[Audio: The Hot Zone] Monday evening, week 18

[pepperspray]

This is Pepper Potts.

I'm going to keep details thin in an open broadcast like this, but I've gotten information from a contact that suggests a potential location for the start of this current disease outbreak.

It will require travel over water, so air transport or the ability to transport yourself or others will be required to accomplish this in a timely fashion. There's also a risk of active disease agents still being present, so some sort of containment gear might be good.

My talents are very much not medical research ones, so don't ask me for details, but this might, I hope, help people who do have those talents figure out just what's going on here.

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[pepperspray]

[Why yes, that really is a dinosaur talking to her. An educated-sounding one. With a cold. Pepper draws upon all the talents honed over a decade of finding Tony Stark in compromising situations and keeps her expression pleasantly businesslike.]

Transport out to the site would be a problem, but there are definitely some projects here that need some work. Specifically, I'm concerned about making sure that any samples brought back can be studied in a safe environment. I think there are some labs on the ship, but they're not in good repair...

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[steamosaurus]

Is anyone working on repairing them? All the technology made for your little monkey hands is quite... fiddley. I certainly wouldn't be able to manage fixing them up on my own, simply due to physical limitations.

[She wiggles her dextrous, but still large and clawed hand for the camera to see.]

Or we could set up a field lab somewhere. Might be less dangerous - I wouldn't want to think what might happen if we brought anything back to the ship that contaminated everyone still sealed in those pods.

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[pepperspray]

For that, you'll need to talk to some more technically-inclined people -- Dr. Bruce Banner and Ms. Toshiko Sato might be able to help you, or you them. And one of the robots, Drift, is also interested in assisting. Between you, him and some guidance from them, could you do it?

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[steamosaurus]

I do like Bruce, but isn't he awfully sick at the moment?

[Poor guy. She wished she knew how to help him.]

I'll have to find this Ms. Sato, and I don't believe I've met Drift, either. I shall have to try to get ahold of them.

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[pepperspray]

My hope is that he'll be recovered enough to give you some direction before the others return... but for the immediate time being, find a woman named Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams. She needs some extra eyes and hands to track down where the contaminant suits are stored on the ship -- she knows roughly where they should be, but there's ground to cover in looking. And that will help keep the people on the field expedition safe.