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League of Heroes: Ascent - Episode 2: The Long Night - Part 11
League of Heroes: Ascent
Episode 2: The Long Night - Part 11
The following is a transcript from audio recorded at Watt Tech Laboratories by lab technician Sam Sterling:
Friday, October 13 - 4:30 AM
I have spent the last hour running all manner of test on the mysterious substance that was provided to me by the Crimson Cloak. The chemical, at first glance, seems simple enough. It is a light green hue, it is odorless, and it has a slight oily viscosity. After my initial battery of tests, I came to the conclusion that the chemical does not react to extreme changes in temperature. Nor does it reacted to outside stimuli such as electricity or common chemical reagents. Though, I know that something is obviously odd enough about the chemical to spook the Crimson Cloak. A man, who I can tell, doesn’t spook easily.
After running my initial tests on the chemical, I couldn’t help but notice that something seemed familiar about the substance. I then recalled a serum that had been in development a number of years back while I was a lab assistant at STUD Labs. The chemical was a syntho-organic bonding agent known as ABS-5. Furthermore, ABS-5 was the integral part of a project known only by the codename: “Project Jumper.” The problem was that ABS-5 failed to actually bond with an organic host’s DNA for any long term period of time. Thus, it had no lasting effects which meant no more funding. As far as I can recall, the project had been scrubbed. Yet here are what seem to be vials of ABS-5. I will have to run a few more tests.
Friday, October 13 - 4:47 AM
Eureka! My last test proved to be vital in understanding the properties of the chemical. I took a sample of the serum, which I have deemed as ABS-6, and I introduced it to a sample of harmless Derlinite Bacterium. I then marveled as the ABS-6 swelled the cell walls of the Derlinite to over three times their original size. Upon releasing a sample of the harmful afolitis virus in with the ABS-6 laced Derlinites, I was alarmed to find that the Derlinite Bacterium had suddenly become resistant to the virus. The ABS-6 seemed to give the Derlinites the ability to regenerate any cellular damage caused by the afolitis. However… Ahh… right on cue, that is the other side effect of ABS-6. The mitochondria are also negatively effected by the serum, and it seems to cause a flood of ATP to be released by the cells of a living organism. In effect, it makes it’s host into a “living bomb.”
My final conclusion is that the serum is closely related to the original ABS-5 from STUD Labs, but it is obvious from my tests that the chemical structure has been slightly altered by somebody. Though, for what purpose, I’m not certain. Perhaps a closer analysis of the map provided to me by the Crimson Cloak will yield more conclusive data.
Friday, October 13 - 5:01 AM
I need to get this data to the Crimson Cloak immediately! The Watt-Tech computer found a troubling pattern linking the green ‘X’ symbols on the map to locations throughout New Brickton that have had recent work completed on their public utilities. Specifically their plumbing. One of the buildings was the New Brickton Penitentiary. I believe that somebody plans to slowly release vials of ABS-6 into the water supply at strategic locations, thus causing a slow chain reaction of explosions all over the city. ABS-6 is too dangerous, too volatile. There is no time to waste.
This was built for the League of Lego Heroes Group… www.flickr.com/groups/llh/
Suit up and join today!!!
*** FYI - I have tried my best with this short story to capture some believable scientific jargon, tough admittedly it was an exercise in creativity for me to tie together actual scientific concepts with nods to LEGO. As a side note: ABS is the plastic used to make most LEGO pieces. Derlin is the softer material used in antenna and other bendable pieces. Jumpers are the small tiles with a single stud in the middle. Afolitis is what most of us suffer from. AND... to maintain realism, the mitochondria of a cell are considered to be the powerhouse, plus they seem to have a link to the aging process and the healing abilities of a cell. So, it worked out nicely to have ABS-6 (A chemical derived from a supposed super soldier serum) make a person into a living bomb.
League of Heroes: Ascent - Episode 2: The Long Night - Part 11
League of Heroes: Ascent
Episode 2: The Long Night - Part 11
The following is a transcript from audio recorded at Watt Tech Laboratories by lab technician Sam Sterling:
Friday, October 13 - 4:30 AM
I have spent the last hour running all manner of test on the mysterious substance that was provided to me by the Crimson Cloak. The chemical, at first glance, seems simple enough. It is a light green hue, it is odorless, and it has a slight oily viscosity. After my initial battery of tests, I came to the conclusion that the chemical does not react to extreme changes in temperature. Nor does it reacted to outside stimuli such as electricity or common chemical reagents. Though, I know that something is obviously odd enough about the chemical to spook the Crimson Cloak. A man, who I can tell, doesn’t spook easily.
After running my initial tests on the chemical, I couldn’t help but notice that something seemed familiar about the substance. I then recalled a serum that had been in development a number of years back while I was a lab assistant at STUD Labs. The chemical was a syntho-organic bonding agent known as ABS-5. Furthermore, ABS-5 was the integral part of a project known only by the codename: “Project Jumper.” The problem was that ABS-5 failed to actually bond with an organic host’s DNA for any long term period of time. Thus, it had no lasting effects which meant no more funding. As far as I can recall, the project had been scrubbed. Yet here are what seem to be vials of ABS-5. I will have to run a few more tests.
Friday, October 13 - 4:47 AM
Eureka! My last test proved to be vital in understanding the properties of the chemical. I took a sample of the serum, which I have deemed as ABS-6, and I introduced it to a sample of harmless Derlinite Bacterium. I then marveled as the ABS-6 swelled the cell walls of the Derlinite to over three times their original size. Upon releasing a sample of the harmful afolitis virus in with the ABS-6 laced Derlinites, I was alarmed to find that the Derlinite Bacterium had suddenly become resistant to the virus. The ABS-6 seemed to give the Derlinites the ability to regenerate any cellular damage caused by the afolitis. However… Ahh… right on cue, that is the other side effect of ABS-6. The mitochondria are also negatively effected by the serum, and it seems to cause a flood of ATP to be released by the cells of a living organism. In effect, it makes it’s host into a “living bomb.”
My final conclusion is that the serum is closely related to the original ABS-5 from STUD Labs, but it is obvious from my tests that the chemical structure has been slightly altered by somebody. Though, for what purpose, I’m not certain. Perhaps a closer analysis of the map provided to me by the Crimson Cloak will yield more conclusive data.
Friday, October 13 - 5:01 AM
I need to get this data to the Crimson Cloak immediately! The Watt-Tech computer found a troubling pattern linking the green ‘X’ symbols on the map to locations throughout New Brickton that have had recent work completed on their public utilities. Specifically their plumbing. One of the buildings was the New Brickton Penitentiary. I believe that somebody plans to slowly release vials of ABS-6 into the water supply at strategic locations, thus causing a slow chain reaction of explosions all over the city. ABS-6 is too dangerous, too volatile. There is no time to waste.
This was built for the League of Lego Heroes Group… www.flickr.com/groups/llh/
Suit up and join today!!!
*** FYI - I have tried my best with this short story to capture some believable scientific jargon, tough admittedly it was an exercise in creativity for me to tie together actual scientific concepts with nods to LEGO. As a side note: ABS is the plastic used to make most LEGO pieces. Derlin is the softer material used in antenna and other bendable pieces. Jumpers are the small tiles with a single stud in the middle. Afolitis is what most of us suffer from. AND... to maintain realism, the mitochondria of a cell are considered to be the powerhouse, plus they seem to have a link to the aging process and the healing abilities of a cell. So, it worked out nicely to have ABS-6 (A chemical derived from a supposed super soldier serum) make a person into a living bomb.