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The actual lab itself is pretty barren. There's shelves that once held various chemicals and raw materials but those are (mostly) empty now. There's no equipment like microscopes or centrifuges or whatever you'd expect for a chemistry lab.
All that there is inside of this lab is...radio machinery. Lots and lots and lots of it. On every single counter, shelf, table or chair there's another random schizophrenic mess of wiring and cabling stuffed into old and bulky radios from the 1930s. Each of them are seemingly connected to each other, all of which leads to something in the center of the room.
A pile of radios piling ten feet up, hitting right against the roof of the lab itself, stands proudly in the center. Well, it's more than a pile. The radios that make up the pile have blended together and merged into an amalgamation of wood, wiring, and vacuum tubes. The dials are written in Russian but from what Alexis tells you, it's all just gibberish.
There's an odd electricity to the air. Suddenly, everyone (especially you and Wendy) begin to feel some sort of presence in the room now. The radio themselves didn't read as anomalous to you but as they turn on...
".-- -. .. -- .- -. .. ." An odd series of morse code blips begins to pour out of the radio. You faintly recall learning it during one of your more delusional episodes involving the spooks but that's just gibberish. It doesn't mean anything. ".-- .-. .- --. --.. .- -- . ---. . -. ...... .-- .-. .- --. --.. .- -- . ---. . -. ......!" You swear it almost sounds...taunting?
"It's been blaring that ever since we got here. Creepy shit." Lex shivers upon hearing the code start up again.
[LYUBOV ALLY] The mostly silent elder suddenly awakens from her stupor. "It doesn't want you here. My grandchildren, they...they would try talking to it but...that's why they stayed on the first floor and..." She goes silent now.
You doubt she's actually referring to her kids; Probably the people of WHITEROCK who have been using this facility. She's not wrong given the odd air in the room getting worse and worse and worse.
The ETF agents move to try to communicate with the anomaly through whatever means they can. LYUBOV slowly stumbles after them in an attempt to help in her dazed state. You turn to your group for any advice, you're not sure how to communicate with something that seems to be in the waves.
[SIXTH SENSE] "I don't think we should be here. There's two other anomalies, let's deal with them. Let the ETFs kill themselves here. If we must do something, we should alter the signal."
[HUNTER OF THE CITY] "It's clearly planning something. We should break it, weaken its connection. If that spider lady was right, it sees us as a THREAT."
[BIOJACKER] "THIS SHELL IS FAILING ME. I WANT TO TRY SOMETHING DUMB BEFORE LOSING IT: JAB ONE OF THE WIRES INTO ME. I AM INTERESTED TO SEE IF I COULD ATTEMPT TO COMMUNICATE."
[I-CORP RESIDENT] Alexis seems to figure something out. "I think I can translate it."
