Halfway Laboratory.

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Plot:

Location: Halfway Laboratory Halfway Laboratory is a large, semi-industrial complex located deep underground that studies all forms of sciences, ranging from biosciences to computer simulation. Their primary directive can change, but it will always be focused on creating new things that don't exist. They have created new species many, many times. They have no plans of stopping. The Halfway Laboratory Complex consists of 7 floors, which get progressively tighter on security as you descend. Less dangerous or secretive things are done on the higher floors, while highly dangerous and secretive operations are done below. Floors are labeled as Sectors. For example, the highest floor (the main enterance) is Sector 00, and the bottom floor is sector 06. Keycards are how employees access their designated work areas and are how security works. Keycards can unlock their level and below. Level 1 keycards can only access level 1 areas, level 2 keycards can access both level 2 and level 1, while level 7 can access the entire facility. Keycards can be read at keycard readers, normally placed on the wall next to the door or system that they operate. Their access level requirement can be read on the reader's display. Keycards get rarer the higher access they have. You can easily find hundreds of scientists with level 1 access, but only a few with level 5. Only the secretive administration and highly trusted scientists has access to level 7 keycards, of which there are only 5. As stated previously, Sector 00 is the main enterance. This floor is above ground, but has no windows. On this floor is only two areas, the Reception and Dockyard rooms. Reception is only a large, white-walled, tile floored room with a few benches and architecture. The roof of this room is made of screens that display a live feed of the sky taken by a set of cameras on the roof. The Dockyard is a huge warehouse where the facility accepts deliveries of supplies from the occasional delivery trucks that arrive to drop off needed supplies at the large gate doors. This room has tight security due to being a restricted location. The floor below is Sector 01, where most general research takes place. This sector has a large branching set of hallways, with four different wings. Each wing consists of 8 rooms, excluding the biology wing which consists of two large rooms. There is the Physics wing, where studies of physics and most laws surrounding it are found and studied. There is the computing wing, where general study of computer science and programming takes place. There is the biology wing, where basic biology studies of most known species occur. There is also the assembly wing, where robotics and machinery is researched. This floor requires no keycards to reach, but every room here requires a level 1 keycard to enter. Nothing strange or anomalous happens here. The next floor is Sector 02, below sector 01. Sector 02 requires a level 2 keycard to enter or exit. Sector 02 is where things begin getting anomalous. This floor is built exactly like Sector 01, but there are only four large rooms separated by one branching hallway. This area is devoted to two wings, each wing possessing two rooms. The first wing is advanced biosciences. The second wing is advanced robotics. These wings are tasked with studying/synthesizing DNA and creating the technology necessary to do so. There is a bunch of equipment and machinery here that proves this. This area is still mostly normal and not as anomalous, but some strange things will happen here occasionally. After Sector 02 is Sector 03, which requires Level 3 access to enter or exit. This is where things actually begin getting strange. This sector is made of 16 rooms, each being a seperate miscellaneous laboratory and/or testing area. Each area here changes its purpose once it has a new task given by upper management. These areas are used as testing grounds for things made by the layers below and above. Nothing of interest is here besides for the fact that there is the most ventilation here than any other area. There are some anomalies here such as packaged gravity crystals and some connections to the voidway in certain rooms. Sector 04 is the Employee Relaxation Center (also known as Halfway Park) and Specimen Study Area. The Relaxation Center portion of Sector 04 can be accessed with only a level 1 keycard via the elevator, but the specimen study area requires level 4 access. This sector is only one gigantic room, with a huge open space of artificial grass with concrete sidewalks surrounding and going through it. behind the sidewalks is a tall concrete border surrounding the edges of the room. In here is also a smaller concrete area with large industrial ventilation shafts to create an artificial breeze, and a small track for cart racing. this area also features a few fake trees dotting the landscape. A few feet away from the enterance is a concrete wall, with a large sign that reads "Halfway Park" on it. The specimen study area is pretty much the exact same thing as Halfway Park, but smaller and with a few concrete walls that could be used for testing agility. This room is highly monitored and is connected to Sector 05 via an industrial lift seperate from the normal employee elevator. Specimens are studied, monitored, stored and experimented on here. Sector 05 is where things begin getting darker. Sector 05 requires level 5 access to enter or exit. There are 66 rooms here, two large rooms used for generation and study of completely new species crafted by the workers in Sector 02, and 64 containment cells where said creatures are stored once created. Each cell has a capacitance of ~256 humanoid specimens. No workers on and below Sector 05 ever leave the facility, as they know too much. They are kept in general barracks areas in Sector 06. Sector 05 is where security begins getting tighter, with security cameras everywhere and Level 4 access locks on every door. You need a keycard to get into almost anything. Thankfully, the lower layers of the lab have older keycard readers that can be bypassed with an electrical shock or by being hit very, very hard. Sector 06 is the bottom layer. This sector is mostly abandoned except for the barracks area and Heavy Containment and the Library. The barracks portion requires only level 5 access to enter, but most of the forgotten halls and rooms branching off of the barracks require level 6. These rooms and hallways are completely unmonitored and full of escaped specimens. Some of said escaped specimens (specifically a large set of Experiments, and a few Milkies and Dunes) have actually created a small rebel base here. There are 32 rooms here total, connected by branching hallways. If you successfully make it through this area, you can reach Heavy Containment or The Library. Heavy Containment and The Library require level 7 access to enter. Heavy containment is a long, large hallway sealed off by a large blast-resistant door. This hallway has 12 large cells with blast doors of their own. High-risk specimens are kept here. On the other side of Sector 06 is The Library. The Library is one gigantic cylindrical room, with outer bookshelves lining the walls and an inner cylinder covered in filing cabinets. This area contains copies of every document ever created in or gathered for this laboratory. Basically, this area is a summary of all human knowledge generated by this laboratory and/or gathered by it.

Specimens:

There is an assortment of specimens kept here, each being made by the laboratory. They know nothing of the outside world. Some examples of specimens created here: Experiments: Experiments are artificial creatures. They are the result of science going too far. Experiments are tall-ish, bipedal anthros created from the combination of homo, canis and rattus DNA (human, dog and rat). They are also referred to as SAW-01, the first of which all other members of the Sawian "species" are based upon. They have mainly black fur, with yellowish-orange bioluminescent eyes. Just like their eyes, the tip of their tail is the same color, and also glows. They have huge, black pupils. They have four fluffy ear-like spikes that come off the back of their head. They have digitigrade stanced legs. They are mildly disproportionately thick on their legs and bottom torso, having impressive lower body strength. They do have opposable thumbs, and can use most machinery. They are almost, if not just as smart as a human. They are normally given brain implants at birth that allow for scientists and the Experiment themselves to check current vitals and body integrity as well as allowing the scientists to instantly kill them (with high enough clearance), the ones that have these implants referred to as "chipped". Being an artificial being, they are prone to disease and only have a lifespan of 40 years, which gets longer if allowed to create new generations, as they can reproduce. Most, if not all of them are treated unfairly by their human captors. Most of them fear humans. Milkies: Milkies are in general description artificial anthropomorphic amalgamations of human, fox, and shark, genetic material. Their species is also referred to as SAW-03, based off of SAW-01. They are built in an anthropomorphic fashion, standing on two digitigrade legs but somewhat possessing the general humanoid shape of a human. They possess mildly flat snouts, canine-esque ears, a large tail, and strangely fins on their back. They possess claws and pawpads on their four-fingered "hands" and footpaws. They are fluffily white furred. They are unimpressive in stature and physical characteristics, only standing at up to 5' 6" (five feet six inches tall) at most and being somewhat weaker than their genetic counterparts. They have black eyes with blue pupils. They possess semi-aquatic-style eyes allowing them to see underwater, a trait from their aquatic genetics. They are normally given brain implants at birth that allow for scientists and the Experiment themselves to check current vitals and body integrity as well as allowing scientists to instantly kill them (with high enough clearance), the ones that have these implants referred to as "chipped". They are surprisingly intelligent, and even somewhat arrogant. They normally have a weapon of some kind on them to offset their unimpressive physical characteristics. They hate humans with a burning passion. They are basically just white, short, worse-off Experiments. Dunes: Dunes are a subspecies of the Experiment (SAW-01) species. They are artificially created, Dunes being a genetic offshoot made with significantly higher concentrations of DNA from sources such as cockroaches, spiders, and general amphibians. They are normally a light muddy brown color and not as fluffed as general Experiments, possessing scales and some bare chitin the same color as their fur. They have two-toes, bug-like feet and legs. They possess four-fingered webbed paws and claws as hands. They do have opposable thumbs and can grip objects. They have many sharper teeth, worse to get bitten by than a general Experiment. They possess khaki-colored fin-like structures eminating vertically from the sides of their heads, along with antennae similar to that of a cockroach of the same color. They possess other fin-like structures of that same khaki color eminating from the back of their shoulders and from their thighs. They have a long, mildly fluffed tail which also acts as a fin. They are able to breathe under water due to the six khaki-colored gills they possess in pairs on the sides of their torso. They have shiny black eyes similar to a that of a spider. They are normally large, tall (normally bordering 6 feet tall or higher), brutish, and normally not as intelligent as most. All they think about is what you would taste like, no matter if you are friends with them or not. They can eat almost anything and call it good, even raw meat or tainted water. They are pretty hard to kill, unlike an average Experiment. They don't understand most concepts such as love, currency, hugs, etc. They do enjoy ANY meaty or savory food, which is the best way to get them to like you in a pinch. They normally cannot speak well when compared to Experiments (which speak reminiscent of "Hey, how are you? I'm great!"), Dunes are always slurring their words, pausing mid-word, taking long spaces, lacking words, etc. An example of a Dune's speech would be "Oh... He-llo. Fri-end... Stay. I s-ay... please? Yes... I ha-ave food. If Fri-end want...". They dislike anything related to scientists or humans in general. Protogens: Protogens are an artificial species of machine-like synthetic (organic, but created by something other than nature with non-living materials) organisms. When first created (they begin consciousness as adults due to being grown in labs) they are basically just an anthropomorphic, plantigrade wolf creature. After being put through their factory, they gain armor panels and their signature full-face sharknose-esque visor. Their visor is made of nanites, allowing it to appear as a black, solid display but open like an actual mouth if needed. Their visors display two triangle shapes and a jagged line to represent eyes and a mouth, to display emotion. Their visor can display other things like boot status or progress bars instead of their face when needed. They have antennae that jut backwards from the sides of their visor/face. They are mainly mass produced for a one-time purchase work drone that can operate in almost any condition. They are normally brainwashed to be friendly to their overseers. Protogens are never found in containment cells as they are used for manual labor almost all of the time. Only the 3 ever known to have consciousness are kept in heavy containment cells.

They are all kept here and secured, as they cannot leave. Some are used for work, some others for general labor, some are used as test subjects for new specimens, and some have even become trusted enough to be hired as staff (although, this is extremely rare).

There are also a major anomaly here, which is:

The Voidway: a place beyond reality that can be entered through transfer of consciousness. If you are in the voidway, you are technically immortal. Void energy (purple and green shiny sludge), Void crystals (crystalized void energy), and gravity crystals (crystals that can affect gravity in different ways depending on how they are used) can be found here. If you play music for the void, the void can generate entire worlds. The voidway is infinitely expansive. Anything could be out there.

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