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The Procedure
Time zero-oh-six hours, Dr. Klaus Upton Pickman leading, Director Guillaume Legrasse present, Nurses Mason and Tillinghast assisting. Procedure begins. Temperature 98.6 in host body, pulse 69, blood pressure 120 over 70, breathing shallow but steady. Initial incision reveals sub-dermal clotting around implant.
Zero-twenty-three hours, 400 milligrams of tricephalocine solution injected directly into the host. Extensive excision and suction required to reveal full extent of implanted ova. Temperature rising in host body, pulse up to 94, blood pressure rising, breathing starting to fall off.
Zero-fifty-six hours, nurse Tillinghast notes constricted pupils in the host, sweat glands aroused and repetitive 'gaping' of host's mouth believed to be silent screaming. Inadvisable to increase sedation due to potential risk to implant. Pulse 110, body temperature 105, skin hot to the touch and flushed, breathing jilted and host exhibits sign of choking, recommend putting on a ventilator.
Oh-one-thirty hours, patient stable but visibly suffering from the procedure, several phalanges broken through auto-reflexive response to the pain, hematomas visible occluding pupils, patient has likely lost all vision in both eyes. Buccal cortical plate shows signs of bleeding and lesions, patient might have been attempting to chew own tongue off during early stages of the procedure, reinforced tube put in place.
Oh-one-fifty-five hours, implant not responding to medication, moving instead to electrical stimuli. Delta waves within ova show lucid dreaming ongoing inside. Host pulse 165, blood pressure 190/120, temperature 115, patient struggling and prone to short but violent seizures.
Oh-two-oh-six hours, attempting to revive host with shock paddles.
Oh-two-twenty hours, second attempt, nervous system likely overloaded. Administering ketamine and adrenaline cocktail.
Oh-two-forty-two hours, third attempt, host brain dead, limbs are rigid against the restraints and the host has managed to sever the breathing tube with overwhelming bite pressure fracturing own jaw in the process. Host inert, ova still moving.
Oh-three-oh-one hours, host body clinically dead, all focus turned towards saving the implant. Core temperature dropping, outer shell of implant grey and flaccid, EEG shows cerebral activity within the ova dropping off.
Oh-three-thirty-nine, ova showing visible signs of distress, delta waves have shifted from anterior hemisphere to posterior and Nurse Mason is making preparations for the necessary rituals under orders from Director Legrasse.
Oh-four-hundred hours, abandoning medical science. Ova has been transferred from operating table to a circle of protection chalked onto the floor, host body removed for incineration, Nurse Mason has provided 30 cc's of virgin's blood and sputa, beginning chant of the bloody tongue in ancient Hyperborian.
Oh-four-ten hours, vital signs within the ova have stabilised but remain weak, charnel odour of disposed host body and chanting seems to have curtailed disaster. Circle of protection reinforced with runes and further bloodletting from both nurses.
Oh-four-fifty-six hours, ova hatches stillborn within circle, creature is malformed and under-developed.
Oh-five-hundred hours, Director Legrasse orders disposal of foetus and all records of procedures undertaken. Audio transcript saved for private files.
Nov.22.2007