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[most_feared]

[Public | Audio]

A couple of questions.

How good are the medical facilities at the hospital?

Who here can hold their breath a damn long time and help me have a look around the ship? [It's for more medical supplies]

[Private to Charles | Audio]

Loan me your brain for a minute. I have an idea I'd like to share. [And he's too paranoid to share everything over the network.]

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[timesbureaucrat]

I'm capable of going without air for...a while. [Longer than a human should be able to.] Genetic modification. Human lungs are more efficient in my era. [It's a feasible enough lie.]

[Private]

[most_feared]

[Feasible enough. But after that last conversation...] You know, if you're not human, you can actually tell me. I'm the last person that's gonna tell or think that any of this is strange.

[But, moving on, since he's not really suspicious of Narvin.]

But yeah, I could use the help.

[Private]

[timesbureaucrat]

...

[Damn. That lie is starting to slip. Time to decide whether to bolster it up with new lies or just let it fall. Since Kay already suspects and Narvin gains relatively little by clinging to that particular lie...]

All right. I'm not human, nor any subspecies of human or evolved form of human, although my people do have a treaty with Earth and I've been to the planet a few times. I'd rather word not get out. Humans are the clear majority here and I'd rather not face any possible prejudice.

I can go without air for twenty minutes fairly easily. Longer if I'm careful, although not without some discomfort.

[Private]

[most_feared]

Alright. [He buys that he's scared of the human majority.] I want to have a look around the ship for some medical facilities, but the air doesn't circulate too well in places. I'd like optimally to set up some sort of crude air circulation but for now...

[knightoflight]

I do not need air the way your kind does.

However... [the size issue?]

[most_feared]

[Yeah, itty bitty hallways. Giant robot. That does pose a problem.]

You got any sort of scanners attached?

[knightoflight]

Some scanners, yes. They are essential to flight.

What are you looking for?

[most_feared]

I'll come by the ship and talk to you about it. Say a half hour?

[femshep]

I can hold my breath. [Not as long as Wing, obviously, but both her training and her synthetic modifications have seen to her ability to hold it for... well, 'a damn long time' seems to fit just fine.]

[most_feared]

Good. Mind if I talk to you at the ship?

[femshep]

On my way.

[Action? If so, she's gonna be showing up 20 minutes to a half hour later, keeping a sharp eye out for Kay.]

[telepathy]

[radars]

[ What up, there's a gentle presence at the edge of your brain, Kay. Kind of like someone knocking on the door. ]

[telepathy]

[most_feared]

[Which he mentally reacts to with all the elegance of someone getting a cold dog nose to a bare patch of skin. He recovers quickly, though.]

I want to find a way to help the kid survive, or others that might leave the dome. But I'd need to find a willing- [There's an alien concept here. Something like "advanced human" and "posthuman"] -to offer some blood with heightened immunities.

[And he figures Charles would be more respectful of their position.]

[telepathy]

[radars]

I don't believe my blood has anything of the kind... how is it I can help, exactly?

[ It's not quite in those words; more of a nudging, a tell me more, with a little edge of exasperation. C'mon, he wasn't even trying to startle you. And you asked for it, anyway. ]

[flowing_kinetics]

I could give you a hand. What do ya need?

[He's bored as hell, so why not?]

[most_feared]

Do you think you could check at the hospital and see if they have something as advanced as a centrifuge?

[And if they don't, he's really going to have to look into getting medical facilities on the ship functional again.]

[flowing_kinetics]

[Uh. High school drop out, here, Kay, use less complicated words.]

Sure, no problem, but what's a centrifuge?

[thecricketer]

I'm able to go without breathing for quite some time. It's saved my life more than once.

The hospital, from what I've gathered, is rather lacking in staff and supplies, but I haven't been able to assess the technology level.

[most_feared]

Hm. [Almost a grunted hmm.]

Do you have any medical equipment on your ship, by the way?

[thecricketer]

I do, but retrieving it would be...difficult, at best.

voice

[ex_thehunt958]

[Lol he doesn't have to breathe. :/ ]

I'm good at holding my breath. Out of curiosity though, why?

voice

[most_feared]

I need to investigate the ship. I'm not sure what parts of it have air circulation.

voice

[ex_thehunt958]

Count me in.

sorry for the lateness [audio]

[buckingauthority]

I traded in my oxygen tank and helmet to Edmund when I first got here. Had about 48 hours left at the time.

[audio]

[most_feared]

I'll keep that in mind. [But Edmund's been asking people to farm for it and he might just not have the time.]