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[ so, Gwen's been busy. really busy, in that working-on-one-thing-for-a-month way. since the discovery of the genetics labs, she's felt a new burst of enthusiasm ( rabid, scientific enthusiasm ) for the different things she'd been working on in the labs, mainly the research on the manticores. there wasn't much to go on at the start, samples from different specimens all generally looked the same, different strains of DNA that weren't quite human anymore, but nothing else solid to draw from. for all intents and purposes, she'd hit a dead end. how long could she keep staring at things under a microscope? but then they found the genetics lab, which was in shambles, sure, but it gave her a new place to look. new equipment, new evidence, new variables.

it took a while, and some serious convincing, but eventually she and Peter got down to the labs to pull apart some of the computers to bring back up to the safer labs, pulling broken file after broken file of the two in-tact hard drives they found. one was loaded with nothing but the virus, it nearly ruined her iPad ( because they weren't about to upload anything onto the Network device until they knew it was safe to, thank you very much ), but the second- that had a bit to work with. it was rough, it was strings of code and the virus and heavy, heavy encryptions. there were parts of the drive that looked cleared completely of any data, and others that were so dense with code it took them days to pick it all apart.

but now, she finally, finally had something that made sense.

it wasn't a perfectly clear answer to any one of her million questions, but it was a start. it was proof.

so when the video feed clicks on, she looks... okay, haggard is a strong word. but it's obvious she's worn herself out, her hair is a mess compared to the usual neat ponytail she wears in the labs, and she's surrounded by pieces of tech she's used to try and get a read on the hard drives. she props the camera up on something just ahead of her, so she has room to scroll through her iPad and use her free hand to show visuals ( oh yes, she has visuals ) on camera. ]

Hello, Tranquility. [ she waves ] I know it's still early yet, a month isn't a long time to search through labs that are as torn apart as the one we found a few weeks ago, but I was hoping to get in touch with anyone that's managed to pull some of the tech from those new labs. I remember someone - a man named Cambridge, yes? - made a request over the Network for people to find equipment he could look at in regards to the virus found on the computers down there - [ she might be flipping through her iPad until she finds her transcript for this transmission ( yes, she keeps transcripts of conversations she thinks might be important later, and here we are ) ] Yes! Right. I'm assuming some of you answered the request? So, I would love to discuss anything you might have found on those hard drives, especially if it looks anything like- [ she's reaching out to grab the text-book sized drive she found in the labs herself ] -this one. Um. [ okay all hard drives probably look the same if you're someone that hasn't been staring at a few for the past million days, oops ] I just mean, if you pulled them from any of the computers on the second floor of the genetics labs, specifically.

Because I've found something, but it's very obviously just a small piece of a much bigger file. [ much bigger discovery, but she doesn't want to seem like she's in over her head here. ] If you've found anything at all, any file that doesn't appear to be damaged or corrupted beyond saving, let me know. I definitely feel that we would benefit from aggregating our information, especially when it comes to something like this. It- It could open a lot of doors for us. When it comes to the original crew, of course. Maybe finding out what happened? This- This might make that possible, we just need to keep digging.

And if you've got the perseverance for finding more, let me know here as well. Peter and I can use all the help we can get trying to recover information from those labs, because I have no doubt we'll find our way back down there to look for more. So. Right!

-- Thank you!

[ here's a tired, ( but enthusiastic! ) Welcome-to-Oscorp! intern smile, then she's shutting off the feed. ]

[PRIVATE to TONY STARK ( OPR » 001 » 005 ), encrypted 100% ]

Are you busy? I need to show you this. Or- Look what I found. [ someone might be kind of exhausted and running on SCIENCE!!! adrenaline, so she's scrolling around her communicator so she can send him a file] It's safe, I promise, just a raw text file. I didn't want to show everyone else right away because - well, it doesn't look like much, does it? But look at it, there's- just look. [ oh my god please tell her to chill out ]

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[PRIVATE to WHEATLEY ( SCI » 001 » 089 ) encrypted 100% ]

Hi. We've never actually spoken, but, I've noticed you spend a lot of time in the labs and I know this is possibly way too presumptuous of me, but I was hoping you might be able to assist me in further researching the tech down in the genetics lab. Or.. maybe just answering a few questions for me. Please. [ BIG SHEEPISH SMILE. ] If you have any interest in doing so, I mean. Of course. [ duh. way to go, Stacy. cool manners, bro. ]

[ ooc: SO. I was going to make a separate ooc post, but I realized it's pretty much all explained here, and shown here ( click on le file she sent to Tony to see what she found ). basically yeah, Gwen's got a tiny bit of metaplot of the info variety, but she has no idea what it means ( and neither do I ahhhhhh ), so she's basically just hoping someone else found something similar to it. yep! any questions, feel free to ping me about it, but the only info the mods actually sent me was that image, hahaha. and they let me know that it would take a shit-ton of work to get to that tiny piece of file, too. sneakysneaky ship trying to hide things!! -- if you're interested in having your character find another piece of the genetics experiment puzzle, contact the mods! :D ]

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Security escort. Perfect. Thank you for the offer, that's actually- I probably should have included that in the transmission. [ she points and grins again, yes, marking that in her memory. she would feel bad asking Mordecai to bring her along more than once, if not just because she knows it's not exactly fair of her to say "here, you take on those rabid rats while I poke at this computer", so. the more offers the better. ]

I do wonder if the rats are worth looking into, too. I assumed they were test rats, but- maybe it's something different.. [ and now she's lost on a trail.. of.. thought... ]

[Her, well, enthusiasm is nice to see. His lips twitch a little.]

I wonder if the medical team has figured anything else out about that disease they carry? If it might've been engineered, too.

I haven't thought to ask them about it, but it's possible, sure. I can't figure out why they would create something like that.. [ manticores and rabid rats D: ] All of it just seems so ..dark, for a lack of a better word.

Sometimes, people do things just because they can. No matter how evil. [He doesn't understand it, but that seems to be the case, at least in his own experience.]

You think you might've found information about the original crew, though?

Yes. Well, what they were up to, at least. You've been to the new genetics lab, right?

A few times. [He keeps volunteering to go over there and shoot things.] They were, what. Making manticores in there?

It's hard to tell. There's a chance that the manticores are a failed attempt at something better, or.. yes, they were trying to make manticores, and that's the successful result. I don't know why, but I guess it's like you said - sometimes people do bad things just because they can. [ or because they get so caught up in some ideal that they don't realize what they're doing is hurting everyone around them until it's too late. ahemahem dr. connors. ] The only solid conclusion I can make from the piece of file I found was that they were doing experiments on a range of participants, both male and female which means it moved from computer tests to actual human, or animal, trials.

[Yeah, that sounds pretty nasty. Not that Gotham has a long history of madmen doing unethical experiments (not his Gotham, anyway), but he's read a lot of old files - especially old files about Batman.

It brings to mind Crane. Thank god he's not here anymore.]

I don't suppose you can tell - if they were human - if they were volunteers or not?

[ she just shakes her head, wincing a little bit ]

Not yet, no.

[Blake just nods, understanding all the possible implications of what he asked.]

I'll help you, find anything else you need.

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