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Who: Ravi Chakrabarti and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: HS Marsiva
When: Pre-shuffle!

[When Ravi wakes up in a completely unfamiliar bunk, his first thought is that he's been whisked back to the zombie camp with the unmentionable name and is about to have a bevy of overenthusiastic, purple gorilla nurses descend upon him. But as the minutes tick by uneventfully, he decides to brave the unknown to explore his surroundings and - despite the perplexities of his current situation - is visibly delighted by everything he sees. When he finally gets the hang of the communicator, his hands are actually shaking from the excitement of it all, making his image a little blurry onscreen.]

Apparently I'm in space! Which is actually pretty bloody brilliant! It's a definite upgrade from my previous zombie camp escapade, let me tell you, but I have so many questions!

[He looks like he's about to start rambling for hours on end, but manages to visibly reel himself in first. It's probably best to start with the basics.]

I'm Dr. Ravi Chakrabarti and I suppose this makes me a new member of this fleet, if there is a fleet. Which I'm pretty sure there is since I'm just about one hundred percent certain I could see other ships from the viewing area.

[A huge grin breaks out over his face as he mentally processes this again.]

I'm part of a fleet and I'm broadcasting in space! I mean, look, I'm obviously not thrilled about being displaced from home again, but if it has to happen, at least I'm on an actual, honest-to-God spaceship! And if anyone can provide some information on why exactly I'm in space, I'd be much obliged. Don't get me wrong, I could only have ever dreamed about all this robotic medical equipment in the last place, but at least the gorilla nursing staff was a bit more communicative.

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I think you're the first person here who's been genuinely excited about this.

[Stefan can't quite help returning that smile. What an optimistic guy!]

Also, you should check out the med bays once you get your ship assignment. They're pretty sweet.

I mean, we're in outer space! I think that's worth at least a little bit of excitement! But I suppose the novelty might wear off eventually.

[He then shakes his head and mouths "It's not!"]

Well don't leave me hanging! What technological marvels do I have awaiting me? Although considering I didn't even have a proper IV stand - never mind a pump - at the last place, I'll be pretty easy to impress.

Give it a few months, maybe?

[Stefan's laughing, despite every single effort not to. The camera gets flipped around; this time, the view is of the Paisley's medical bay. Say hello to the future! Including body scanners!!]

Well, I can promise you IV stands, and your fancy pipettes. I can also promise you these nifty things, and whatever medicine your patients would need on a regular basis.

Like manna from heaven! It'll be fantastic to have access to a proper lab again, although I'm going to be a bit rusty on the medicine side of things. How often do people get sick in space anyway?

Not that often. [Headtilt.] It depends on your crew, really - I'm looking more at sparring injuries than the common cold.

Which, given the population of this place, kinda makes sense.

So our population is heavily skewed towards the warrior and jock-types, eh?

I was gonna say superpowered-types, but yeah. You wouldn't be far off.

What I wouldn't give to have superpowers of my own. But I guess achieving one childhood dream today is more than enough!

You never know. We've got enough weird around here that one thing could lead to another...

[He laughs,] But uh, I'm Stefan Salvatore. Second year medical student, so I don't technically have an MD. I'm working on it. Unofficially. Outer space doesn't exactly have med schools.

Hey, good to meet you, Stefan! And look at it this way, you can use this as an extended practicum experience to really get those clinical skills and pattern recognition down!

Exactly. Now I just hope my school'll accept it.

It's hard to tell, given that we're all told we're on reality TV. Or whatever outer space calls TV.

That just means you'll have video proof of all the good work you've been doing!

But look, if there's anything I can do to help, give me a holler. From what I've been told, it doesn't sound like there's a lot of doctors around, and it's always good to have someone to bounce ideas off of.

[Stefan's expression immediately softens. This isn't a guy who'd ever turn down potential medical advice.]

I'd appreciate that. But yeah, you're right - there's you, there's Dr. McCoy on the Blameless, Dr. Crusher on the Blue Fish, and Dr. Keller on the Wonderduck. I'm the next closest thing, since I'm still in school, and from there, it's whoever has a lab augment.

So this lab augment... it makes it so that your regular Joe off the street has the knowledge and capability to practice medicine?

Technically. They don't get everything, but they can set bones and diagnose your common cold.

They're like paramedics. You'd want them around, but there's nothing like having someone who's done this before.

Edited 2016-09-27 06:39 (UTC)

Fair enough! Well, hopefully it'll be awhile before I have to see any patients in dire need of a diagnosis. I'm pretty good at figuring out causes of death - if I do say so myself - but that tends not to be so useful to the living.

That makes sense. Didn't you say you were in zombie camp before?

Yeah, those zombies were beyond help. The level of degradation was far too advanced for me to do anything with.

Yikes. So you just... let them do their thing?

[He's trying to understand this, really. But it's pretty obvious that zombies weren't part of his supernatural lore.]

I mean, they seemed pretty content? It's kind of hard to gauge when their ability to speak is basically nil, but I'm pretty sure I saw a whole crowd of them dancing one time. The important thing was that they were completely harmless!

There is that. [Headtilt.] Can't get more harmless than a flash mob.

Especially this kind of flash mob. Ever heard the song "Heads Will Roll"? Because that was a literal representation of what happened. There is very little that is more pathetic than watching fifty zombies running to each other while trying to chase after their own craniums.

[Excuse Stefan while he wanders off screen to laugh his head off. It's not like his laughter's muffled, but he's ~*too dignified*~ to just burst into laughter in some guy's feed.

Ducking his head back in:] I really wish you'd gotten that on camera.

I've seen my share of weird, but nothing can top that.

Not even a bunch of purple gorillas attempting to put on a revival of West Side Story in the hospital's nurse station? Because I'm pretty sure I'm still going to have nightmares about that one.

[He holds up a finger as he struggles - visibly so - to keep himself together.]

Okay, if I ever need a good story, I'm coming to you. The funniest I've got is like, I don't know, the time crappy novels got passed around the Network.

I'm sure there were others - like plenty of others - but I'm hanging around the Interfaith Center too often to notice.

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