Floor 97 is one of the least visited floors of the global HQ for Change Inc. It is only accessible on two elevators. One is a normal personnel elevator, the other is a restricted freight elevator straight to the garage. These two elevators are separate from the rest, and only stop at the lobby, the bottom sublevel of the basement which is a shipping and receiving area, each of the department R&D floors, as well as two of the five executive floors. R&D is taken so seriously in the cutting edge consumer transformation business, that only the CEO, CFO and executive board members have access from the managerial staff. These floors are full of the nuts and bolts tech used to transform human beings, and staffed by some of the smartest people on Earth, with degrees in all sorts of fields, ranging from particle physics to neuroscience and everything in between. But even among the R&D floors, 97 is something out of the ordinary. And that's because Change Inc does not, as of yet, have an inanimate changes division. But that is precisely what they are working on in this secret lab.
The tables attached to the various machines are mostly empty, though with a few notable exceptions. At one table, a number of white suited techs are closely examining a plush recliner, using myriad instruments to scan and measure it. Another holds a pair of shoes, each being examined, and taken in different directions by the techs holding them, while another tech monitors readouts. A third table holds a watermelon, and there is a group of people gathered around it, debating furiously. And another table holds a simple sequined dress, laying flat, with no techs around it at all. The dress has been there for quiet some time, and no one wants to admit it, but they are fairly certain that transformation can not be undone.
The rest of the tables are empty, with all the machinery to change a human being in whatever way is input standing nearby. Most have techs working solo or in pairs, but only on the keyboards running diagnostics and simulations. But one empty table has a crew of people, including the head R&D researcher and chief of division for this department, who is talking with his staff. The time has come to test inanimate transformation, but in a new way:
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