Researcher Iga's Notepad
Researcher Iga's Notepad
- Location
- Laboratory CAS-U-5
(Shipwreck Strand) - Type
- Book
- Interact
- Yes, "Investigate"
- Destructible
- No
Researcher Iga's Notepad is an object found in the room of Laboratory CAS-U-5 with the Pineapple Upside-Down Birthday Cake.
Location[edit]
Text[edit]
Coral Sample Experiments:
We've exposed coral fragments to blistering heat, staggering cold, and highly corrosive acid. We've sliced it, torn it, and put it in a hydraulic press. At Researcher Uhr's suggestions, we even subjected it to the most unpleasant quaggan folk music in Arch Researcher Tunsi's expansive musical catalogue. Again and again, the fragments react in real time to each of these stimuli, adapting rapidly to the new conditions. More and more, it appears to harden and sharpen itself against what it perceives—perhaps justifiably—as threats.
As conditions continue to worsen, these coral fragments adapt and propagate further. During more violent reactions, a few fragments even punctured the surrounding experimental shielding. Researchers with more time in situ have begun to report anguished wails in the lower frequencies of their hearing range, although that could just be a natural consequence of prolonged exposure to quaggan folk music.
Aside from rapid and aggressive growth, after surviving several rounds of stimuli, this coral is also capable of producing clouds of fragments; inhaling these has effects ranging from seemingly benign psychoactivity to lethal neurotoxicity. The seers have left us a truly revolutionary biological tool, and soon—with continued Inquest ingenuity—perhaps a revolutionary biological weapon.
Xhunn insists on wasting time and resources developing an inoculation in case of widespread exposure. Such an event is statistically inconsequential. We have taken all necessary precautions to keep the coral contained, and our direct exposure experiments have remained limited to the use of interns. As Kudu's motivational holo-logs state, "Any discovery worth a damn requires bravery. Science favors the bold."
