[Video] || Experiment 1 Ͽ

[scholastical]

[The dreamberry clicks on, and the face of the man that peers into it is excited...Though if one looks closely, there is a fresh, spreading bruise across one of his temples. He had a bit of a run-in with a malicious scarecrow.

Still, his excitement is unmistakable.]

Goodness, is this--

It is recording my voice, isn't it? But such a device has only

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[unfearful]

Um... are you all right?

[scholastical]

Perfectly fine, thank you!

[He grins.]

Why do you ask?

[unfearful]

Well, you have a bruise on your head...

[scholastical]

Oh!

There was a scarecrow, and it took me by surprise. I hadn't expected there to be semi-sentient, man-made creatures here, though truly, that is quite fascinating, really.

[unfearful]

Ah... They tend to do that.

[scholastical]

Do they? So it was not an isolated phenomenon? I wonder if I could study them and, if, by discovering how they function, perhaps better understand Nergal's morphs-

[Go ahead and stop him, Dominic. He'll keep going otherwise.]

[unfearful]

'Nergal's morphs?'

[scholastical]

Hm? Oh yes.

Creatures created in the form of, ah, sentient humans. They are golden-eyed and dark-haired. Whether or not the actually possess emotions and, well, souls, as man-made creatures, ah...

[He shakes his head.]

I do believe they do. But that is what they are.

[unfearful]

I see. So humans created them...?

[scholastical]

A single human, actually, a man called Nergal.

[unfearful]

Well, I guess that'd explain the name.

[scholastical]

Yes, well. They are no longer a problem, though...I really would have liked the chance to study one of them for a time.

[unfearful]

... A problem?

[scholastical]

Oh, well, yes. Nergal was attempting to more or less destroy the world, after all.

[unfearful]

Wha--?

[scholastical]

He was trying to bring dragons back into the world. That would not have ended well, however; humans and dragons do not have a history of peaceful coexistance, I am afraid.