Freaky hydrogen powers. Something as complicated as the serum would show up to his senses as a sea of different hydrogen oscillations, compared to the other pure samples of chemicals you'd find in a lab it would be fairly easy to pick out.

I figured on that, but how would he understand that what he was sensing was what he was looking for? When did he learn to identify specific "hydrogen oscillations", that he would even know which one to look for?

And don't tell me he's looking for the same thing as he sensed in us; being as he's looking for an unmapped sample, I'm pretty sure it would feel different than what the rest of us got.

Hmm...I would expect that the serum would not be the only complex chemical to be found in the lab. Especially in a place that's been doing highly complicated biomedical research, there's going to be all manner of drugs with all manner of complicated chemical signatures.

I think his plan was just to find the most complicated chemical and assume it was that. There's also a good chance that it would be in pride of place, or at least a labeled box, so that's another possible reason for finding it.

Well, that's a definite sign that Will hasn't thought that through; making assumptions about unstable chemicals can have serious consequences.

Also, the key cards Caleb is carrying are labeled with an unknown code; if the chemicals are labeled, said labels would probably be in code as well... if not by default, than certainly after Will caused that fire, if the people running this place have any pennies at all.

If you believe Will thinks things through then you have not been paying attention. Anyway, as per labeling, I suppose it depends on whether they expected the inoculates to get into the labs, and whether they had time to re-label things. We might need a mod to say yay or nay on that one.

I doubt they would need to intentionally code the labels to thwart escapees--they are likely to be illegible just by their nature. It's not like the container (whatever that is) is going to be labelled "Base version of freaky shapeshifting serum," it'll more likely read something like (making something vaguely plausible up off the top of my head) "43x1020-000A," with 1020 being a batch number, 000A being the serial code for the unmapped serum. Not encrypted with the intent to deceive, just with the intent to be bureaucratically efficient, but the effect is the same.

Hmm fair point. On the other hand something with a weird label and feeling weird to his senses is just the thing Will would pocket, it might turn out to be detergent, but it wouldn't stop him trying.

Question: How many still active people intend on escaping the facility and who don't?

Heather's ready to get out or die trying

Ference intends to escape. Intends being the keyword.

Damien will probably end up staying behind, on account of his magnetic power is worth more within the facility than out in the wilderness.

Outside, with no metal to manipulate, he's just a compass, but he's been slowly building a map of the inside since day one, and if something goes wrong inside, there's a lot more that he can do to defend himself and his allies.

Will's on his way out. If we're lucky he won't flood the facility in order to do so

Sabra doesn't want to stay with the jerkfaces. She intends to escape with Abel and Caleb's motley group.

At least there's one guy that wants to stay.

Sam's in a bit of a mental dilemma; he's gonna flip when he's offered the chance of escape. I'd assume him being so anti-social (kind of a lot more than I had previously hoped, to be honest!) there would be nothing waiting for him out there - just as much as there would be nothing waiting for him in the facility - except maybe the moments where he does get to use his power.

PS. I just realized Sam could essentially be Will's Water Puppet (like a blood puppet, but with water!) since Sam's power relies on the excretion and control of water-based molecules and enzymes to form an icy crystalline substance similar in lattice to plain frozen water but of varying durability, there's hydrogen in there that Will could learn to manipulate. Freaky idea if Will decides to be a total jerk when his powers do get that far. XD

I think Will is going to get himself killed long before he becomes powerful enough to drag people around with his power, don't worry about that.

Nezeret is getting the frig out of there as fast as he can. the fact that his animal form can fly is a great advantage out there.

Caleb definitely intends to get out. But... he won't leave without Abel, and I'm fairly certain Abel won't leave without Sabra.

so we in the cage room got released but.......where would we post going afterwards? would we just wait for a new thread to be created for us once we leave the cage room?