[Fortuna]: Luck depends on no one....right? (4/3)

>Cea: Recognize that Hasty is infected, tell others.

[No! Helios! I really like Hasty... Is there anything we can do? We don't have to kill him right away, right?]

You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. With a bit of luck maybe we can pull this off.

[Helios, how quick is the infection spread once contact with blood is made? If someone hurries, maybe it could be washed off? Maybe we have time to make a vaccine so he can be like Cobalt

...This seems highly unlikely with such an aggressive infection, in which case; the better idea would be to eject the AI Core before the infection reaches it, if so: How much time do we have until the infection reaches it? Where are AI Cores usually located in Hermes units?]

Infection spread depends on the strain. Some are more aggressive then others. I do fear this may be one of them. We may still have time though. I would give up the idea of a vaccine though, if a vaccine was an option then there would have been one ages ago. The clockwork infection mutates too quickly for such things. Even in "safe clockworks" there have been more then a few cases of the infection mutating while it the host, and thus turning in to a very deadly strain.




I agree, if you want to attempt saving him, ripping his core out from his head would be your best bet, but you must be careful, one wrong move and you could corrupt the whole thing or damage the core.





The vaccine wouldn't work for other reasons, clockwork infections are fully willing to cannibalize each other. A safe clockwork can fight off other infections only slightly, maybe enough to fight off low density airborne versions, but anything more than that and they might as well be any old person.

> Cea: Hasty. Kitchen. Now. (Go with so you can tell Nikki what you want to do.)

> Take Hasty's AI core out. NOW.

>Someone with a smidgeon of mechanical knowledge: Have the idea of removing Hasty's core so that they can live in a new body

> Get Nikki to scrub him clean, he doesn't mind dirty things.

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Reminder! Commands have to make sense for the character based on knowledge they would have. So Nikki making a vaccine for hasty wasn't quite a valid command at the time because Nikki had no idea about hasty's infection!