Bruce Banner | 001 | Video

[greenisnteasy]

Hi. My name's Bruce Banner. I'm a doctor and a scientist. Not to flood everyone with information or to alarm anyone, I feel like I need to say a few things.

If you could gather up the medicine you find in your house and bring it to the pharmacy in the middle of the town, that'd be appreciated. You're welcome to keep a small supply of your typical things, like aspirin, but it'd be a good idea to centralize everything else.

Clearly whoever was living here left in a hurry. Keep an eye on yourselves for signs of illness, including radiation sickness, in case there was a biological reason for the evacuation. Nausea and vomiting are going to be your first indicators that something could be wrong radiation-wise.

I could make a Geiger counter or something similar to test the radiation levels, but I need some electronic parts, and I can't seem to find any except for these cameras. And I don't really recommend taking those apart unless you like getting electrocuted and blacking out.

[That had been fun, and by fun he means he was incredibly grateful that he hadn't Hulked out.]

If you find any parts that don't give you a shocking experience, could we share?

Um... Keep calm and carry on. [But no really, he hopes they can avoid some The Monsters are Due on Maple Street style panic.]

Comments

[greenisnteasy]

That sounds really sketchy, but it's appreciated. There are two other doctors here, one of them's in hematology, but I'm not sure how many scientists we have other than the two of us now.

[He fiddles with his communicator until he switches the voice channel to private.]

So... How do you feel about making sure there's no poison in the food?

[could_be_dangerous]

[Sherlock follows suit before responding.]

I'll need reagents. What did you have in mind?

[greenisnteasy]

Whatever you can find to work with. I can help. And... be quiet about it.

[could_be_dangerous]

Mmm. I'll do what I can and let you know.

[Sherlock pauses.]

Though you could just find a bird to feed it to. Smaller system, much more fragile.

[greenisnteasy]

[Bruce is a scientist. He's not squeamish.]

You could, if you could trap one. That might not be a bad idea, if we're not familiar with what they're using...

[He is still compassionate though. Sorry, bird.]

[could_be_dangerous]

Mmm. Of course, it does beg the question of why they, whoever they are, would take the time and go to the expense of bringing us here -- and dismantling this place, and setting up the cameras, and setting up the cameras again once we've torn them down -- just to poison us.

If there's anything in our food I doubt it's intended to kill us.

[Which isn't to say it won't. Experiments don't always go as one expects.]

[greenisnteasy]

Or it might be. Testing out biological warfare?

[Pretty much every paranoid scenario has run through Bruce's mind at least once.]

[could_be_dangerous]

A possibility, but why us? I was in Berlin last I recall; why go through the trouble of bringing me here? Every other person I've encountered here is notable in some respect. Why take us and not select randomly from the local populace?

[greenisnteasy]

The sample definitely is random -- I mean, there are people here from the future and from the past, and someone who knows alternate versions of a couple of us. I'm thinking proximity isn't an issue.