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TSW 17: The Clean Room Part 2

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  1. [13:15] IcePickLobotomy He nods. "Carbon dating have proven inconclusive, but our estimates place it as pre-dating the roman empire at least."
  2. [13:19] Mary "I had assumed that it might have been used by early christians , or someone with a Mother godess considering the details of the statue and some of the other iconography "
  3. [13:19] Arina taps her cheek. "I'm not sure I recognize that iconography at 0x1dall0x1d, honestly..."
  4. [13:20] IcePickLobotomy "We think it's the latter, it lacks the traditional hallmarks of Christian iconography.
  5. [13:21] Mary "Revelations was my assumptation considering the eye based iconography "
  6. [13:24] IcePickLobotomy "Perhaps, I can pass you the reports we have on the, uh, likely beliefs of the temple if you'd like. Not much sense in hiding it further from you."
  7. [13:25] Arina "Mm, that would be appreciated, thank you."
  8. [13:29] IcePickLobotomy "I'll see to it once we get out of here then."
  9. [13:32] Mary nods "And uh, how id theys build it, with the whole lethal plagauge and fumes around it"
  10. [13:34] IcePickLobotomy "As I've said, the inital source of the plague requires direct injection, or injection to spread. So unless they started drinking it or aerosolized it, then they should have been ok. Likewise the plague may not have been there while they were building it."
  11. [13:34] Arina "Mm. A cave-in under the pool leading into whatever underground source there is?"
  12. [13:34] Arina "Suppose that might be why it was abandoned."
  13. [13:36] IcePickLobotomy He nods
  14. [13:43] Mary Yeah but , how did ht flow upwards then?
  15. [13:50] IcePickLobotomy "Pressure difference, water displacement?" He shrugs
  16. [13:51] Mary nods a bit unsure .
  17. [13:55] Arina "Well if the plague isn't heavier than water wouldn't it inherently flow upward? Like helium in air?"
  18. [14:02] Mary "That raises the horrifiyng thought of it going up elsewhere..
  19. [14:03] IcePickLobotomy "And considering how the plague tends to flare back up in places. . ."
  20. [14:06] Arina winces. "That... would be a very, very deep well if that's what you're thinking... to be accessible from so many other locations..."
  21. [14:08] IcePickLobotomy "It's unlikely, and more probable that it's airborne contaminates from the plague years, but it is a idea we've bounced around the lab."
  22. [14:12] Arina "... Frankly at that point wouldn't it be more like 'the core of the Earth' if that were it? The plague has flared up in so many places that the only singular, localized source would have to be the center of Earth and just... bubbling up in various pockets. Any other location would have to pass 0x1dthrough0x1d the center to reach the other locations it's appeared in..."
  23. [14:13] IcePickLobotomy "Or the plague is it's own class of organisms indigenous to the earth's crust."
  24. [14:13] Mary "Could it be based on something like these,, microbes that can life in hostile areas?"
  25. [14:13] IcePickLobotomy "Extremophiles? perhaps."
  26. [14:14] Arina hums, nodding.
  27. [14:14] Mary "Could be that a common otside factor is favoring there , for example that it is usefull to survive in oil or so , now that is all hogwash but it was the first example that I had.
  28. [14:17] IcePickLobotomy "If you ignore how short the virus lasts outside of human hosts, it's rather robost. Airborne, water, earth, it hangs to all of them with equal ability."
  29. [14:18] Arina nods. "... doesn't seem to actually care about infecting, come to think of it. Don't viruses normally need to... live inside other creatures? While this is just... lasting for millenia in a pool of water."
  30. [14:20] Mary "....Uh, a really strange idea, but maybe it is not the virus that is the problem but that some of them interact with mankinds biology that lead to it turning into the agressive form?"
  31. [14:20] IcePickLobotomy "Normally yes, though it may well be something that doesn't normally targets humans."
  32. [14:21] IcePickLobotomy "Not so strange really Mary."
  33. [14:21] Mary "Well it would explain why it is not really having any animal carriers "
  34. [14:22] Arina "So more of a parasite than a 'virus' really?"
  35. [14:23] IcePickLobotomy "No, more of a virus, at least based on the mechanism of infection and interactions with the host."
  36. [14:25] Arina hums. "Well... I'll take your word for it, I'm hardly expert in the matter."
  37. [14:28] IcePickLobotomy "We have a number of theories, but the commonly accepted aprts is that it is a virues, or at least close enough to call it one. The Red Death was likely a weaponized version of the initial strain."
  38. [14:36] Mary "Well uh, how does it interact with the transmiter down in level 13? Or , Well how does that thing work anyway. "
  39. [14:38] Arina taps her cheek, listening carefully.
  40. [14:39] IcePickLobotomy "It doesn't really. The Emitter works by. ." He hums a moment "It works by projecting a low frequency AT frequency on the quantum sub-strata. Being the only real source of a large scale AT frequency the Intruders are drawn in to investigate it. The actually information the emitted is the equivalent of white noise."
  41. [14:42] Arina "Mm... and the mind-scrambling effects are when humans get close enough to detect it and confused by the white noise?"
  42. [14:44] IcePickLobotomy He nods. "It's low frequency, but the scale requires a lot of power. Much like how certain low frequency sounds can induce feelings of paranoia, and cause hallucinations, the AT field emmited can interact with your own AT Field, causing a sort of feed back loop as your AT Field attempts to compensate."
  43. [14:49] Arina winces, nodding.
  44. [14:53] IcePickLobotomy "The presence of the emitter and effects are one of the strongest pieces of evidence we have to the interaction between the brain and AT Fields, quite fascinating really."
  45. [14:53] Mary "Okay, and what is a AT field then beyond the description what it does?" Something like these ..Kirlian things?"
  46. [14:57] Arina "Right. Fascinating."
  47. [14:58] IcePickLobotomy "Ahh, well. . The short answer is that the AT Field is a pattern on the quantum that encodes for the information of a living thing. It's the pattern of "you" write large on the universe. Whether or no the AT field is your consciousness itself, or a byproduct of your consciousness is a matter of some debate within the field."
  48. [15:02] Mary slowly raises a eyebrow.
  49. [15:08] IcePickLobotomy "THe OUTRIDERS, and presumably the INTRUDERS as well, have both sufficient processing power, and actual power, to more actively control the AT Field frequency . By doing so they can overwrite the data encoding of their patterns at will, which allows them to change of the laws of nature interact with them."
  50. [15:08] IcePickLobotomy *how
  51. [15:08] Arina has presumably heard this basic briefing before and understood it about as much the last time.
  52. [15:14] Mary "Basically because they are so big, they can emit enough power to change it , sort of like the differecne between a comp0ter and a calculator?"
  53. [15:16] IcePickLobotomy "And the means to more effectively broadcast the signals. The Emitter was initially a proof of concept prototype for the device that has that function within your units. That is also why the OUTRIDERS have so many biological components, without a body of flesh the AT Field will not manifest."
  54. [15:19] Arina hums to herself.
  55. [15:20] Mary "Why?"
  56. [15:22] IcePickLobotomy "We're not sure, though part of it is that we haven't made anything with enough processing power that it /could/ manifest a AT Field without a primarily biological processing unit."
  57. [15:24] Mary thinks, and then blinks two of her fingers twitching.
  58. [15:37] IcePickLobotomy "Are you alright Mary?"
  59. [15:40] Mary nods a bit mute
  60. [15:41] Arina glances at Mary curiously.
  61. [15:49] Mary "So uh, is there anything biological that lacks such a field?"
  62. [15:50] IcePickLobotomy "Smaller and less complex organisms, mostly those that lack a brain. That or their AT Fields are so small we can't pick them up yet."
  63. [15:54] Arina "Could be either, I suppose. It is a rather nascent field."
  64. [15:54] Arina "What about the Red Death?"
  65. [15:54] IcePickLobotomy "Does it have a AT Field?"
  66. [15:54] Arina nods.
  67. [15:55] IcePickLobotomy "Not that I am aware of, though as I said we do have difficulties detecting AT Fields in less complex organism. Monkeys are the smallest animals we can get one off of."
  68. [15:58] Arina hums.
  69. [16:01] Mary "Is there a difference, in for example elephants or dolphins compared to humans or outriders?"
  70. [16:09] IcePickLobotomy "There is, humans have a larger AT Field than the others. Broadly speaking it seems to matter more about the complexity and development of the organisms brain than there size, though that is a factor."
  71. [16:11] Arina "Mm, I see."
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