Janzo's Lab

**Janzo's Lab**, also referred to as **Janzo's Lair**, **Janzo's Brewery**, and **Janzo's Place**, is a laboratory located under The Nightshade Inn. It also doubles at Janzo's home.

There is an above-ground entrance that resembles that of a storm cellar. It allows for quick and silent access by visitors. The entry to the lab is a ramp, which has been utilized by visitors to slide corpses and objects down. The lab is often where Janzo solves many complex issues at the Outpost and makes ale.

## Overview

Janzo uses the lab to escape from the complexities of the Outpost and work on projects. While he makes ale and wines in his lab, he also brews concoctions and potions to help fellow residents. He also keeps his extensive book and scroll collection in the lab along with the little personal belongings he does own. Some of the books and scrolls are a list of ingredients that have been used throughout history. Since Wren and Janzo have become a couple they use and share the lab together.

## History

Janzo occasionally tends to Talon's wounds when needed.

When Garret Spears recruited Janzo for help with the Plagueling epidemic, Janzo began using his lab as an autopsy area. At the peak of the epidemic, infected corpses were in and out of the lab at all hours of the night. While initially unhappy with the fact infected bodies were in his place of work, Janzo grew more comfortable with the idea as time passed. He performed procedures, experiments, and recorded his research in the lab.

After being infected by a Plagueling, Garret came to Janzo's lab as he knew it was the only place people wouldn't look for him. Janzo converted the lab into a makeshift doctor's office during this brief period.

Upon returning to the Outpost, Garret was kept captive in Janzo's lab while Janzo tried to find a way to restore Garret to his rightful mind. When Garret was restored, the cells served as cages for Plaguelings. When the prisons were full of other prisoners, the guards placed Sammy in the cell in Janzo's lab. He also cured the Plagueling epidemic here and concocted bombs and other weapons to aid The Coalition.

When the Blackbloods came from the Plane of Ashes the alchemist Wren came along with them. Janzo and Wren worked together to solve and open the Meld Box. Afterwards, the two become lovers and work together to help solve The Hive epidemic. They first discover how the kinj reproduces and how long it takes for that to happen. Then Wren figures out a way to identify who is infected. Later on they are examining the Meld Box and the map, when Janzo discovers that there is a wax stamp on the map. After tasting it and going through his library, he is able to identify the substance is the sap from the now extinct ficter bush.

## Appearances

* One Is The Loneliest Number
* Two Heads Are Better Than None
* The Mistress and the Worm
* Strange Bedfellows
* Bones to Pick
* The Book of Names
* Beyond The Wall
* The Vex Rezicon
* The Dragman is Coming
* We Only Kill to Survive
* Not In My Kingdom
* Regarding the Matter of Garret Spears
* The Blade of The Three
* Because She's Worth It
* Where You Go, People Die
* A Crown For The Queen
* There Will Be a Reckoning
* The Only Way
* Nothing Short of Heroic
* This Is Our Outpost
* For the Sins Of Your Ancestors
* The Peace You Promised
* A Life for a Life
* The Key to Paradise
* Under Yavalla's Control
* Kill the Rat, Kill the Kinj
* Go Ahead and Run
* Dying Is Painful
* She Is Not a God
* From Paradise to Hell and Back
* The Hardest Part of Being Queen
* Where Death Lives
* Violence is Futile

## Notes and Trivia

* The lab was initially only used or entered by Janzo, though as time progressed more people arrived in the lab.
* At one time the lab was occupied only by Wren, but then she decided that it was best if they both use it.
* Janzo kept infected Plaguelings in a cage in his lab, purely for scientific purposes.
* There is a bed in the lab where Janzo and Wren sleep, and they reside in the lab.