Episode 9 - Make Pace
Date: 615/1/2732
Patient: Unknown. Whippomorpha Galactica
Patient ID: Awaited
Presenting Complaint: Cardiogenic Shock
Scan. Wire. Trial. Detach. Scan. Wire. Trial. Detach.
Where is Dr Adra when you need her?
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Transcript:
Intro
Hello, it’s AMC here with a quick message before one of our favorite episodes of the season. First off, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who has listened to the show so far and an extra huge thank you to the wonderful people who have joined our Patreon, talked about us or talked to us on social media and written reviews that are honestly so kind - I still blush just thinking about them.
Thank you, everyone.
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[MUSIC: The Vesta Clinic Theme]
[SEC: start up, questioning ping]
FAYE:
Don't panic, you've been moved.
[SEC: multiple questioning pings]
Oi! Stop it! We've got enough panic going around as it is right now.
We're in the Vessel Launcher.
[SEC: typing on screen, multiple questioning pings]
Stop - stop it! Well, because we're about to be launched into a vessel!
[SEC: negative ping]
I can explain everything but we're working against time at the moment, okay? Take a deep - whatever your version of a breath is.
[SEC: typing on screen]
Please.
[SOUND: radio beep]
Underwood to Solari. Can you still hear me?
DAKARAI:
Loud and clear.
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
Are you sure you can't do this?
DAKARAI:
You know I'm not registered to practice. And you've actually done this before.
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
I've simulated this before - which isn't the same thing! Can't we wait for Dr Adra?
DAKARAI:
I hate to be that guy, but I'm going to remind you that you've given the maximum safe dose of atropine and its blood pressure is now 60/30.
FAYE:
[To herself] Yeah? Well mine is tickling 200/120.
[SOUND: radio beep]
Okay. Let's do it then. And if Dr Adra calls . . . Tell her you forced me to do it.
DAKARAI:
You'll have plenty of time to fret about her once this is done.
FAYE:
Hm. Sec, can you do the final checks for a pacing wire insertion, please?
[SEC: affirmative ping]
[SOUND: radio beep]
Starting final checks.
[SOUND: electrical hum]
DAKARAI:
Have you definitely got the back-up life support?
[SEC: typing on screen, affirmative ping]
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
The boss seems to think so.
DAKARAI:
Look, I know I mess around a lot. But please remember that your safety is the priority, yeah? Say the word and I'll pull you straight out.
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
DAKARAI:
Latest BP 58/35. Are you ready?
FAYE:
[Murmured] Shit. Okay. Sec?
[SEC: affirmative ping, typing on screen]
[SOUND: radio beep]
Ready.
DAKARAI:
Injecting anaesthetic now.
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
Thanks. Starting cannulation screw.
[SOUND: cannulation screw starts up, whirring noise]
[SEC: typing on screen]
Ah - yep. Yeah. I can fill you in. Can you store information while you're disconnected from the Main Network?
[SEC: affirmative ping]
Okay, great. Uh, this can go in a letter then. Because I'm being optimistic enough to assume that it's going to need one.
The date is . . . 615/1/2732
Uh, patient: Unknown, star whale. Uh, that's a whippomorpha galactica.
Can you fill the patient ID in later when we know it, please?
[SEC: affirmative ping]
Our patient was picked up by a patrolling ceresaurian shuttle on the outskirts of Ceres' orbit. According to the pilot, the whale was groaning in -
[SOUND: pained whale noise]
- in pain. Beautifully demonstrated. And, under the Guidance for Protection of Vulnerable Species, they made the correct call to tow it over to us for medical attention.
I, actually, wasn’t the first person to assess the patient.
[SEC: typing on screen, questioning ping]
[MUSIC: begins]
Uh, officially, it was Calyxy, but Dakarai was there too. I understand that it was haemodynamically unstable and entirely disorientated, its indigo skin mottled with a white lacy pattern signifying a lack of peripheral blood flow.
Immediately concerned, the pair called for help and, given Dr Adra's current absence from the clinic, I was left as the most senior member of the team.
Which is typical, isn't it?
[SOUND: bumping]
DAKARAI:
I think you're in.
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep, whirring stops]
I think so too. Starting cannulation in 3 - 2 - 1.
DAKARAI:
Good luck.
[SOUND: an engine gaining speed]
FAYE:
Still with me, Sec?
[SEC: affirmative ping]
We're entering the vein now.
Where did I get up to?
[SEC: typing on screen]
Oh, yeah. When I arrived at the Starboard deck, it was clear even through the glass that the patient needed urgent medical attention or it wasn't going to be long for this Asteroid Belt. The monitoring that Calyxy had hooked it up to showed a pretty dire picture: its blood pressure was far below the threshold needed to sustain normal brain and kidney function and the ECG showed the source of the problem, a bradycardia of only 8 beats per minute.
From the trace itself, it looks as though the problem lies in the atria. For some unknown reason, this whale's biological pacemaker has packed in. That's what we're going to fix.
Have you done this before, Sec?
[SEC: affirmative ping]
Good. Because, when I simulated it, I wasn't using tech from the 2600s.
[SEC: typing on screen]
I'm just saying, it wouldn't hurt to have a bit of an overhaul around here.
Okay, we're nearly through. Turn on the Doppler.
[SEC: negative ping, typing on screen]
Sure, but I'm the doctor who's actually been squashed into this venocraft, about to be dropped into a Star Whale's circulatory system and I'd prefer it on.
[SEC: program open]
Thank you.
[SOUND: engine noise stops, radio beep]
Dakarai, can you give us a tug before I disconnect?
DAKARAI:
Pulling now. You should feel it.
[SOUND: bumping]
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
Whoa! Yeah, I can feel that. Disconnecting from the cannula now.
[SOUND: mechanical whir, slow heartbeat]
So, we've inserted this massive glass tube transdermally from the satellite, through the vacuum of Space and into one of the whale's superficial veins. Squeezing the Venocraft through that same tube has given us access to the bloodstream and following the flow should take us up into the right side of the heart which is exactly where we need to put a pacing wire if we want to sort out this low heart rate.
[SEC: typing on screen]
Let's do it then.
When I was a kid, there was this simgame you could stream called, uh, Escape from Gula Mons - you know, the volcano on Venus? I haven’t thought about it in years, but the loading screen was a swirling, bubbling flow of lava, crimson and orange and - and the Doppler view now on the screen really reminds me of that.
[SEC: typing on screen]
The flow of blood in a vein is no different to the flow of any fluid in a tube, and, um, I can see the increase in flow velocity as an area of bright crimson right in the centre. That's where we need to be.
[SOUND: mechanical whir]
I need to be really careful not to scrape us along the side of the vein. The edges of this thing are designed to be as smooth as possible - but the last thing we want is for the star whale to lose any more of its circulating volume because we put a hole in one of its veins.
[SEC: typing on screen, questioning ping]
How?
[SEC: affirmative ping]
[Thinking noise] I don't think we'll ever find out exactly what caused the bradycardia in the first place. I mean - unless we get up there and its pace-making node is all scarred up from a previous infection or some past ischaemia? These things can run in the family so - much further down the line we could think about genetic testing or -
[SOUND: monitor warning alert]
Stars, it's as if it heard us talking about it. Don't go any slower! Silence alert. Um.
[SOUND: radio beep]
Solari, come in.
DAKARAI:
Receiving.
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
I'm thinking that it's not actually pumping blood effectively enough to get us up to the heart. We're crawling. What do you think about using the engine?
DAKARAI:
I . . . Don't know.
FAYE:
Dammit, where is Dr Adra when you need her?
[SOUND: radio beep]
If we used the engine, the blades would chop up some of the red blood cells so there'd be some degree of haemolysis and the sats might drop - more than it has already, that is. But on the other hand, it's not perfusing anything important right now. The only way to fix that is to get this wire in.
DAKARAI:
I think you know what the right decision is.
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
Starting engine.
[SEC: affirmative ping]
[SOUND: watery chugging sound]
Okay. Now we're moving.
[SEC: affirmative ping, typing on screen]
Um, I can see the dark flashes of connecting veins now we’re chugging past. The view in front of us has become turbulent. Flashes of blue mixing in with the red as the engine churns the blood to propel us forward. It makes you wonder if the first Earth person in a submarine staring out at one of the great whales who used to populate the oceans could ever have imagined this.
[SEC: typing on screen, questioning ping]
Oh, now you're asking! You know how the Space Whales just dip into one of the gas giants and fill up their lungs?
[SEC: affirmative ping]
The - um - Earth whales would come up out of the water and do the same.
[SEC: questioning ping, typing on screen]
Oh, well, all organic life is inefficient. You know that better than all of us.
Let's run through the plan for when we get into the heart?
[SEC: affirmative ping]
I'm pretty sure that we're in the inferior vena cava now. This should lead us up through the myocardium and into the right atrium. If I remember correctly, this is the part that irritates the heart the most, and, if we're going to tip our space whale into a tachyarrhythmia, it'll be then. I'm going to hook us into the endocardium and anchor us in there, just in case it does happen. If we go whizzing down into the right ventricle, it's game over for all of us.
Stars, Xaelest is actually going to kill me.
[SEC: typing on screen, questioning ping]
No. That's part of it. We've not really spoken to each other since she said I was being cocky and overconfident and now she's going to come back from her exam to me being like 'Oh, hi, I just thought I'd take the venocraft out for a spin while you were gone. What's that? Oh, no, I'm not officially certified to do it, but I've run the sim a few times for fun and that's the same thing, right?’
[SEC: negative ping, typing on screen]
Do you think she'll fire me?
[SEC: typing on screen]
Okay.
[SEC: affirmative ping, typing on screen]
Once we're anchored in, I'm gonna use the controls to feed the pacing wire into the endocardium and lock it in place.
[SEC: negative ping, negative ping, typing on screen]
Yes! Of course! Yes. I'll scan it first. See, this is why I had to bring you with me.
[SEC: typing on screen]
So: scan. Wire. Trial. Detach. Get the Hell out of there. Does that sound like a plan?
[SEC: affirmative ping]
Good. Because the vessel we're in now is definitely starting to widen out and . . . It's so stupid but, because it's so dark in here, and with all the other vessels joining like we're in the most complex cave system in the universe, I can't help but expect to see, like, a figure lurking in one of the openings. Just watching us trundle past.
[SEC: typing on screen]
I know, I know. It's definitely adrenaline misappropriating itself but it is not fun!
[SEC: negative ping]
[SOUND: radio beep]
Dakarai, I think we're coming up to the heart now. Please can you be ready with some adrenaline if we need it?
DAKARAI:
Already got it, boss.
FAYE:
Alright. Engine off.
[SOUND: engine off]
I can see the opening coming up now. Brace yourself, Sec.
[SOUND: bumping, heart rate increases, monitor warning alarm]
[Urgent] Deploy -
[SEC: questioning ping]
Oh, shit! Sec, deploy the anchor.
[SEC: typing on screen]
[SOUND: pained whale noise]
It doesn't matter where!
[SOUND: radio beep]
Rai, we're gonna need that -
DAKARAI:
Administering adrenaline now.
FAYE:
Sec! Anchor! Please!
[SEC: affirmative ping, typing on screen]
[SOUND: anchor deployed, bumping]
[SOUND: radio beep]
Doesn't seem like that's working, Rai!
Sec, bring up the ECG.
[SEC: file open]
[SOUND: heart monitor beeping]
VF.
[SOUND: radio beep]
Have you got defib pads on?
DAKARAI:
Faye, I can't shock it! It'll fry the Venocraft's computer systems, and you!
FAYE:
Shit. Shit! Can you silence this monitor? I can't even hear myself think.
[SOUND: heart rate monitor alarm silenced]
[SOUND: radio beep]
Rai, how much adrenaline did you give?
DAKARAI:
Point five grams.
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
Oh, give more!
DAKARAI:
How much more?
FAYE:
I don't know, however much Dr Adra would give.
[SOUND: radio beep]
Same again.
DAKARAI:
Faye, that's a lot.
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
It's a big whale.
[Pause]
DAKARAI:
Administering.
FAYE:
[SEC: typing on screen]
You just cross your internal fingers. Can you turn the Doppler off? It's making me feel a bit sick.
[SEC: affirmative ping]
[SOUND: heart rate slows, bumping stops]
It's stopped? Thank stars for that.
[SOUND: radio beep]
Are we stable?
DAKARAI:
Definitely looks like it! The blood pressure couldn't actually drop much lower than it already was so . . . Good call with the adrenaline.
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
Thanks, can you keep it handy though, please?
DAKARAI:
My finger's on the plunger.
FAYE:
You okay in there, Sec?
[SEC: negative ping, typing on screen]
[Laughs] I hate it too, believe me. At least you don't sweat.
[SEC: affirmative ping]
Can you do the electroscan?
[SEC: affirmative ping]
[SOUND: electroscan]
Okay, so - lights on, full beam. I'm looking up at the roof of the right atrium. If I turn to look out to the left, I can see the rhythmic gaping of the tricuspid valve behind the scatter of dark cells in the way. They look like a - a shoal of tiny black fish, swimming in the plasma, each cell's movement random but ultimately pulled along by the current of this heart's inadequate beating.
I would expect the sinoatrial node, the pacemaker, to be over . . .
[SOUND: mechanical whirring]
Here. I can't see any obvious abnormalities, obviously, it's difficult with the blood pooling in front of my view.
[SOUND: scan complete]
Oh! [Delighted] I didn't think it would actually show me it!
[SEC: affirmative ping]
It's like . . . A textbook come to life! The electrical impulse starts in the pacemaker as a flicker of sunset yellow which extends posteriorly, crackling fingers of electricity which fork like lightning before terminating with a flash. [Laugh] I - I just think life-threatening bradyarrhythmias have no business looking this stunning.
It's not - it doesn't look like it's reaching the next node, does it, Sec?
[SEC: negative ping]
There must be a problem in this pathway causing the failure of conduction. Time to put a new one in.
[SEC: affirmative ping]
[SOUND: radio beep]
Everything okay out there? We're gonna insert the pacing wire now.
DAKARAI:
Yep! You go make that pace, girl. Oh! And Sec!
FAYE:
[SEC: typing on screen]
[SOUND: radio beep]
He says thanks.
Alright. Give me some hands.
[SEC: typing on screen]
[SOUND: robotic arms moving]
No, that's a mouthful. I'm calling them hands.
Can we extend them a bit? Not sure I'm going to be able to reach otherwise . . .
[SOUND: robotic arms moving]
Lovely. Okay. Pacing wire?
Don't drop this one, Faye.
[SOUND: robotic arms moving]
I can't - The thing about star whales is that, even now I'm literally inside one, it's still baffling to get your head around the scale of them. The screen in front of me shrinks the view ahead, so it's easy to forget that the wire I'm holding with these robotic pincers is thicker than the width of me and weighs literally half a tonne.
[SEC: typing on screen, questioning ping]
Yes, please! I'd love a scan overlay!
[SEC: program open]
This is where it starts feeling like a video game again. Use these controllers to hit the blue, flashing X with your pacing wire.
[SOUND: robotic arms moving]
Are we in?
[SEC: affirmative ping]
I'm almost too scared to let go in case it falls out. Can we test it with me holding it?
[SEC: negative ping, typing on screen, negative ping]
[Laughs] I'm sorry, I'm not actually trying to wipe your system, Sec. I just . . . keep forgetting how electricity works.
Okay.
[SOUND: robotic arms moving]
That's one hand off. No, no, no, no, it's slipping!
[SOUND: robotic arms moving]
[SEC: questioning ping]
Stars. Um, I'm going to tighten it in a bit more . . .
[SEC: affirmative ping]
[SOUND: robotic arms moving]
DAKARAI:
Solari to Underwood. Everything okay?
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
Yes! Sorry. Just fixing the wire in. I'll give you a heads up before we turn it on.
Ready to try again?
[SEC: affirmative ping]
[SOUND: robotic arms moving]
One hand off. That looks much more stable. Detaching.
[SOUND: robotic arms moving]
Well, it hasn't fallen out yet . . .
[SOUND: radio beep]
Ready to test?
DAKARAI:
I couldn't be more ready.
FAYE:
Right. We're definitely anchored in, Sec?
[SEC: affirmative ping]
Let's make this pace, then.
Heart monitor on. Electroscan on. Starting.
[SEC: program open, heart monitor beeping, program open, electroscan on]
It's working! Ah! It's actually working. I can literally see the muscle responding as the electricity passes through it and that ECG has the crispest pacing spikes I have ever seen.
[Disbelief] It's really working.
[SEC: typing on screen]
I - I know, I know we have to get out of here.
DAKARAI:
Solari to Underwood. I just thought you might like to know that we are experiencing a delicious blood pressure of 110/84 and I think the patient just blinked. If you can exit the heart without causing another arrhythmia then drinks will be served on the Indigo Deck after landing.
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
I'll take a double. Ready to reel us in if we disconnect?
DAKARAI:
This is your Captain speaking, I sure as Sagittarius am.
FAYE:
Electroscan off. Doppler on.
[SEC: program open]
We're definitely not attached to the pacing wire anymore?
[SEC: negative ping]
Good. The last thing I want to do is pull the bugger out.
[SEC: negative ping]
Exactly.
[SOUND: radio beep]
Detaching the anchor now.
[SOUND: anchor detached]
Start retrieval in 3, 2, 1.
[SOUND: bumping, mechanical whir]
DAKARAI:
It's pulling you in now.
FAYE:
It sure is -
[SOUND: bumping]
What? What's happened?
[SEC: typing on screen]
DAKARAI:
Uh, Faye? I think it's stopped.
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
We're stuck.
DAKARAI:
Where?
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
We just got back out and into the IVC. I - I think there's still venous flow going past us, but we are blocking half the lumen.
[SOUND: robotic arms moving]
I think the hands - the, uh, robotic arm things have got stuck on the inside.
DAKARAI:
Can you retract them?
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
I'm trying!
Any ideas, Sec? They're not -
[SOUND: robotic arms moving]
- budging!
[SEC: typing on screen]
Jiggle?! I'm trying to jiggle!
[SOUND: robotic arms moving]
[Grumbling] Earth below.
Lights on. Take the Doppler off.
[SEC: program closed]
Oh, sh - stars.
[SOUND: radio beep]
Rai, it's one of the arms - it's - shit - it’s gotten caught on the pacing wire as we came out.
DAKARAI:
Oh. I don't really know what to do about that . . . Unless . . .
[Pause]
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
Rai?
DAKARAI:
Are you still in your EVA suit?
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
You're not being serious.
DAKARAI:
I kind of wish I wasn't.
FAYE:
Sec
[SEC: typing on screen]
That's the opposite of what I hoped you'd say.
[SOUND: radio beep]
Just remind me how we got from 'your safety is the top priority' to 'go out for a swim inside the Star Whale'?
[SEC: typing on screen]
DAKARAI:
This is so you can get out safely.
Sec can tell you how to attach yourself to the venocraft and then I'll just pull you both out at the same time.
FAYE:
[SOUND: radio beep]
Xaelest is going to kill me.
DAKARAI:
Best I can do is buy you some time by letting her kill me first.
FAYE:
Oough. I don't like this.
[SEC: typing on screen]
Don't -
[SEC: typing on screen]
No, don't worry. Dakarai will pull you out either way. I promise you're safe.
[SEC: typing on screen]
Right.
[SOUND: belt unclicking]
How do I tether myself? If you want to get rid of me, Sec, now is a really good time.
[SEC: typing on screen]
[SOUND: radio beep]
I'm doing it. Tell - Tell Xael that I wasn't overconfident, I was just . . . Really scared.
DAKARAI:
I've told you, I'm not your go-between, honey. Tell her yourself when you're out.
FAYE:
[Grumbles]
[SOUND: radio beep]
Fine. Over and out.
[MUSIC: Beeps from The Vesta Clinic Theme]
[SEC: start up, typing on screen, questioning ping]
XAELEST:
Not Faye, no.
[SEC: questioning ping, typing on screen, questioning ping, questioning ping]
Stop. Stop it! She's fine!
[SEC: questioning ping]
She'll be coming in a second, I just wanted to -
[SOUND: clinic door opens, footsteps, clinic door closes]
[Caught off-guard] Hi.
FAYE:
Hi. Sorry, I was just checking on the - uh - star whale.
XAELEST:
I hear it's recovering very well.
FAYE:
Yeah.
[Pause]
How was your exam?
XAELEST:
Awful. But that's not what I'm here to talk about.
[Pause]
FAYE & XAELEST:
Sorry - I -
[Awkward pause]
FAYE:
After you.
[SOUND: footsteps, chair]
XAELEST:
I am very sorry for not being here today. I appreciate that it left you in a very difficult situation. Albeit, one you handled admirably.
[Pause]
I am also sorry for the way I spoke to you - before - I - I -
FAYE:
You were very stressed.
XAELEST:
No.
Yes.
But it's mainly -
Listen, I'm not trying to give you a crisis of confidence. I'm really not. But at the end of the day, I'm the person who has been left in charge here and therefore your mistakes are my mistakes.
FAYE:
But, I haven't -
XAELEST:
I know. I know you haven't made any. We should keep it that way.
FAYE:
Okay?
XAELEST:
At the port I passed through on the way back there was an Interplanetary Market and I got you this . . .
[SOUND: a heavy, rustling object is placed on the desk]
FAYE:
Is this real?
[SEC: typing on screen, questioning ping]
[Distracted] It's a plant, Sec.
XAELEST:
They assured me it was. You said that the Arbolite made you miss home and . . . I thought it might make a better decoration than the sticker that has mysteriously disappeared from your scanner.
FAYE:
[Joking] Sec did it.
[SEC: questioning ping, negative ping]
XAELEST:
I just wanted to say sorry.
FAYE:
This is like an olive branch then?
XAELEST:
No? They had olive trees and they looked nothing like this.
FAYE:
[Laugh] No, it's a . . . Uh . . . It doesn't matter.
This is very kind.
XAELEST:
I can be.
FAYE:
[Genuine] I'm sure.
XAELEST:
[SOUND: pockets opening]
I think, after today, I should also offer you this. If you want it?
FAYE:
I do! I do want it. Very much.
XAELEST:
It could go off at any time.
FAYE:
I know how a bleep works.
XAELEST:
Right. Yes. Of course you do. I'll redirect it to mine tonight though, you deserve a night off.
FAYE:
Let my nerves recover.
XAELEST:
Yes. If there aren't any patients, Dr Solari isn't going to let me go to bed without consuming a decent amount of that Hiloovian wine we got sent. You should join us.
FAYE:
Thanks. I should probably try to call Nic, see if I can get through long enough to explain half of what happened today.
XAELEST:
Right. [Pause] Of course.
FAYE:
But . . . After? I could do after?
XAELEST:
Okay?
FAYE:
Okay.
XAELEST:
[SOUND: chair, footsteps]
I'll let you and Sec debrief. Don't let him tell you he didn't wake up worried about you.
[SEC: negative ping]
See you later, maybe?
[SOUND: clinic door opens]
FAYE:
Sure.
XAELEST:
Call me if you need me.
[SOUND: footsteps, clinic door closes]
[SEC: typing on screen]
FAYE:
Oh! So you were just happy to be alive, then happy about the patient and then happy I made it out too?
[SEC: affirmative ping]
That's not what Dr Adra just suggested.
[SEC: negative ping]
Have you been able to assemble anything I said in the venocraft into a letter?
[SEC: affirmative ping, file open]
Damn. Look at you.
[SEC: typing on screen, questioning ping]
We had to sedate it shortly after we were pulled out so that it didn't swim away before we inserted the battery. So, I don't know the whale's name yet.
I think the plan is to wake it up tomorrow and Dr Adra’s gonna take over its care. Which, honestly, is fine by me. Space whales are beautiful, but if I never see another one again, I don't think I'd complain.
[SEC: typing on screen, questioning ping]
It . . . Was exactly as scary as you might imagine. But, once I accepted there was nothing I could do to make the situation better, I just held on and hoped for the best.
[SEC: typing on screen]
I know you hated it. I couldn't have done it without you though.
[SEC: typing on screen]
Never again? Okay. Deal.
[SEC: affirmative ping]
Sec, if I tried to call Earth - can you check the weather right now?
[SEC: affirmative ping, typing on screen]
Great. That's good. Okay, I'll sign off then.
Signed,
Dr Faye Underwood
The Vesta Clinic
[MUSIC: The Vesta Clinic Theme]
CREDITS
This episode of the Vesta Clinic was created by AMC. It starred AMC as Faye Underwood, Kamen Cooley-Greene as Dakarai Solari, Ruby Campbell as Xaelest Adra, and Sec as himself. Music by AMC and Ruby Campbell.
Please check out our show notes for content warnings, transcripts, and your prescription of: a really good bowel movement.
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Special thanks for this episode goes to Emily Dainton. You know what you did . . . But thank you for your boundless support. We love you.
Content warnings: Life or death medical scenarios, high risk behaviour
Sound effect attributions:
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Typing metal plate(reson,rev,DTBlkfx,Eq,Extr,sat,dcmtr)12.wav by newlocknew at Freesound.org
Radio Beep by Kijadzel at Freesound.org
"UI, Mechanical, Notification, 01, FX.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
Piccolo-filtered.aif by Tritus at Freesound.org
"UI, Mechanical, Text-Scroll, 03, FX, 01, LOOP.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
"UI, Mechanical, Turning-Off, 02, FX.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
"Abstract Spaceship A01, Ascending.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
"Thunder Tube, Large, Hit, A (H6 XY).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
"Oidz Magnet, A (H4n).wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
"Oidz Drop, Dramatic, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
"Shaving, Electric, A.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
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