[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.

Comments

[Encrypted video:]

[knightoflight]

He seems...interesting.

Once he's done with me, where shall I meet you?

[Encrypted video:]

[pepperspray]

Oh. I'm, um... I think I may have confused you, Wing.

[Pepper catches her lower lip between her teeth and looks apologetic.]

I'm not going -- Tony will be, but this really really is not an area where I'd be any use to anyone. I organize.

[Encrypted video:]

[knightoflight]

[He gives an embarrassed laugh.] I'm sorry. I--this thing has distracted me, I think.

[He nods.] You are right. It's best you stay where you can use your skills best.

[Encrypted video:]

[pepperspray]

It's pretty distractable territory. I imagine moreso if you're used to living with other artificial life -- epidemics wouldn't be very common at all, I guess.

[Pepper's expression is a little abstracted -- trying to determine what, if any, maladies might infect giant robots. Computer viruses, perhaps?]