his medical bag -- just when it turns out he's needed there most. It doesn't happen often enough to draw attention to itself, though. There may also be a number of "close calls" where people think "Wow, it's a good thing I stopped to talk to Dr. Smith, or that stagecoach would have run me over/that piano would have fallen on me" but again, it's not a frequent-enough thing for people to start putting together any kind of pattern, and there are still plenty of times he's not on the spot for a particular crisis because he's dealing with another. (Even if he feels the urge to go wandering out by a mine that's about to collapse, he can't exactly do that if he's in the middle of surgery!) In essence, if you need/want him to respond quickly to a particular situation (to, say, ensure that a particular character is injured but not killed in an accident) then he'll have a clairvoyant glimmer and nothing to stop him; otherwise, he won't. ;)
Romance
This is a thorny one. In Human Nature / The Family of Blood, John Smith did fall in love with a human woman, and considered pursuing a relationship with her at the potential exclusion of taking up his Time Lord responsibilities again, so it's entirely possible that he could. However, I'm going to try to avoid that, unless there's a character whose connection to (and sympathy with) him is logical and compelling enough to warrant them developing a romantic relationship. Because yo, it'll end badly. This is why I have him believing that he already lost a wife, in his backstory; if he does fall in love again, he'll need to have really good reasons for not feeling like he's cheating on her. (Yeah, mostly that comes from me being a little annoyed by and tired of every single one of the Doctor's companions of late -- aside from Donna -- falling in love with him.)
Mad Science
Dr. Smith loves to experiment, and doesn't let little things like feasibility get in his way. Some of his experiments will actually be spot on -- for example, he's messing around with Penicillium mold. But a lot of doctors were actually doing so; many began submitting papers on its antibiotic properties to different medical societies in the late 1800s, even though Penicillin was still half a century away from being developed. He's not making Penicillin, though, and the broth he does make is of varying concentrations and effectiveness (and even has the potential to trigger anaphylaxis, so he's very careful about how he uses it). He messes around with electricity and the like, as well, but a lot of people did at that time, and a lot of the things he tries to do actually require more refined equipment than exists at the time. Overall, his experiments are more likely to fail than succeed, but sometimes they do succeed spectacularly well. Nothing long-term ever comes of them, though, because his response to "publish or perish" would probably be to perish and regenerate. ;)
Essentially, whether or not his experiments succeed will be dictated in large part by whether the success would benefit the game or undermine it. Simple as that.
His Hospital
Dr. Smith has his medical office on Main Street, leasing space from Martel LeFevre. He essentially occupies an entire storefront building, with the following rooms:
The front room is divided into three sections, a patient waiting room, a small office for records-keeping, and an examination room.
There are two back rooms, one of which houses several beds, each curtained off, where patients can stay while they recover if they're that ill or injured. The other houses Dr. Smith's personal quarters, and is pretty Spartan. The "hospital room" has nine beds in it; that's a rough estimation that Dr. Smith has made of the number of patients he might receive at one time if there was an accident at one of the mine shafts (and the maximum number of patients he considers himself capable of caring for at any given time, anyway). If more than nine beds are needed, he'll just have to ask the townsfolk to help out.
Please feel free to post questions here.
