ENDGAME

[killerwaves]

FINAL TRIAL

"ENJOY THE REST OF YOUR STAY!!! :-)"

That's a message from Chirpy, as that group leaves the records room. Though really, there's not much time left; a fact impressed upon you regardless of whether you had a overly helpful bumbling robot or not.

Take some time to discuss what you've found and equip your new found loot in the open research lab. It's not a bad place for an impromptu meeting considering it's size.

Though sooner, rather than later, you'll need to head deeper still, to meet your two administrators, who surely know you're coming by now.

(( OOC: Welcome to Endgame! This is for all the bananas, so good luck! We'll give you 1 hour OOC to discuss your invest findings, and then it's onto the final confrontation. ))

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[allworknoplague]

Of course it was simplified. Like I said, I don't have time to run that class.

[He may dress like a college professor who got dressed in the dark but he isn't nor has ever been one. Possibly better for everyone involved.]

But the principle still stands: superhuman abilities, supernatural energy are the basic sources of power to this dimension. The researchers here just found the most efficient way to process it.

[idologue]

[ Lacus nods. ]

Is it siphoned automatically or is that a process that needs to be executed down here? You were taking the corpses, but I am having a hard time believing that feeding off dead bodies is enough for this.

[allworknoplague]

I’ve called this thing a natural disaster before. Pretty sure I’ve also talked about living energy — otherwise all we would need would be to get some corpses or smaller test groups.

[dupiety]

What exactly have you been doing with the corpses, then? All these blood samples and whatnot...was that all for your serum?

[allworknoplague]

That was Butcher's condition for cooperating with us, so yeah. You'd rather I used living samples the whole time?

[dupiety]

Personally, I really don't care. What I care more about is you wasting time to further your own ends and using our lives to buy more of it.

[chosenwang]

[ Uh huh ]

Could you take energy from the other islands to boost it? What about any of your science experiments that might remain? [ Or ] I also have a cube of mana that may be of use to help add to the numbers.

[allworknoplague]

Living energy, Wang Lu.

[He’s repeating it like, yes, an exasperated lecturer. Looks like this is at least a make-up session whether anyone wants it or not.]

The islands themselves and the flora and fauna on them aren’t enough — this isn’t part of the ecosystem. I haven’t been using energy on living experiments, other than the creature you all pulled out of the waterfall; conservation was one of the most important principles here.

And most of the items that appear here have already been stripped by this dimension.

[chosenwang]

[ Wow. Full Naming him ]

Should I start calling you professor? Master? Senpai? It would have been better if you shared with the class much earlier. [ They could have even tried using Xiao's Karmic Debt to see if that would work before you know...it was nuked. ]

[allworknoplague]

I shared what was important at the time. This isn't the time for revisiting what-ifs.

There's just one question: are you all taking my offer or not?

[There's a PING! that appears on the voting app on their U-PINIONS. Hmm.]

[chosenwang]

The one rule my Master has set up is to always bend or break the rules. I'm all about what-ifs, Mr. Haul.

[ Anyways gonna vote ]

[dupiety]

A good rule to live by.

[diabolizes]

My old Sect had the motto "attempt the impossible".

[diabolizes]

I know you can dampen our powers, as mine have been... but could you take any remaining abilities to serve as a source of power? Or is via death the only efficient way to do so before we all explode here?

[ Like Wang Lu, he'd be willing to pad the numbers out here. ]

[handsheld]

[ ftr he is looking over here but saying nothing.

hm. ]

[chosenwang]

[ Why are you looking over here not-so-handy ]

ignore that I misread the tag

[allworknoplague]

Death is the most efficient way to process the energy, so there isn't much current data on the direct conversion of supernatural abilities.

But I won't say no to test subjects, if that's part of the negotiation.

bats it out of my mind

[diabolizes]

What would the danger be to our physical selves? Could it potentially kill me if I were to volunteer?

[chrysaline]

[ She's just watching this. Letting him cook...? ]

[allworknoplague]

You've seen what happened when we tested the serum: anything like this will carry some risk of death, but not the same risk of death as a sacrifice. And the serum testing was successful in 66% of cases.

I'd say it also depends on the individual ability.

[diabolizes]

And what individual abilities would be more likely for success? Surely you have at least an idea.

[chosenwang]

What about near death? What about fighting? Would that release enough energy?

[allworknoplague]

Both release a certain amount of energy, but it's not going to be enough for all of you. How much effect it has depends on the numbers, though.

[chosenwang]

There are quite a few of us here and I'm sure we will be joined by quite a few more. That should be quite a bit of energy. It doesn't hurt to try, right? [ They have until this place eats itself up ]

[finalmix]

[ stage whispering to whoever's nearby like: ] Starting to think he's making up these numbers if he can't show them or explain them to us.