[Book of Enoch] China Update

[aa_stark]

Bruce, Steve, Tony and Vance are chilling in some pretty awesome yurts in China that is within reasonable driving distance of a city of reasonable size to provide whatever possible medical equipment Bruce could reasonably need to be unreasonably bought on Tony's dime to reasonably attempt to treat their kidnapped kid.

But the yurts are also far enough away from civilization that if the kid is contagious at least they are probably the only ones who die.

Probably.

• Bruce does his thing, doctors the kid.
  • What are his symptoms?
  • Do they match up to any known infections?
  • How effective is treatment?
  • Do we need to dig a tiny grave?
• Tony has a flask of goo.
  • He sends half the sample back to the US for analysis with a high degree of biosafety.
  • The other half is analyzed as best as they can in the field to determine the pathogen type.
    • Which probably starts by attempting to purify a sample of the pathogen that isn't contaminated by Scotch.
    • Sorry.
    • Not sorry, actually.
  • Start by seeing if it matches anything that might be suspected by symptoms!
  • Field PCR to get batches of DNA that we can try to match to things!
• Tony, Steve, and Vance presumably make themselves mostly useful by fetching things for Bruce or holding them or keeping an eye out to see if anyone is going to shoot them while they do this.
• Maybe Tony and maybe Vance and definitely JARVIS and his satellites and his computer banks see what's out west.
  • Are there any suspicious new structures or excitingly blanked out spots on google maps (or grownup satellites) that might indicate a recent installation.
  • Or any way to generally detect recent activity.
  • Especially coming from our villages and all going anywhere in particular. To the west.
  • Come to think of it, does Prometheus have any installations in that direction?

Okay I think I'm out of updates.