"Well, Alex, the operation has been completed. You're no longer suffering from necrosis, though remnant symptoms of whatever caused it in the first place may still occur. Speak with me immediately if they do. Note that while you're well, you still can't do any heavy lifting without risking injury. Now, if you have any idea wha--"
Oh god, I am infected! Panic!
You scream and beg while banging the isolation room door.
"AAAAAAAAAA! DOCTOR PLEASE SAVE ME! I DON'T WANT TO DIE I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE I HAVEN'T EVEN STUDIED EVERYTHING YET!!"
*Sigh* "One moment, Alex. You're free to go, if you wish, though you are required to wear a full environment protection suit at all times. György! Stop screaming for one second!"
Begin examination of György, trying to identify what the cause of the unusual antigens and clotting is. Failing that, just try and fix the clotting.
Make it as hard as possible to check what is (physically) wrong with me by wailing, shouting and waving my arms.
György makes it really hard to get more of his blood for study, but there's no winning against the doctor within his domain. The infirmary drones grab a hold of György and hold him in place long enough to secure bloodsample.
Well, György' bloodtype is B+ so he has normally only B antigens in his blood and these unusual ones are A antigens. All his other symptoms match to hemolytic anemia, so combining this fact with A antigens could mean extrinsic causes. Oh, and there's small amount of BAQ-3 bacteria in his blood. Wonder why it didn't show up in earlier samples.
Anyway it is better to get him treated so the doctor orders György's blood to be cleaned and mild anticoagulants pumped on him. This happens and György is feeling better. Though something must be done to his panic attacks.
Ok, check to see what time it is, then go up to the command terminals and track Guni's suit signal to see where she went off to.
Around noon.
Looks like Guni went outside. Currently she's near river, walking south with Adam. They also let you know about their plan to scout entire westside of the river.
From: Geology Unit 2 Expedition leader Cole Schultz
To: Biology Unit 2 Head of security Cromwell Jackson
Subject: FW: Requesting meeting
Message: Hi officer Jackson,
I request a quick meeting with Mr. Raman few hours ago and he responded he would attend but so far he has not called us. Is there something going on?
My topic for discussion is somewhat urgent and we would like to get working.
PS: I attached copies of our earlier exhange.
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From: Geology Unit 2 Expedition leader Cole Schultz
To: Biology Unit 2 Expedition leader Alex Raman
Subject: RE: Requesting meeting
Message: Bring your head of security into meeting as well.
PS. Waiting your call.
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From: Geology Unit 2 Expedition leader Alex Raman
To: Biology Unit 2 Expedition leader Cole Schultz
Subject: RE: Requesting meeting
Message: Sure.
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From: Geology Unit 2 Expedition leader Cole Schultz
To: Biology Unit 2 Expedition leader Alex Raman
Subject: Requesting meeting
Message: Hi Mr. Raman,
Could we have a meeting right away? I'm waiting for your call.
Over comns "Looks like we have scared off any large creatures nearby with our massacring ways"
Have a relaxing day flying around
Better forget it all, right? There isn't any better way to relax than testing your flying skills, so you do your best. Flying upside down, sideways, doing flips and loops, spinning and scary dives towards ground and raising back up just before crashing. It's all very impressive, you might have even impressed this eagle flying above you.
Except... it's not an eagle. Nope. It's brilliant green where eagle would be black, dotted with equally brilliant red, and normally white parts are sky blue. While normally eagle's wings join the body in quite sharp angle, this creature's wings curve and merge directly with its tail feathers. You can't tell where the wing ends and tail feathers start. You are not close enough to see its head properly but its too is somewhat unusual.
"We are going to the river, then follow it to the beach.After that, we go west until we arrive at the end of the sandy beach, then north, roughly halfway between the forest and the base.At that point, we go back to the river, then back to base.Is this okay with you?
If yes:follow route described above.
If no: listen to her idea for a route.
Well what the hell's the point of covering ground we've already explored? No! We should do something useful, like locating a ford for this river here. Let's head down to the head where it enters the lake, then walk north until we find a good crossing point. I want to learn more about this place, that's what we're here for isn't it? Instead we've been caught up with the doc's fucking about bacterium and viruses and shit. I'm sick of him getting in the way, let's go get some real work done! If the river turns out to be impassable before we reach the forest (fuck if I'm ever going in there again), we'll double back to the lake, pick up a car at the base, then head west to see what's over there. How's that sound Cortés? Ready to do some conquering?
"Sounds alright.Gonna radio in so they know where we went."
You inform your boss about your patrol plan and head to south along the river. Closer to the lake you get wider the river becomes and there's no crossings visible. When Guni takes few steps into water she finds the bottom is very soft and it's hard to get out of it. Good thing there's two of you.
Mix some wolf DNA with my own and inject it into the cells of anything we have usable.
I'm still hoping for better definion of what you are doing, but let's go along with it for now. You do gene splicing and prepare few stem cells for... something.
1: Mark Redtail in personal flyer
2: Adam Tom and Guni Debres
Currently we have following samples on ship:
* Large four eyed birds. (7 dead) (Studied)
*
Aquatic creature. (1 dead) (Studied)
* Black wolf-creature (2 dead). (One studied)
** Possibly contaminated blood samples of black wolf-creatures.
** Additional set of blood and tissue samples from female wolf-creature.
* Grasshopper-type insect (1 alive). (Studied)
*
Green/pink flashing insects. (3/? alive) (Studied)
* Small azure/turquoise bird with three-way split beak. (4/6 alive) (Barely studied)
* Red headed birds (2/4 alive) (Not studied)
* Flying bone plated snakes (1/3 alive) (Not studied)
* Rat? (1 alive) (Not studied)
Experiments in progress:
*
Attack dog hybrid mutant (Puppy: Now, Adult: -2)
Completed:
* Vaccines against
BGR-1,
BGR-2,
BAQ-1,
BGu-1 and
VGu-1.
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