FERN:
Why is the ground meatier...
Why is the ground meatier...
CHIP:
I'm af-f-fraid that leads in to our st-status report. Hospital functionality has r-risen, but corruption has increased as well. It is unclear how th-th-that can be p-possible, however I b-b-believe without your efforts the corruptive influence would still have increased much f-faster.
I'm af-f-fraid that leads in to our st-status report. Hospital functionality has r-risen, but corruption has increased as well. It is unclear how th-th-that can be p-possible, however I b-b-believe without your efforts the corruptive influence would still have increased much f-faster.
FERN:
Oh. Not sure how to take that. Does anyone know happened after that gas?
Oh. Not sure how to take that. Does anyone know happened after that gas?
WILLIS:
Yeah, you were WEIRD! But you saved a baby thingy before you got gotten by a dolphin!!!
Yeah, you were WEIRD! But you saved a baby thingy before you got gotten by a dolphin!!!
FERN:
Of course. Dolphins again. Great.
...Baby thingy?
Of course. Dolphins again. Great.
...Baby thingy?
You check your inventory. Where else would you put a baby???
WEIRD SLEEPY BABY
Nicole's little daughter was inexplicably imprisoned in a snack machine. Now she's safe and sound, as far as you can tell...though she seems to be in a very deep slumber.
Nicole's little daughter was inexplicably imprisoned in a snack machine. Now she's safe and sound, as far as you can tell...though she seems to be in a very deep slumber.
FERN:
...Imprisoned in a snack machine?
...Wait, how did I read that?
...Imprisoned in a snack machine?
...Wait, how did I read that?
WILLIS:
It's your items, duh! She was in the snacks in the burgder store.
It's your items, duh! She was in the snacks in the burgder store.
FERN:
Weird. They weren't supposed to be part of the hospital, right? And neither was that morgue or the coffee shop? I didn't trust them to begin with, but they keep getting more suspect.
I guess we should get this little whatever it is back to its momma. Chip, you wouldn't happen to have uncovered any more data on the veterinary ward or Fleagood, would you? I've met him now, a weird little puppet guy, or something. So far it sounds like he might be another outsider to the hospital. Is it even supposed to have a "veterinarian?"
Weird. They weren't supposed to be part of the hospital, right? And neither was that morgue or the coffee shop? I didn't trust them to begin with, but they keep getting more suspect.
I guess we should get this little whatever it is back to its momma. Chip, you wouldn't happen to have uncovered any more data on the veterinary ward or Fleagood, would you? I've met him now, a weird little puppet guy, or something. So far it sounds like he might be another outsider to the hospital. Is it even supposed to have a "veterinarian?"
CHIP:
Searching...searching...many files remain missing or c-c-c-corrupt, but one would expect m-mention of veterinary services in accessible data archives. Sorr-sorrorry Fern. The Hospital did not designate special s-services to treat bioforms designated as nonsapient p-property. Such a designation would not partic-tic-ticularly make logical sense in a medical facility already t-t-t-tailored to treat patients indiscriminately in regards to their b-b-bioform origin.
Searching...searching...many files remain missing or c-c-c-corrupt, but one would expect m-mention of veterinary services in accessible data archives. Sorr-sorrorry Fern. The Hospital did not designate special s-services to treat bioforms designated as nonsapient p-property. Such a designation would not partic-tic-ticularly make logical sense in a medical facility already t-t-t-tailored to treat patients indiscriminately in regards to their b-b-bioform origin.
FERN:
Yeah, you know, I wouldn't have thought so. I've seen so many weird things here, where would they ever draw the line between a person and a "pet?" I mean, if a cat gets sick enough to need this hospital there's probably a version of the same cat on some zone layer somewhere that's like a person anyway, and the people are the cats to it, and it'd be like any patient here and when you treat the person-cat it's also treating the cat-cat anyway, or something.
Yeah, you know, I wouldn't have thought so. I've seen so many weird things here, where would they ever draw the line between a person and a "pet?" I mean, if a cat gets sick enough to need this hospital there's probably a version of the same cat on some zone layer somewhere that's like a person anyway, and the people are the cats to it, and it'd be like any patient here and when you treat the person-cat it's also treating the cat-cat anyway, or something.
CHIP:
.........Y-yes. I...yes. Exactly that actually.
.........Y-yes. I...yes. Exactly that actually.
FERN:
Sheesh, you don't have to sound so surprised. I've been here kind of a while now. I'm not stupid.
Sheesh, you don't have to sound so surprised. I've been here kind of a while now. I'm not stupid.
