Lab C: Laser Science

The Laser Science lab is clean and well organized. It contains a COMPUTER CONSOLE, an INDUSTRIAL LASER, a WALLED PLATFORM, a LASER TOOL ARRAY, a GLASS CASE, a PADLOCKED CASE, and a PLANT CORNER.

INDUSTRIAL LASER

An industrial laser is built into the floor of this laboratory, pointed toward the WALLED PLATFORM. This apparatus is stationary, allowing only minor adjustments to positioning.

If you are touching this placard, you may choose to trigger the laser and make a lethal laser attack against anyone touching the WALLED PLATFORM placard.

You may use this device to make precise cuts in any object you position on the WALLED PLATFORM, such as to cut through a lock, handcuffs, or other restraint, or to simply destroy an item. If you use this item on a crystal orb, consult a Secret Keeper.

WALLED PLATFORM

This appears to be a cutting area sectioned off with divider walls of plexiglass. The walls have small scorch marks, and the center of the cutting area has a platform that can raise, lower, and rotate, with clamps and supports to position materials for cutting. If you are touching this placard, and someone fires the industrial laser, you would be in the path of its deadly beam.

Item: Assorted Supplies

An array of items that have been cut, or were waiting to be cut, by the industrial laser. Could be useful for something.

PADLOCKED CASE

A solid, 3 foot by 3 foot, grey metal case mounted to the laboratory wall. This case is secured with an analog padlock. To access the items inside, you will need to either use the key, or use the abilities Lock Picking or Brute Strength.

Item: Laser Pistol

This sleek, gleaming implement fires precision laser blasts. If you are targeted by this item, your character is killed and a tidy, smoking hole that pierces your body is left behind. Leave behind your body card, turn your name card to unseen and inform a Secret Keeper.

LASER TOOL ARRAY

This panel contains labeled stands for the following devices:  Transplanar Visual Array, Anachronometer, and a pair of Utility Lasers.

Item: Transplanar Visual Array [H]

This bulky visored helmet converts types of radiation far beyond the visual spectrum into an output that human eyes can process. Any character using the Transplanar Visual Array can observe, but not touch or manipulate (take cards from or use cards on) placards and characters marked with the black-and-multicolor unseen symbol.

Item: Anachronometer [H]

You may use this device to surreptitiously scan a target entity and detect whether they are native to the user’s current local timestream and dimension. Consult a Secret Keeper to find out the reading it reports. If no Secret Keeper is readily available, you may also ask the player out-of-character rather than waiting, but it is possible for certain players not to realize the true nature of their character.

Item: Utility Laser

This multipurpose laser emitter has settings for recording 3-D models, surgical excisions, and light shows. On its own, it is not an effective weapon.

Item: Utility Laser

This multipurpose laser emitter has settings for recording 3-D models, surgical excisions, and light shows. On its own, it is not an effective weapon.

COMPUTER CONSOLE [H]

Dr. Smith appears to eschew a desk, keeping a comfortable office chair by this console, with a coffee mug and a few office supplies on the ledge. This console is secured. You would need to either have Dr. Smith's ID or hack it to access the files.

Item: Laser Science Files

All the data needed to reproduce the breakthroughs made in the Laser Science lab, downloaded onto a convenient set of disks.

PLANT CORNER

Although the laboratory areas are windowless and sealed off from the outside world, Dr. Smith has installed a few (non-laser) lights above this area, in which a variety of plants are flourishing.

Item: Philodendron

This large plant is housed in an oversized planter. You notice that the planter has a false base with a hidden compartment. You may look at the UNSEEN placard next to the Plant Corner to peruse its contents.

Item: Monstera

This is a cool plant.

Item: Hoya

What a nice plant!

Item: Ruby Ficus Elastica

Great leaves on this one.

Item: Maranta

Very stripey.

[UNSEEN ICON]

Inside the hidden compartment are the enclosed items:

Item: Journal of Suspicions

This hand-written journal records the suspicions of Dr. Smith and Dr. Hudson. It details their concern that an extra-dimensional being has been observing them. The entity had been observed observed through laser technology, skulking around in an adjacent dimension, and then its energy signature started showing up around the lab. They documented this by hand because the entity appears to be sophisticated and may be able to enter electronic devices. They have proposed developing a weapon able to combat the entity, which Raleigh refused approve. They began building it anyway. The most recent report cautions that the energy patterns seem to frequency be occurring around one of the androids.

Item: Plasmic Disruptor

If you are an entity in Plasmic Cloud form and are targeted by an attack with this item, you are destroyed. Please enact an loud and extended final monologue while your form disintegrates.

Anyone human targeted with an attack from this weapon is incapacitated for 1 minute, but otherwise unharmed.

This item begins the night with 3 charges. Record on this card as they are used.

GLASS CASE

Inside this glass case are three pedestals with the enclosed items resting upon them, along with an observation log. According to the log, this case holds orbs of psychoresonant crystal. When the crystals glow red, they elicit feelings  of affection and contentment. When they are blue, they project an aura of fear and despair, and the green glow is linked to resentment and hatred. Dr. Hudson brought these samples for Dr. Smith to analyze, and found that directing a laser at a crystal causes its to become supercharged and emit a wave of emotion that can overwhelm bystanders. The crystals' energies seem to fluctuate when people approach them, but the team has refrained from handling them directly or trying to project their own emotions.

Item: Crystal Orb

You can feel the aura of this crystal orb, projecting an emotional field. It tickles at the edge or your mind, mingling with your own thoughts. If you are attempting to manipulate or charge up the crystal orb's aura, consult a Secret Keeper.

Item: Crystal Orb

You can feel the aura of this crystal orb, projecting an emotional field. It tickles at the edge or your mind, mingling with your own thoughts. If you are attempting to manipulate or charge up the crystal orb's aura, consult a Secret Keeper.

Item: Crystal Orb

You can feel the aura of this crystal orb, projecting an emotional field. It tickles at the edge or your mind, mingling with your own thoughts. If you are attempting to manipulate or charge up the crystal orb's aura, consult a Secret Keeper.

Phantom Zone
Illuminated Nook

This particular corner of the lab is lit by a shining light, primarily green. The source is a glowing crystalline orb lying on the floor. As you approach it, you feel a sense of simmering, resentful hatred emanating from it. It stirs the same in you, and it takes effort to maintain your composure and suppress dark thoughts. As you assert your own will, you see the green glow waver and flicker, showing hues of blue and red mix in. If you take the enclosed item, also take this placard.

Item: Crystal Orb

You can feel the aura of this crystal orb, projecting an emotional field. It tickles at the edge or your mind, mingling with your own thoughts. If you are attempting to manipulate or charge up the crystal orb's aura, consult a Secret Keeper.

Cocooned Scientist: You find a scientist who you recognize as Dr. Hendricks, cocooned within dense, rigid strands of a strange material, which appears organic but has a metallic sheen. The cocoon binds his limbs but leaves him able to breathe. The strands cannot be bent by bare hands, a specialized apparatus with Brute Force or cutting power will be needed to remove them. Dr. Hendricks is bruised and unconscious, and attempts to rouse him are met with a fluttering of the eyes and moans, but nothing coherent.

Although heavy, his cocooned body may be dragged to another location. If you choose to do this, clip this placard to your name tag to represent this conspicuous and cumbersome burden.