Text: Medical Update on recent Bio-Hazard situation

[prorenataa]

[ Where oh where has the doctor been?

Well, a biological hazard with contagion ramifications. You do the math.

Now, however, having gotten a chance to sit down and look back over his notes, Adrien is taking the opportunity to put together something resembling a report to share with the class. Eventually it reads something like this. ]

In regards to the recent out-break of the biohazard and potential contagion situation on this planet.

Diagnosis of patients revealed no obvious affects or presence of the contagion still within our systems. This was a blanket finding across all species.

Material taken from the digestive tract, or equivalent, was likewise studies with no evidence of material outside normal parameters.

However, bloodwork lead to neurological follow-up, in the following circumstances. Where very slight alterations to the hormone levels (regardless of species) was identified further review identified these alterations as affecting the endocrine and adrenal systems (again we’re not all the same species, so the equivalent in those of you who don’t lay claim to either of these exact systems). The tests show minor, but consistent disturbances, that upon review against baseline levels, suggest a similarity to variations of withdrawal.

This effect is presenting as similar to other neurochemical imbalances, particularly anxiety and depression. If you happened to flag on these variances in testing and were taken for further questioning, I’d be interested in hearing how that went in hopes to continue to collect data on this outbreak.

Because experience, and my own prominent level of paranoia, suggests this information may be important in the future. Also, there’s a betting pool over whether the initial outbreak was an accident due to piss poor protocols, or a deliberate release of something weaponized.

For the record, I put down sencs on deliberate release, because this is precisely the sort of thing certain individuals would love to weaponize.

Finally, to those individuals who went crashing through the Ingress back to the slaver planet on some misguided mission of retributions? That was a fucking stupid move. Care to share with the class what long term solution you accomplished?

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[saveyourserpent]

Revenge is a dish best served dangerously.

[That's explanation enough, right?]

[prorenataa]

And did you obliterate them utterly?

Did you destroy the asteroid so that no other slavers could use it as a base of operations?

Did you destroy every last slaver? Tear their families limb from limb to ensure there was no one else to take up the banner?

[saveyourserpent]

Ah, if only I'd had the time for utter dismemberment.

I think we did a fine bit of damage, but there's no use in pointless excess when there's many an actual point to be made.

[prorenataa]

What point did you make?

I imagine it helped you feel good in the short term, possibly even freed some people currently held.

But in the long run, what does it accomplish? They'll just rebuild, take more individuals and strengthen their defenses so the next attempt to free those people will fail.

[warandpeace]

From my own experiences I am very concerned that it was created with the intent to attack.

[He can't really say anything about the colony. He was sold as a sex slave there, and he had his own revenge even if it was only on one man. Part of him is horrified because he doesn't know how many unwilling innocents were taken out. Part of him thinks they fucking deserved it.]

[PRIVATE]

Can you prescribe antipsychotics? [Because he's considering talking to someone about them. Asking for a friend only legitimately.]

[prorenataa]

I tend to default to 'created with the intent...'

[ Often because he'd done the same thing. ]

It saves me the hassle of being shocked when ... I'm attacked later.

[ He was sold as a slave as well, but he's learned -over time- that if you don't obliterate an enemy, they just come back. ]

[PRIVATE]

I can. Though I like to at least have a conversation about the situation before I script out anything that strong.

[PRIVATE]

[warandpeace]

[Kaz still can't buy into the whole genocide route, sadly. He knows other people that could have.]

I was guessing. I'll see if I can get my friend to come in.

He suffered a significant brain injury during an attack years ago. He was kept in a coma for nearly a decade. So the injury is healed, but he's still suffering psychological issues related to it.

[He doesn't think he's giving away too much information in saying that.]

He's never been given significant medical treatment related to his mental issues, just his physical ones. So I just wanted to know if there was a place I could encourage him to go to.

As for the parasites, I encountered some back home. At one point it did evolve and become extraordinarily lethal. [Not that the Vocal Chord Parasite wasn't lethal to begin with, but it became an entirely different level of horrific.] An organism that puppeted it's victims for the purpose of procreation. I watched a number of my men die because of it.

If there's anything I can do to keep similar losses from happening here, let me know.

[PRIVATE]

[prorenataa]

Brain injuries often result in complications that are not as direct as a broken bone or severed muscles. It would be irresponsible of me to prescribe powerful medication, like an anti-psychotic, without performing an exam.

If your friend will come and talk with me, I can make an informed decision from there.

[ For as growly and anti-patient as Adrien was, the doctor was remarkably strict when it came to the heavy duty medications. He didn't just dispense them like Pez, even if shoving pills at a patient might get that patient out of his face sooner rather than later. ]

I believe that at this time all we can hope to do is remain vigilant. I don't like to spread my particular brand of paranoia around, but the fact that people could have harbored this biologic without expressing any indicators of it's presence is ...

worrisome.

[sketchycharacter]

that's cheery news.

[prorenataa]

Little doctor Sunshine, that' me.

[sketchycharacter]

just imagining you that way is terrifying
thanks for the updates though
it might not be reassuring but it's better than obliviousness
probably

[prorenataa]

As it should.

At this point, having the information out there across as many sets of eyes as possible, seems prudent.

[modelsixtythree]

I'm not doubting this was deliberate, but something's not sitting right with me about it being a weapon. All that effort to get people there and infected for the sake of withdrawal symptoms? And someone else mentioned something about a psychic connection...

I'm worried that this is more an infiltration than an attack.

[prorenataa]

Why can't it be both?

[modelsixtythree]

...good, unsettling point. It comes down to who's pulling the trigger.

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[notglitching]

Betting options: not mutually exclusive.

[Users can be awful and incompetent!]

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[prorenataa]

If we're talking not mutually exclusive, I like the theory User N. Stark just came up with [ Ssshhh, he's attributing it to her. ] An infiltration with an eye towards an attack.

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[notglitching]

ID assignment: glitching.

[Guess who's totally reading those unsecured feeds~? But hey—]

Reasonable assessment.

[And still more optimistic than a virus!]

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[specifications]

With how people were able to come and go, it's just as plausible it was accidental.

[prorenataa]

Which is why that option is part of the betting pool.

I just don't buy it.

[specifications]

Yeah I get that.

But do you really think it's such a good idea to advertise how paranoid you are?

[ In Arthur's experience, that's one of the last things you want to do in a situation where more could still be done. ]

comes in 15 mins late with starbux

[mttbrandlegs]

RE: THE RUNOFF, YOUR POINT'S MADE. IT WAS MADE BEFORE YOU EVEN SAID ANYTHING.

I TOLD YOU SO'S AREN'T GOING TO HELP ANYONE.

BUT AS YOU SO KINDLY APPENDED A QUERY TO THAT, NOTHING.

THE ANSWER IS NOTHING WAS ACCOMPLISHED.

Mmmmm starbuxs!!

[prorenataa]

The very words I was looking for.

For what it's worth? I wish the answer was different.

[mttbrandlegs]

THE ANSWER SHALL NEVER BE DIFFERENT. IT WAS FOOLISH TO THINK THAT ANYTHING WOULD CHANGE, AND THAT A PROPER ESCAPE WAS POSSIBLE FROM SUCH WANTON DESTRUCTION.

THAT BEING SAID, I DON'T THINK I'D WANT TO TAKE IT BACK.

EXCEPT FOR THE PART WHERE I WAS CAUGHT AGAIN.

Text - extremely late, sorry man

[beautifulspaceraptor]

Unless it was a particularly vivid hallucination, you can probably go cash in on those bets.

It's definitely a thrall, or at least a precursor to one: it's probably meant to psychologically weaken the infected.

The source of it seems intent on gaining some sort of revenge and it definitely intends on controlling people to enact it. 'Why', 'who' and/or 'what' are up in the air, however.