Oh, you've been investigating. You found a bunch of guys who look kind of like your shopkeeper dudes being grown in tubes, and this weird console setup. You've been pressing random buttons on the console like your life depended on it, but the camera didn't miss much. It was just a bunch of stupid little movies of, you guess, you and your friends' guardians? It resulted in a bunch of green slime going into tubes and shit. It's all very sci fi.