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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 1490075" data-attributes="member: 515"><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">That evening, after the <em>Bray Keaven</em> returns to the airport, the crewmembers gather in the lounge to share information and to discuss plans. Martha, Argent, and Vargas also dine on the food Darishun thoughtfully brought for them.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"I’m leaning towards going on the holiday expedition," Saro announces. "Would it be too late to get an identity for me? I could leave a detailed protocol for people here as to how to identify patients. With the diagnostic test at least we can safely determine if they have been exposed. If they have been exposed and subsequently survived, the doctors here could easily isolate the antibodies. Maybe if that happens they could even try and contact us over the border and we could just head straight back.</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"On the expedition there are many variables, and I think we have to be flexible. While I am certainly no combatant, perhaps I could be of more use there. I would appreciate all of your opinions."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Swann breaks into a smile as the Doctor announces his intentions of joining the holiday excursion. "Hey Doc, that’s great. I’d love to have you come along. We can always use another pair of eyes to spot trouble and another mind to help formulate an escape plan. And it will be nice to have someone along who actually knows what we’re looking for." Swann also thinks, "And someone who can patch us up if things go sour."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Saro smiles and can’t help but yawn. "Thanks. I hope we find something that helps and at the very least I’m sure we will learn a lot more about what is going on."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Darishun cocks his head to one side and asks, "Does the expedition team have communication devices? So we can contact you if we need to."</span></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: silver">Argent says that as far as the Doc going, "It’s up to him. Darishun is staying aboard, so we at least have a medic for anyone needing aid. If Saro and the holiday group feel it would be better to have a medic on the trip, I would recommend that he go with them."</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">-----</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Later, after dinner, as Ian, Vasilii, and Dr. Saro gather around to discuss the holiday trip, Swann rubs a hand across his face, looks at the others, and says, "I have a rudimentary plan for our trip, but it’s far from complete. I’ll outline it for you, and if anyone has any suggestions or improvements, or even a better plan, feel free to jump right in.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"First, we’re going to need a fake ID and a bank account for Doc. We’re also going to need some communicators — a short–range communicator for each of us and one with a longer range we can use to contact the ship. I think that we have enough weapons on board to outfit us, except I’d like to get a couple of knives, with at least one of them balanced for throwing — just in case. Binoculars and night–vision goggles also would be nice to have.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"I think we should first go to Kingan, which is just over the border. We can hide the air raft on this side of the border and sneak across on foot. If need be, we can pose as businessmen, as Vasilii suggested. While in Kingan, we should go check out the King Sour soda bottling facility. Also there are a couple of hospitals we can check out, see if they have a vaccine stashed away.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Depending on how things go in Kingan, we can then head for Judithan, which is about 80 km over the border. We can sneak back across the border, pick up the air raft, fly to just outside Judithan, stash it somewhere, and walk into town. We can pose as businessmen again. In Judithan, we can check out the Crown Prince milk formula plant. Our target there should be the new additive in tank No. 45.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Also in Judithan there is a hospital, where at least one recent patient has received treatment for symptoms very similar to our mystery disease. He pulled through, which means they probably have some medicine there for treating victims. If we can’t find the meds at the hospital, we have the patient’s name and address — we can sneak into his house and take a blood sample if we have to.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Well, that’s my plan. It's simple, straightforward, and has plenty of room for change and improv, because we’ll probably need to be flexible — something always goes wrong, no matter how good the plan.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"But I’m not married to this one. Does anyone have anything to add, or any suggestions? Have we overlooked anything? Is there another tactic we should try? I’m all ears."</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">After listening to the plan outline while sipping some caffeinated drink, Saro looks impressed. "I like the plan. But instead of the hospital, maybe we should look elsewhere for the vaccine. Vaccination is rarely carried out in hospitals. Some public health office would be a more likely target. Maybe a Ministry of Health or something along those lines. If they have a warehouse that would be a prime target."</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"That’s good to know," Swann says. "I’ll start looking for more information along those lines."</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"About that Judithan patient who survived," Saro says. "It doesn’t necessarily mean that he was treated. He could be one of those people who developed natural immunity. With all infections there is always someone who develops a natural immunity, and those people are extremely useful. That’s what we are hoping those patients who claim to have survived in the Bromlian capital are. So maybe if we talk to this patient, he would allow us to take samples from him as Swann suggested. That would be very useful."</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The surgeon smiles again and there are deep lines in his forehead and crows’ feet in his eyes. "A side benefit of my presence that should not be ignored is that I can drive the wheeled vehicles that are common around here, not great but I can do it, and that I can entertain all of you with my baliset and my songs. Any requests?"</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Then we might look at obtaining a ground vehicle before going across the border into KGL," Swann says. "That would look better than a group of businessmen walking into town. We might be able to lease a vehicle, or if necessary ‘borrow’ one. Mister Vasilii, perhaps you could inquire among your sources about the possibility of renting ground transportation near the border? And we’ll need some detailed maps of the border area near Kingan, and the area around Judithan as well as maps of the cities themselves."</span></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">-----</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">After the conversation Saro finds Martha and asks to speak with her privately. He says to her: "Martha, I ran the samples and I didn’t find anything. You were not exposed, or if you were it did not have any effect on you, which would be very strange. Also, there were no traces of pollen. Are you still having nightmares? How are you sleeping? Let me know if there is anything I can do for you, even if it’s just lending an ear to listen to you. I know very well that not all problems can be treated with drugs or surgery. Sometimes a little bit of caring and understanding helps. I’m here for you if you need anything."</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">"Thanks, Doc," Martha sighs as she rubs her eye casually. "Ummm, yeah, I’m still having the nightmares, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t from the pollen or whatever." She looks uncomfortably at the medical officer. "Look, it’s just . . . well, it’s . . . it’s hard . . . ," she sighs again, looking down at the floor. "Doc, now’s not the time. Can we do this later? I . . . I’m just not ready yet, OK?" Her tone, perhaps a bit too brusque, borders on a hidden well of emotion. She chokes out, "I gotta get some sleep, OK. Following doctor’s orders and all." With a forced smile, she squirms past the Doc and hurries to her room.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Outside her room, the soft sounds of sobbing can be heard for about half an hour, before drifting off into silence punctuated only by the occasional whimper and moan, and occasionally more tears.</span></span></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">-----</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Saro heads to his room and gets about five hours of sleep. His communicator is on and ready, in case of an emergency, right next to his head. He sleeps lightly, ready to be called. After sleeping, he returns to the lab and starts working on a probe and a set of primers for a diagnostic test based on the disease’s known DNA sequence. Designing the TL12 equivalent of a PCR assay is pretty easy now that Saro has the DNA sequence information (acquired from a sample that the Bromlian doctors had and run through the equipment that the Bray Keaven brought). The field medical kits and the medical equipment that the Bromlians now have (albeit in limited quantities) have a small blood/body fluids chemical profiler that can be set up to detect the presence of AHV in a sample once the information is downloaded to them. <span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Saro sends the information to the Bromlians and downloads the information to his profiler and to Darishun’s.</span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowdancer, post: 1490075, member: 515"] [font=Verdana][size=2]That evening, after the [i]Bray Keaven[/i] returns to the airport, the crewmembers gather in the lounge to share information and to discuss plans. Martha, Argent, and Vargas also dine on the food Darishun thoughtfully brought for them. "I’m leaning towards going on the holiday expedition," Saro announces. "Would it be too late to get an identity for me? I could leave a detailed protocol for people here as to how to identify patients. With the diagnostic test at least we can safely determine if they have been exposed. If they have been exposed and subsequently survived, the doctors here could easily isolate the antibodies. Maybe if that happens they could even try and contact us over the border and we could just head straight back. "On the expedition there are many variables, and I think we have to be flexible. While I am certainly no combatant, perhaps I could be of more use there. I would appreciate all of your opinions." Swann breaks into a smile as the Doctor announces his intentions of joining the holiday excursion. "Hey Doc, that’s great. I’d love to have you come along. We can always use another pair of eyes to spot trouble and another mind to help formulate an escape plan. And it will be nice to have someone along who actually knows what we’re looking for." Swann also thinks, "And someone who can patch us up if things go sour." Saro smiles and can’t help but yawn. "Thanks. I hope we find something that helps and at the very least I’m sure we will learn a lot more about what is going on." Darishun cocks his head to one side and asks, "Does the expedition team have communication devices? So we can contact you if we need to." [/size][/font][font=Verdana][size=2][color=silver]Argent says that as far as the Doc going, "It’s up to him. Darishun is staying aboard, so we at least have a medic for anyone needing aid. If Saro and the holiday group feel it would be better to have a medic on the trip, I would recommend that he go with them."[/color][/size][/font] [center][font=Verdana][size=2]-----[/size][/font][/center] [font=Verdana][size=2]Later, after dinner, as Ian, Vasilii, and Dr. Saro gather around to discuss the holiday trip, Swann rubs a hand across his face, looks at the others, and says, "I have a rudimentary plan for our trip, but it’s far from complete. I’ll outline it for you, and if anyone has any suggestions or improvements, or even a better plan, feel free to jump right in.[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]"First, we’re going to need a fake ID and a bank account for Doc. We’re also going to need some communicators — a short–range communicator for each of us and one with a longer range we can use to contact the ship. I think that we have enough weapons on board to outfit us, except I’d like to get a couple of knives, with at least one of them balanced for throwing — just in case. Binoculars and night–vision goggles also would be nice to have.[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]"I think we should first go to Kingan, which is just over the border. We can hide the air raft on this side of the border and sneak across on foot. If need be, we can pose as businessmen, as Vasilii suggested. While in Kingan, we should go check out the King Sour soda bottling facility. Also there are a couple of hospitals we can check out, see if they have a vaccine stashed away.[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]"Depending on how things go in Kingan, we can then head for Judithan, which is about 80 km over the border. We can sneak back across the border, pick up the air raft, fly to just outside Judithan, stash it somewhere, and walk into town. We can pose as businessmen again. In Judithan, we can check out the Crown Prince milk formula plant. Our target there should be the new additive in tank No. 45.[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]"Also in Judithan there is a hospital, where at least one recent patient has received treatment for symptoms very similar to our mystery disease. He pulled through, which means they probably have some medicine there for treating victims. If we can’t find the meds at the hospital, we have the patient’s name and address — we can sneak into his house and take a blood sample if we have to.[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]"Well, that’s my plan. It's simple, straightforward, and has plenty of room for change and improv, because we’ll probably need to be flexible — something always goes wrong, no matter how good the plan.[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]"But I’m not married to this one. Does anyone have anything to add, or any suggestions? Have we overlooked anything? Is there another tactic we should try? I’m all ears."[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]After listening to the plan outline while sipping some caffeinated drink, Saro looks impressed. "I like the plan. But instead of the hospital, maybe we should look elsewhere for the vaccine. Vaccination is rarely carried out in hospitals. Some public health office would be a more likely target. Maybe a Ministry of Health or something along those lines. If they have a warehouse that would be a prime target."[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]"That’s good to know," Swann says. "I’ll start looking for more information along those lines."[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]"About that Judithan patient who survived," Saro says. "It doesn’t necessarily mean that he was treated. He could be one of those people who developed natural immunity. With all infections there is always someone who develops a natural immunity, and those people are extremely useful. That’s what we are hoping those patients who claim to have survived in the Bromlian capital are. So maybe if we talk to this patient, he would allow us to take samples from him as Swann suggested. That would be very useful."[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]The surgeon smiles again and there are deep lines in his forehead and crows’ feet in his eyes. "A side benefit of my presence that should not be ignored is that I can drive the wheeled vehicles that are common around here, not great but I can do it, and that I can entertain all of you with my baliset and my songs. Any requests?"[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]"Then we might look at obtaining a ground vehicle before going across the border into KGL," Swann says. "That would look better than a group of businessmen walking into town. We might be able to lease a vehicle, or if necessary ‘borrow’ one. Mister Vasilii, perhaps you could inquire among your sources about the possibility of renting ground transportation near the border? And we’ll need some detailed maps of the border area near Kingan, and the area around Judithan as well as maps of the cities themselves."[/size][/font] [center][font=Verdana][size=2]-----[/size][/font][/center] [font=Verdana][size=2]After the conversation Saro finds Martha and asks to speak with her privately. He says to her: "Martha, I ran the samples and I didn’t find anything. You were not exposed, or if you were it did not have any effect on you, which would be very strange. Also, there were no traces of pollen. Are you still having nightmares? How are you sleeping? Let me know if there is anything I can do for you, even if it’s just lending an ear to listen to you. I know very well that not all problems can be treated with drugs or surgery. Sometimes a little bit of caring and understanding helps. I’m here for you if you need anything."[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]"Thanks, Doc," Martha sighs as she rubs her eye casually. "Ummm, yeah, I’m still having the nightmares, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t from the pollen or whatever." She looks uncomfortably at the medical officer. "Look, it’s just . . . well, it’s . . . it’s hard . . . ," she sighs again, looking down at the floor. "Doc, now’s not the time. Can we do this later? I . . . I’m just not ready yet, OK?" Her tone, perhaps a bit too brusque, borders on a hidden well of emotion. She chokes out, "I gotta get some sleep, OK. Following doctor’s orders and all." With a forced smile, she squirms past the Doc and hurries to her room.[/size][/font] [font=Verdana][size=2]Outside her room, the soft sounds of sobbing can be heard for about half an hour, before drifting off into silence punctuated only by the occasional whimper and moan, and occasionally more tears.[/size][/font] [center][font=Verdana][size=2]-----[/size][/font][/center] [font=Verdana][size=2]Saro heads to his room and gets about five hours of sleep. His communicator is on and ready, in case of an emergency, right next to his head. He sleeps lightly, ready to be called. After sleeping, he returns to the lab and starts working on a probe and a set of primers for a diagnostic test based on the disease’s known DNA sequence. Designing the TL12 equivalent of a PCR assay is pretty easy now that Saro has the DNA sequence information (acquired from a sample that the Bromlian doctors had and run through the equipment that the Bray Keaven brought). The field medical kits and the medical equipment that the Bromlians now have (albeit in limited quantities) have a small blood/body fluids chemical profiler that can be set up to detect the presence of AHV in a sample once the information is downloaded to them. [font=Verdana][size=2]Saro sends the information to the Bromlians and downloads the information to his profiler and to Darishun’s.[/size][/font][/size][/font] [/QUOTE]
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