Winter Cat on 27/12/2007 at 09:01
Both forum and internet searches didn't give any useful results.
What chemical compound is called dissolution serum in T3 Cradle? How does this thing should be called by rational nomenclature?
jtr7 on 27/12/2007 at 09:37
It's not quite chemical nomenclature. The word "serum" is, but not "dissolution". You won't find it in a chemistry book or supply catalogue. It's more of a terse scientific-sounding name of an organically-based liquid for dissolving something else.
Serum is a general term for the watery part of blood or watery fluid in plants. It's also another word for whey. In other words, a thin fluid component of a complex organic liquid, but usually of the blood of animals.
Dissolution is the dissolving or breaking down of something.
Therefore, it's an organic cleaning solution. Knowing how morbid and evil things were in The Cradle, it's made from blood to clean up blood.
>Frikkin'-wrong image removed<
DJ Riff on 27/12/2007 at 12:38
Wrong screenshot :rolleyes:
On the screen, it's Lauril's blood, that Garret had thrown into a pipe so that it fall outside the Cradle, and then used it to remove glyphs from her tomb. She says "Take my blood with you" when you leave the Cradle.
Beleg Cúthalion on 27/12/2007 at 15:52
What? He takes the blood that he had thrown down some strange pipe inside the Cradle? I always thought the continuity error was that he still had the blood afterwards and not that no one sees him taking it up. :confused:
TTK12G3 on 27/12/2007 at 18:25
Quote Posted by Beleg Cúthalion
What? He takes the blood that he had thrown down some strange pipe inside the Cradle? I always thought the continuity error was that he still had the blood afterwards and not that no one sees him taking it up. :confused:
[SPOILER]Garrett tosses the vial with Laurel's blood into a drainage pipe that runs through the lobby of the cradles so that it would end up outside. He apparently grabs it on his way out, after he takes a leap out the window.[/SPOILER]
ionia23 on 27/12/2007 at 20:31
*sigh*
The Dissolution Serum is used to clean up Lauryl's bloodstain in the attic, one of the remaining steps so the Cradle will forget her (burning the diary, burning the dress, chucking the vial of blood outside).
Lauryl's blood is used to wipe away the glyphs on her burial site to break Gamall's hold over her body. Think of it as a variation of what you do in Return To The Cathedral in Thief I. (Thou seems to have gotten thyself into some trouble, hmmm???).
The Dissolution Serum dissolves organic compounds. I'm sure there's a real-life equivalent.
jtr7 on 27/12/2007 at 21:25
Whoohooo!
Thanks DJ Riff! I hate it when I make a mistake and nobody corrects it.:tsktsk: Where are all the TDS geeks when you need 'em?
serumblood serum extracted from an animal that has immunity to a particular disease. The serum contains antibodies to one or more specific disease antigens, and when injected into humans or other animals, it can transfer immunity to those diseases.
Though I wonder if "dissolution serum" works through enzymes. I Googled and found this single instance of the term in a Power Point file:
Quote:
"Dissolution" serum proteins
Ciphergen® - Mass spec - ProteinChip®
Number of known peaks
-Control = 33
-Covaris = 44
Intensity
-Covaris > control
-Covaris
@ 5degC @ pH 8.0
pH 6.0 > no effect
Note that this was used against yeast, and
dissolution is in quotes.
[SPOILER]
m09v18a: "Sometimes when the staff took patients to a treatment room, they...wouldn't ever come back. They used something called 'Dissolution Serum' to clean up afterward. Get it and then use it on my bloodstain in the Attic, where I saw you the first time."
m09v02a: "They filled up a bottle with my blood. It's down in the Storm Cellar. It's very dark down there. Please find the bottle and drop it into a drainpipe, so it will end up outside. It's important."
m14v08a: "We made it out of the Cradle. Follow me. I'll take you to the place she buried me. Bring my blood with you."
m14v01g: "You still have my blood, right? We'll need it to remove the marks."[/SPOILER]
Coincidentally, "Murus" spelled backwards is "surum"....
Yeah, it's a stretch. :p
So now we need a screenshot. I never found an instance where "dissolution" was immediately followed by "serum" without punctuation separating the words, except in references to TDS.
Beleg Cúthalion on 28/12/2007 at 08:55
We have some liquid here erasing stains that are based on protein (i.e. blood, semen, egg white etc.) and it contains enzyms and a lot of other creepy stuff. But I guess it won't be enough for a whole puddle of blood, or otherwise it would make the attic flameable or something....ah, maybe that caused the fire...
jtr7 on 28/12/2007 at 22:44
:p
