Science! Technology! Really Wild Things!

[empiricalpride]

Who: A whole posse of ~seekers of truth~...
Where: Radiant Garden
When: Some time post-'KH2'ish/P4Arena
What: SCIENCE. Poking Shadows, Heartless, and all that good stuff...
Warnings: Only for confusing shenanigans.

Slowly but surely, Radiant Garden is returning to normal. Something close to it, at least. Outside, in the city, buildings being restored. In the castle, new recruits taking up the guards' uniform. And in the basements...

It has been a long time since the laboratories had been fully functional. A long time since they'd been put to their old use.
But today, that's changing. Nothing so ... extreme as had once been studied, back in Xehanort's day. Darkness involved, yes, but no need to touch a human heart with it.
Time, today, to study what the human heart had managed to bring forth in two different worlds.

Even's gaze scans slowly over the two cages on the table, where two creatures are being held. The first: it could be at home here. Could even have been born here. A small humanoid creature, pure black, hitting out at its cage and trying to escape into an inky puddle.
A Heartless - a Shadow of the heart.
The other, a larger cage: something that this world had yet to see until now. The creature inside ignores him as he passes, looking more like it's ready to strike out at his gathered colleagues - new and old.
A Shadow of the psyche.

Quietly, he makes notes for a moment, before turning to the rest of the group.
"Very well, then. It would appear to be time for us to begin."

Comments

[shiroganefortune]

As the trio all move to their familiar places, Naoto can't help but feel a little superfluous. She knows, of course, that she's there for a specific purpose, that this is really no different to when she works alongside specific police departments as a consultant, but this feels a little different. Perhaps it's that here she's not sure how much she can bring that isn't already covered and that makes it harder for her to determine her role. Whatever the case, she's resigned to being little more than an observer for now.

Which isn't to say she can't offer up an observation or two of her own. "It may also be worth considering any differences in how they choose to attack, assuming there are any, and whether there's any connection to how they are generated. Though I admit, my experience with Shadows in a real-world environment is lacking." And the Kirijo group hadn't been in a hurry to share their research, though they did at least provide the baseline statistics for the Shadow they'd been lent.

Which, really, is another reason to be here. There had, after all, been a very real risk once that the entire city would have been turned to Shadow and she has to wonder how that would have worked out for those who had acquired their Personas - doubtless they would have stood out like a beacon amidst the Shadows of the people they once knew and that surely couldn't end well.

[empiricalpride]

"Valid points," Even says, barely glancing up towards the younger members of the group as he aims the spectrometer at the Shadow, seeing its reactions to the probing light rays as the data starts to flood in. A comment like that from him, he might as well be baking them cookies.

Naoto's remark, however, gets a further response. "None of us have any meaningful experience with Shadows in the 'real world' past your own. These will be new discoveries for us all..." He pauses for a brief moment. "However, if you wish to closely study a Heartless' attack and generation, you are welcome to any of our data you desire, including my recent recordings." His stored viewpoint on the Investigation Team's only true encounter with Heartless... and of its unfortunate consequences for their unprepared numbers.

"For now, come here - do you believe that you can handle the operation of the scanners, if I instruct you? My attention will ...be elsewhere shortly."