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[acclimatized]

It feels weird posting here after everything that has happened. The first day after I arrived, someone told me things weren't usually this hectic. And I doubt R.E.M envisioned zombies, grenades and mutinies when he wrote Man on the Moon.

But now I think I can suspend my disbelief and accept that I have been here before and can't remember a sodding thing about it. So, this is a re-introduction. My name is John Watson and I'm a doctor. I would like to help if I can and apologize to anyone I might have accidentally ignored.

Cheers.

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[acclimatized]

Tomorrow night sounds great. I know you must have a lot on your plate right now.

Really? No one told me that.

[boughtabookstore]

Quite a bit, but it would be good to sit down for a little while. I can meet you in the cafeteria?

You were one of the only doctors here at the time.

[acclimatized]

Sounds good. It's a shame there isn't a bar up here... I imagine it would have been good for tourism.

Nice to know I was proactive while I was here. It must be difficult without doctors or healers or any sort of safety net.

[boughtabookstore]

Spectacular, I'm sure.

We had an Initiative run hospital as well down on Earth, but many transports didn't trust them. Here it's significantly more difficult, but people do what they can.

[acclimatized]

Ah. The distrust for them around here is nothing new then. Coming all the way up here must have been the straw that broke the camel's back.

Is it gone along with the rest of it?

[boughtabookstore]

The distrust for them then was far more understandable than it is now, even. They made some very questionable decisions, at the beginning.

Everything down there is gone, I'm afraid.

[acclimatized]

Incredible. Should I even ask? Not that I am taking any sides or anything but I suppose if people have been here since the beginning, it makes their actions a little more understandable.

Right. Thought as much.

[boughtabookstore]

Drugs in the water, lying to transports, etc. They've improved slightly since then.

Perhaps when we get down again it can be started up again.

[acclimatized]

Jesus Christ. Only slightly?

Yeah. There are a few of us here now, so setting up a triage won't be difficult. Of course it's just a matter of WHEN we get down there.

[boughtabookstore]

Well, they say they no longer lie to us, but how can you really tell something like that?

Yes, the clinic has remained running through several incarnations. It will mostly be a matter of transferring, whenever we do manage to reach earth again.

[acclimatized]

In my personal experience? You don't. Or maybe I am just gullible.

And that could be anytime.

[boughtabookstore]

I wouldn't call that gullible.

Nobody really knows yet. I'm not in much communication with the efforts to return home - my attention has been elsewhere, I'm afraid.