[Science Experiment] || [Collar Fluid Research Start] || [Open]

[doc_brown]

Characters: Anyone who's willing to work for SCIENCE.
Setting: The Workshop (Floor 15) for the IC questions to the scientists and the mingle thread. Then each group will be positioned on a different floor so as to not alert the administrators with a large group of people gathering at a single place for a long time.
Format: Prose or action, whichever you prefer.

Summary: This log marks the start of the research on the collar fluid! As was mentioned in the sign-ups post, words was passed around about the need of more people to help and study the collar fluid. Characters signing-up have all been divided into seven teams, which can be found here. ICly, Doc Brown made the team based on what he thinks is the most efficient. You can still sign-up here.

There will be a thread in case your character needs to ask a question or anything to the starter scientists (Doc, Waver, Sertoria or Sephiroth) and in parallel a mingle thread for all the characters during the 'recruitment', even if they end up assigned to different teams. And then obviously, there are the individual threads for each teams so the new teammates can get and know each other if they don't already.

For their first day the teams will be on different floors, but following this nothing prevents two teams from working closeby or on different floors. For reference, there are three set of scientific equipment, each containing a microscope, a small centrifuge, beakers, test tubes, many testing apparatuses, etc. They'll be shared between the seven teams depending on what they need for their researches.

Warnings: Nothing! There will be no NPC tags here, researches shouldn't be dangerous and this log is mostly for the characters to get and know each other, so this should be a relatively harmless log. Well, unless you're in the Violet or Orange team of course. In which case, good luck.

General Mingle Pre-Research || IC Questions to the Scientists

Violet Fluid Team (Floor 56 - Hospital)
Indigo Fluid Team (Floor 18 - Study Room)
Blue Fluid Team (Floor 03 - Library)
Green Fluid Team (Floor 15 - Workshop)
Yellow Fluid Team (Floor 19 - Research Library)
Orange Fluid Team (Floor 26 - Morgue)
Clear Fluid Team (Floor 27 - Laboratory)

Comments

[oathshackledbird]

[Anyone who knows anything about the world Diarmuid had grown up in will understand why her words cause him to pale slightly. Obviously, Merciless' Death would not be the same as The Morrigan or any of the others who were linked with Death in his world, but Death is Death in any world. Whatever form She is in is one not to be messed with.

He bows his head slightly to her, both in reverence to her position and the one who she serves.]

It will be my honor to fight at your side. Too many do not give Death the respect She deserves.

[Diarmuid pauses a moment before asking her a tentative question.]

I expect you don't much like how death works in this place then, do you?

[sacrament_of_blood]

You surmise correctly. There is no true death here. Save, perhaps, for the monsters.

[The glamour makes it hard to tell the true, but she knows the prisoners are resurrected. However, she does not know what befalls the monsters.]

[oathshackledbird]

As far as I know, when killed the monsters do stay dead. Unfortunately, others soon take their place. They are not the same individuals brought back, though.

[He falls silent to think for a moment before speaking again.]

I wonder if that is because they are real when our powers and our very bodies are not.

[sacrament_of_blood]

That may very well be so.

[She is lost in thought after this.]

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid remains quiet for a time, watching her think. She seems so focused that he doesn't want to interrupt her, but he finally does.]

What is it? What do you ponder so hard? Is it anything I might be able to help with?

[sacrament_of_blood]

I was merely considering the state of the souls of those monsters. And why, even as illusions, we may still slay them.

[oathshackledbird]

It is hard to say. The Administrators say that the monsters are brought here on accident from our worlds, but if that is the full truth or not we don't know. So much of what the Administrators tell us is half truths or full out lies. It is frustrating.

[sacrament_of_blood]

After all, this is the tower of deceptions.

[oathshackledbird]

Well, if you wish to be specific, it's actually a tower of souls. However, I am sure there is just as many deceptive things going on as there are souls in this place, so you are right as well.

[sacrament_of_blood]

It is a place with many facets. Hopefully we shall uncover all of them and reveal its secrets fully.

[oathshackledbird]

It is what we must do if we are going to survive.

[Diarmuid gives her a serious, though grateful look.]

I am glad for this chance to have met you, Merciless. I wish both you and your team well. If there is anything that my team or I can do to aid you, please don't be afraid to ask.

[sacrament_of_blood]

I shall do just that. Thank you very greatly. And you may call upon me as well.