SCIENCE IS SEXYYYY

Apr 17 20:05:08 <Chione>	Chione's set up a temporary lab of sorts near the arena while in town.  It's really more a garage near the cargo dropoff bays of the arena, and sort of a mess.  She's got a hammeck in a corner, scrapped metal and electronics all over the place.
Apr 17 20:05:52 <Chione>	Her back's turned to you as you arrive, headphones on on and blasting sound.  Seems she's working on some sorta hilariously proportioned Poke'bot that looks half Eevee, half Mareep.
Apr 17 20:06:52 »»	Genevieve knocks on the wall when she walks in with Dessoir at her heels. Seeing Chione distracted, she tries to sneak up behind her to take off her headphones. "Hey, girl."
Apr 17 20:08:55 <Chione>	She jumps a bit with surprise. "Aaa- oh sup Gwinny?" She puts down her tools and pauses the audio player.
Apr 17 20:10:03 <Genevieve>	"Not much, thought I'd jack your equipment for a bit to look through that code. Oh, and ask you to open this up." She fishes through her pocket for the little metal ball from the doll the night before.
Apr 17 20:11:52 <Chione>	"Oh yeah yeah I got my laptop on it over there" She nods to it.  "You probably can guess the password." She catches the orb. "Wazthis?"
Apr 17 20:13:09 <Genevieve>	"I'm not sure. We pulled it out of this crazy mobile voodoo doll. Oh, yeah, I've been sucked into this big occult conspiracy, by the way. My life is all about magic and gods right now." She sits with the laptop and logs on.
Apr 17 20:15:24 <Chione>	"I got a note about that junk from the General but haven't got a chance to look at it.  Heard about the dolls though.  Been a bit busy tryin' to make sense of that junk." she nods to the laptop.
Apr 17 20:16:42 <Chione>	"I yanked all the stuff off the hardware in that incubator, uncompiled it, and, well, had to have Cherry Boy read it." You'd know Cherry Boy is basically her butler robot.  Same one in her meetup pic.
Apr 17 20:18:39 »»	Genevieve opens up the code to give it a look. "I can give you the sparknotes on everything that's been going on if you want. It ends with me possibly being a cultists now."
Apr 17 20:20:59 <Chione>	She's got a bunch of files open with pretty self explanitory names.  Most of them seem based around monitoring vital conditions.  B.P.M., brain activity, blood pressure, bodily functions...there's also a collection on Dream Smoke, dream visualization, medical injections and such...and a few with names that look like gibberish.
Apr 17 20:21:28 <Chione>	"While I tinker with this diddlybit ask me anything ya want about what you're lookin' at.  I had a lot of trouble rewritin' it all even with his help."
Apr 17 20:22:00 <Chione>	One thing you notice at the top of all of them is revision notes, and they all got the same initial author - Genevieve Webb
Apr 17 20:22:28 <Chione>	"Wazzthis about cults though?"
Apr 17 20:22:52 »»	Genevieve opens the gibberish files. "Were they doing anything weird? I mean, like, we looking at standard Mewtwo project stuff or did they mess with the formula?"
Apr 17 20:23:36 <Genevieve>	"Yeah, I promised a forgotten god that I'd do things for him on this side if he helps up stop the world from ending. It was a slow day."
Apr 17 20:24:28 <Chione>	"See, that's the tricky part.  I'm still tryin' to figure out how the whole shindig works myself.  Like 90% of it is just for keepin' tabs on the symbiant and the Mewtwo."
Apr 17 20:25:43 <Chione>	She's fastened a robotic gauntlet on and is using it to try to pry the sphere open.  "Damn this thing is sealed tight.  Forgotten waaah?"
Apr 17 20:26:49 <Chione>	The file...well, even with what you -can- make sense of this is not at all very readable.  Just looks like random letters and symbols all over the place.
Apr 17 20:26:55 <Chione>	Roll me Education: Technology.
Apr 17 20:27:04 <Genevieve>	"God. Well, gods. There's eight of them, like a step below Bondye. We're looking for a baby one that's in trouble cause a bunch of cultists want to use it to run apocalypse.exe."
Apr 17 20:27:26 <Genevieve>	2d6+3 Tech
Apr 17 20:27:26 <DiceMaid-9001>	Genevieve, Tech: 14 [2d6=5,6]
Apr 17 20:28:15 <Chione>	You're no Computer Scientist, can just sorta get the flow of a lot of the other files cause it looks like Chione completely rewrote them.  These...well, there's a lot of math in it.  Some formulas you can pick out as looking chemistry related, but...here's the thing
Apr 17 20:28:36 <Chione>	This doesn't really look encrypted as much as not written for humans to read, but other machines.
Apr 17 20:29:39 <Genevieve>	"Chi-chi, did you bring Cherry Boy with? This is like...machine code. I knew I should have invested in a Porygon by now."
Apr 17 20:29:44 <Chione>	"Well shit.  That's a lot worse than some random thugs gettin' their hands on these critters. Aha.  Got it open..."
Apr 17 20:30:50 <Chione>	"Yup yup," she brings out a weird looking Cube that sorta looks like a Pokeball and taps it.  The robot is released, standing idly.  "Guessin' you jumped to the weird ones?"
Apr 17 20:31:52 <Chione>	"They were all like that at first.  Was havin' him try to translate em but those ones sorta stumped him for some reason.  Cherry Boy!  Plug yourself in and help Gwinny some if ya can."
Apr 17 20:32:08 <Chione>	"Which is also why I know you sure as hell didn't write em.  Don't think a human did at all."
Apr 17 20:32:49 <Genevieve>	"No, I don't think so, either. But I don't know any machine this complex that -you- didn't make."
Apr 17 20:32:57 <Chione>	The giant, hulking thing walks over, sits next to you and pulls out a USB from its neck.  It plugs into the laptop and its eyes start glowing purple as oppose to blue.
Apr 17 20:33:14 <Genevieve>	"Also if I break CB, I'm super sorry. I don't want you to translate this, CB, try to run it."
Apr 17 20:33:51 <Chione>	A bunch of terminals pop open and start running scripts...CB nods, however, as he sets stuff up.
Apr 17 20:34:04 <Chione>	"While he's doin' that come check this out.  Pretty fancy stuff in here."
Apr 17 20:34:26 »»	Genevieve gets up to look over Chione's shoulder.
Apr 17 20:36:38 <Chione>	Inside the sphere is two small circuit boards connected in an X shape.  She's got this tech arm thing plugging into it.  "Well it's got a G.P.S., as you probably guessed...military tech one, that black square thing.  Just straight up labeled and everything.  Don't think that's all it was for though."
Apr 17 20:37:37 <Genevieve>	"Ugh, and Rose was carrying it with us this whole time."
Apr 17 20:37:57 <Chione>	She hooks her phone up to this arm device as well.  "Basically, what I was doin' was lookin' for calculations, cause are sorta hard to mess up, and figurin' out what they were.  Then worked backwards.  I don't know diddly on what sorta crap's in those file's he's gettin' ready for ya though."
Apr 17 20:39:36 <Genevieve>	"The files? Yeah there's some chem formulas in there, but the rest is just...symbols."
Apr 17 20:39:47 <Chione>	She looks over her phone. "...Huh.  Interestin'.  This thing's a broadcastin' device.  Sorta like a big remote control for a buncha drones or somethin'."
Apr 17 20:39:53 <Chione>	"What's this about the doll you found it in?"
Apr 17 20:40:33 <Chione>	"Yeah you probs gonna have more luck with that than I did."
Apr 17 20:41:24 <Genevieve>	"The dolls, right. Well, they're like voodoo dolls, but they move. Magic robots, I guess, and they're probably all linked up to whoever made them somehow."
Apr 17 20:41:41 <Genevieve>	"He just leaves them hanging around to spy."
Apr 17 20:41:55 <Chione>	"Hm..."
Apr 17 20:42:46 <Chione>	"Wonder if it's like the one you found was like a hivemind one that they could feed orders to and it'd direct the others or somethin'.  Do they do anythin'?"
Apr 17 20:43:20 <Genevieve>	"Uh...this one sort of did a spooky illusion thing."
Apr 17 20:45:37 <Chione>	"Dun know anymore about that business than you do I guess.  Well, you probs now being Miss Cultist. GYAHAHAHAH"
Apr 17 20:46:03 <Chione>	"...I'm gonna have to be keepin' an eye out for these things when I get back home I guess.  This is fishy stuff."
Apr 17 20:47:09 <Genevieve>	"Yeah, do that, just make sure you burn them rather than keep them locked in a box, ROSETTA." She sighs. "I probably shouldn't tell Shawyun that his main competition right now is an elder god."
Apr 17 20:48:17 <Chione>	"Sizin' him up to a sexy immortal? Girl you cruel." She laughs as she looks over to Cherry Boy.  "Think he's waitin' on ya."
Apr 17 20:48:56 »»	Genevieve goes back to the laptop and the robot. "What do you have for me, CB?"
Apr 17 20:50:12 <Chione>	Chione sits behind the two of you to watch as well.  He's parsed the files and got everything that looks like just math equations.
Apr 17 20:50:19 <Chione>	Roll me Education: Science
Apr 17 20:50:39 <Genevieve>	5d6+3 Science
Apr 17 20:50:40 <DiceMaid-9001>	Genevieve, Science: 26 [5d6=6,4,3,5,5]
Apr 17 20:51:35 <Chione>	It takes a bit of time to dig through it and a bit of note taking on the side...
Apr 17 20:52:23 <Chione>	but you soon realize a bunch of them are organic chemistry, and then from there and a bit of side research you figure out they're genomes. calculations on D.N.A. splicing.
Apr 17 20:53:00 <Chione>	Here's the kicker, though : you have no idea what Mew's Genome would look like.  This one here is much more documented. Ditto D.N.A.
Apr 17 20:54:11 <Genevieve>	"This is all splicing stuff. Very deep st-" she pauses and smiles "Well, hello there Ditto."
Apr 17 20:54:59 <Chione>	Chione chokes on the Dr. Pelliper she was drinking. "Waaah?"
Apr 17 20:55:49 <Chione>	"Cherry Boy! O.Chem! Now! Snag everything hack the pentagon if ya have to I don't give a damn!"
Apr 17 20:55:57 <Chione>	The robot nods, and goes quiet a bit.
Apr 17 20:56:04 <Genevieve>	"This part here, this is all Ditto DNA. I have this theory that Ditto and Mew are genetic cousins - if this is what they're actually using, it might prove me right."
Apr 17 20:58:14 <Chione>	"Might explain a bit..."
Apr 17 20:58:57 <Chione>	"Cause here's what I'm stumped on.  Seems they got an assumption when they put the kid in there, they got -some- sorta organic matter or fetus or somethin' in there already.  I got no idea how they make em' though."
Apr 17 20:59:34 <Chione>	"Rest of it is all just puttin' em in the same dream and lettin' the two of them mingle as the thing borrows some human stuffs."
Apr 17 21:00:20 <Genevieve>	"They gotta come from somewhere...ugh, who would put my name on all this, I could get in a lot of trouble."
Apr 17 21:01:10 <Chione>	"That's what I'm wonderin'.  You got any outstandin' enemies or somethin' other than crazy ex's?  This is pretty damn crooked for a prank."
Apr 17 21:02:14 <Genevieve>	"I don't think so? I don't know enough Russians for one of them to be involved with the Sons and want me to take a fall."
Apr 17 21:03:20 <Chione>	Cherry Boy's eyes flicker purple again as the scripts start to run a second time. "Lessee if he can figure this out a bit more now.  Hopefully I don't get a nastygram from a foreign government. GYHAHAHAH!"
Apr 17 21:03:52 <Genevieve>	"What are they going to say? Please, Chione, stop hacking the security systems you made for us?"
Apr 17 21:05:24 <Chione>	"Well this Mewtwo leakin' thing is a bit bigger deal than just here.  If this goes abroad we got major troubles, so yeah ain't much they'd do about it."
Apr 17 21:07:04 <Chione>	"Sorta weirded out how they got their hands on a Ditto long enough for it to not kill em' though.  Last sorta friendly one in these parts withered away a century ago.  Dumb thing helped start the science scohols here at least, but hated breakfast.  Guess they all gotta be evil somehow." She shrugs.
Apr 17 21:07:36 <Genevieve>	"Well, uh...they're sort of a pet project of that god I work for."
Apr 17 21:09:42 <Chione>	"You should ask em at your next cultist scrum meetin' or whatever ya do what the hell he did to make them so fucked in the head."
Apr 17 21:10:20 <Genevieve>	"Eh, I think he just gets bored and starts shit." She holds the ruby and looks down at it. "You hear that? You need a hobby!"
Apr 17 21:11:02 <Chione>	Chione laughs again as the script finishes. It's...a lot more readable now.
Apr 17 21:12:04 <Chione>	Give me another Edu: Tech roll as Genevieve looks over it.
Apr 17 21:12:16 <Genevieve>	2d6+3 Tech
Apr 17 21:12:16 <DiceMaid-9001>	Genevieve, Tech: 9 [2d6=5,1]
Apr 17 21:13:13 <Chione>	Your hypothesis looks pretty correct.  It's got information on the human and Ditto genome and a bunch of chemicals tossed into make a completely new one.  Which, it's pretty safe to assume is the Mewtwo genome.
Apr 17 21:13:43 <Chione>	Chione whistles. "Damn that's a sexy string of gibberish."
Apr 17 21:14:02 <Genevieve>	"This is it. This is the genome. Part human, part ditto, part artificial. Someone just...cobbled it together."
Apr 17 21:15:02 <Chione>	"Here's what I know historically.  Team Rocket actually got ahold of some Mew genes for this, and a few others did too around the world.  So maybe these things aren't quite the real deal.  Bootleg Mewtwos I guess?"
Apr 17 21:15:03 »»	DiceMaid-9001 is now known as Jessie
Apr 17 21:15:05 <Jessie>	To protect the world from devastation!
Apr 17 21:15:08 <Chione>	shut up
Apr 17 21:15:09 <Jessie>	Chione, sorry boss, we'll be quiet.
Apr 17 21:15:59 »»	Jessie is now known as DiceMaid-9001
Apr 17 21:16:22 <Genevieve>	"That's kinda disappointing, but completely possible. The Cinnabar Project was a -long- time ago, the original samples probably degraded or got vaporized."
Apr 17 21:16:43 <Chione>	"So that's one mystery down...but what the hell -wrote- this crap?"
Apr 17 21:18:00 <Genevieve>	"I guess we're looking at...Porygon, Rotom, sufficiently advanced AI, or something weirder." She counts off on her fingers.
Apr 17 21:18:26 <Genevieve>	"And by weirded I mean I'm not even sure the elder gods know how computers work, so -really- weird."
Apr 17 21:18:48 <Chione>	"Hmmm..."
Apr 17 21:19:33 <Chione>	"Well, I got the actual hardware back at my place but can get it shipped to ya when ya got a home for it.  Dunno if it'd help at all.  Seems like somethin' we're gonna need to do some more recon on."
Apr 17 21:20:15 <Genevieve>	"Yeah, I'll keep an eye out, try to save any more of these machines we run across, and I'm sure we will. Maybe it's like a treasure hunt."
Apr 17 21:21:09 <Chione>	"From what that Miracle Eye chick sent out seems they got a better place to house em' than a cave at the moment, yeah."
Apr 17 21:22:27 <Genevieve>	"I'm freaking swimming in psychics and not a single one of them can do the clairvoyant 'it's right here' thing."
Apr 17 21:24:17 <Chione>	Hey Genevieve, roll me intiution
Apr 17 21:24:42 <Genevieve>	2d6+1
Apr 17 21:24:43 <DiceMaid-9001>	Genevieve, 2d6+1: 7 [2d6=1,5]
Apr 17 21:25:02 <Chione>	That's a pretty funny thing to say when the Seers of Sandseeker were effectively assassinated.
Apr 17 21:25:32 »»	Genevieve facepalms. "Oh my god. That's why they killed the Seers."
Apr 17 21:26:13 <Chione>	"Wah? Damn it Cherry Boy put that damn document in my shared drive I'm reading this shit instant. Murdervee can wait a few days."
Apr 17 21:26:55 <Genevieve>	"A bunch of the high-ranking Seers of Sandseeker got killed. High level psychics famed for, of course, clairvoyance."
Apr 17 21:27:17 <Genevieve>	"Grant's got all his Duckletts in a row, it's starting to really piss me off."
Apr 17 21:28:00 <Chione>	"Shiiit.  This really isn't just a buncha crazy zealots huh..."
Apr 17 21:28:02 <Genevieve>	"But I don't know why he's making such a huge -mess-. Finding one little Joltik would be a lot easier if he wasn't drawing so much attention."
Apr 17 21:29:21 <Chione>	"Well here we have something stickin' your name on a buncha highly contraband code.  Maybe he's got others after his neck too."
Apr 17 21:30:26 <Chione>	"Cause you got a point findin' a Joltik ain't that bad if you just head up to Venomtalon.  Things are friggen everywhere."
Apr 17 21:30:41 <Chione>	She shudders. Joltiks.
Apr 17 21:30:50 <Genevieve>	"I imagine the Russian rune masters he hasn't converted aren't too happy with Grant, no."
Apr 17 21:31:19 <Genevieve>	"Aw, you still afraid of a cute little spider? Crawling all over you?"
Apr 17 21:31:58 <Chione>	"Gwinny." She's rather serious. "You keep sayin' that when you accidently run into a buncha them."
Apr 17 21:32:49 <Chione>	"Not to mention, why the hell are they makin' Psychic Types to hunt a bug?"
Apr 17 21:33:37 <Genevieve>	"Aura sensitivity? I think even Chase can detect a bit of divinity and you've met him, he's a little slow on the uptake."
Apr 17 21:34:11 <Chione>	"Ya mean there's actually a use for that other than a gaydar?"
Apr 17 21:35:53 <Chione>	"Thanks for lookin' at this by the way. I'd of spent weeks doing Richardson Exterpolation on it till I realized it wasn't just simple shit."
Apr 17 21:35:56 <Genevieve>	"Yeah, the Stag Lords use it like telepathy, actually. And he's been able to pick up bad juju with it, too. It might be the only way to pick a baby god out of a crowd short of some kind of divine dowsing rod." She gives the ruby a little shake.
Apr 17 21:36:40 <Genevieve>	"No problem, thanks for helping with all this hypertech stuff. You know how bad I am with it and none of the Braves are much better."
Apr 17 21:36:43 <Chione>	You hear a half chuckle and a sleepy mumble 'use the force, Gwin.'
Apr 17 21:38:00 <Genevieve>	"I'd love to, but I'm just a normie, D.C."
Apr 17 21:38:04 <Chione>	"Didn't one of em' say they found some alien junk?  I'll be in town till Sunday if they wanna have me look at it."
Apr 17 21:38:33 »»	Chione looks at you sorta confused but shrugs it off. CULTISTS.
Apr 17 21:38:53 <Genevieve>	"Yeah, Rose has some sort of broken alien ray gun and her Elygem is holding onto a wide spectrum supernatural suppressor thats actually functional."
Apr 17 21:39:22 <Chione>	"Well that just sounds sexy."
Apr 17 21:39:33 <Genevieve>	"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't jealous."
Apr 17 21:40:13 <Genevieve>	"But yeah, I'll let her know you're out here, see if she can deal with her relationship drama before one of us skips town."
Apr 17 21:40:33 »»	Chione snaps her fingers. "Reminds me.  Hilarious photos.  Gotta get to that."
Apr 17 21:40:52 <Chione>	"Work first though I guess seein' as this is pretty big shit."
Apr 17 21:42:13 <Genevieve>	"Not a lot to do with -this- now." She points a thumb at the code on the screen, then goes to pull the jarred mewtwo hearts out of her bag. "These, though. Now that I've got the genome, I can cross check."
Apr 17 21:43:16 <Chione>	"What for exactly?"
Apr 17 21:48:50 <Genevieve>	"Dunno. The smaller one was in a separate system, so they weren't simple redundant organs. Wanted to compare the genes against each other."
Apr 17 21:49:41 <Chione>	"Oooh. Like one might be an implant?"
Apr 17 21:49:45 <Chione>	"IseeIseeeee"
Apr 17 21:51:01 <Genevieve>	"Something like that. If they're bootlegged, who knows how weird they are compared true ones, which we don't even have samples of."
Apr 17 21:52:26 <Chione>	"Hmm. I got some ideas there.  I'll get back to ya on em later though. Lemee know what ya do find about those though."
Apr 17 21:53:18 <Genevieve>	"No problem. You got anything to do DNA work sitting around?"
Apr 17 21:54:57 <Chione>	"Me? Hah! Nada."
Apr 17 21:56:36 <Genevieve>	"It'll have to wait then." Gen instead pulls out a flash drive to start copying the Mewtwo data over.
Apr 17 21:57:23 <Chione>	Easy enough! Most of them are just text documents.
Apr 17 21:57:30 <Chione>	or could be saved as such
Apr 17 22:07:15 <Chione>	Chione's started reading over stuff on her phone. "But yeah, if ya need anything just holla.  You know me, always glued to somethin' or another."
Apr 17 22:08:26 <Genevieve>	"Go back to your battlebots, I'll keep looking through this for a bit."
Apr 17 22:08:56 <Chione>	"GYAHAHAHA! Keep it real, Gwinny!"