revivalproject | Glowing Fields

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Glowing Fields

WHO: Jon, Cayde and maybe Tony later
WHERE: The Laboratories (Green 22)
WHAT: Time for a break-in!
WHEN: Early April-ish...?
WARNINGS: TBA

Explorations like this one are what Jon has had in mind when making sure to pick up what he considers useful equipment while they were on Coruscant. And he doesn't regret his decisions. Especially having proper boots makes a huge difference when traversing the ruins of the city towards the corner at which Jon has agreed to meet with Cayde. Whether or not Tony will join them for this trip remains yet to be seen. At least for the time being it will be merely the Exo and the Archivist.

The structure they have set their eyes on is already well in view once Jon arrives and casts a look around for Cayde. Upon not spotting the Exo right away, his attention shifts over to the large building nearby and Jon nods to himself, confident they will soon know more about this particular building.

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"Nothing alive is good. Still smelly weirdly in here." Jon makes a face and steps further inside, making it into the next part of the building without much effort. There isn't a lot furniture in here and the next part isn't too different even though definitely set up to conduct various experiments.

The counters are pretty solid construction made of metal and rock and the machines set up, while clearly detached from any energy source for a long time, are the same technological style as other Agrii technology remains Jon has seen throughout the city.

"Better preserved than what has been at the hospital." He observes and shines his light around further. "I'm wondering why this place has no power. We restored it for the rest of the city!"

Cayde is already looking bored, not that he had much expectations for a laboratory so much as just the idea of breaking into something that hasn't been accessed in a while. He may have secretly hoped for there to be some kind of stash of contraband hidden inside, but everything just looks too empty and neat. Not even any half-baked experiments so far as he can see.

So why does it smell so bad?

"Maybe the power was deliberately cut off? Or it was damaged and no one knew because this place hasn't even been cracked open until now." He lets Sundance scan some of the equipment that's out to see if there's anything worthwhile. "Picking up any sort of power readings?" he asks her as she pokes about.

The Ghost pauses and hovers in place a moment as she tries to get a better readout.

"Possibly. Maybe it even had its own generator... Though then again, the hospital had none until Tony installed it..." Jon utters his own thoughts in return and walks further while Sundance makes her scan.

At the end of this portion of the building is a set of large double doors, left open rather than locked. Stepping through those has Jon stop to take in the scene. The room is large. In the middle sits a large machine with further devices set around the walls of the room. Although it is more that Jon assumes these were all machines at one point. What he finds himself looking at much rather resembles molten lumps of stone and metal, with the mass at the center having burned through the floor and into the levels beneath.

Grimacing, Jon takes a step back to turn his head back to Cayde still in the previous room. "Please tell me Sundance can scan for radiation as well."

"'course she can," Cayde replies. And then he pauses and turns to look towards Jon as he considers the question the Archivist had asked. Glancing at Sundance, the Exo nods before moving towards the other room that Jon had ventured into, his Ghost trailing after.

"...well that looks reassuring... Sundance, we picking anything up that we should be concerned about?"

"Hmm." Jon nods and turns his attention to the Ghost. Finding this along with the glowing plants outside is worrisome at best.

"I'm not sure if we should dare to find out what the basement of this place looks like. If there is one, of course, and this hasn't merely burned its way into the sewer system."

"That's even more reassuring," Cayde mutters. "I knew something around here had to be radioactive."

"You said you thought the glownies were radioactive," Sundance points out.

"Well! It's a possibility, right? Glowing usually isn't healthy. Unless it's from handsome Exos and their lovely Ghost partners."

The Ghost twitches in a headshake, her front vertices then bunching slightly in the suggestion of a narrowing eye. "Picking up low levels of residual radiation. Below anything to be concerned about, thankfully, but I suggest we don't hang around any longer than necessary."

"The glownies? Really?" The bewildered look Jon directs at Cayde along with that question does a good job at underlining his thoughts about that idea. "Weren't people eating the glownies?" Is everyone just slowly getting radiation poisoning...?

His attention is pulled back towards the faintly glowing mass at Sundance's words, however, causing Jon to nod slowly. "Hmm. Yes. I suppose you're right. But I wonder if what happened here was an accident, or a reaction to a storm."

At this point Jon is slowly moving through the room, trying to make sense of the molten devices and machines. Though he doubts they will be able to tell what kind of experiments were conducted here after all.

Cayde offers an exaggerated shrug at Jon. "I mean, it's a fair possibility, right? Things don't just glow unless they're wired for it oooor they're radioactive! Anyway it was an early thought me an' Stark had."

He otherwise doesn't seem terribly concerned about the possibility of radioactive creatures as he goes to look around himself once the Archivist resumes his own searching. Sundance lets her light pass across the globs of melted machinery but she doesn't linger long. There's no telling what they were used for in such a state.

"Huh. I always thought of them as bioluminescent." Jon offers his theory while returning from circling the room. Nothing to find there, unfortunately. Nothing that could be records or notes of whatever has been researched here, which is rather disappointing.

He stops when he reaches Cayde again and casts a frown over his shoulder, back into the room. "Right. Doesn't look like we'll be having any luck in here and- I'll be honest: I'm not too keen to look for a way into the basement to seek out more of this molten mass. And I will see if I can leave a note with the map about this place being potentially unhealthy to stick around in for too long."

The Exo snap-points at Jon then. "That's what I meant."

As it becomes more and more apparent there's nothing fun nor even remotely shiny for him to find in here, Cayde turns back to Jon, not exactly reassured to see the man's reached the same conclusion. His brows lift at mention of the basement. "And here I thought you were the man that wanted to know everything," he grins. "Although from what you said earlier, I think I'd be more concerned about it still possibly contaminating things from below and us just not knowing it."

Jon frowns a little, but then shakes his head. "I want to know. But I don't want to risk releasing something onto the city that might be dangerous. The Chernobyl disaster hardly lies three decades in the past on my Earth, but the documentations on it are very thorough."

His eyes fall down onto the floor they stand on and he lightly taps the tip of his shoe against it. "Tony may have something we can use to scan the underground of and around this building without physically having to enter it. I did similar scans with his glove to help Reeve map out present power lines of the city."

"Oh right, the one you almost shot me with," Cayde nods. Go figure that's the main thing he remembers about that glove. Sorry Jon, never letting you live that one down.

"Good point though. Probably better keeping distance. Least we can report what we've found out. Although that doesn't really answer what they were doing in here that resulted in the mess..."

He strokes his chin but shrugs. There really isn't much of a way to figure that out with everything looking like sad lumps.

"Almost!" Jon emphasizes the important part. Cayde didn't get mortally wounded from that little mishap. And he has gotten way better at handling that glove after being entrusted with it for a while.

Sighing, Jon shrugs, clearly not happy about their lack of answers. "Whatever records they kept is either gone or destroyed." IF the Agrii whatever Agrii scientists worked here even kept any records.

"Let's head out for now. I will send another message to Tony, letting him know what we found. Maybe we even need to think about properly sealing this place."

The outburst makes Cayde snicker. He waves a hand before reaching over to pat Jon on the shoulder.

"Yeah, let him know we didn't have any fun without him. Putting more than a lock on the door here seems like a good idea though. Maybe a big sign..." Because everyone loves knowing they're near a radioactive site, right? Riiiight.

Jon nods and starts walking back towards the entrance of the building, still finding a little smile for the Exo. Putting up signs isn't a bad idea.

"It may not have been the most... Thrilling exploration, but I'm glad you came along, Cayde. Thank you."

Taking one last look around on the off chance that they might've missed something, Cayde finally turns to follow Jon as well. Maybe it's not entirely a bad thing that their venture has turned up mostly empty-handed. There's not many souvenirs one might like to bring back from even a mildly radioactive site.

"Can't be all fun and games I guess," he says, shrugging at the Archivist, but he offers a crooked grin. "Any time."

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