Eliza and Ilyara do Science

Well I know this sounds like the start of a really bad kids TV show – but we did a science thing and it was kinda fun.
 
After Madame Irranescues we left Constantine to do some digging into the murder thing. Ilyara then wanted to head to the hospital, she had some research she needed to do into some samples collected at the site of some nearby explosions. There had been some bombings at the nearby Gentech biolabs and Ilyara had managed to get some samples and needed to do some digging into what they were.
 
Sarah, who lives with Ilyara and works in the labs at the Hospital, had a look at the three samples for us. Two were easily identifiable, known substances. The blue vial (2AB) is gene therapy muscle enhancement serum. The Green vial (12T-B) is an immunobooster.
 
The third, purple vial (2AB) was the interesting one. Sarah couldn’t identify it with the tests she’d used on the other two and she suggested we use the spectrum analyser to see if she could get any more data on the components that made up the sample. The analyser was able to find Earth based minerals, plant parts, etherium, trace amounts of Fusia and some living tissue. It was also able to detect magical particles.
 
Sarah suggested that if we wanted any more data we’d need to go to the thaumaturgy department or a dedicated bio-etherics lab like Lazarus Meditech. The lab she had was not really geared up for this kind of research investigation. I tried running an internet search based on the components and percentages. The best fit was a cybernetic kind of creature but not necessarily humanoid as as this had animal tissue in it as well. The other thing that didn’t make sense was the concentration of the sample. The results I was finding were weaker, this was a much stronger concentration.
 
I tried searching for Human – Animal DNA hybrids but that just took me down a rabbit hole of fantasy creatures and some other, rather disturbing websites I shan’t mention here.
 
We discussed using the thaumaturgy department but when we looked at the requisition forms, there were a lot of questions we didn’t want to have to answer. I went onto the nexus and looked up Lazarus Meditech. The first thing that popped up was a news report of an attack on their offices. From what I could see it was a rather brutal attack. It also seemed to co-inside with an announcement from them a few days earlier that they were working on methods of returning the dead, either into their own body or into another. The CNG, unsurprisingly were up in arms about this, they saw it as a perversion of life. the Amaranthians were unhappy as well as they thought it would cause issues in the weave of reality and cause an imbalance. The Hardline Lost were supportive of the move and also, the CNG military also saw the positives in the research.
 
I navigated past the articles about the attack and the research and got to their website, there was an online enquiry form so we put together what we thought was a really generic request form under Ilyaras name and pinged it over to them. It turns out, Ilyaras name must have flagged as Rupert from the high profile sales team called us back pretty quickly. We gave him some details but we didn’t want to give too much away over an unsecure line. He gave us his personal comm-code and a list of questions he needed answers to; Where was it found; consistency; reactions to UV light, temperature; proximity to living tissue and sound waves. This would give him a better idea of the type of lab we’d need and the security they would need to put in place. He also warned us that if the substance was deemed dangerous that they would have to notify the police and lock the lab down – and in the worst case scenario, destroy the sample. They also wanted a 10-15% share of any discoveries. If we wanted a tour of the facilities to just let him know and he could set something up.
 
We let him know we’d get back to him as we needed answers to his questions anyway and it bought us some time to think. We headed down to the Hot Labs to see if we could get some answers to the questions. For the most part, no matter what we did to this sample there was no change. Changes to the intensity of light did absolutely nothing. Higher intensity UV light made it expand a little and it kind of speckled a bit but not much. Heating it up did nothing. Freezing it made it go a little gooey but other than that, no change.
 
We tried to set fire to it – that prompted the biggest change, it kind of solidified a bit. It also cratered when the flame got near to it, but we weren’t sure if that was to do with the flame or the substance reacting to the temperature.
 
We tried running electricity through it, we started with a low voltage, an AA battery. There was no change in the substance but the battery drained. We tried a larger battery, same thing. As we got larger we noticed a slight increase in the volume of the substance but that was it. It would, however, drain any battery we connected to it.
 
The only other thing we hadn’t tried was to feed it. We tried nutrient paste; basically a plant paste. It seemed to eat it. Well, eating was the closest thing to what it was doing. It did increase in size a little as well. We tried again and the same reaction happened and the same increase in weight.
 
Ilyara wanted to try something else, she tried a couple of drops of blood. The same reaction as the paste, a hole opened up, swallowed the blood and closed over the top. It increased in weight again, more than with the paste. But more than that. It thickened up but also went slightly translucent. There were also little triangular shards moving through it.
 
We decided we’d poked enough at whatever this was and so decided to secure it in a glass vial and then put the vial into a biohazard container. She suggested we contact Professor Ashford at Umbrella to transport the samples and also to possibly help us look into what the sample was.
 
TBC...