| [No video feed this time.  Perceptor's voice is... oddly hoarse.  Rough.  It sounds as if something's gone awry with his vocal processor.]
 I'm going to add in my support for the medics.  So to sp--
 
 [He cuts off, abruptly, with little choking noises.  Like someone trying to hold back a coughing fit.  When he speaks again, he just sounds exhausted.]
 
 ... speak.
 
 I'll be... attempting to find some way to counteract the effects of... all of this.  Mess.  In my lab.
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