[open] may lab mingle!

[completelycrazy]

Who: Anyone hanging around the lab! GET IN HERE NEWBIES.
What: This is a catch-all lab mingle for May!
Where: The lab.
When: Anytime in May.
Warnings: Probably nothing (except maybe some light monster corpse grossness?) but will edit if anything major comes up. Please include cws on tags where appropriate also!

The Lab sits right around the clinic and shops and provides a laboratory workspace for the more scientifically inclined residents of Hadriel. It consists of a main lab area and a secondary small room that serves as a break space, including a small kitchen (with a fridge and stove) and a sofa bed. In addition, it houses a large supercomputer. It is usually occupied for private projects, but the door is open for those who want to get involved. Currently, the lab is also stockpiled with raw scrap metal and spare Null parts, so feel free to raid those supplies for whatever weird stuff you feel like getting up to.

This is a mingle, so go ahead and top-level and/or tag around! Hop in wherever or whenever, as this will be the lab catch-all for the month of May.

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[sciencelizard]

She nods, maybe a bit too vigorously. "Oh, o-of course! We can absolutely make some space. We've got, uhm, three or four regular other scientists in residence aside from me-- Newt's here, but it's uhm, not the same Newt really, that's gonna take a while to explain, uhm-- but there's also Barry and Curufin comes by sometimes! The point is, uh, I'm sure we can make space."

She had honestly never imagined working with this many people would even happen to her- if "four" can count as "many". But she was head scientist of a team of one for most of her career, so all of this is kind of new.

[zen_en_vert]

"I don't need much space. Just a pen and papers would even be fine, and a corner of a table."

He says, but with a growing smile. It'll be a very long time since he was part of an official research lab.

"What are you working on today?"

[sciencelizard]

"Well, I mean, I wouldn't want to make you feel like you don't belong here." Honestly, even if they'd never met before, there's some comfort in having someone else who remembers Newt and Hermann, and the beginning. She's been here so long. There's so few people who remember those times.

Regardless, she grins at him, about to explain and then realizing he probably has no idea. "Well, uh... I have two projects, uhm, r-really. One is uh, obviously, finding the Door, but uh... has anyone told you about the Null, uh, yet? Because that's changed a lot since you were here last, uhm, m-most likely."

[zen_en_vert]

"Thank you."

He agrees, because she's absolutely right.

"Have we determined that it's a real physical door? I always thought that was a code for a singularity that Hope could manifest when he wanted."

[sciencelizard]

"Well, m-maybe not a physical Door, but we do know it is a thing." It's actually nice Bruce is posing a question she can answer- it would have been plenty demoralizing if she'd been here nearly two years and found nothing in that time.

"Sorrow described it as an artifact-- a-and one he controls, or uhm, knows where it is. Though he, uh, got kind of mad when I asked if maybe I could help." The start of a rocky relationship, frankly. "He said it's well hidden, though. We haven't been able to physically locate it, but since it moves with the city, I figure it has to, uhm, actually be here."

[zen_en_vert]

"Really?"

He asks, amazed perking up, and quick to tell her;

"That's an incredible stride in the right direction!"

He remembers progress being so incredibly rare while he was here, so to have a clue like this is worth celebrating.

[sciencelizard]

She can feel her grin go wide to match his, hands linked together in front of her chest. "Yeah-- I-I thought so too! If it's something physical, it's something we can really study and have a hope of sending people home!"

Alphys looks towards her desk, shuffling papers around and trying to find something that's actually more concrete. "What, uh, what else do you want to know? I mean, there's been a lot of uh, s-stuff, probably, since you were here."

[zen_en_vert]

"I'm not super clear on the things we now understand about Hope's relationship to the door?"

He asks, that'd be extremely useful.

[sciencelizard]

"Well, uh... I don't know, really. Sorrow admitted to b-being the expert on the Door, so I don't know if Hope has, uh. Any sort of relationship. Or maybe Sorrow took it over when he revived?" She reaches up, scratching at the back of her neck. "Admittedly, it uh... k-kind of got lost under all the Null stuff."

[zen_en_vert]

"I remember being instructed not to die because it was hard on Hope."

He says, brow creasing, trying to put together where he got that from.

"Maybe Sorrow knows it, and Hope powers it?"

[sciencelizard]

"Well, Hope does revivals? I d-don't know if that has to do with the Door, though. Since Hope revives the other gods without it's use. The way Sorrow made it sound, it's an artifact with uh, it's own e-energy." She's running through the conversation in her head too- it's been so long since then, over a year now. Why didn't she write this down, maybe she can find the records...