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MED_A_Hilbert to ALL

[ It's everybody's favorite person, Dr. Asshole! ]

Updates on captain's status:
1. Pain medication was effective treatment. However, it will not cure the captain, only manage the symptoms. I do not want to speak more on Drake's condition due to patient confidentiality, but it is safe to say that any sort of treatment more advanced than minor pain medication cannot happen. If I had some more information, then maybe I could whip up a stronger vaccine: vitals, blood sample, saliva sample, etc. But L3TH3 is unwilling to give me access.

[ 'patient confidentiality' doesn't mean shit when Hilbert's pretty sure at least two to three people here know about the captain's status already, but it's good to have that on the official record! He's a good doctor. ]

2. However, L3TH3 has allowed continued pain medication treatment (delivering nebulized pain medication through the ventilation system). The 48 hour quarantine still remains in place.
2a. At the moment, I am the only person on Medical Staff not in cryostasis.
2b. L3TH3 is allowing other people to implement pain medication treatment under the condition that if something goes wrong, I will be blamed. I can do the hard part in the Medical Bay: nebulizing the pain medication. For anyone who wishes to help, I can train you on how to deliver the medicine through the ventilation. That way, we wouldn't have a situation where our solitary doctor is spending far too much time in quarantine.

I realize that you may have questions and I am always happy to help. But I cannot stress this enough: if you receive any information about Captain Drake's physical, emotional, or mental state, please tell me. Current treatment is frontier medicine at best. Any information can and will be used to help ease Drake's suffering.

Addendum: please stop by Medical if you are experiencing any lingering emotional trauma, memory insertion, etc. from recent events. I am not psychiatrist, but I can at least cover basics.

[ Hilbert suspects that the extra-terrestrial giant mollusk thing didn't actually cause the memory insertion...but he's also not going to say 'hey, I remember a spaceship that I know I've never seen before' on a public channel. ]

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[There's a delay relative to Rin's usual prompt message replies.]

Confirmed.

[Sure enough, Rin shows up at the doorway to Medical before too long. They don't just stride into the space - if anything, they're unusually reluctant, compared to their past visits. They stop just inside the doorway, glancing around the space.]

Doctor Hilbert.

Rin, [ he says, with a little nod. And because Hilbert is the sort of person who wants to get down to business (and because he suspects Rin is here for a reason), he continues with, ]

Two people have had the symptoms I describe. They experience something they know they should not have experienced before. Hallucination, memory, I do not know. But the experience feels like you have lived through it. Scans have not shown any obvious triggers for the new memory nor have they shown any obvious causes.

[Rin nods and doesn't move any further from the doorway. Still - there is one reason Hilbert told anyone to meet him in person. Two technically, but considering the contingencies on medicating Captain Drake...]

One recent incident.

[Should Hilbert have checked Rin's medical file there will have been a note buried under all the extensive documentation of their mods - something brief about amnesia and medical trauma in their teens. Maybe that explains why they're not elaborating yet.]

[ You bet your ass that Hilbert's creeped on Rin's medical file. He nods, making a small noise of affirmation as he agrees, ]

One recent incident.

[ It's two for him. But Rin doesn't need to know that. ]

Two people have had that incident, though.

Three.

[That's the point they were trying to make, if... badly. Unless Hilbert had already counted them as one of the two just because they stopped in?

Whatever. Now they're actually going to have to explain, aren't they. Whether or not they assumed wrong.]

I was saying something that didn't make sense.

[The people and places they're less sure about. They don't think they'd forget anyone who did something like point a gun at them, but they'd be the first to admit they don't care about remembering faces or names or the aesthetic details of the installments where they've worked. The conversation, though. That was fucking weird. In an unnerving way.]

[ Hilbert makes a noise of acknowledgement. There's a pause before he continues with, ]

I was on a different space station. However, the Mnemosyne is my first deep space mission.

[Trading slivers of information piece by piece isn't exactly efficient for either of them - Rin knows they should just get this over with. They can't tell why they're so reluctant. Maybe because they don't know how to sum up whatever was in that weird not-a-memory.

(Or something about not being trusted, but what the fuck else is new? They're doing their job. They're doing better than some idiots. It's fine.)]

I didn't recognize where. That doesn't mean much. I've been in a lot of prefab installations. But there were envirosuits involved, and guns, and those usually stick out. Do you want to know something particular about it?

[ Hilbert knows exactly why he's reluctant: because hes' still testing the waters, he's trying to see if outright saying 'in my memory, I tried to kill my captain' was a good idea or not. He's leaning towards obviously no, that's a horrible idea, how are you going to lie about something like that?

But Rin is offering up more information. So Hilbert can do the same. Albiet, heavily redacted information. ]

I do, [ he nods. ] What was so strange?

[The words are burned into their brain like it's a video they were watching - if not for their inability to recall any detail about the environment around the scene in their memory, they'd wonder if it was a video beamed directly into their head or something. But that would be stupid, it's not like they have onboard memory. Plenty of other mods, but their brain...

If they'd modded their whole brain, they would have made it so they didn't get stupid headaches while trying to answer questions. Their expression twitches, closer to a muscle spasm than a grimace.]

"I'm under contract to Security Consultant Rin, who was sent as an additional security measure for the assessment team." That's what I said.

Hmm.

[ That is...interesting. Hilbert doesn't say the obvious thing: how could Rin be under contract to himself? Security Consultant Rin...that's him. Or at least, it might as well be.

He can give a bit in exchange. ]

Mine involved a woman named Commander Renee Minkowski. She was the captain of whatever ship I was on. And she was in danger of dying.

[ Hilbert pauses for a moment before grumbling, ]

Her death was in a way that I could not glean any information from it to help the Captain.

[There are a lot of conclusions one might draw from a statement like that - from extremes to Rin losing their grip on reality to calling into question their entire history as detailed on their crew files. Maybe they're braced for that. The fact that Hilbert doesn't immediately jump to any of those, or even begin to speculate, is...

It's something! That Rin must appreciate, considering some degree of unwinding - not entirely, though, not yet. There's still time for Hilbert to circle back around. For now, though - they latch on to the distraction.]

Crew records from previous shifts don't include a Commander Minkowski?

I do not believe so? Still, will double-check.

[ And we're veering into a line of questioning that Hilbert doesn't want to talk about. He shifts the conversation slightly with, ]

Did you see yourself in hallucination? I did not. It was like remembering event from past. I did not see myself—heard my voice, though.

[Rin takes this as given - after all, why shouldn't they? Hilbert is the one with access to medical files and names, after all.

They don't offer to go poking through the systems looking for it themself, though Hilbert has presented another conversational line of inquiry to follow up on, instead.]

It wasn't from an outside perspective. [That's a way to put that, sure.] Calling it memory insertion indicates a theory on the cause.

[ There's a moment where Hilbert sighs, shaking his head as he grumbles, ]

I don't have a theory. I call it memory insertion because all the other options make no sense. Cannot be hallucination as there are no other symptoms of that. And if it was hallucination, why would it be so specific?

[Rin is silent for a while, processing this - but it's not like they have a better proposal for an explanation, or they'd have given it.]

We've already had crew members returned to cryostasis for adverse cryostasis reactions. What is the likelihood of this developing to similar need for extreme measures?

[ He hates admitting this but, ]

I have no idea.

[... Well. Great.]

Acknowledged.

Add this to the list of reasons we're fucked.

[With a sucked-in breath, Rin grimaces, their jaw grinding nearly audibly.]

Trust me. I am also not happy about all this.

Aside from medical alert to the bracelet, what symptoms should be immediately reported?

[From the grim look lingering on Rin's face... maybe they're realizing the Implications of their only current medical officer being one of those experiencing this phenomenon. And maybe they're anticipating the answer being 'all of the symptoms.']

[ Hilbert grimaces, knowing full well that this is a shitty answer as he continues, ]

Anything else out of the ordinary.

[It is, but there's not that much they can do about it now. At least they have solidarity in the knowledge that this situation is, in fact, as shitty as they think.]

Understood. When anything else unusual occurs, you will receive the report. [When not if.] Until then, what should I know about medicating the Captain?

I will give you written list of instructions to drug Captain. I will also show you steps in person without final step of administering medicine. Process is simple. Biggest hassle is quarantine.

[Rin nods, stepping forward, clearly ready to get this done, as they open a note on their CL-10.]

I've administered medical aid in emergency with instruction from a medical system. This should be similar.

Indeed it will be.

[ And Hilbert gives Rin a very detailed explanation of exactly how the drugs through the ventilation shaft plan works, it's just handwaved oocly because ain't nobody got time for that. It is very detailed and very technical and honestly kind of boring. ]

[Rin takes equally diligent notes, even though it's technical and detailed and incredibly boring, and when they're done, they nod to Hilbert and turn the screen of the CL-10 dark again.]

I'll be returning to my work. Thank you, Doctor Hilbert.

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