@silena.beauregard | april 2

[chocolateries]

Hey babes!

Remember last time I mentioned that sharing is caring? Well that's still true but instead of sharing skills and hobbies this time, I have information to share.

A few months ago while many of us were preparing to storm the castle in New Beijing, I happened to casually come into possession of two bags of IV fluid left behind from the arrivals. Yes, the same stuff that knocks us out and makes us do stuff even if we don't want to. Thanks to @caroline.forbes' awesome gala a couple weeks ago, I met and befriended my new lady mentor who happens to be a chemist at Giles Bell.

What a serendipitous coincidence!

Anyway! My new friend managed to break it down into two parts -

1. a super strong take down a herd of elephants or a dude named Cupid high on PCP on the subway sedative that weakens the nervous system (side note: does that make it a neurotoxin?)

2. ????????

Yeah, they ran into a wall on the compulsion drug (they don't know that's what it is). Apparently it's classified. Her boss tried, her boss' boss tried, no dice. It's a trade secret, that's fun.

Now she's a lil' curious though and they have questions I'm not completely sure how to answer. They're mostly where what who how and whens: where'd I get it, do I have more, do I know what it is and what is does, normal stuff like that.

I could tell the truth (New Beijing, yes, definitely yes) but I'm not entirely sure that is the right tact because it could open up even more questions. Let's brainstorm, babes.

xoxo Silena

Comments

@goro.akechi

[impede]

What happens when they decide that it's time to make more? Assuming that's even possible. Outsourcing it could be an issue, unless it's classified on every system across the world.

[chocolateries]

Unless you know someone with the ability to track object to their source, outsourcing is the only way we're going to be able to find answers about this sort of thing.

[impede]

I don't recall an open inquiry to any of us about this.

[Which doesn't matter because Akechi thinks all the Displaced are morons and incapable.

Meaning: he's just being a contrary dick and criticizing what is good work.]

You realize the risk here? Not only did you fail to see if we could do it ourselves, you run the risk of exposing us.

@quentin.coldwater

[filloryfanatic]

The where might be a reasonable start without giving too much away. They'll start distrusting you big time if you won't give any answers.

@clarke.griffin

[strove]

You can give someone answers without them necessarily being the truth.

[filloryfanatic]

That's assuming someone is comfortable and good at lying. Half-truths or partial truths can sometimes make that easier.

Not that I'm doubting Silena's skills at all, she's obviously already done this much and gotten results.

[chocolateries]

She's very nice and I am grateful for her help so I'm not going to leave her hanging forever, but I figured brainstorming the lie could be useful. Avenues I haven't considered, etc etc.

[filloryfanatic]

I would stick with you don't know what it is or what it does, depending on what she's like. Some people it's easier to get information out of them if they think you're ignorant and they want to explain it to you.

@clarke.griffin

[strove]

Classified.

I don't think it would hurt to lie here, assuming that the lie itself is successful enough.

[There is no reason to tell the truth.]

Did you tell her that you knew what it did?

[chocolateries]

Classified. Some kind of proprietary information? They don't know if it's the whole compound or just an ingredient because they can't get far enough to figure it out.

No, I thought telling her it was a mind control drug would be too many red flags.

I'd thought about telling her I found it on the street after one of the big gang dust ups, but gangs having their hands on secret company drugs doesn't super match up. Regular drugs sure, but classified drugs?

[strove]

I don't know a lot about the gangs, but that seems unlikely unless there's a history of those kinds of drugs ending up in their hands.

Do you think this would show up as "classified" anywhere else?

@annabeth.chase

[intellects]

Maybe it would take out regular Cupid.

( or eros, whichever face he was wearing. at least that explained what had happened to them. )

Giles Bell is the company doing the drug trials. I heard someone talking about that last night. ( in their living room. ) Do we think it's trade secret because they're using it in one?

[chocolateries]

It was definitely made to keep down the stronger displaced, for sure.

I was assuming it's a trade secret because it's gotta be hecka illegal. Or at the very least would not pass a public ethics board.

[intellects]

Whatever was given to us should be illegal.

Can we get more?

@helena.prizvyshche

[sestra]

i do not like science very much but you have done good science and good sleuthing. what is your new friend's impression of you so far?

if i can be helping in other ways i will do this for you.

[chocolateries]

Honestly I don't like science very much either but Idara thinks I am very interested in STEM. We were both pretty excited about what she was finding, which is why she spilled it all before asking me where I found it.

[sestra]

what about dance party

i think they are called raves. lots of colors and drugs.

@cassian.andor

[evasives]

This classified component could very well be something Giles Bell is already working on - or someone else is using Giles Bell as a means for their own development. These companies have their hands in virtually every pot.

I can confirm they are in the midst of a new drug trial, despite some hazy science. The project received significant subsidizing from the UN.

[chocolateries]

Ugh if they could kindly keep their hands out of our pots!

Yeah a friend of mine is doing the trial, but I don't think it's related to the compulsion drug because I told him to shut up the other day and he laughed at me.

[ clearly, no compulsion. ]

Maybe there were other drug trials pre- us that might have been in preparation? They had to have tested that sedation on someone.

@marcos.diaz

[heliophilous]

i participated in some kind of drug trial with giles bell a little while ago. nothing like this but they were pretty open about everything they were giving to me.

and i didn't die.

i don't know if i trust anyone corporate but i can say they didn't try anything weird if you do decide to give them a sample. i don't know if i helped anything but i definitely didn't get any sleep.

[chocolateries]

I remember, you were a grump.

A lot of the eggheads are charmingly loquacious, they just love science. She wasn't trying to hide anything from me, she was so excited/baffled to share

@percy.jackson

[ripstides]

did you get any solid advice?
because i'm not good at science or lying
i generally tell the truth and then try not to die
which is maybe not the best idea for a bunch of people

( maybe. )

what do you want to do?

( percy doesn't know these people. he knows silena, he cares about silena. and innocent lives, but details. meh, get those outta here. )

[chocolateries]

I got a lot of leads on things I can lie about.

I want to tell her the truth, but she strikes me as as good a liar as you are so putting that on her and expecting her to lie to her bosses seems cruel. I think I have to lie to her so she'll think she's telling the truth.

@bellamy.blake

[jettisons]

Lie. It sounds like you barely know her or her boss, which means we have no idea what they'd do with whatever information we gave them. We have no idea what they might do with the drug, either.

[chocolateries]

I'm gonna.

But we do have to find people outside of our ranks to trust.