@katelin.philips

[covertness]

after the fire, i talked to one of the firefighters on site. he said the fire started at the nurse's apartment and that the nurse was found dead inside. no cause of death known at the time, but they were already considering the fire suspicious. he said there'd be a full investigation soon.

i went to have another talk with him, together with marcos diaz. [ between her powers of emotional manipulation and marcos' truth inducement, they make a good team. ]

he's not involved in the investigation, but he's heard a thing or two. apparently someone was stockpiling carcasses of the smaller creatures that attacked in one of the other apartments. apparently people have been doing that, looking to resale the bodies.

not sure how useful that is, but i figure we're better off sharing whatever information we get, no matter how random. maybe we'll spot a connection or a pattern at some point.

Comments

[covertness]

i could design some experiments
if we got our hands on monster parts

but there are ethical implications we shouldn't ignore

[drivein]

Yeah, I have the tendency to agree, but there are people out there that this is affecting.
If it happens again, we have to be ready. If you've got a better idea, I'm ready to hear it.

[covertness]

at the very least, we shouldn't make any decisions about it without thinking them through

[drivein]

[ wHY ARE ADULTS LIKE THIS??? ASSUMING SHE'S AN ADULT

BECAUSE

adults would do this!!! ]

Tell me what I should be thinking through.

[covertness]

what the possible consequences might be
what side effects might occur both short and long term
what safeguards to take to make sure negative consequences are limited

and that's just the ethical side of things

there's also how to design the experiment to make sure we actually test what we want to test
figure out ways to eliminate all other factors
a control group of sorts would be good

we don't want to jump to conclusions because someone inhaled some dust that had the effect and we think it's the monsters, or something like that

[drivein]

So don't narrow it down to just human testing---there are a lot of other ways that we can do this. Does Morningstar have a lab? Now that we have an idea, we can toss it through something specific.
I can't say that I know how chemistry works outside of a science class, but I know that in terms of finding something useful, we could really save a lot of people if this helps find a cure. It's not jumping to conclusions, it's playing at process of elimination.
Let's find a way to make it work, instead of imagining all the ways it won't.

[ he's young, and he's got a lot of drive. he wants to help people, and is trying desperately to find an in to do so—this might not be it, he could be completely off, but he knows if he doesn't pursue it that he's going to regret knowing that he could've done something, and didn't. ]

Help me out.

[covertness]

i'm trying to help you out
did you, at any point, hear me say we shouldn't do it?

all i'm saying is that we need to make sure we do it right

[ she's not against you here!! ]