DQS Research Labs

Description

Before the Ant Quest is completed:

Far away from the main part of the University is a large, grey, windowless building. A small nameplate identifies it as the Department of Questionable Sciences.

You wonder just what "Questionable Sciences" might be, but it doesn't look like you're going to find out in a hurry, as there's a small sign taped to the door reading "Back in 5 Minutes".

You get the feeling it's going to be longer than that.

With the Ant Queen's identification plate, the following is added:

Far away from the main part of the University is a large, grey, windowless building. A small nameplate identifies it as the Department of Questionable Sciences.

You wonder just what "Questionable Sciences" might be, but it doesn't look like you're going to find out in a hurry, as there's a small sign taped to the door reading "Back in 5 Minutes".

That's all well and good, but you've got this identification plate thing, and you want to return it. You decide to knock on the door, just in case.

You knock, rather feebly, on the solid steel door and wait. After a couple of minutes the door opens a crack, and a voice says "What do you want?"

"Well," you begin, "I found this ant thing you see, and..."

Before you can finish, the voice exclaims, "Oh! That thing! You took care of that little... ah, problem then? Good for you!"

You're about to say something, when the voice continues.

"Listen," it says, "we're pretty busy, but you can just give me that identification plate and, um, here take this cash and, ah, come back and see us later, OK?"

You hold out the identification plate and a hand emerges from the crack in the door, takes the plate and hands you a fistful of moolah.

You have a bunch of questions, but before you can ask any of them, the door has slammed shut again.

You gain 2,000 Moolah.

After the Ant Quest is completed AND you are at least Level 7:

Far away from the main part of the University is a large, grey, windowless building. A small nameplate identifies it as the Department of Questionable Sciences.

You wonder just what "Questionable Sciences" might be, but it doesn't look like you're going to find out in a hurry, as there's a small sign taped to the door reading "Back in 5 Minutes".

You decide that you're bored waiting, and bang on the door as hard as you can.

The door opens a crack, and an irritable voice says, "You again? Seriously, don't you have anything better to do than... wait a second... what's your name?"

"Um, <PLAYERNAME>. Why?" you reply, hesitantly.

"Holy cr.... Oh man, I mean.. wow, we've been looking for you! Come in, quick."

The door is flung open by a guy in a lab coat, who ushers you quickly inside and closes the door behind you. You find yourself in a large room, with doors opening off in various directions. The doors have signs on them, indicating that they're laboratories for different branches of unpronouncable, and probably questionable, science.

Suddenly, you hear a muffled, but nonetheless loud and somewhat unearthly bellowing, coming from behind one of the doors. You can't make out the words, but you think you can vaguely hear your name, which is unsettling, to say the least.

"What the heck is THAT?" you ask.

"Well," replies the lab-coat guy, "we were conducting some.. rather unusual experiments, you see, and, well, I can't go into too much detail, but it appears we opened some kind of portal. At least, we're pretty sure it was a portal - it was all kind of glowy, and sort of wibbly wobbly and stuff."

"Anyway," he continues, "the point is that something.. or rather, someone.. came through the portal. From what we can gather, his name is Legion, and he seems to be looking for you!"

"Ever since he arrived, he's been making that racket, and generally tearing up the place. We managed to get him contained in one of the labs, but the noise is still driving us mad. Look, if you could just go and find out what he wants, perhaps he'll go away again? Or at least stop making all that noise."

Your task log has been updated.

Subsequent visits:

You're in a large room, with a series of doors leading off in various directions. The signs on the doors suggest that they lead to laboratories for a variety of questionable, and highly unpronouncable, sciences.

Astrophysiologymnometrics Lab	Exointrinsicbiotechnomystifics Lab	Geospatiodynamostatics Lab
Trigonopolymonomathopathology Lab	Ultraspatiotemporalanomalistics Lab

Rewards

• 2,000 moolah for completing the Ants In a Park Quest.

Locations

• Paradox University

Notes

• The images for the labs were added on December, 1, 2009.