Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy (
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outer_divide2014-09-08 04:59 pm
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[Video] 4AM Friday Morning, locked to the Sci-Fi/Tech Folks, the Mind Control Folks and Leah:
[Bones hasn't wasted much time since startling out of yet another dream, of the weighted and disquieting sort that he's gotten unfortunately good at recognizing as psionic spillover. He's hastily sketched out as much of a device as he can remember, and has it held up on a sheet of paper. For the hypertech familiar, it might be some kind of generator, vaguely cylindrical. When he speaks, it's with a voice hoarse from sudden awakening, and from what's visible beyond the edge of the drawing he hasn't bothered with a shirt.]
I had another one of those dreams, so if someone can say that they got it too, I'd appreciate the confirmation of my limited sanity.
Someone was looking at this on a display, a control interface maybe. There was a message -- 'Buffering mechanism disabled'. I could see a reflection in the display that looked like someone in an Outer Authority facemask. Woke up after the message, more or less.
So now what the hell is going on?
I had another one of those dreams, so if someone can say that they got it too, I'd appreciate the confirmation of my limited sanity.
Someone was looking at this on a display, a control interface maybe. There was a message -- 'Buffering mechanism disabled'. I could see a reflection in the display that looked like someone in an Outer Authority facemask. Woke up after the message, more or less.
So now what the hell is going on?
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You're not mad, I had one too.
[They could both be mad, but there's been too much of a pattern for that]
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What was yours about?
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[He shakes his head]
I don't even know the words for most of what I saw.
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[In another display of what's really Verdana's worst-kept secret, Bones' voice loses its edge in favour of something more compassionate.]
I've seen a hell of a lot of things since signing up with Starfleet, and more since landing here. The best you can do is use the words you've got. We'll compare notes.
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[There's movement as he's groping around for something to draw with]
I'll try to draw what I remember...
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Do your best, and since it looks like Inara and I are meeting once it's a less ungodly hour, feel free to come along too.
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I'll be there.
[He needs to help. Even if he wasn't sure how.]
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I saw it, too. And felt it - something breaking. I tried to draw it too, but I don't know how accurate it is.
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That's... pretty much what I was getting too. Maybe if we can combine our drawings we'll get a better picture.
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[Not that Bones is particularly underdressed, but pyjamas are not really the sort of dignified image he feels the medical profession ought to uphold.]
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Of course. At the hospital?
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I'll see you in a few hours.
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Someone is tampering with that, then. Whatever "that" is. A buffering mechanism could be connected to anything, could it not?
[There are generator-like objects all over the city, some in the ship and some not. He even saw a few while stuck in quarantine after his last adventure with wraiths.]
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[Bones scrubs his hands through his hair in fatigued frustration, leaving it looking like it's been merged with the spiritual essence of a hedgehog.]
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[He pauses, frowning.]
Are there generators inside the plague zone? I admit I have only been a very little way in, only through the first shields.
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There's ruins of lost cities on the other side of the wall, though, Hyperion and Lunare at the least. No telling what's still around in those ruins.
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[Which probably suggests it was mostly disguise that the mask was used for, rather than actually keeping the wearer alive and plague-free. Hrm.]
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[Video] (wow, didn't mean to leave this so long o.o )
Perhaps someone ought to inform the Outer Authorities. They are more able to look into such things than we are, and more likely to know where an item like that might be housed that requires buffering. Surely the lady Leah will trust us enough to at least investigate, after all the time we have worked with her.