Allison Scott looked at her watch. She had sent a memorandum out several weeks ago to random crew members about the emergency preparedness medical drill. On the Ogawa, they had performed these drills a few times but every port was a medical emergency and no one tended to be shooting at them. On the Saracen, they had red alert drills for when people were shooting at them but never casualty drills. This was the perfect combination of both and would give her staff a chance to see her not as the “other doctor” but as the medical chief.

The alarm dinged on her watch and Ally hit the pre-recorded message programmed into the ship.

=/\=Commander Balfor Kolar =/\= The artificial voice piped through his comm badge. It carried the slightly up beat voice of a woman. =/\=The Emergency Preparedness Drill is now commencing. You have been assigned Alice in Wonderland syndrome. Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS) is a rare condition that disrupts your brain’s ability to process sensory input. The disruption affects how you perceive the size of things you see around you, the feel or look of your own body, or both. It can also distort your sense of reality. There are many ways this condition can present itself but ultimately yours will be found out to be the onset of Influenza

To make this as realistic as possible, a list of symptoms for you to report are included below. You may experience:

1. Disturbances in self-perception. People with this have trouble correctly perceiving the size and feel of their own body (either the whole body or just specific parts). It also changes your sense of reality, your ability to feel connected to your body and your emotions, and the passage of time.

2. Disturbances in visual processing. This affects how your brain processes what you see around you such as
   -Changes in size. (Objects may appear larger (macropsia) or smaller (micropsia) than they actually are.)
   -Changes in distance. Objects may appear closer (pelopsia) or farther away (teleopsia) than they actually are.
   -Changes in both size and distance. Objects may appear smaller and seem to be moving farther away (porropsia).
   -People appearing smaller than they actually are. This is known as Lilliputianism (pronounced “lil-ip-yew-shun-ism”). This -gets its name from the fictional, tiny residents of the island of Lilliput from the 1726 fantasy novel “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift.
   -Changes in object appearance. Objects can appear distorted. Straight lines can look wavy or squiggly. Lines that are level vertically or horizontally can look skewed or slanted.

3. Combined symptoms. This is when you experience symptoms that affect both your self-perception and visual processing.

At the sound of the tone, please call the medical staff and report your injury. Thank you in advance for your time=/\=

Ally Scott CMO