Cardia
From Caduceus Database
Cardia is the final strain of Stigma. It is first seen inside Master Vakhushti. Cardia is the Greek word for "heart." It is most similar to the GUILT strain Savato, in its method of attack and the duration of the battle, both split into two parts.
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[edit] Treatment
Since Cardia is the final Stigma of New Blood, be prepared for a long fight of duration, speed, and a little bit of luck. Cardia is the only Stigma to require the use of all eight tools in order to successfully complete the operation. Warning: You must save your Healing Touch for the operation's end (unless you are really, really good and can move faster than Cardia) .
[edit] Preparing for Stigma
Cardia is seen first on a membrane that surrounds the heart. The membrane must be excised. From time to time, a section of the membrane turns a deep red, and if the Cardia gets to that area, the maximum vitals will decrease. The Cardia will sometimes disappear momentarily and then reappear on another part of the membrane. After the membrane is excised three times, the outer shell of Cardia will break off, revealing its core.
[edit] Cardia
At this point, the core begins dashing around the heart while creating lacerations. Blood will cover some lacerations. In addition, Cardia will create tumors after the lacerations are made. These tumors will explode if it touches a purple ripple that Cardia releases. Each destroyed tumor will cost the patient 25 vitals. After damaging the Cardia enough, Cardia will go in a circle and release 30 of these tumors. The Healing Touch is necessary at this point, in order to slow down time to excise all the tumors or to keep vitals stable. Cardia then moves to the center, where it is vulnerable to attack. However, if it is not dealt with in time, the Cardia will release a ripple, destroying as many tumors as possible. If not dealt with after that, Cardia will release another ring of tumors. Once the Cardia is finally damaged again, it will die.
[edit] Mutations
Cardia does not have an exact mutation, but in the X mission X-6, the membrane is larger, and there are more red spots on the membrane.
[edit] General Tips
In order to achieve the most amount of points, remove the membrane one section at a time. This will boost your chain. Always remove the red membrane first. Use the time when Cardia is not attacking to boost vitals, and laser it only when it is releasing the ripple. It is a good idea to use Valerie's Healing Touch for this operation so that cardia's "Circle of Death" will have no effect on the patient's vitals.
[edit] Stats and Attacks
Cardia must take either 3 (normal operation) or 4 (X-missions) OKs with the laser to be defeated.
- Vital Drop - Cardia PERMANENTLY lowers the patient's vitals. This occurs after Cardia "steps" on a red section of the membrane.
- Membrane Creation - Cardia creates a new section of membrane. This only happens after a membrane is removed, and only 2 times in an operation.
- Warp - Cardia warps to another section of the membrane. This only occurs during the membrane removal part of the operation.
- Single Laceration - Cardia makes a single laceration with a small blood pool on it.
- MASS Lacerations - Cardia creates 6-8 lacerations, one right after another. This causes 20-35 vital loss and usually follows a Tumor Spawn.
- Tumor Spawn - Cardia creates 3-8 small red tumors that need to be removed with the forceps.
- Ripple Emission - Cardia releases red ripples that will blow up the red tumors on contact. This is always used after a tumor attack. This attack does no vital damge unless it hits a tumor.
- Tumor Ring - Cardia creates 30 tumors in a ring shape. The Healing Touch is STRONGLY advised at this part, because if the ring is detonated, the tumors will deal 750 vital damage (which would make the patient INSTANTLY die).
[edit] Trivia
It has been proven that the Healing Touch is not absolutely required to defeat Cardia (unlike Savato or Aletheia). The only way that this is possible is if the final point of damage before the ring of tumors is dealt while Cardia is emitting ripples, as Cardia will not make the ring of tumors until after the ripples dissipate.
| v • d • e | Trauma Center series | |||
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| Games | Under the Knife • Second Opinion • New Blood • Under the Knife 2 | |||
| Characters | Derek Stiles • Naomi Kimishima • Markus Vaughn • Valerie Blaylock | |||
| Organizations | Caduceus International • Delphi • Eidoth Pharmaceuticals • Humani • Parnassus • Acropolis Pharmaceutical • Hands of Asclepius | |||
| GUILT | Kyriaki • Deftera • Triti • Tetarti • Pempti • Paraskevi • Savato • Bliss • PGS | |||
| Stigma | Cheir • Soma • Ops • Onyx • Brachion • Cardia | |||
| Neo-GUILT | Nous • Sige • Bythos • Aletheia | |||
