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ʀemus ʟuᴘiɴ ([personal profile] fullmoon) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2015-05-12 11:59 am

here lies the abyss

CHARACTERS: OPEN.
LOCATION: Science labs, Level Two.
WARNINGS: Black, eternal nothingness.
SUMMARY: To congratulate Xenogen on the appearance of their new endless void. And their new nanite research and storage facility. That's probably important too.
NOTES: Consolidated post for abyss and nanite-room gaping, gazing, and experimentation.



There are greater tragedies than their ruined map, it turns out. Missing people. Dead people. So while Remus and Sirius notice the change nearly straight away, checking in on the map out of miserable habit--like poking a bruise to confirm that it still hurts--the appearance of a fully-functional display of the science department isn't enough to take precedence over other things, such as drinking and kicking walls and sorting through what the departed left behind.

But they do, eventually, sit down to study it. The inky walls are mostly where they're meant to be, and the Homonculous Charm is working again, displaying a half-dozen lonely dots labelled as science department members scurrying in and out of view. (It isn't spying if you don't know or care what anyone is doing.) Even this one department is massive, their attention to detail both a blessing and a difficult-to-process curse, so combing over it takes time. And assistance, courtesy of Kate. And also, importantly, alcohol. It's two return visits before one of them says, probably with a mouthful of terrible whisky, "I don't think that was there before."

That: a small room across from the containment chambers, labelled nanite storage and research. And a second that, discovered soon afterwards: a new corridor, leading away from the department and toward the centre of the ship, with an adjacent Lab E.

It isn't a personal slight against anyone in particular (or only very small slight against Xenogen, which still has Severus Snape's fingerprints everywhere) that they go to have a look on their own. It's just that they're Gryffindors. You understand.

milagros: ɪғ ɪᴛ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ɴᴏᴛ ғᴏʀ ᴛʜᴇᴍ (ᴍʏ ғʀɪᴇɴᴅs ɢɪᴠᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴘᴏᴇᴛʀʏ.)

splitting in twaaaaain

[personal profile] milagros 2015-05-20 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
( the interest in examining this and the limitations of nanites are why mila is not unaccompanied, as she might frankly prefer to be, when she moves through the new space. she might prefer it, but she's set that aside for the sake of what her job sometimes entails and gives no indication, the only sound of her passage until she speaks the tap of high heels on clean, even floors. )

If you feel the need to handle anything, do so with care. Try not to interfere with anything that hasn't been recorded.

( like charles, she is taking pictures; a second set for comparison purposes, and for the likelihood one or both of them will not get literally every possible angle. )
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[personal profile] brainsqueeze 2015-05-20 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
( She's not a scientist but she is curious. Any new things - changes in the ship? The ship is a puzzle that's been bugging a lot of people, and she'd like to know whatever she can. If that's possible )

So touch nothing?

( At least if you're not from the department. She wouldn't know what has been recorded. Thankfully she's less of the nosy, touchy sort. Curious but weary. If there is something new there they might not know what it is, and if all of it is good. She's not getting struck by anything unexpected if she can help it )