first disease: acute cellular breakdown ℞ [ video | encrypted 100% ] ℞ backdated to yesterday

[hypospray]

[ generally speaking, leonard mccoy would like to avoid doing this sort of thing, but it's just his regrettable luck that he's the one who comes across what pretty much looks like someone decided to take someone's organ ( organs, maybe, just because there was just the liver there doesn't exactly mean the other parts weren't incinerated ) and bits of skin from them. those signs usually point to a murderer probably in medical which ten different shades of nowhere near okay or alternatively that— something else is going wrong. either way there are two things he knows right now. one, he needs to inform security and two, even if this isn't his medbay, he's allowed to yell at his fellow medical people. because they're goddamn medical personnel and you don't do this sort of thing to people. ]

[ encrypted 100% | tyke + reaper ]
Look, not sure which one of you counts as the head of security right now, and I honestly don't care. The fact of the matter is, there's something you two need to know. Especially in the wake of Dr. Frankenstein the last jump before I got here. There was— fuck it, I'll come right out and say it. There was a goddamn blood smear, a surprisingly intact liver and a few strips of flesh in the morgue near the incinerator. I have no idea why or where it came from, but there's a reason I'm doctor not a damn detective. I imagine you'll want to investigate and that's good for you. I know I'm not gonna touch it, but I can't guarantee everyone else might. So whatever you do with this, whoever you tell to get down here, might wanna do it quick. Especially since I am about to yell at the entirety of the goddamn medical staff.

[ encrypted 100% | all medical personnel ]

[ if mccoy sounds and looks annoyed when he talks, it's because he is. and it shows in how his accent thickens with each passing word and he knows later on, he might think about how this was stupid, but it needs to be said right now, or maybe they'll get unlucky and someone will do this again. ]

Let me make this very clear, I don't care how desperate we are for people to work here. How this is not my medbay and therefore me yellin' at you is mean and uncalled for. How, as always, there's more idiots on this ship than there are medical personnel who can patch them up with ease. Which means gettin' one of you all to leave is a bad idea. But— the basic idea of being in medical is to help people. I ain't gonna mention the Hippocratic Oath since some of you might not have even had to take it, but— cuttin' someone up and takin' their goddamn liver and leavin' blood and strips of flesh for someone else to come across breaks about every damn rule of helpin' people.

[ there's a pause, where bones takes a deep breath and looks even more aggravated than he already was. ]

Now I don't know if was one of you, or if one of you let the person who did this into the medical bay, but maybe, just maybe act like a decent whatever you are, and not make me concerned that I'm working with murderers and that I'll have to watch my back while I'm trying to do my job and helpin' everyone stay alive, heal from whatever stupidity they did.

Comments

voice, medical lock

[doc_pompous]

Take a sample, if you still have the organ. Run it through our existing records, see if there's a match. I'll...check on any recent activity with the synthesizers.

voice, medical lock

[hypospray]

Considering I am looking at it right now, pretty sure I still have the thing. Running the risk of making security— yeah, I know, our jurisdiction with the liver, but still theirs depending on what is going on. I can take a sample, but I'm not about to get blamed when all I did was come across the thing.

[ a beat. ]

And the synthesizers— I'll let you check 'em, but that— the hell would you even use it for beyond the blood smear. None of the— from what we know no one needs to eat human body parts.

Re: voice, medical lock

[doc_pompous]

I'm hoping that someone was just trying to figure out how they work and...did a poor job of disposing of the results.

That might be a little optimistic, for this ship.

[hypospray]

A little. Just watch, what'll come out of this is surprise someone replicated a body part because they needed to eat and messed up.

Besides, could have just ran out of time to get the liver done before someone noticed. Makes sense with how it's just kind of sitting here randomly.

voice; same filter

[secretlabtech]

Okay, I think I missed most of that. Have you considered breathing between your sentences? It might make you easier to understand.

voice; same filter

[hypospray]

[ Dexter, oh no honey, wrong thing to say. ]

You sure you don't just need to invest in someone else around here checking your hearing?

voice; same filter

[secretlabtech]

My hearing might not be that great. I was subjected to a chemical attack not long ago, unless you count being in space, and my ears have been dodgy ever since. Didn't get to take the full course of antibiotics, what with being abducted and everything.

[ So rude, McCoy. ]

voice; same filter

[hypospray]

And you didn't think to maybe look for the equivalent up here or think, hell, maybe someone on this ship might be able to make it or find something better to help it. That one just might be on you.

[ The absolute rudest and he'll do it however much he wants. ]

Which chemical anyway?

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[puppydogeyes]

[Some days she seriously just hates this ship.]

I'll send someone down. [A pause.] Just a liver?

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[hypospray]

[ Join the club, except okay, maybe he's the one joining instead. ]

I'll be waiting by it. [ He nods. ] As far as internal organs go, yeah, just a liver. Flesh strips and blood make sense with the liver, at least.

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[puppydogeyes]

And it's human?

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[hypospray]

If it isn't I'll be surprised. But, if it isn't, it's at least humanoid looking. Haven't touched it, but I know what one looks like.

[andblockbuster]

But was there a nice chianti anywhere around?

[hypospray]

[ A very long pause complete with a exhale that's just drawn out. ]

Oh yes, the cannibal that just walked by was carrying some. [ AFSDJFDS ] No there wasn't a nice chianti lying around nearby.

[andblockbuster]

[Dude, Hannibal Lecter was HERE ONCE. Don't judge.]

You never know about some of these people that show up, bro. You think you know someone and then one day, there's an ice pick under their bed.

[hypospray]

[ He will judge all he wants, you're not his real mom, Topher. ]

Speaking from personal experience, are we?

voice | medical lock

[organfarm]

[ aaa

aaaaaaaa

aaaaaaaaaaaaa shit he messed up, he messed up so bad. ]

Uh --

[ okay no, calm down, calm down. try not to sound too panicked. or at least, panicked in an 'oh my god a stray liver on the floor' way, not panicked in a 'shit that's my liver please don't realize it's me' sort of way. ]

-- uh. There -- wasn't like, any sign of a struggle? No confirmation that anyone was hurt?

voice | medical lock

[hypospray]

[ yes, you did, man. never leave your stray livers lying around where people can find them. ]

No confirmation, but the liver sitting in front of me and the blood and the flesh bits kind of point to the idea that there might have been a bit of a struggle.

voice | medical lock

[organfarm]

[ think think think, there has to be a good way he can flub this. ]

Maybe they uh -- they ... found it? Whoever it was that dropped it there.

video; same encryption

[chromosomes]

Tyke does. [ So, you know, for future reference. ]

Can you see if the incinerator's been accessed lately?

video; same encryption

[hypospray]

I know she normally does. [ So, you know, remember he's a doctor, Reaper. ]

Might be able to. Haven't actually tried, but I can see what I can do.

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[chromosomes]

[ with McCoy reminding everyone every five minutes, how could anyone forget? ]

Hopefully there's some sort of staff lock on it with records.

voice » private locked

[unparental]

I'm a psychology grad student, I'm oath-free.

[ but she also didn't take the liver and ew. ]

Was it-- I feel like I should ask questions like on CSI, but I wouldn't know what to do with anything you told me, anyway.

...where was it?

voice » private locked

[hypospray]

Bound by doctor-patient confidentiality except in cases where someone's life is at risk. Had a rotation or two of it. Counts as pretty close.

[ which is to say, god he wishes you were though. ]

CSI? [ jenna, don't mention that to him. ]

Near the incinerator.

voice » private locked

[unparental]

That comes after graduation.

[ she's js.

...lbr jenna doesn't even need an oath, freaky do-gooder she is. ]

It's a TV show-- full of science I'm sure all you genius types could tell me is completely fake. [ she cheerfully doesn't care it's fake. ]

That's... it seems logical on one hand, really awful on the other.