Timeline - Day 51
It's all fun and games until someone has an unwanted lumbar puncture and nonconsensual cranial surgery.
Cafeteria: Javert: Information exchange.
Shower:
Sun Room: Spock:
Cafeteria: Mello: Has insupportable theories.
(Agreed outcome: brief acknowledgment of M-U.)
Arts and Crafts Room: Sylar: Hey, it's that guy.
Dinner: Abe:
Night Shift:
M-U funtimes with Watari
(Unfinished! The NPC mod got overwhelmed with commitments.)
I'll write up more of the basic plan for the M-U another time, but it can be summarized as such:
L was strapped down, face down, and given a pulse oximeter before he woke up, which was incorporated solely so that his heartbeat would be represented with relatively loud beeps in the room. It's important for him to watch his heart, after all.
Through most of the procedure, the doctor did an excellent job of impersonating Watari. L would have struggled with that at times, because Watari doesn't have the medical capabilities to do what the doctor did. However, the sedation he was given made it difficult for him to think clearly, caused hallucinations, and made him drift in and out of consciousness, all of which made it hard for him to make accurate observations or interpretations of what was happening.
L was given a lumbar puncture. The reasoning behind it had no real medical basis except that he was to be studied. In a normal situation, the side effects of a spinal tap like this might be 1-2 days of headache, a lower back ache the next day, and nausea. He experienced all of these side effects the next day, although the Institute's accelerated healing meant that they got better as the day went on.
Finally, the back of his head was cut into, a small implant was placed in his brain, and he was sewn back up. He was told that the implant would do two things: enable him to tell when a new acquaintance is evil, and enable him to tell when someone lies to him in a blatant way. Evasion doesn't activate the implant, and neither do Landel's staff members. The injury will require about three days of recovery time, during which he has bandages wrapped around his head to hold a clean gauze pad (wound dressing that would catch fluids) to the back of it. His head was not shaved at the incision site (there are surgical methods that allow for the hair to be kept), and he had dissolving stitches. The pad was mostly there to keep the area clean and to cushion it.
Most of what happened in the M-U apart from the physical details of the brain surgery itself was designed to amp up his feelings of powerlessness. However, he was told something along the lines of how, with the Kira case going as it had been, Watari couldn't risk losing him and had taken matters into his own hands, deciding to work with Landel's on making L more effective than ever.
By the end of the procedure, he had put two and two together and figured out that the doctor was only impersonating Watari.
Needs to talk to:
Bulletin Posts:
Posted:
_RECIPIENT_ - _DESCRIPTION_ (_HANDWRITING NOTE_)
(ANY NECESSARY EXPLANATIONS?)
Replied or Noted:
_PEOPLE IN CONVERSATION BEING OBSERVED_
Quote: Lance Armstrong
Cafeteria: Javert: Information exchange.
Shower:
Sun Room: Spock:
Cafeteria: Mello: Has insupportable theories.
(Agreed outcome: brief acknowledgment of M-U.)
Arts and Crafts Room: Sylar: Hey, it's that guy.
Dinner: Abe:
Night Shift:
M-U funtimes with Watari
(Unfinished! The NPC mod got overwhelmed with commitments.)
I'll write up more of the basic plan for the M-U another time, but it can be summarized as such:
L was strapped down, face down, and given a pulse oximeter before he woke up, which was incorporated solely so that his heartbeat would be represented with relatively loud beeps in the room. It's important for him to watch his heart, after all.
Through most of the procedure, the doctor did an excellent job of impersonating Watari. L would have struggled with that at times, because Watari doesn't have the medical capabilities to do what the doctor did. However, the sedation he was given made it difficult for him to think clearly, caused hallucinations, and made him drift in and out of consciousness, all of which made it hard for him to make accurate observations or interpretations of what was happening.
L was given a lumbar puncture. The reasoning behind it had no real medical basis except that he was to be studied. In a normal situation, the side effects of a spinal tap like this might be 1-2 days of headache, a lower back ache the next day, and nausea. He experienced all of these side effects the next day, although the Institute's accelerated healing meant that they got better as the day went on.
Finally, the back of his head was cut into, a small implant was placed in his brain, and he was sewn back up. He was told that the implant would do two things: enable him to tell when a new acquaintance is evil, and enable him to tell when someone lies to him in a blatant way. Evasion doesn't activate the implant, and neither do Landel's staff members. The injury will require about three days of recovery time, during which he has bandages wrapped around his head to hold a clean gauze pad (wound dressing that would catch fluids) to the back of it. His head was not shaved at the incision site (there are surgical methods that allow for the hair to be kept), and he had dissolving stitches. The pad was mostly there to keep the area clean and to cushion it.
Most of what happened in the M-U apart from the physical details of the brain surgery itself was designed to amp up his feelings of powerlessness. However, he was told something along the lines of how, with the Kira case going as it had been, Watari couldn't risk losing him and had taken matters into his own hands, deciding to work with Landel's on making L more effective than ever.
By the end of the procedure, he had put two and two together and figured out that the doctor was only impersonating Watari.
Needs to talk to:
Bulletin Posts:
Posted:
_RECIPIENT_ - _DESCRIPTION_ (_HANDWRITING NOTE_)
(ANY NECESSARY EXPLANATIONS?)
Replied or Noted:
_PEOPLE IN CONVERSATION BEING OBSERVED_
Quote: Lance Armstrong