hadriel_logs | [open] may lab mingle!

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dr. newton geiszler

[open] may lab mingle!

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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He does the predictable dance- gets to the door, circles the building once or twice- then reaches the door. He peeks in, hesitates, step back, looks in again.

"Hello?"

If someone is running that computer, then Bruce wants to meet them.

Oh, there's someone running it all right.

Alphys has spent a lot of time making sure this computer is still running; it's got it's own power source from the rest of the electronics in the city in the form of a generator at it's back, and even though the city's cleaned up now, up until recently the Lab was a complete wreck except for this. As it stands, she's currently behind it, sitting on a tall stool to make sure she can properly reach the keys. Though his voice brings notice, poking her head around the side, circular glasses resting on her snout as her head spines raise in confusion.

"Oh, uh... h-hello!" People wander into the lab all the time, so it's not odd to see a non-familiar face. She waves a clawed hand, trying to be friendly. "Are you looking for someone?"

Bruce jumps a little- he can't help it, still- but he's seen much stranger aliens in the fighting ring these last years.

So;

"Just new. Just exploring. This- this is the lab, right?"

It looks like it should be.

This isn't the first time he's gotten this sort of reaction, so it doesn't surprise her on that level. Still, she tenses, trying not to let it get to her nerves.

"Uh, y-yep! This is it." She slides off the chair, walking around it's side. She's only about 4 feet tall, thick tail touching the ground as her feet shuffle along. Alphys still isn't the best at interactions, but she's doing her best to be friendly as new arrivals show up. "I'm Alphys, I, uh... I mean, I don't really run the place, p-people don't report to me or anything, but I guess it's mine, so..."

"Well. Um. Nice to meet you, I'm Doctor Banner. I used to be a researcher."

So he casts a covetous glance around him

"It's my second time in Hadriel, and last time it was Newt, Dr Gottlieb and me clustered around one crummy microscope."

Alphys immediately lights up when those names are mentioned, eyes going wide. She never expected to hear from someone else who found those names familiar- especially since the ones she knows he's talking about are long gone, even with Newt working with her now. She smiles, pressing her hands together to try and stop from gesturing with them too hard.

"Oh! Oh m-my gosh, I, uh-- w-welcome back! Or uhm, I mean, I guess this is yours, then. It was, uh... Newt and Hermann made it. This building. I took it over when they... left." It's just hitting her how that might be kind of sad, and she moves a hand to rub the back of her neck. "I just didn't want it to go to waste, since they, uhm, w-worked so hard on it. But I knew them. It was really theirs."

"No, please! I mean- it's communal, and you're here, you've been here- it's yours. And I'd just be happy if you could give me a corner to do my own work in. This stuff is- best to collaborate on."

He definitely believes that. Whenever he has a lab mate, his work is better.

Sometimes nearly world-destroying, death-bot creating. But definitely better!

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.

"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?"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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.

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."

"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.

"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."

"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?"

"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...

Newt spots this weirdo lurking from the window, but doesn't think much of it. People peer in here all the time. Few ever end up actually coming in.

But then Bruce does, so. That's unfortunate. Usually Newt would be more excited about greeting newcomers, but he's been in a bit of a Mood lately. He's not futzing around with the computer at the moment--instead, he's at his desk, scribbling notes on a mess of papers. He glances up momentarily to confirm that, yes, this is the weirdo he caught circling the building, but then goes right back to scribbling. He's sketching something, apparently.

"Hi. You new or something?"

"Hello, Newt."

He says, reaching for his glasses, getting them on. They're here for science, after all.

"I guess you might not remember me?"

Not new, definitely something.

OKAY, that absolutely gets his attention. He sits up suddenly, frowning at Bruce. Hm... Newt is pretty positive he's never seen this guy before. So, only one possible explanation, since clearly it's not Newt's glorious reputation preceding him. Ugh.

"I take it you knew the other me that was here before? Don't get too excited. I'm not him."

There's an implied "sorry" in there somewhere, but he's not about to say it outright.

"That's fine."

He promises, and starts from the beginning, in that case.

"In that case haven't met. I'm Doctor Banner. I'm a physicist and I do a little biology." And, smiling slightly. "It's nice to meet new-you."

"Dr. Banner. Right. You got a first name or are we insisting on formalities?" He sounds a bit sassier than he intends, but truth be told, it'll be nice to have another real professional around the lab. Lately the place has been filled with... well, amateurs, to put it bluntly. They mean well and have a knack for their respective sciences and blah blah, whatever, but it's a far cry from what he and Alphys are capable of. Maybe this new guy can round out their science crew.

Assuming he isn't lying about the title, that is.

"We could use a physicist around here. Make sure you track down Alphys. I bet you could help her out on her Door project."

"Bruce."

He says, more quietly, stepping into the room and taking a glance around, and feeling himself smile.

"Wow, you've put work into this place. When I left we had almost nothing in terms of equipment- it was just Newt's one little microscope and the three of us taking turns on it." And; "I've got to say, I never had any luck cracking any of the properties of this universe."

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jumps on this way late i hope that's cool!!

wonderful! I also hope it's okay that Bruce knew old-Newt?

omfg ABSOLUTELY LOL

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