TRUST ISSUES: THE LABTRACK STORY; Season 2

Season 2; Volunteers, Filler & the Gamma Vendor Case‎In Season 2, the focus shifts from vials to volunteers.‎A vendor we call Gamma leans heavily on “volunteer testing”: customers front the money for lab work, with the vague promise they’ll be reimbursed later. When one volunteer finally sends their vial in, Gamma has the test submitted under the vendor’s name instead of the paying customer’s, creating a grey area over who really “owns” the report and who has to eat the cost. The volunteer is effectively left holding the bill.‎At the same time, Lab J flags a strange new filler pattern in the data, and Nova smells a bigger story. In private DMs, she and Guy pick apart Gamma’s behaviour: inconsistent mg results across multiple volunteers, a quiet switch to using just one “approved” tester, and the ethics of using under informed customers as a cheap QA department. Guy plays trial lawyer, calling Gamma’s tactics manipulative and shady but also “predictable” in a system where people keep paying up front for vendors.‎Season 2 is where their relationship crosses a line.Guy finally shares LabTrack context on one condition: his name, and LabTrack’s, stay out of anything Nova posts. Nova promises she never exposes sources, insists no one even knows they chat, and a cross-server alliance is born, she feeds him rumours, he reality-checks her narratives.‎By the end of Season 2, trust issues are no longer just about vendors and labs.They’re baked into the bond between Guy and Nova themselves