ataraxion | Voice

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! ))

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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.

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?

I'd say exactly the same thing if we were stranded in the jungle. Or New York, for that matter.

As would I.

But this ain't the jungle. Just gotta be more delicate is all I'm saying.

Forgive me, Mr. Petrelli, but "delicacy" is far from my modus operandi. This is not a criticism of you, though it may sound as such, but remember: I am not a politician. My first priority is uncovering the truth and seeing that those responsible are brought to justice. I will under no circumstances deliberately panic anyone, but nor will I sugar-coat the difficult truths. But I think you underestimate people if you think they cannot indeed handle the truth.

[ He raises his hands. ]

It's okay, you don't gotta say anything more. You'll not deliberately panic anyone, and that's all I wanted to hear.

[He frowns.]

Of course I wouldn't do that. I'm not some sort of sadist. Or someone who enjoys disarray.

And neither am I. See? We're learning about each other. You know it took maybe half an hour of me posting to this network for someone to tell me they were a villain? Can't trust anyone around here.

Er...What do you mean, "for someone to tell you they were a villain"?

I mean it pretty damn literally. Weird, right?

Someone said, "I am a villain."

'Supervillain' to be more precise. He's the little blue one--you'll know him when you see him. Was behind the last mutiny.

Is he mentally ill?

Anyone who calls themselves a villain's gotta be loose a little change.

To say nothing of someone who seems to have been reading too many...comic books. Science fiction serials. Whatever it is young people are paying attention to nowadays.

I don't think that's necessarily true. People being right outta science fiction themselves, I mean.

Er...Quite. The fact that we're on a space ship doesn't make this science fiction. And it certainly doesn't alter our psychology so that we start talking in idiotic, hackneyed terms about "heroes" and "villains."

You're talking to Doctor Watson, on a spaceship with Captain Kirk. I know it's goddamn ludicrous, but maybe it makes sense to them.

[ Then again he remembers Hiro--comic book geek extraordinaire, and very fond of the idea of heroes and villains. Maybe Edgeworth has something there. ]

...I'm not familiar with the significance of Captain Kirk.

[Watson, on the other hand...]

Try straight outta science fiction.

[ And Spock has Sylar's face, and that's not even going into the fact that people from his world has powers. He's not sure Edgeworth would be able to handle that. ]

...Really.

Have you seen any proof he is who he claims to be?

Spock's pretty much proof all on his own. Pointy ears--pretty difficult to fake. Unless you're all just figments of my imagination, but I'm trying not to linger too much on that idea, y'know?

Not difficult at all to fake. There were dozens of body-modification shops in Frankfurt alone, after all.

Maybe if it had just been the two of them, and not the whole crew. I'm working with Uhura myself, and frankly she's too competent at what she does to be faking it. Maybe when you've spent a bit more time around them.

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