Voice

[theblogger]

Good afternoon, Tranquility.

My name is John Watson, I'm one of the doctors working in your medical bay. I've got several things to talk to you about today, all of them important, so I hope you'll stick with me through it.

First off, many of you are aware that a death occurred during the jump. For those of you who have just arrived and aren't familiar with the term, a 'jump' is what happens when the ship is moving rapidly from one part of space to another. We make these once a month and they're believed to be the reason we end up here. I don't know the technical details about it -it's only a theory, really, from other passengers- so don't bother asking.

What I know about it is that your life depends on you being present in the medbay before every jump. The consequences are what happened to the deceased, who was trapped elsewhere in the ship during the jump and became crushed by the acceleration. I'm sorry I have to tell you about that, but I want you to realize that getting into the gravpouches is not optional. You get in one or you die.

[ There's a pause here, which may be for weight or for the fact John needs to collect himself once more. ]

An examination was performed on the deceased by myself and Doctor McCoy. We have done extensive tests and have found no drugs to be present in the system. So Hotspur's broadcast was a lucid one, and no one attempted to drug him to keep him from getting out of that shuttle. The cause of death matches with the expected consequences of a jump on an unprotected body.

We cannot say anything in regards to whether or not this incident was accidental or manufactured, but in respect to the body, there is no evidence of foul play.

If you have any questions about the examination, I'll take them.

Just a reminder now - from now on, we'll be reporting to the medbay an hour before the jump to make sure everyone's present and accounted for. You'll likely be sitting in the locker rooms, though, until we can get everyone sorted.

[ Again, a pause. This one is for a transition. ]

Second order of business is to tell you that medbay is short-staffed. We've got about six people to help about four hundred of you. We're looking for medical professionals that have come in through the jump as well as volunteers. If you'd like to come and help us out at medical, we're willing to train you. We're looking for those interested in full-time, part-time, and emergency volunteers.

I'm going to need all of our current medical staff to cue in to this broadcast, because it will be acting as our interview process.

If you think you're interested, keep listening. If not, this broadcast ends here.



[ And one more pause. ]

I'm not going to lie to you - being involved in the medbay is a demanding job with little reward. You'll be putting in a lot of hours if you join us and, in all likelihood, you'll be seeing some very messy things. You're dealing with actual lives here, and what you decide may very well be what stands between someone living or dying. However, we do have some experienced medical professionals to help you, and if we're training you, we're going to give you the best of the knowledge and experience we have. We'll make sure you're prepared.

Being a doctor or nurse takes dedication and a certain attitude. We'll probably be training you in emergency medical techniques to start out with because we get a lot of trauma-related injuries, more so than we do anything else. If you can't stand the sight of blood, this isn't the job for you. We'd rather have you changing the linens and mopping the floors if that's the case.

Like I said, it's going to take a lot of work on your part if you join us, but you will be involved in saving other lives. That's reward enough for those of us here now.

If you don't think you've got the time to put in on learning or doing shifts, we would still like to have some emergency staff who we could call in to help change the beds and bring meals to patients, help wash up, that sort of thing.

If you're interested, send me a video chat. I'll just have a few questions for you and some of the other medical staff may ask you a few of their own.

(( OOC: Medical staff! You may ping in/threadjack these threads, especially those with any potential interviewees! ))

Comments

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[theblogger]

The first death we've had is the one I've mentioned today.

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[jurisimpudent]

That's...good to hear. But there have been disappearances.

[video]

[theblogger]

Numerous ones, yes. Sometimes they come back. Most of the time they don't.

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

No indication that they were trapped in a situation like Mr. Hotspur's.

[video]

[theblogger]

No bodies were ever found. Skeletons, at one point, were found, but we can't say for certain they were any of our missing people.

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[jurisimpudent]

...I see. The ship, however, is extraordinarily large. Are there any methods of rapid travel from one part to another?

[video]

[theblogger]

There are lifts, like the one you took to get to the passenger quarters. Those string along about the ship. Some are broken.

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[jurisimpudent]

So there are large parts of the ship unaccessible. The missing individuals could, theoretically, have been secreted away there...

[video]

[theblogger]

Theoretically, it seems possible.

[ He seems a bit disconcerted by this fact. ]

Don't know how they'd have survived the jumps.

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[jurisimpudent]

[Grimly:]

I doubt they would have.

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[theblogger]

[ John's lips thin, and there's a slow breath through his nose. ]

Anything else I can help you with, Mr. Edgeworth?

[ Let's move on. ]

[video]

[jurisimpudent]

The autopsy. You're willing to speak about it in a private transmission?

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[theblogger]

Some people really would rather not hear the details. Can't blame them.

I've set it to private.

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[jurisimpudent]

No. Not in the least.

The body was crushed, then.

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[theblogger]

Yes. Massive trauma. Most likely from the impact of his body against the walls of the shuttle he was in. Death was instantaneous.

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[jurisimpudent]

No toxins in his system, you said...In a situation like that, with trauma that severe, would a medical examiner be able to tell if the cause of death had been something else? Say, for example - if he had been injured before the jump.

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[theblogger]

With the state of the body, we couldn't tell if he'd been injured beforehand.

I can tell you with a certainty, however, that his death was due to the jump. We'd have known, for example, if he bled out before he died, though finding the actual place where he was cut would have been difficult.

The actual cause of death came from the force of being pushed back. He was dead before impacting the side of the shuttle.

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[cargojet]

Theoretically they coulda also been murdered. Wouldn't usually butt in here, but you seem like the kinda guy who thinks full disclosure is the only way forward.

You gotta be careful the kinda provocative things you say around here. It's a little ship, you don't wanna scare people too much when they've got nowhere to run to.

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[jurisimpudent]

What - you'd sooner see them lulled into some false sense of security? Better afraid than complacent.

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[cargojet]

You're a prosecutor from LA, and I get that you don't understand this - it's not really your fault, it's just that you're young, and you don't have the experience - but ships don't work the way that cities do. Especially ships out in space, where there's no hope of touching solid ground again for who knows how long.

But you should have some experience--you ever see what someone who's terrified and cornered is capable of doing?

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[jurisimpudent]

[And his voice, quite abruptly, is rather icy.]

I think that my experience is none of your business. And don't talk to me like I'm some naive fool. I am not a child.

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[cargojet]

I'm asking if you've seen what fear can make people do. I'm asking if you wanna be on a ship full of people feeling just that way, cause I sure as hell don't.

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[jurisimpudent]

I'd sooner see people taking precautions than wandering blithely about, waiting to be slaughtered.

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[cargojet]

Stay on the beaten path, and you're safe--everyone knows that. I'm not disagreeing with that, just the idea of telling people that the friends they've made mighta been brutally murdered. Might have been.

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[jurisimpudent]

Stay on the beaten path, and you're safe for now. How long will that safety last? And, indeed, is it right to be so confined at all?