#lab entries

[ashersbraincell]

I think the fact that MTT’s s lab entry is in the fan room(yk, the ones with fans?) a clever, probably unintentional but clever nontheless, coincidence

[ut-anomalous]

ENTRY NUMBER FIVE.

THE INTERN’S IDEA

HAS WORKED.

THE OBJECTS SEEM

TO COME TO LIFE

IN THE ROOM.

THEY CALL THEMSELVES…

DARKNERS.

THEY CALL THE INTERN

THE “KNIGHT”,

WHO BROUGHT THE

“DARK FOUNTAIN”

TO FRUITION.

WE HAVE A

CODE NAME FOR

THIS PROJECT.

PROJECT ROARING.

WE SHALL LEARN

ALL WE CAN

ABOUT THIS…

“DARK WORLD”.

- [Name Redacted.]

[akanemnon]

We didn't even get an answer, and we never will (at least it's not determination)

FIRST - PREVIOUS - NEXT

MASTERPOST (for the full series / FAQ / reference sheets)

[julykings]

by candlelight

[labratcult]

Collecting my favorite images from talks I've been to the past few weeks:

[deltaruminations]

dear mr youtubeman. it is with a heavy heart that i must “dislike” your “Und’re Tale Theory” video. while your editing is compelling and your research thorough, you have committed terrible slander against my very good friend, dr. alphys, describing her several times as a “fraud,” and willfully misinterpreted her character and arc in order to prop up insidious and unsubstantiated rumors that my husband, dr. wd gaster, is a flawlessly competent genius and humanitarian. i love my husband. but i need you to understand that he is a dipshit and a bastard

[solottrpgchronicles]

1d. First Day at the Lab - Outliers

Name: Ren

Day: 1

Funds: $ 100

Today is my first day working at Ar Leith Labs - I can't believe I finally landed a job!

To be honest, I didn't look too deeply into what they do at Ar Leith Labs - I basically sent my curriculum to every neuroscience research lab that was hiring. Now that I'm here, I can't even find a pamphlet explaining the research in detail.

Ok, I'll be professional and go introduce myself to my coworkers now; either them or the PI can tell me more about the job.

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There are only two other research assistants in my group: Leanne and Perry; neither of them seems to be the chatty type, at least not with me. I was looking forward to meeting my PI, but Leanne told me that she has never shown her face around here.

Right then we heard the PI speak; it felt as if she was standing right next to us. This lab must have a pretty technologically advanced speaker system!

The PI's voice welcomed me and introduced herself as C.N, just her initials; she invited me to get acquainted with the lab environment, and help my coworkers out with anything they might need.

I found it a little odd that she's not meeting us in person, but maybe there's an excellent reason for it. I don't want to pry, especially not on my first day.

Nobody was available to give me a tour - lots of work to do, which is fair - so I walked around the lab by myself, studying the equipment. I didn't recognize any of the machines, except for the obvious desktop computer in the corner. That one even looks a little old, in contrast with the rest of the devices.

Leanne noticed me looking at the computer and asked if I know how to code; heck yeah I do, I took a few classes and I'm pretty ok at it! So she asked me to write a bit of code to generate graph data for her latest research data. It's strange that they don't have software for that already, but I decided to avoid asking any questions.

I took this opportunity to look over the data, hoping it would clarify what kind of research we're supposed to do here, but I couldn't make heads or tails of it. Oh, well.

I couldn't recognize the OS the computer is running either, but it seemed loosely based on Unix. I was making good progress until I started testing my code; I got the error "Unable to find or open '/Brain/TemporalLobe/Hippocampus/MISTAKE.png'". I'm 100% sure I never referenced this file, and what a bizarre name!

I immediately thought this must be a prank - Leanne and Perry must have planned this as a funny welcome for me. I resolved to laugh and tell them it was a cool prank; that would show them I'm chill.

Unfortunately, they kept insisting they didn't know what I was talking about. They looked annoyed, so I assume they were being truthful. Alright, time to debug.

A quick search of the codebase and external libraries for the file path in the error message yielded no results. I tried looking just for "Mistake.png" and got nothing once again.

Interestingly enough, though, "Ren/Brain/" exists, except there's only a "temp" folder in there. Maybe I don't have the right access levels to see other folders? There doesn't seem to be a root user either.

I bothered Leanne and Perry to see whether they have access to the other folders - they don't, but they have their own users on this machine, with their own "/Brain/" folders. Also, my code wasn't available to them. They said the users were already set up for them when they joined, just like mine; IT support must be incredible around here.

In the end I decided to share the code with Leanne's user, in the off chance it would work for her. It did, just like I hoped, and Leanne got her graph.

I don't fully understand, but... great. Maybe I should talk to the IT support people, or take a few more coding classes.

---

The rest of the day was spent on boring menial tasks.

I bet my coworkers think I'm more trouble than I'm helpful, but hey - they'll change their minds, soon enough. After all, I didn't graduate top of my class just to be ignored at my job.

Luckily, at least C.N. already sees potential in me: before I left for the day, she said tomorrow I'll be tabling at an event called "The Gathering"! My first table, and on day 2? I can't wait!

I forgot to ask for the address, but I bet I can find all the info I need online. I'm obviously being tested, and I will show initiative, dependability, and bring a ton of new participants for the study!

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This is a playthrough of a solo TTRPG called "Outliers", by Sam Leigh, @goblinmixtape.

You can check it out on itch.io: https://far-horizons-co-op.itch.io/outliers

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Stuck in the endless loop of suffering (have so much homework and a migraine)

[featureenvyproductions]

Hey can someone out there give me a general idea of how much the average person understands about space travel and transfer orbits? I am Struggling to determine how hard I need to go on the thing I'm working on

[carlyraejepsans]

Question, has anyone pointed out to you yet that it was Papyrus who tells you to visit alphys after the date, which leads you to see the disfigured monsters? And it can't even be called a coincidence because Papyrus is literally nervously sweating while he tells you to go there and that he "only has good feelings about it"? Like, so many people in the fandom thought Sans knew her secret and he helped her get food and all But like...there is no way Papyrus wouldn't somehow know something was up....just saying...

oh no i know. i think the unspoken situation with that scene was either 1) flowey orchestrated it and told papyrus to call you and he's just a really bad liar under stress, or 2) papyrus noticed alphys feeling more depressed than normal during their workout, or maybe saying something that raised a red flag, and was worried that she might resort to drastic measures.

tbh i uhhh think it's definitely meant to be the first option. later when we get to the lab, you can find a slip of paper in the trash reading "I KNOW WHAT YOU DID". the only candidate who would both know about the amalgamates AND be cruel enough to threaten alphys like this is, once again, flowey. not to mention how he then proceeds to make papyrus call everyone to the barrier. this was all his plan! though i personally like to sprinkle in a bit of the second interpretation too. for flavor.

[miketroplex]

Ludwig Klein

It was once again time for a yearly visit from one of Ludwig's favorite long-running projects. Usually he spent the time leading up to appointments back in his research lab and waited for someone to press the call button the front desk, but this was a rare time he decided to actually use the desk. He was considering the logistics of hiring a secretary instead of doing everything himself when the whzz of the automatic entry door opening caught his attention. “Yeager, my boy, good to see you. How are you zhis afternoon?” He stood and approached Yag, arm reaching out for a handshake.

@sparepcrts

[evasive-anon]

PROJECT HALF-A MASTERPOST

Government Experiment AU where the Dan's (Dan/Danny/Dani) are created in a GIW lab to investigate the Ghost Zone after Jack and Maddie create the Ghost Portal. In this AU the GZ is radioactive and slowly kills any humans who venture inside so the GIW decide to create human ghost hybrids in order to further their research and capture additional subjects for their experiments.

Story told through GIW quarterly reports similar to SCP lab journal stories.

QUARTERLY REPORT 001 GHOST PORTAL OPENED, REQUIREMENT OF CONTAINMENT, AGENTS VOLUNTEER FOR EXPLORATION MISSION GHOST PORTAL INCIDENT REPORT 00001 DR. MASTERS OPENS GHOST PORTAL GHOST PORTAL INCIDENT REPORT 00002 THE BOX GHOST BREACHES THE PORTAL

QUARTERLY REPORT 002 CREATION OF FENTON THERMOS & SPECTER SPEEDER, FIELD TEAM THETA FORMED, ADDITIONAL REPORTS ATTACHED FIELD TEAM THETA DOSSIER FIELD TEAM THETA PSYCH EVAL

MISSION REPORT GZ-001 FIELD TEAM THETA REPORT ON THE FIRST GZ EXPLORATION MISSION. AUDIO LOG 001

Planned posts below:

MEDICAL REPORT XXXXX VLAD REMAINS COMATOSE, EFFECTS OF PORTAL EXPOSURE, TREATMENTS QUARTERLY REPORT XXX AGENTS REPORT ON DISCOVERIES IN THE GZ AND SIDE EFFECTS OF DIMENSIONAL TRAVELS INCIDENT REPORT XXXXX AGENTS DEVELOP ECTO-ILLNESS FROM GZ EXPOSURE INCIDENT REPORT XXXXX COMPILED REPORT OF DEATHS FROM ALL AGENTS ON THE GZ EXPEDITION QUARTERLY REPORT XXX START OF PROJECT HALFA, DRS. FENTON VOLUNTEER GENETIC MATERIAL MEDICAL REPORT XXXX VLAD RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO ECTOPLASMIC STIMULUS, REMAINS COMATOSE BUT SIGNS OF IMPROVED CONDITION QUARTERLY REPORT XXX CREATION OF FIRST HYBRID SUBJECT D.A.N. (DUAL APPARITION FOR NAVIGATION). APPOINTMENT OF PSYCHIATRIST JASMINE FENTON TO THE TEAM TO MANAGE SUBJECTS OF PROJECT HALFA PSYCH EVALUATION XXXX DR. JASMINE FENTON'S REPORT ON D.A.N. QUARTERLY REPORT XXX RESULTS OF DEVELOPMENT OF D.A.N. MEDICAL REPORT XXXX DR. MASTERS AWAKENS FROM COMA. DNA HAS BEEN PERMANENTLY ALTERED DUE TO EXPOSURE FROM THE PORTAL. HYPOTHESIZED HE MAY BE ABLE TO SURVIVE CONDITIONS IN THE GZ PSYCH EVALUATION XXXX DR. JASMINE FENTON'S REPORT ON DR. MASTERS FOLLOWING HIS ACCIDENT INCIDENT REPORT XXXXX D.A.N. BREACHES CONTAINMENT, ENCOUNTERS VLAD QUARTERLY REPORT XXX DR. MASTERS REASSIGNED FROM RESEARCH TEAM ALPHA TO NEWLY CREATED FIELD TEAM EPSILON TO DIRECT OPERATIVES IN GZ PSYCH EVALUATION XXXX DR. JASMINE FENTON'S REPORT ON D.A.N. AND DR. MASTERS FOLLOWING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FIELD TEAM EPSILON MISSION REPORT XXX FAILURE TO SUBDUE ECTOPLASMIC ENTITY DUE TO INSUBORDINATION QUARTERLY REPORT XXX WORK BEGINS ON THE CREATION OF D.A.N.N.Y. (DUAL APPARITION FOR NETHER NAVIGATION YOUTH).   QUARTERLY REPORT XXX ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUCCESS ON CREATION OF D.A.N.N.Y., EXPECTED TIMELINE FOR INCORPORATION INTO FIELD TEAM EPSILON PSYCH EVALUATION XXXX DR. JASMINE FENTON'S REPORT ON D.A.N.N.Y. Basics on Danny’s behavior, interactions with Dan, interactions with Vlad, etc. QUARTERLY REPORT XXX RESULTS OF EXPANDING FIELD TEAM EPSILON, ADDITIONAL EXPANSION WOULD PROVE BENEFICIAL, SHORTCOMINGS OF CURRENT TEAM PSYCH EVALUATION XXXX DR. JASMINE FENTON'S REPORT ON FIELD TEAM EPSILON FOLLOWING INTRODUCTION OF D.A.N.N.Y QUARTERLY REPORT XXX CREATION OF D.A.N.I. (DUAL APPARITION FOR NAVIGATION AND INFILTRATION) PSYCH EVALUATION XXXX DR. JASMINE FENTON'S REPORT ON D.A.N.I.

[ut-anomalous]

ENTRY NUMBER FOUR.

EXPERIMENTS ON THE

STRANGE WORLD HAVE

BEEN A FAILURE.

MY ASSISTANT SUGGESTED

WE SHOULD SEE

HOW OBJECTS REACT.

I SUPPOSE THAT

COULD POSSIBLY GARNER

SOME RESULTS.

ENDING ENTRY. - [REDACTED]

[starry-eyed-butch]

I meant to put this with the one earlier but I liked it too.

[mechaffeine]

Basically everything is broken in the lab including the things that were fixed literally monday

[labratcult]

Tupperware likes to make sure I'm okay when I'm in the shower