theblogger | First Blog Entry - Is this thing on? / [ Audio ]

( OOC: Back-dated to the morning of the 17th )

[ John's been trying to locate the microphone on the journal for the last five minutes and, for the last two or so, there's a fluctuation of the feed as the book shuts and reopens. Sod it. Sally seemed to have heard him well enough when he was speaking into the open pages before, and it's already proved to be sensitive to written transmissions.

Rainfall is a distant sound. ]

Right, ehm. Good morning, Luceti.

My name is John Watson and I've a few questions, specifically toward the medical situation we've got here. I'm at your clinic, looking over the equipment and the pharmacy. There seems to be a rather, well, shocking imbalance between the advancement of your technology in medical tools and the drugs you've got.

I'm aware there's a hospital somewhere, but is there anyone about that wouldn't mind speaking about the health care they've been receiving here? If anyone could also direct me to the current Chief of Medicine -well, any authority figure between the clinic and the hospital, really- I'd be grateful.

[ Is anyone even in charge around here? It seems as dangerous to make an assumption that there is a hierarchy in place than to think there's not one. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Doctor Temperance Brennan.

Prior to my arrival here, I worked at the Jeffersonian Institute as a forensic anthropologist, also liaised to the F.B.I.

Really?

[ Forensic anthropology wasn't a profession you heard of every day, but John knows what she's referring to. The Jeffersonian certainly rings a bell as well. ]

I'm sure you've got another aspect to consider here, then, from the anthropological standpoint. Why did you contact Doctor Willock? Are you interested in trying to pursue your work here as well, or...?

He contacted me. Upon my arrival

I would like nothing more than to pursue my work. [Back home.] But... while I do not necessarily believe the rumors, I have been told repeatedly that it might be difficult.

What've you heard, exactly?

That death is a... more temporary state of being. Apparently, our captors possess technology that dwarfs normal resuscitation capabilities.

[Because is magic is not a possibility.]

There's a note about it in the welcome guide.

[ 'Welcome guide' dries a little in his tone. ]

Also says we're on another planet entirely.

That would mean believing the guide without the evidence to back up these claims.

Never said I believed it, but that's what I've read. I'll tell you what I do believe, though - someone's behind this and they've got the power to spirit people away and strap them with wings that work. Whatever's here, the technology we're seeing doesn't match up with whatever they've got to have.

Now that is a very reasonable conclusion to draw. One of the few I've heard since my arrival.

[ At first he almost think she's patronizing him with her tone. But continuing on, he can't help but perk a little. ]

Really?

Well, I mean, I've always sort of considered myself to be at least reasonable...

[ Ahem. ]

It wasn't a difficult conclusion to come to. Reason also makes me inclined to say that knowing it doesn't do much for anyone, from a practical standpoint.

[He may not be the most intelligent person she's come across, but he's grounded. Rather like Booth in that way. Someone refusing to readily agree with all the strangeness surrounding this place.]

No, but the rate at which the others trapped here are so readily to believe everything they are told is... utterly ridiculous and far too indicative of low levels of intelligence.

A narrow mind seems just as disadvantatious to me, especially considering the circumstances. It's wrong to make a judgement without all the facts, either way. It's not exactly impossible, even if it is improbable.

[ There is a pause, a subtle inhale before he clears his throat and continues. ]

Anyway, I agree that it's something questionable, but I can only think of a couple of ways to go about proving it, none of them really advisable.

Historically speaking, scientific breakthrough has not necessarily occurred without its risks. I, for one, would be willing to chance these claims of death resulting from wing removal upon more thorough study of the appendages.

You've a point.

[ But he's quiet as he hears the implication of her statement. ]

I suppose you're thinking you can test two things in one from it?

Someone's been talking to me about the injuries here, and one of them has had just one wing torn off. From what I can understand, they experienced debilitating pain and sickness until it grew back in.

[..yeah. That still remains something she'll be reluctant to believe until she experiences it herself.]

It is a possibility. You have to agree that unless compounding variables were involved, sickness should not be an issue. [As for the regenerative limb:] I take it the patient was not human?

First Blog Entry - Is this thing on? / [ Audio ]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]

[voice]