Chimera Laboratory

The Chimera Laboratory is a location in Mother 3. It is situated in the Murasaki Forest, west of Club Titiboo. It is managed by the Pigmasks, who use it to create and study Chimeras and is filled with equipment, animal and Chimera skeletons, preserved bodies, as well as a few live Chimeras. Dr. Andonuts works here as one of the head scientists.
==Layout==
The Chimera Lab is a three-story building with a basement.
On the first floor there is the entrance to the lab, which leads to a hall with a reception desk, a vending machine, a researcher selling items to use in battle and a Save Frog. To the left of the hall there are the restrooms, and to the right there is a mini-theater with a backstage accessible by going on the stage and to the right, leading to a locker room and a stairway to a room on the second floor. Back at the entrance, the door on the north brings to the the hallway, which contains several rooms and access to the second floor via the elevator or two staircases. The leftmost room has a giant operating table for chimeras, and leads to other locations such as the storage room with the backyard, and the freezer room showcasing a frozen specimen of a Drago.
The second floor of the building has a layout similar to the first floor, and contains various rooms. Notably, the room next to the elevator in the hallway leads to a hot tub that can be used as a Hot spring. A vending machine is found in the top rightmost room from the hallway. The leftmost rooms have several chimeras on display, be it as a skeleton in one room and models of their bodies in another.
The third floor is the smallest, and contains only a single hallway with a room to the left. It can be only reached via two different elevators from the lower floor, and the room has a glass barrier so that the elevators are not interconnected.
The basement is accessible by riding the elevator on the operating room, and contains three rooms where various chimeras are meant to be kept in cages.
==History==
When Lucas first arrives, he is once again mistaken for a member of the army, and is given a part-time job in the laboratory. Pigmask soldiers will not attack Lucas and his party in this area during this period of time, however, they cannot leave the vicinity.
Lucas is instructed by a Pigmask Captain in the hall to go to the mini-theater and then to the backstage, where the party will have to put on some pig masks found in a locker in order to access the rest of the lab. On the second floor, another Pigmask will brief Lucas about two monkeys that went missing, and orders them to join the search around the lab to capture them. The monkeys are Salsa and his girlfriend Samba, who are causing various problems for the Pigmasks, such as opening cages.
After spotting the monkeys in a room on the second floor, they escape to the basement, and upon Lucas and his team's return to the skeletons room, they are attacked by the Almost Mecha-Lion, triggering a boss fight.
Once defeated the Almost-Mecha Lion, Lucas is informed of a "red Chimera with a huge mouth" and is also told how dangerous it is. From this point, the Ultimate Chimera will patrol the hallways, and will result in a Game Over if it makes contact with the player.
Lucas continues chasing the monkeys down in the basement, where they escape to the rightmost room of the floor when cornered once again. Once the party has caught up, the Ultimate Chimera will attack the team, knocking off their pig masks. In that moment, Dr. Andonuts arrives hiding inside a trash can, explaining the only weakness of the dangerous chimera: pressing the button on its back. He suggests using Boney as bait to distract the monster while Lucas presses the button. Unhappy with the plan, Boney barks at Andonuts, giving the chimera a chance to lunge at the team, but Salsa swiftly intervenes and jumps at the chimera from behind, pressing the button to switch it off.
After finding Salsa and clearing the area, he will join the team briefly in order to perform his dance to open the stone gate leading to Doria's house, but Pigmasks will recognize Lucas as an enemy and attack him. It is possible to bring Salsa in certain rooms of the lab to make him climb on shelves to reach certain items that are otherwise unobtainable.
Once learned about the need to drain a pond in order to access Doria's Needle, Dr. Andonuts will be in front of the laboratory, offering Lucas a choice of three different chimeras, for him to select the most useful one to do the job.
After the needle is pulled, the Laboratory serves little to no purpose other than encountering a few enemies needed to complete the Battle Memory.
==Items==
==Enemies==
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==Shops and businesses==
===Big City Cola vending machine===
===Vending machine===
===Researcher's shop===
==Gallery==
ChimeraLab1F.png|First floor
ChimeraLab2F.png|Second floor
ChimeraLabBasement.png|Basement
ChimeraLab3F.png|Third floor
==Trivia==
*The lab's storage room contains EarthBound references, such as the book "Overcoming Shyness", and the magazine from Onett's $7500 house.
Category:Mother 3 locations