While Weaver is certainly not opposed to helping make sense of Alastair's research and obtaining a copy of it, she reminds Will that her deal with all of them is that she will help so long as they help her in return to get the station cleaned up, patched up, and safe for her to stay in long-term. Yes, dealing with the spirits there has been part of that. She appreciates it. But the corridors are flooded, there are still bodies and blood here and there, and a lot of damaged hallways and rooms. Want to pick up a mop or a wrench and do something about it, Will?

As she says this, she plugs in some coordinates into the portal for several buckets, some mops, some soap, and a new set of screwdrivers. Oh look! Even an instruction manual that's at Will's level.

Let us know if the team is willing to commit to coming back down to help out in exchange for more info, or if they'd rather just take what they can get now and not make that agreement.

Meanwhile, Law can easily teleport the world eater bits and pieces around. Easy enough to do so long as everyone keeps their distance, so they now have a good half-pound sample in a locked container and the rest is in the flooded lab, probably to be dealt with later if they take Weaver up on actually fixing the place up.

While Will and Weaver snark at each other, those who are able to start poking around and copying info can certainly get started with information on the Night Market's research on what could possibly kill a World Eater. In summary, when they read through later, they can learn the following:

• Most of the Night Market's actual testing was done on green-eyed spirits, conducted in the now-flooded lab. It seems they had reason to suspect that there was some connection between the two types of creature. Samples of multiple worlds' pathogenic viruses, bacteria, and fungi all failed to have any effect, though viruses in some cases were able to persist on or within a green-eyed spirit's body without being damaged - but likewise, the green-eyes were unaffected. Bacteria and fungal infection attempts showed rapid death of the living organisms within minutes of exposure.



• Chemicals known to be toxic to living organisms were extensively tested, including a variety of strong acids and poisons. Poisons were generally ineffective as the structures they bind to in living tissue were either not present in the green-eyes or binding had no effect. The green-eyed spirits do not have biological systems that can be compared to those of any living creature thus far discovered, and if poisons exist that can affect them, the Night Market was unable to locate them. Acids did, however, work in some limited instances when they were powerful enough to dissolve the spirits' flesh entirely, and injecting or pumping acid internally was more effective than submerging.



• There is some work into altering light itself and testing it on a world eater by a few individuals who were willing to sacrifice themselves for the data. Given that nuclear bombing seemed effective in at least one very early case, testing on generating a strong EMP such as would be present in such a bomb became the passion of a handful, who speculated that the bombs were effective not just because of the explosive forces involved but because of how a powerful nuclear electromagnetic pulse might be a form of light that could actually damage a world eater, which usually feeds on light. A data logger was successfully retrieved after the first and only attempt, detailing the specific statistics of the EMP that was triggered, and notes here indicate that while the world eater seemed stunned, it was not killed outright. Damage to the lanterns nearby was severe, and they were sent to Dr. Solis for examination.



• A number of magical effects were tested and while green-eyes were often resistant to mental effects (such as confusion or charms), physical effects often did work, at least for a time. Night Market members were able to slow or even entirely paralyze green-eyed spirits, shrink them to very small sizes, and in one case a spellcaster with some powerful necromancy was even able to re-animate the limbs of a green-eyed spirit that had been freshly vivisected for a short time, though this was generally written off as a terrible idea. Notes indicate that trying to revive one to a living state failed entirely.



• Generally, research trended toward what they considered most easily done by anyone, so that magic would not be a strict necessity, and this is why eventually Weaver and Pluto's work became their plan - damaging the insides was easier than the outside, massive trauma and dismemberment was more obviously effective than anything subtle, and so managing to get bombs to detonate from within became their goal. To achieve this, they would need a significant supply of radioactive material - either old military plutonium, or possibly unrefined uranium, though dealing with the latter was considered the lesser of the two options given the tools they had on hand.