3. [VIDEO] Good at paranoia, not diagnosis

[no_fastolfe]

[Vasilia's bundled up in a robe; her face is waxy-pale with heat-reddened cheeks; she's reached the point where she's stopped sweating. She is having obvious difficulty breathing]

This is becoming intolerable.

For the last three days I have said nothing, assuming that the basic decency of our captors would see this rectified. I have no more patience!

Why does nobody else noticed the increased gravitational pull? Why hasn't this been corrected? Are the life support systems malfunctioning? It would explain how inhumanely cold it is. The food's quality is steeply declining day by day; it offers neither savor (which I hardly expect!) or the nutritional content to provide basic energy. This is-

[She breaks off into a wet cough, diving offscreen to muffle it in something that she can burn later. Phlegm. Disgusting.]

How can I fail to mention the quality of the air! Some large molecular contaminant-- pollution from poorly maintained equipment, I can only assume-- is making breathing more and more of a labor. I could tolerate it, perhaps, if these beds could provide restful sleep, but they do not!

The rest of you may ignore this campaign to weaken and exhaust the inmates of the vessel, but I demand better treatment.

Comments

[shortsghtedlove.livejournal.com]

...Or perhaps you're just sick. Would explain your symptoms and why no one else is affected. [But right about the food, anyway.]

[no_fastolfe]

I'm--

What?

I've taken every precaution. I can't be.

Who are you?

[shortsghtedlove.livejournal.com]

Lord Rassilon.

And I would still recommend visiting the infirmary. You could have gotten it from someone else, or maybe the inmate showers are just that lacking in hygiene. [So glad his boyfriend has a giant bathroom.]

[no_fastolfe]

By whose authority are you Lord? Are you a medical professional?

I am entirely aware of the unhygienic nature of the showers. Being forced to bathe with Earthers is only one of the unusual cruelties I am subject to.

[shortsghtedlove.livejournal.com]

I am Lord High President of Gallifrey. And I suppose you could say I am. I certainly know enough about medicine.

And I would certainly not disagree with that. They could at least give us our own showers. I shouldn't have to use Omega's bathroom.

[toldastory]

Are you alright?

[no_fastolfe]

Of course I'm not. I am human; I do feel it when I am subjected to these barbarian conditions.



[OOC: You popped up as I was about to mail you!]

[toldastory]

Have you ever been sick before?

[no_fastolfe]

[Vasilia's look is frigid and appalled]

Madam, I am an Auroran. Aurora is free from infectious disease and with a population density low enough to prevent the spread of minor illness. We are civilized.

[gotgirlballs.livejournal.com]

Or maybe, just maybe, you've caught the common cold or something similar. Quit being a drama queen.

[no_fastolfe]

I have taken every precaution to prevent catching an infectious Earther disease; I am not one of you savage beings used to being over-run with pathogen. I am from a world free of such things and intend to remain so!

[gotgirlballs.livejournal.com]

See, here's the thing: you're living with us now. This isn't your world, girly.

[no_fastolfe]

[She sneers like a professional]

Then the worst has come to pass and I will likely not survive this infection. Perhaps the time between the promised 'Death Toll' and my last breath will provide a bit of respite from being surrounded by Earther filth.

LEEZAR: WIZARD DOCTOR

[thefuckening.livejournal.com]

[Chuckling to himself.] Stupid woman...

Look, you're clearly under a pixie's curse. Have you been in contact with any of the fae in your time here?

[no_fastolfe]

There is no such thing as magic; only technology significantly advanced.

Are you a credulous fool, or do you think that I am?

[Clarke, Asimov... tomato, tomahto...]

[thefuckening.livejournal.com]

[SCOFF SCOFF.] "No such thing as magic..." Yeah. Right. Tell that to someone who's not a super powerful wizard who can do magic. [HE SURE TOLD HER.]

[no_fastolfe]

......................

[She's sick and her nose is running and her disdain is sharp enough to carve a turkey with]

I see.

[timesbureaucrat]

Gravity has been at Earth standard 9.806 meters per second for the last ten and a half months without deviation.

I have to agree about the food, however. No offense to the hardworking kitchen staff, who must work with what materials are provided to them, but natural food is quite disgusting.

[no_fastolfe]

So you say? Yet I distinctly feel a greater gravitational force; it is fatiguing. It makes my muscles ache.

As for the food-- it tastes like food-- like Earther's idea of food-- but there is something very wrong with it.

[timesbureaucrat]

So I know. My senses are superior to a human's. I could no more mistake the local gravitational force than a typical human could mistake the taste of sugar for salt. Whatever you're feeling, it's purely idiopathic, not external.

[no_fastolfe]

What could cause such a response, though?

Unless--

Unless I am ill.

[DNW face]

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

The air quality here is fairly standard for human consumption. I checked, early in my time here.

[no_fastolfe]

And so it was when I first arrived. In the past few days it has changed dramatically.

[doctor-j-crane.livejournal.com]

In what way?

[no_fastolfe]

[The wheeze in her voice almost answers, she feels, for itself.]


In the way that it is patently no longer fit to breathe.