[Video opens on JOY. Master practically dancing with glee, in fact, when he moves around, it really is in a bit of a dancy fashion. Someone is having a very good couple of days.]
Two things, ARTEMIS. First: this.
[He gestures behind him. It's.....anyone's guess how he managed to get this down into the Laboratory and into the gleaming, stainless steel room, but it's the
catoblepas from yesterday. There is an assortment of scalpels and forceps and other dissection-y materials beside it on a tray and it's fairly obvious what he intends to do. Not to mention that there are a few tools that will look rather...alien to anyone who's done this the human way before.]
I was under the opinion that I'd only be dissecting one species so imagine my excitement when this was practically dropped into my lap. All I need now is a rogue unicorn and I'll regenerate from the overwhelming bliss.
[He continues talking as he walks over to pull on an apron and some gloves.]
It's a catoblepas, completely mythical and likely based inaccurately off of some random African ungulate spotted by a European traveller. I'll be interested to find out whether its deadly gaze is a function in its brain, or if "magic" [quotation fingers] is researchable in any way. I rather hope it is. Otherwise it's just messy thinking, and I can't stand that.
[He pats the catoblepas fondly as he walks past it and back, closer to the screen.]
Second: I managed to capture two triffids on my trip to the Underground without suffering any ill-effects from the poison they stung me with. I'm as immune to it as I knew I would be. [smuggest of smug smiles] I'll be dissecting one and studying the behavior of the other, not to mention monitoring its reactions to the dissection of the other. And I'll be recording the lot! [clasping his hands together and then letting them go again] Right, and, of course, any questions, feel free to ask.
[and video feed continues...]
[ooc: ...sometimes I wonder why I play a scientific genius. Um, guys, last science I took was GRADE 10 GENERAL SCIENCE so, uh. The fun is kind of assumed, mostly. Questions will be answered but in technobabble. Um. Biobabble? Yeeeaaaah. This was just a thing the Master needed to do, basically, so here it is. Just...assume the whole of the several experiments are in the video feed, and invent stuff that happened, if you'd like, though, uh. Might want to check any other comments if you do. Who's even still IN ARTEMIS that's in the City? I dunno. This is what it is.]