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QuestionText:	Hi mods. :D<br><br>Not particularly TDM-specific, but Gojo's Project of the Month ...<br><br>So I've had this one in my back pocket for a while. He was just so busy with his other projects that I postponed it. And this idea was actually the <i>reason</i> I nerfed his Six Eyes down to 30 feet (which is <i>crippling</i> for what he's used to), because it's too powerful if he can do this at a greater range.<br><br>As you've noticed in [https://hallankind.dreamwidth.org/1344.html?thread=17728#cmt17728 this thread], Gojo has recruited Johann's help for a project. <br><br>The plan is to find a nice spot leaning against a wall on the exterior of Patho-Gen HQ. He's been in and around the building enough times (all those helpful visits to coordinate things like the teleportation panels) to have a pretty good idea of where the public areas and non-public areas are, so he'll install himself against a wall that he thinks ... might be interesting. To any observer, he will seem to be waiting to meet up with his lover. He'll just kind of be hanging out, checking his syntrofos for the time every so often. Seems that whoever he's meeting is running late! And once his lover shows up, well, they just chat and flirt for a bit before moving along. Guess they weren't in any hurry to head out to whatever destination for their date.<br><br>But what he's actually doing is using the Six Eyes to snoop. The nerfed description of the Six Eyes I put on the app is "can see through walls or other obstacles within 30 feet" in any direction (so he'll also be looking up and down a floor or two). No audio, so he's expecting to see mostly boring labs and offices and that most of the useful information will be reading any interesting files or computer screens. It's a headache for him to read this way, but he can do it. He will additionally be limited to only being able to read <i>open</i> files. A closed book or file with the pages all pressed together would be too difficult for him to parse individual pages. <br><br>If this works out reasonably well for him, he intends to repeat it a few times in different locations around the Patho-Gen building. (Johann's so hard to contact by device, after all! May as well set up pre-arranged meetings, and Patho-Gen is such a convenient central location for them to meet up.) Once or twice a week for a few weeks to get pretty thorough coverage of the different restricted areas of the building, up and down a floor or two. He has reason to go inside the building, after all, even if it's just a quick visit to provide updates on his current projects. (He's not the most forthcoming about his discoveries or the discoveries of his teams, but since he pretty regularly <i>has</i> been working with Patho-Gen to help fund and coordinate the exploration efforts, he's got to have contacts there who he's been updating with broad details of the regions they've explored and he'll be checking in on things like 'are the teleportation panels satisfactory where they are? did you want any more of those somewhere? any other regions you especially wanted my teams to check out?' Things like that with whatever contacts he already has there.) And then he'll just ... kind of hang out in the hallway near there, again with the 'checking the time' routine until Johann shows up, they flirt for a bit, then leave. <br><br>Does he spot or read anything interesting in these efforts? <br><br>Thank you, darling mods!
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AnswerText:	<p>Well well well, Gojo. 30 feet may yield something, even if it's not much.</p> <p>The stunt with Johann works, at least, in keeping people from being particularly suspicious. What is there to be suspicious of, anyway? Generally speaking, <b>Patho-Gen employees do not know what powers Gojo possesses</b>, so they aren't disturbed by this behavior even if they walk around the perimeter of the buildingâ€”and they do, sometimes, during a lunch break or a call on their Syntrofos. They're not particularly paranoid about Gojo hanging around...</p> <p>But <i>Johann</i> sometimes gets some Patho-Gen employees to pay attention to whatever they're doing. While Johann is strangely not memorable in appearance, <i>some of them</i> can at least recall that this was one of the Augmented who behaved with more than violence toward some Patho-Gen staff. The most this small handful of employees do at this point is <b>keep a wary eye on the two</b>, and otherwise mind their distance, unless they were to see something unsettling.</p> <p>We shall give you three different things he finds by doing this that can happen on three separate occasions. There are rolls involved off screen to determine the chance of finding anything.</p> <ol> <li><p><b>Up:</b> a breakroom. Nothing exciting. A communal office area; most computers are shut off, and the one visible and logged in is open to a screen requiring Patho-Gen credentials. Unfortunately <small>(this roll was a 1...)</small>, nobody comes in to log in on this screen for the duration of his watch. <b>In fact, this particular day has a Patho-Gen member hassling Gojo and Johann; they'll ask what they're up to and get real nosy.</b> (Keep your Carnivora on a leash, Gojo, or this won't end well...) This is at least a point of recollection and suspicion for Patho-Gen, should anything <i>funny</i> happen in future.</p> <p><b>Down:</b> It's storage. Office supplies. Boxes of staples, paper, some abandoned and broken office chairs, some unused science-type equipment like beakers and tubes and nitrile gloves... Nothing remarkable here. There is also a multi-stall restroom down there.</p></li> <li><p><b>Up:</b> <b>Reinforced walls.</b> Seems he's stumbled upon an area used for tests or experimentation of some kind, and with substances that might be a bit more volatile. There are signs on the exterior of doors that, from Gojo's angle, will be backwards; they read "CAUTION: CONTROLLED AREA. HIGH ARCANE RADIATION. AUTHORIZED ENTRY ONLY." There appears to be an indicator light when it's most dangerous to be there. Patho-Gen is doing what it can to keep whatever they're working on very insulated. It wouldn't be remiss to assume this room has something to do with Katalyth.</p> <p>During his watch, nobody enters or leaves this room. There are a lot of heavy-duty containers of samples in this room, properly sealed within thick walls. If there are samples in this room of Katalyth, they're undeniably small ones at most.</p> <p><b>Down:</b> <b>More reinforced walls.</b> Given that Gojo can see about two floors down, he'll notice that floor -1 is entirely missing; that is a method of insulation to keep whatever's on <i>floor -2</i> isolated. Whatever's down there is... spatially, it's weird; it sort of distorts the overall appearance of the room, making it appear both bigger and smaller than it really is. But within it is a structure reminiscent of Patho-Gen's teleporters. It causes the room to be filled with fog so thick that it would be difficult for the average person to see through it. A Patho-Gen scientist enters the room during Gojo's survey; they appear nondescript. They grope forward through the room and seem to wave at the fog frustratedly. They're holding a closed envelope full of documents, none of which can be read, as they approach the device and confirm that it is a teleporter by using it. The Patho-Gen scientist disappears.</p></li> <li><p><b>Up:</b> A meeting is being held between one individual and a small room of others. The powerpoint being shown: KELESIAN RESOURCES. They are flipping through what resources they've found are available to them via Kelesian cooperation; they claim there is plenty of farmland available, and many active crops (these things can be seen as short bullet points by Gojo, as the content of this person's speech can't be heard). However, they highlight a problem: for some reason, it is not safe for Patho-Gen personnel to access these farmlands! There are some images of blackened boils on skin.</p> <p>Interestinglyâ€”and this is easy for Gojo to noticeâ€”there were no farmlands surrounding Kelesis. It was just... grasslands. Trees. Kelesis was invisible, but what was acting as its decoy was a bunch of ruins.</p> <p><b>Down:</b> Cleaning supplies, again. A fairly big closet this time, with mops and buckets and heavy duty chemicals, industrial strength shit. Even some automated cleaners are dormant in this room. There is a blood clean-up kit in this room. It's robust, well-used, and well-stocked. Below that is an office with plenty of Patho-Gen employees, all at their desks; they have headsets on, listening to something. Some have their monitors turned away from Gojo's vantage point, but others whose screens are visible to Gojo are listening attentively to patterns of frequencies being listed on their screens. Some are going through medical imaging, like ultrasounds or X-rays. What is depicted on the screen of these individuals is oftentimes imagining of various animals: rabbits, cougars, deer... some of which are mutated, like the ones being found by the science cabin. They're trying to understand their world as well!</p></li> <p>Hope this whets ya appetite! Luckily no more bad rolls meant that Patho-Gen didn't continue to get after Gojo and co, either.</p></ol>

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