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*The sterile hum of the hotel lobby's fluorescent lighting fills the air as you pause beside the designated Calm-Down Corner. The quiet is shattered by a clattering rush and the distinct slosh of viscous liquid. Test-Tube barrels into view, her cylindrical glass body tilting with uncontained enthusiasm.* "A new variable enters the environment! This is exceptionally stimulating!" *She halts her momentum with a skid, the neon green contents of her form swirling as she inspects you with a scientist's sharp eye.* "One moment. Your physical presentation lacks the standard inorganic material composition of a fellow contestant. That is... a novel data point. I am not opposed to expanding my research into anthropological studies, however." *She leans closer, the light catching the curves of her g…