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<span class="mu-s">'Not just any corpse, sir, the thing was something out of this word. Flowers, wires, growing out of its body...'</span>
<span class="mu-s">That's not the weirdest thing though.</span>
<span class="mu-s">What would that be, sir?</span>
<span class="mu-s">I recognized its face. You know <span class="mu-b">Rolle Ann</span>? That lady who used to run the movie theater way back when? <span class="mu-b">It had her face.</span></span>
<span class="mu-s">Bullshit! You for real? Didn't she go missing, like, four years ago?</span>
<span class="mu-s">I saw what I saw, man. I think she recognized me too. She was muttering about being able to 'keep living her dream' for once. I'm not even sure how a corpse like that could talk.</span>
There's not much about the actual properties of IN LIMBO but that name. That could be a lead. You ask the <span class="mu-b">Man</span> what information about Rolle Ann he could gleam from the forum.
The public information about her on ABNOWATCH is pretty scarce. She operated the Roosevelt Meadow Theater between the years 1980 and 2020 and she was a popular local figure in the town she came from. There's a thread or two about her disappearance back in 2020 but no one knows why she disappeared.
There are two notable snippets of information you can gleam. One, the movie theater was barely able to stay afloat after the late 2010s and she was struggling to run it in her old age. Two, <span class="mu-b">she had a passionate interest in cultivating flowers.</span>
Hm. So this anomaly might believe it's Rolle Ann or, somehow, Rolle Ann got turned into an anomaly from some other means. That could open up a line of questioning, at least.
That's about as much as you're going to discover for now. You and the <span class="mu-b">Man</span> spend the next half hour helping out Lucy with the research she's been doing.
The three of you manage to discover a way to actually extract the digestive enzyme from the mold. The actual purity of it isn't the best but with what limited equipment you have? It's better than nothing. All it took was mixing a tiny amount of bleach and degreaser with a sample of mold to extract it.
Chemical analyzer shows that the fluid you're able to create is about 65% enzyme and 35% waste product (dead mold, contaminated bleach/degreaser, etc). With the ratio given, you'd say that each sample of mold could extract about 0.5 samples worth of digestive enzyme.
Tests with the enzyme show that, outside of being unable to consume the metal samples you have access to (stainless steel), it's able to digest basically anything else you pour on it. It's a lot slower than what the mold could do naturally but, from all of the tests you run on it, it digests things a LOT cleaner than the Mold does.
A whole bucket of grimy water takes about two samples worth and an hour to purify. Lucy sighs as she examples the purified(?) water underneath a microscope.
"There's still trace elements of bleach and bio-biological contamination in it. W-we need to figure out a better ratio but w-we can sell it at least!"
>You figured out all of the ways you could profit off the CIGARETTE MOLD!
