[Sickbay]: Round Nineteen Scans and Vaccines

[ten_fwd_npcs]

If this is your first trip to Sickbay, you may be surprised to see that it's a fairly ordinary-looking hospital. There are no terrifying devices or humming machines you might see in a sci-fi thriller. The biobeds along the walls are equipped with biofunction monitors, but look fairly standard. Instead of silver trays filled with metal tools and sawblades, there are an array of small devices that look as harmless as cell phones. As for the staff, they're all well-groomed and friendly — even the more unusual aliens.

If you're new to the ship, no doubt you've been escorted here by the security team. Nothing to worry about, the doctors just want to make sure you aren't carrying any viruses or are vulnerable to terrible space disease. Once you've been checked over — a quick scan from a tricorder and any necessary vaccines — you'll be free to go. Lollipops are optional.

"All right, step on in," one of them calls out as you enter. "Don't be afraid. It's just a scan and a hypospray, nothing to worry about."


[ooc: Sickbay is, as always, OTA and open until the next one goes up for latecomers! For new characters: tagging isn't mandatory but IC going to sickbay is. If you'd prefer to skip threading with one of our doctors, you can handwave that your character got a clean bill of health and a shot and were sent on their merry way. There will be a post up in the OOC comm shortly with more details about Sickbay and which doctors are on deck this month, if you have any questions.]

Comments

[techno_galen]

"It's the most reasonable ones you have to look out for."

Now was the moment of truth. He could try something, but there was the chance it wouldn't work and a chance the higher level of activity in his tech would be detected. So he did nothing and hoped that he would come up as a normal human.

[impossibilities]

"Indeed." Grainne commented, seemingly satisfied with the results. There was an odd reading in the scanner that... came across as- well, she couldn't quite place it, but she would put it down for review by someone else later. "All seems normal, more or less. Now, I can get a hypospray for you and then it will be over. They can show you were to go next to get some rooms."

[techno_galen]

Galen longed to know what "more or less" she was seeing from normal, but he was to relieved by the "normal" and didn't want to give her cause to examine the results any closer.

There was only the immunizing agent problem remaining.

"Where do you inject it?" He added a note of fear into his voice, as if he was worrying about having to take his pants down.

[impossibilities]

The fear she took as a general fear of injections. She just smiled and shook her head. "Usually the neck or shoulder. It's painless, and you do not have to take anything off. It will go right under your skin without breaking it." At least that's how it was supposed to work.

[techno_galen]

That, he could do something about. "That sounds like a vast improvement." He pulled his collar down a little, so she could get to his neck - he wasn't prepared to bare a shoulder. But as he did so, unnoticed, he created an illusion of his neck on top of his neck. The contents of the injection would be held in between, so he could analyse it later.

[impossibilities]

Lifting the hypospray, she applied it to his neck with a short hiss sound. Grainne frowned slightly and hesitated, since something seemed off, but even with her enhanced senses she couldn't tell if it was nerves or what.

He didn't struggle, so she shrugged it off.

"And that is it. I'm sure the guards can show you where to go next." She smiled.

[techno_galen]

Galen smiled in return. "Thank you." When he stood, the guards peeled themselves away from the wall and accompanied him out of sickbay.