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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rybaer" data-source="post: 1632175" data-attributes="member: 118">Dr. Linderman is very much interested in seeing Professor Fate as soon as possible.  That other metahumans might come along makes him even happier.Professor Fate's call to Jorgi conveys the information about meeting Dr. Linderman at the Biological Sciences building on campus as soon as possible.*****Back at the Keyhole Apartments...The officers on the scene get interrupted by a call over the radio.  They apologize for having to leave the scene, but apparently there is a more pressing issue needing their attention."Doesn't look like this one's going to be much hassle anymore anyway," one cop says on his way out.  "Just keep everyone out of the basement for now."Jorgi relays Professor Fate's message about meeting a professor at the university's mycology lab as soon as possible.  They pile into Lawrence's brother's car and head up toward campus.*****Thurman Biological Sciences building, CC State University, Coast CityApr 1723:05Professor Fate spots his fellow metahumans as they pile out of a car in front of Thurman Hall.  Late on a Saturday night, this part of campus is nearly deserted and Fate's landing attracts no attention."I've never felt like such a fifth wheel before," Andrew says as he locks the car.A janitor meets the group at the door, unlocking it to let them in.  "You've gotta be the guys that the Professor asked me to let in," he says.  "Can't imagine anyone else wearing an outfit like that on campus unless it was Halloween.  You can take that elevator over there to the seventh floor.  Hang a right when you get up there."The building is deathly silent and dimly lit.  The hum of the elevator only accentuates the quiet.  The doors slide open at the seventh floor into a lobby adorned with display cases and dozens of posters and photographs.  Many pictures are of bizarre and colorful mushrooms.  Other pictures are of organisms too far outside the realm of the mundane to be able to identify.A sign in the center of the opposite wall proclaims:"Mycology Research Group - where the fungus are among-us!"An open door with Professor Linderman's name stenciled in the window welcomes them just a short walk down the hall.  The room is clearly a well-used lab, stocked with chemical bottles, microscopes, crowded benches, and terrariums full of various fungi.  There is a strong earthy, decaying smell to the lab.Fate knocks politely on the door and a head pops up from behind one of the benches.  "Oh, hello there," he says and comes around the shake hands.  "I'm Doctor Linderman, but you're welcome to call me Mike.  So glad you could come on such short notice."Dr. Linderman is a slightly overweight man in his late fifties.  He's balding on top and what hair is left is mostly gray.  He wears wire-rimmed glasses, a coffee and dirt-stained labcoat, and a friendly smile."So, all of you are metahumans then?" he asks.  Andrew, from the doorway, politely comments that he is not.  The others all admit that they are."Well," he says, "I was going to start by asking what you know about fungi.  I think it might be more appropriate, however, to start by asking how much you know about what the Curtain energy fields have done to your own bodies."</blockquote>

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