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Kaidan Alenko ([personal profile] standsentinel) wrote in [community profile] outer_divide2012-10-10 08:42 pm

[AUDIO | 006 : Nothing to Sneeze At] Wednesday Evening, Week 16

This is Major Alenko.

I've got answers on what the bandits at the hospital were after, and a start on why.

[There's a thread of fatigue in Kaidan's voice, but it's blended in amongst a grimly level quality that lends a little more grit to his usual gentle rasp. One audible intake of breath later, he breaks his pause for attention and continues.]

Long story short, they were after medical supplies because there's some sort of illness that hit their camp, and hit it hard. Out of the nine that jumped us, we had three survivors. We're down to two now, and one's not looking pretty. The other's feverish too. Whatever hit 'em seems to have come from the south -- a trader they'd contacted said there was an outbreak well south of here.

I'm no doctor. I'm certainly no virologist. But if you ran into the bandits, or were at the hospital that day, keep an eye on how you're feeling.
nodavinci: (The other 10%)

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[personal profile] nodavinci 2012-10-11 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
That sounds promising. Do they have backup inbound?
nodavinci: (Not a smartphone)

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[personal profile] nodavinci 2012-10-13 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Assuming they're not already sick. Actually, there's a thought - just send people who were already on the scene. The infection rate's probably not 100%, but limiting exposure's still not a bad idea.

[Beat.]

With a small enough profile, the Authorities shouldn't be able to see a probe, or they'd be jumping every time a seagull flew overhead. And we already know they don't like to use their eyes.
nodavinci: (Say what?)

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[personal profile] nodavinci 2012-10-13 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I should be insulted.

[It's hard to tell whether he actually is, or is just amused.]

There's the ship. But I was planning on taking a field trip out to Dead Man's Island in a couple days, if you think you can get someone to sign your permission slip.
nodavinci: (A little much?)

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[personal profile] nodavinci 2012-10-14 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
It's capable of sub-orbital flight. So yeah, I'd say so.
nodavinci: (Directing an imaginary orchestra)

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[personal profile] nodavinci 2012-10-16 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
20 tons. Roughly. The system drain for sustaining that over a prolonged flight is, frankly, a little painful. But unless you're secretly made of ultra-dense dark matter, that shouldn't be a problem.
nodavinci: (Say what?)

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[personal profile] nodavinci 2012-10-17 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
[On the one hand, there is possible-bullshitting to poke at.

On the other hand...]


Ouch. And here I'd thought we'd really made a connection.

[He actually manages to sound wounded. Let it never be said that Tony Stark passes up an opportunity to fluster anyone.]
Edited 2012-10-17 01:31 (UTC)
nodavinci: (Oh so amused)

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[personal profile] nodavinci 2012-10-24 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
My only objection would be to the "accidentally" part.

[Sorry, Kaidan, it's just too fun poking at you.]
kazeninaru: (hmph)

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[personal profile] kazeninaru 2012-10-12 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, damn. Haruka frowns at the phone, and thumbs through a call back. She was there, at that bandit raid, and she has spent quite a bit of time with Michiru since then....]

What are the symptoms? What have you learned from the bandits about this sickness?
kazeninaru: (surprised)

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[personal profile] kazeninaru 2012-10-14 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[She makes a somewhat frustrated noise.]

I do not know what malaise is. My English is good, but not that good. Has anyone gone yet to this bandit camp to see how bad it is there?

[She will totally go. She's itching to kick more bad guy ass, and getting out of this ruin of a city for a bit would be kind of awesome.]
kazeninaru: (save the day)

[personal profile] kazeninaru 2012-10-16 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[Haruka reads the translation and nods to herself. Much better for her Japanese-oriented brain.]

I can take my partner. If I have not been made ill by now, neither will she. We are very used to scouting. Can you send me directions?
kazeninaru: (smirk)

[personal profile] kazeninaru 2012-10-22 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[The phone dings, and Haruka pauses to stare at it and frown at the data sent-- at least she isn't technologically impaired, and downloads it quickly-- before responding with a wry sort of grin, looking briefly older than your average eighteen year old.]

I'm never careful. I do well, anyway. Thank you. Any advice? Besides 'be careful'?
kazeninaru: (tsk)

[personal profile] kazeninaru 2012-10-27 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
[She smirks at him, back, deciding not to take offense at the laugh since he seems to be comparing her to someone he likes.]

I will take that as compliment, then. We will be careful. Thank you for the direction, Alenko-san. I will see what we can find for you.


((and that is, sadly, off-screened :B if you wanna find out what they find out, I'm sure I can poke PG and get you something...))
kazeninaru: (save the day)

[Next morning, private call]

[personal profile] kazeninaru 2012-10-28 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
[With his contact number now in her phone, it's easy enough to give Kaidan a call once she and Michiru are back from their little foray. When he answers, she says,]

Ohayo, Alenko-san. Good morning.
kazeninaru: (smirk)

[personal profile] kazeninaru 2012-10-28 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it early?

[She sounds ungodly cheerful, for it being early morning. But she got to be useful and do what she's used to doing, and managed not to hurt and innocents this time, too.]

We looked at that bandit site. There was not much left.
kazeninaru: Haruka kneeling with the Space Sword and her planet in the bg (Default)

[personal profile] kazeninaru 2012-10-29 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Not main, no, not very permanent. No one was there anymore, either, except for the scavengers who try to dig up the graves.

[She'd dispatched the digging dinosaurs, at least, before investigating what they were trying to get at.]

All are either gone, dead, or both, there. Wherever the rest went to, it is further away.
kazeninaru: (masculine)

[personal profile] kazeninaru 2012-10-30 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Too few left to tell, I think. If they left, they left just a few. If they came, it was either in small groups or they covered tracks.

[And between it being too long, and tracking in the wilderness not really being Haruka's best skill, she hadn't managed to tell much beyond that.]
kazeninaru: (hmph)

[personal profile] kazeninaru 2012-10-30 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
I saw them. The robots. That would probably be good. My partner and I tried looking for them before, for the bandits, but we are used to cities and did not find much at the time.

[Which annoys her to no end. She's going to get better at this place, she really is.]
kazeninaru: (surprised)

[personal profile] kazeninaru 2012-11-02 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Seems like a good idea, really. As much as Haruka hates working with other people, maybe this guy will be less annoying than a bunch of junior high students....]

I'll try that. Do you have his number?
kazeninaru: (smirk)

[personal profile] kazeninaru 2012-11-03 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[That obvious she's female, huh? Well, he wouldn't be the first, but she supposed he was pretty observant, at that. Still, names were better than being called "ma'am". She smirks a bit to herself, and offers:]

Tenoh Haruka. My name.
kazeninaru: (tsk)

[personal profile] kazeninaru 2012-11-04 05:25 am (UTC)(link)
Alenko-san.

[If he's going to use his style of referring to her-- a very gendered one, at that-- she's going to turn it around and use her own style, back. At least she's doing it somewhat light-heartedly.]

It is a pleasure to meet you. In this way, if it counts as meeting. I hope our scouting was a help.
yankeedoodle: (pic#4233122)

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[personal profile] yankeedoodle 2012-10-13 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
Are you ok, Major?
yankeedoodle: (pic#4233124)

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[personal profile] yankeedoodle 2012-10-13 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Look after yourself if you can, anyway.

[Steve knows all about a stubborn streak, but they really can't afford to lose someone like Kaidan, so he'll play mother hen.]

I don't imagine most who find themselves at a hospital expect to be perfect interrogators. Is there a way to go through what the bandits had on 'em without risking further exposure?
yankeedoodle: (pic#4233303)

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[personal profile] yankeedoodle 2012-10-20 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Steve is a little suspicious but he doesn't press the subject further.]

Sounds like you have a solution for yourself too there, Major. [Mother hen mode is really hard to turn off, ok?] You think the supplies in the hospital might be contaminated?