2nd Petal | [Voice]/[Action]
[After a long-winded process of reaching the Welcome Center by the end of his first day, getting settled in one of their rooms, and finally getting his clothes, Beast has been staying in his very-unfamiliarly-tiny room just... brooding and trying to make sense of his fate. He's still perfectly convinced that he ended up here because the
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If he can't help himself, he can at least help someone else.]
... A-As far as can be... ascertained, Luceti appears to be an... e-experimentation colony of sorts, run by barbaric excuses for "scientists" referred to as the M-Malnosso.
... One can... s-surmise from the artificial nature of the b-biota that this enclosure is manufactured with... i-insufficient knowledge... either that, or the Malnosso are careless.
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Well, he'll try and pinpoint some of the things he does understand as he picks up the journal.] ... Scientists?
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Still, Robert will elaborate.]
... A scientist is... an i-individual that acquires knowledge systemically, using wh-what is known as the scientific method...
... Are there none, in... in your world?
[It wouldn't be the first time that nobody calling zirself a scientist would exist. But it makes Robert a little horrified to contemplate.]
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... I don't know.
What... what is the... th-that method? ["Scientific" seems much more complicated to say than "science".]
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... It is, er, rather second-nature to myself, as... I am a scientist.
[... At least he's being exposed to one now?]
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... Oh no.]
Ih... y-you are?
[Don't tell him he's accidentally offended you this whole time.]
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Yes - quite specifically, I am an a-astrobiologist.
... That means I... study species from outside of my pl-planet. [Extrasolar life forms, usually, but he's starting to realize that this person prefers simpler terminology...]
... My name is P-Professor Robert Alexander Hastings.
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Beast is mindboggled. But not enough to forget that he probably should respond to Robert mentioning his name.]
Th... s-sounds... [ponder] ... interesting, uh... [So many names, which one should he choose?] ... Hastings.
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... Yeah, different worlds are so very different, indeed.]
... M-May... may I enquire as to your name in r-return?
[Because this is definitely a new person, a new voice. Robert is good with identifying voices. He'd recognize this one, if it had spoken before.]
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I... I'm Beast.
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... Have you, er, b-been settling in well enough...?
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I... y... yes. [An overwhelming number of people have been paying attention to him and he can't read the guide, but besides that, yeah, probably settling in as well enough as he can.]
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... I am... g-glad to hear.
... Luceti can, er, c-certainly be overwhelming at first. I would... understand if you found it strange... [Though at this point Robert kind of figures most people he speaks to won't be thrown by the paranormal elements.]
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Unfortunately, he's not quite sure how he could elabourate from what Robert said, so he'll just say:] Ih... y-yes. It is.
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Wh-when I first arrived seven months ago, I... was, er, rather out of sorts...
... Then again, Luceti is... v-very different from my home. So much more... violent in c-comparison.
... Hopefully it is... not so different from your home...?
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But at least it's leading to a question about him. That's easier to deal with. ... Sort of.]
... It... w-well... [Wait, different from Luceti, or different from Robert's home?] It... w-wasn't that bad, n-no... [Besides the curse, but the world on its own? Nobody bothered him, so it could've been much worse. ... Except they didn't because they didn't know he existed, and if they did, he probably would have had a violent mob led by a narcissistic hunter a group of condemners at his door, so...] B-but it w-wasn't the best.
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