[network] @Enoch; Day/Night 46 [open] [vomit warning]

[warriorscribe]

A: Day 46, video

[The first thing that appears is the image of a bottle, faint in the darkness of the snow-covered hospital. It appears to be filmed with the inside camera of the tablet, using the tablet's own light to illuminate the label. It's hard to read in the faint blue light of the screen, but not impossible to make out as he slowly tilts the bottle in his hand: it's labeled "potassium iodide". Enoch's voice comes from off-screen, behind the tablet.]

I found this in here, and I don't know what it is. Does anyone recognize it?


B: Night 46, video

[Enoch sits in one of the many waiting lobby chairs outside the hospital rooms on the third floor. His face is hardly visible in the darkness, though there is at least one other backlit tablet screen behind him.]

This day was not without its findings...for my part, I found a video...one moment.

[He fails to turn off the video as he pokes through menus on his tablet and speaks to its assistant.] Helel, would you please show them this one?

[A link to an attachment is posted.]

The video shows a young child ill or injured enough to vomit blood, so I would caution against watching it unprepared. Whatever happened here was disastrous. I don't recognize the surroundings, so they must be on a lower floor. Perhaps we'll find something there tomorrow.

Also, Quark found...something. I'm not quite sure what it is...

[He glances back at one of the tablet lights behind him, and the shadows shift as when Quark hears his name mentioned, his focus immediately snaps up from his own tablet.]

Yeah! Look, it’s a program or something! There’s a picture of a bird on it, but it doesn’t have anything to do with birds at all!

[He all but clambers over Enoch to show his tablet on Enoch’s feed, and he complies, shifting his arms to let him crawl over him and get into the shot. (Information about the app can be found here.)]

I know a little bit about computers, but not so much I really know what to do with this, and I don’t want to press the wrong thing and break something. Does anybody recognize this? Maybe that’ll help me figure out what to do!

[Enoch adds, once Quark is done talking:]

Whatever it is, it was well-hidden. I believe I went over the same room he did and found nothing, so wherever it was, only a child could reach. Surely that must mean something...

Comments

day - text - @claytonator

[dr_unconscious]

Potassium Iodide is a decent expectorant if you're careful about dosages. I've used it mostly for emergency treatment of hyperthyroidism, and I know it's good for radiation poisoning, but something tells me that we'll get the best use of it here as cough medicine.

It's in solution, right? Can you see what color it is?

what the heck happened to this notif I know I saved it for later

[warriorscribe]

[He...doesn't know what any of that is. Except cough medicine.

For once, he replies to text with video, his face visible as he turns the tablet around to read the message (he smiles when he sees who it's from), and then turns it back to the bottle so he can shake it and Clayton can hear the pills rattle in it.]

I don't know the measurements, but it isn't a solution.

[Cough medicine, though...didn't Tim need something like that? He'd said he'd had the flu...he keeps that thought in mind as he waits for Clayton to clarify, in case this changes everything.]

~*it's a mystery*~ - text

[dr_unconscious]

[Apologies, Enoch--there is a reason for this.]

I'm sorry, can you repeat that? I'm at the school right now and everything is...muted. I can't hear anything over the tablets and no one with me can hear each other talk. It's very strange.

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[warriorscribe]

[He tilts his head at the screen, very clearly saying, even if Clayton can't hear him, "What?"

He's still looking quite confused when the video feed ends.]

That's incredibly bizarre, what could be causing it?

The potassium iodide isn't a solution, it sounds like it's formed into pills like the aspirin.

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[dr_unconscious]

Your guess is as good as mine. No visits from our spirit friends yet, though, so I suppose that's a good thing. Still kind of unnerving.

Good! That should help with dosages, but you should still probably check that they haven't expired before we think about using them. Can you chip off part of one and dissolve it in some water? Tell me what color it turns.

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[warriorscribe]

[Well, it's dark, so it takes a lot of awkward fumbling keeping the tablet's light on the bottlecap he's using (the child's thermos he's saving for who-knows-what is too deep to observe the bottom with an inadequate light source like his tablet), but several minutes later, he returns.]

It's dark in here, so I can't be entirely certain, but it didn't seem as if the water changed color at all.

[dr_unconscious]

Very good! Should be safe to use, then. Be careful about it--that's heavy stuff, really easy to overdose with. I wouldn't use it casually.

Good find, though! Thanks Enoch. I'm guessing things are going well down there, then?

[warriorscribe]

So far, yes. We arrived without incident, and Quark and Clem are searching other rooms. It's a large building, so we've split up to search it.

If it's so dangerous to use, perhaps I should give it to you when we meet again.