[Video] Newsflash: Genessia's barrier is freaking weird

[notatriangle]

[Pascal is in the GSRF lab. It looks like it was nice and new before she moved in, but right now it's a mess of papers, books, and random equipment in various stages of assembly. She's as chipper as ever but her smile doesn't quite reach her eyes, her movements are a little less enthusiastic, and she's actually speaking at a normal volume for once. It'd be weird to say she's still recovering from the ghosts-- it's not like she was hurt, you know? She just feels... a little faded, still.]

Hey! It's Pascal at the GSRF, and I've got a quiz for you! What's shimmery and liquid and totally defies physics?

[She turns to a bench with a hammer, an empty petri dish, and a vial of clear liquid that crackles with faint light. She pours the vial into the petri dish and then flashes a mischievous grin before swinging the hammer at it. The liquid appears to solidify right as she hits it, and the hammer rebounds.]

I'll give you a second to think about it.

...Okay! The answer is: I have no idea!

I took this sample from the barrier when it was all cracked and easy to chunk-chunk away at it. It's got a bunch of organic molecules in it too, which is totally weird for a piece of architecture!

But biology isn't really my thing, so I'm just kinda hoping that there's a biologist or a doctor out there who could help me out. You can message me over the network or just drop by the lab any time. Thanks!

[She's done with her announcement but she doesn't cut off the video. She just eyes the camera uncomfortably.]

Also, uh. I think I might've trashed a couple places when I was all ghost-zapped, so y'know... Sorry.

I can help clean up and rebuild though! I'm really good at fixing things. So yeah, that's it. Pascal out--

[She's to eager to be done with that whole awkward thing that she cuts off before she's even finished the word.]

Private video to Weiss

Heyyy, so you saw the news, right? The barrier expedition was a total success!

[Aside from her getting drained, but hey-- she got better! ]

Anyway, there's probably gonna be some people visiting the lab and I've let it get kinda disorganized so I should probably tidy it up a bit before they come by. I know you're pretty good at that kinda thing, soooo... wanna help me out?

[She whips out a banana pie from behind her back-- the ultimate incentive, obviously.]

I'll give you pie!

((OOC: Yes, this is mod-given correct info about what the barrier is made of! And please say something IC or OOC if you have a character with bio or chem skills, because there's even more interesting stuff to learn if someone helps Pascal out!))

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[have_hat_will_travel]

You're feeling better, then? Good to hear.

[notatriangle]

Yeah, mostly... Still a little tired, but that also might be cause the lab chairs are totally uncomfortable to nap in.

[What, did you expect her to go home to sleep? Not when she's got research like this.]

How about you? Are you ok?

[have_hat_will_travel]

... Sleeping in lab chairs would probably cause issues, yeah.

I'm... Mostly okay, yeah. Just recovering my abilties after... The thing.

[notatriangle]

Yeah, I guess that'll take a while. It's a total waste that they poofed and I didn't even get to borrow a chunk of em as a consolation prize.

[Ok, even Pascal can't make light of that whole mess. Or y'know, she could, but it feels kinda like an insult to Pidonus and that's the last thing she wants to do after The Thing.]

Sorry about... the whole thing, by the way. I owe you big time.

[have_hat_will_travel]

It's all right. You were basically under the control of those things, I can't really blame you for it. Mind, basically losing my powers for days is a downer. I'm just lucky I wasn't totally drained.

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[skilledwithwords]

[Levy can’t say that she knows anything about biology besides what she has read in books but she is definitely interested in this information. If what she said is correct it means that barrier is alive. Maybe it’s a live the way magic is? Either way she wants to take a look and the first step is to message the girl.]

Hello, I’m Levy. I don’t know much about biology or some of the technology here but I’ve read about them. I don’t know if I can help but I’d like to try!

I’m trying to find out more about this world as well.

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[notatriangle]

Well, I've got the technology covered so you don't need to worry about that. It's kind of my thing.

[She winks and hops up to sit on the lab bench, swinging her legs.]

As for biology, that's about where I am too, so two empty heads are better than one, y'know? Here, lemme send you what I actually got.

[She fiddles with the phone for a minute and sends over the data. Depending on how familiar Levy is, she might be able to tell that they're signaling molecules.]

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[skilledwithwords]

[Levy looks at the information curiously.]

I think I've seen something like this in a book. Do we know how it interacts?

[Because magic or biology, how something interacts with something else can tell us a lot.]

[notatriangle]

Other than the whole swishy-liquid-to-super-solid thing? Ehhhh, not really. I don't know how to take out the life-y bits from the rest, if that's what you wanna study, and I haven't had a lot of time to build up the lab.

We can fix that though! We've still got a lot of budget so if we figure out what we need to do, I can totally build a thing that'll do it.

((OOC: By the way, let me know how detailed/scientific it's ok for me to be here! I usually keep it generic for RP purposes but if you and/or Levy would understand what I meant talking about different methods of analysis and stuff, I'm up for it. I live and breathe bench science.))

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[gammavirginis]

The barrier is so+mething o+f a mystery, is it?

It's co+mfo+rting to+ kno+w there are peo+ple trying to+ understand o+ur circumstances.

I'm Po+rrim, I just recently arrived during the who+le gho+st debacle.

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[notatriangle]

There are a ton of mysteries about this place! This is what I'm working on right now cause the crack was a great opportunity, but I also want to check out where the cocoons in the bay come from, and what makes the archways work, and what the NPCs actually are, and all sorts of stuff. It's a bummer to be kidnapped and all, but there are lifetimes worth of research to do on this place!

Sorry about your crappy timing, though. That's rough.

[gammavirginis]

[ She shrugs. ]

Such is life. And unlife. And now un-unlife.

Yo+ur enthusiasm sure is co+ntagio+us, tho+ugh.

[notatriangle]

Then I need to get out there and spread the infection, because nobody else has signed up for the GSRF!

[She sounds a little frustrated, and totally ok with comparing herself to a disease.]

So... wait, does un-unlife mean you're the ghost of a zombie?

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[cleanlevis]

I see you're being your cheerful self.

[Levi feels a bit bad that he let Pascal get drained and needed to hurry to do other things and couldn't help her when she needed help.... so he's glad to see she's doing alright.]

[notatriangle]

And you're grouchy as always. See? Everything's back to normal!

[Fortunately (unfortunately?) she has zero hard feelings about it, so it never even occurs to her that he might have some residual guilt.]

[cleanlevis]

Hmh.

[Okay, that was slightly amusing, even if the amusement doesn't so very well on his face.

Though because he is guilty even if Pascal isn't aware, he might as well make an offer they talked about when they met.]

You were interested in looking at my maneuver gear, weren't you?

[notatriangle]

[When it comes to a fuddy duddy like Levi, she'll take any show of friendliness as a good sign.]

No past tense about it, Firecracker! That maneuver gear is really unique.

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[whiteas]

Just how disorganized did you let it get?

[ At least she seems to be handling judging the hell out of Pascal for being a mess pretty well. ]

[notatriangle]

It's not too bad. I mean, I know where everything is.

[She almost regrets the offer when she puts it like that. If she lets Weiss at it, how will she know which scrap pile she left her calipers under? But hey, Armin said this would cheer Weiss up, so whatever.]

[whiteas]

You're not going to feed me something about "organized chaos," are you? That's the excuse messy people use to justify their lack of ability to clean up after themselves.

[ Still, while they talk she's going to start packing up a few things. Like unused binders and a label maker. ]

[notatriangle]

Busted!

[She says, in a totally unashamed sing-song.]

But hey, I'm cleaning up now! It's the thought that counts, right? Oh and by the way, do you have a cake cutter or something? My handsaw is dirty right now.

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[livable]

Are you looking for a certain kind of doctor or does your run-of-the-mill pathologist with a background in surgery cover it?

[ She'd be happy to help find a way through that barrier, anyway. Hopefully with a ticket home. ]

[notatriangle]

I don't even know what a pathologist does, but you're probably better than nothing.

Want to drop by and poke at some stuff?

[Give her a break, medicine is a pretty inexact science back home. It doesn't help that she tunes out anything that doesn't interest her.]

[livable]

I work in the morgue and figure out how people died professionally.

[ Morbid, but true. She left out the visions and crime-solving part of it, of course. That information was reserved strictly for, well, crime-solving partners, fellow zombies, and people who accidentally found out whether she wanted them to or not. ]

That depends on what all you have to poke at.

[notatriangle]

Woah, that sounds totally depressing-- and totally neat! All I've got to poke at is the stuff in here, though.

[She picks up the petri dish and idly swirls it as she talks.]

Not a lot to butcher, y'know? More of a detail-y, data-y kind of bio thing, but you're prooooobably better at that than I am anyway.