T's Lab

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

11:10AM

Guidelines for Researchers Working With Live Subjects:

Welcome to our organization. We are pleased to have you on our team of dedicated research scientists and look forward to working with you to ensure that your research is successful and conclusive.

We strive to provide you with materials and study subjects of the highest quality, yielding safe, effective investigations and consistent results. Our facility can cater to your individual requirements for various studies, please contact the following departments with any special requests at their listed extensions:

Facility Rental Space: 3874
Medical Supply and Services: 2801
Pharmacy: 1943
Subject Care and Housing: 4850
Subject Nutrition: 8827
Security: 3397

This organization is unique in its ability to provide live subjects with a wide range of phenotypes and abilities. Your safety is our number one concern. Our trained staff of security and health personnel are at your service to assist with your research procedures. Here are some policies for your review that are in place for your safety and the security of the organization:

Health of Subjects We understand that your research might compromise the health of the subjects you are working with. Due to the rarity of some our subjects, many researchers may be working with the same specimen. It is therefore important that all procedures performed on a subject do not influence the research of another staff member. All procedures with the risk of injury or illness to the subject must be cleared with the Subject Care and Housing department (ext 4850). If permanent injury is necessary to your studies, proper scheduling will be arranged with all researchers in mind.

Subject Nutrition All subjects are fed a diet that matches their caloric needs as indicated by weekly weight measurements. For any research requiring a deviation from this plan and for special dietary needs or requests, please contact the Subject Nutrition department (ext. 8827).

Equipment and Laboratory Space Rental Our facility boasts a wide range of equipment and laboratory space available for your research. Please contact the Facility Rental Space department (ext. 3874) for a full list of materials, diagnostic machinery, and laboratory or surgery space to schedule available time. If you require tools or space that is not currently available, we will do our best to obtain them for you. Our staff of highly trained technicians is also available to help you with diagnostic and surgical procedures, data collection, and security.

Subject Transport Our Security department (ext. 3397) offers an experienced staff to assist with safe and efficient subject transport to your laboratory space, field locations, or other facilities. All physical and chemical restraint procedures are predetermined and provided by the security department for your convenience and protection. Requests for changes to transport methods will be handled on a case-by-case basis.

Enrichment For the mental health of our subjects, many are provided with reading material as security allows. If you choose to follow up on any special requests made by subjects, there are a few guidelines for what is and is not allowed to be in a subject's possession. All reading material is allowed, as are small devices such as personal video game equipment, radios, many art supplies, music players, and an an assortment of playthings for child subjects. A full list of approved items is available for review from the Security Department (ext. 3397). Please note that no items that allow for communication outside of a subject's quarters is allowed, nor is any item that may be used as a weapon. Subjects are monitored 24 hours a day by closed-circuit cameras and audio recorders. If any suspicious behavior is detected, the items will be confiscated immediately and will be returned to you. Any items altered, disassembled, or soiled by the subjects will also be removed and not replaced.

Termination of Subjects While procedures that terminate the life of a subject are sometimes necessary, the organization requires an official request to be submitted for review prior to termination of life. Since some subjects are one-of-a-kind specimens, compensation may be required, and occasionally such requests will be turned down. Please review your research and inform the Subject Care and Housing Department (ext. 4850) of any research that requires or may include the risk of death to the subject.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2006

8:54PM - Alistair

Some had been released, but at least T was able to get a bit of preliminary data about him. Looks like a human, built like a carnivore: able to eat and digest massive volumes of food, and fast for long periods of time. His resting metabolism is remarkably low, but is capable of jumping up very quickly to high levels when digesting. A fascinating subject. But on to another, more stable, example of super-human.

Munro, Alistair. An object-reader. Not an ability she's heard of in the past, but even experiments yeilding no signifigant differences from normal humans would be valuable. She writes up a proposal, gets approved, and sends for her subject.

Current mood: productive

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Wednesday, January 4, 2006

10:50PM - New Years

Doctor T hadn't even been shown where the bathroom was yet, and here she had her very own, and well-equipped, if she does say so herself, laboratory space. All of her own equipment has been mostly unpacked, but many new (and expensive) devices and aids have been added for her convenience - a computerized heart-rate monitor with EKG abilities, updated O2 and CO2 analizers to replace her ailing but trusty set-up, various treadmills, weights, stair-stepping machines, and even an elevated mini-pool with a current generator, simulating a never-ending lap pool in a space no more than 8 feet by 12 feet. A gym, basically, with enough monitors to watch over and provide numbers and graphical representations of body performance down to the very last juele.

But this gym is not for her...well, maybe on the weekends. This equipment is for use by, for use on, some very interesting human test subjects. The thrill of embarking into the unknown, the completely unresearched, sends T into a rather undignified girly twirl about the new space, marveling in her reflection both in the ceiling tiles and the hyper-polished linoleum floor.

Yes, this was going to be a fantastic job opportunity.

Current mood:

chipper