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Your workload load tapers slightly. Most of the patients you treated last week miss their follow-up appointments. G-variant mTB grew more aggressively than its natural counterpart, but it also cleared significantly faster – disappearing within several days of treatment with an appropriate nucleoside analogue. The few workers who return express their collective appreciation with touching sincerity, pushing you and Natcha to accept gifts of homemade food or local craftsmanship.
As a result, you have time to review the unmarked shipment that followed you home last Friday. You unpack vials filled with empty viral vectors and liposome solutions. Packets of dry culture media join the crowning gift: a BIO-R-brand automated synthesis system used for expressing and extracting protein. You hear the rapid ticking of a diffraction grating as it begins to assess the turbidity of its starting culture.
It was a well-built, industry-standard system, packed with hundreds of pre-made templates. You manage to put it to decent use the following day – treating an aggressive case of Glioblastoma multiforme with a proprietary antibody capable of transporting itself through the blood-brain barrier. The device was a very significant investment for a clinic of your size, but you wondered if the benefits were truly worth the thin, five-page report you had delivered a week ago.
Later that night, you shutter the entrance of your clinic amidst a sudden, torrential downpour. The seawalls weep salt-water into the drainage canals, and you hear the boom of distant thunder echoing along the narrow alleys. The more religious locals profess their dislike for nights like this – when they say they can feel the weight of their own karma return with the splitting of the sky and the rumbling of the earth. Tonight, you begin to understand their fears.
07 – 018 – 1999 | SOUTH SIAM | WEEK 4
[PATIENTS SCHEDULED: 223/270] [+60 Bonus from +1 STAFF]
>PREPARE. Your HOSAKA suite is dated, but it can still make essentials that are otherwise lacking here. Small molecules, large molecules, and simple bispecific. Vectors and phages if you invest a measure of time. [MEDS +2] [You have 3 MEDS]
>HIRE. Your office is small, but perhaps you can find one more person to help with your patients. Natcha has proven surprisingly competent. Perhaps there are other candidates who are equally skilled. [STAFF +1] [You have 1 STAFF]
>EXPLORE. You have a surplus of time this week. A novelty. You will see the markets and the docks. Perhaps you will find something useful. Perhaps you will not. [Roll 3d20]
