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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.

ryuuzaki: (thinking - spoon)

[personal profile] ryuuzaki 2015-06-11 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[One hand and a hook means fewer fingerprints, which means that Darcy's friend is the ideal person to be feeding things to the machine, insofar as there is one. L hangs back, but not much, and watches with interest.]

What kind of yelling? [But if it's the kind he's seen, in the brief period between Nathan's disappearance and L taking up the CCO mantle, then he already understands.] It might work more effectively for the head of an appropriate department. Xavier here, or Tsang, or someone else.

If that's the case, it tells us that it required high clearance, or the ability to fake it.

[How would you do that? Could you do that?]
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[personal profile] forgodssake 2015-06-20 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ ooc ; wow i totally lost this tag in my inbox, my apologies!! ]

[ It doesn't take long for these machines to do their thing, although it may feel like an unnecessary delay for those that do not often use computers -- Charles had left so much of the hardware to Hank, back home. But soon; ]
REPLICATION
IMMUNE SYSTEM SUPPORT
HEALTH MAINTENANCE
MANTICORE A#34 ADVANCEMENT
MANTICORE B#39 ADAPTATION
GENETIC STABILIZATION
[ Charles doesn't necessarily time it with this revelation when he says; ]

Kate had managed to identify some of the prints. Turned out a few of them matched with mine.

[ He doesn't clarify that he had not himself actually sabotaged the nanites and brought about horrific illness not only to himself but to everyone else -- they could credit him with that going without being said.

Or not. A sideways glance makes sure. ]


Look. [ He is a genius, tell your friends, but for now he points like a monkey at the screen. Manticores. ]
capsize: (293)

an actual month later yikes sorry!!

[personal profile] capsize 2015-07-11 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Sideways glance is met with a look from Hook, a little too cheeky to be honestly accusatory, but it's there anyway. Just for posterity. He flashes Charles a smile, then turns his attention towards the screen as he wanders up.

And... gets roughly nothing from the information there. Science ?????? ??
]

Advancement and adaptation?

[ He's seen some monsters in his day, but the idea of making them... actually, no, not totally foreign to that, either. It just seems like a lot of work for not much pay off when you're trapped with the damn things on a tin can. ]

Adaptation for what?
ryuuzaki: (snarl)

[personal profile] ryuuzaki 2015-07-25 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[If Charles had been responsible for that, he wouldn't be telling them now. -- Or would he? But there are suspects L likes more for the whole thing, even if how Charles's fingerprints got there becomes one more question to add to the pile.

After all the samples are analyzed and Charles points at the screen, L leans in, peers at it, and stands again with an expression that looks like he's just swallowed something dry and unpleasant.]


It could be environmental adaptation, but I think... we know that the process of creating the manticores was experimental, that a number of early subjects died. There were refinements over time. This may have been a catalyst for advancement of the process, then the physical adaptation to it. I don't know whether or not a two-part process would make it less deadly, but it does seem that the fine-tuning did, until subjects began to survive the experiments.

Either way... when any further investigation is concluded, these should be destroyed.
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[personal profile] forgodssake 2015-08-02 11:54 am (UTC)(link)
Seconded. I think we can at least deactivate them before we take a vote on which toilet to flush them into.

[ His fingers sort of wiggle over the top of the console before he labouriously follows along the semi-familiar programming, perusing what options of analysis are available. ]

I suspect too that we're looking at complete programming -- the nanites from before either were not. Genetic stabilisation, for example, but I'd have to check with the CMO. He gathered better data than I did, during all that.

I'll see if these machines have anything more to say about them, analyse the rest of the cannisters too, and see they're destroyed.