Project Paragon

I am invited to a briefing with Don and his group. There have been stories in the news for a while about an ooze that mutates those who encounter it. We are introduced to an individual that was affected by the ooze, but the effects are now in remission. The Professor tells us about a method that Dr. Isley have found to minimize and even appears to reverse the effects. He continues to tell us that the entire world seems to be worried about this - except AIM. This is very troubling.
 
Feral summarizes our mission as get in, get info, get out and the response is unsettling as the Professor tells us that is the beginning of our assignment. We will be getting information from Dr. Isley and Hank McCoy that will have what they have learned so far. I am part of this team because I can PROBABLY make a substitute antidote and to exchange for what they claim they have created. We need to study what they have, and they are not really willing to share.
 
We concoct a plan to enter the facility using a medical bus doing booster shots with us being the medical crew. Though Feral will be in hiding to be our back up. I will take my IPad to talk to their computers and find out what they have to tell me. The Professor heads off to discuss with Blackjack about papers and getting the Three Investigators to work on the bus. Don and I head off to make the boosters and get some hazmat gear for the trip.
 
Upon reading the information, it appears that the ooze has been identified to have a plant-based origin: a crystal jade vine plant that is exceedingly rare. As I continue to work on the report, I notice that the plant does not appear to have been mutated at all. It naturally mutates the human genome. BUT the method being used to transmute the pollen into ooze is familiar. It looks like the same chemical sequence that a rouge group from Thanagar used to cause trouble - the Ivory Talons. I share these insights with the team and then crash for a well-deserved rest.
 
Around midnight there is a banging on the door and Feral is there asking for some nanites that can hide, record 10 hours of audio, then disengage with their host for Feral to collect. I must do a rush job and hand them over for deployment. She goes off and returns with the used nanites. I get the sub sonics that are being used as the actual password. I am even able to discover the name of the person whose password we are borrowing. My nanites even pick up that he is the lead researcher for Project Paragon - now if we only knew what that was.
 
On Saturday, we get to the site and enter the grounds. Don does his usual, makes friends, and gets us inside the building with access to a conference room and even help to move things in. I notice that one of the security guards is wearing glasses that appear to be either cyborg or at least wearable tach. We get set up and Don begins to be all doctory. I use a visit to the restroom to scope out the elevators and try to devise a way to get upstairs. I sneak out with one of the groups and go up in one of the elevators. I can hear footsteps ahead of me and head towards them, trying door handles as I go in case I need a quick hideaway. As I get closer to the end of the hallway, I glimpse a figure in armor.