voice;

[ironicarus]

Hello! Hello, Splendor.

I have a brilliant idea, you see, what this city is lacking is, well, besides television (am I right?), a proper lab.

A place to learn things, and take kids on little tours, maybe a fusion reactor or two. Most importantly, a place where we can do tests.

Yes, testing is the most important part of any laboratory, thing,

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voice;

[apathycary]

[ There is feedback- perhaps it is... a pause? A pause, yes, Edel doesn't really know what to say about this. Surely, from one scientist to another...

... no, no, this was a little bit... ]

Funny, it almost sounds like I never left school.
Just what are you going to be testing?

voice;

[ironicarus]

Oh, nothing too big at first.

The durability of the human skeleton? The effect of replacing blood with some other substance, maybe... gasoline, or motor oil.

Oh, oh! Button pushing. And cubes. Lots... of cubes.

Putting cubes... on buttons.

voice;

[apathycary]

[ Oh no, oh no. Edel can feel it. He feels it rather well.
It's a headache. ]

No. No no, no. None of that, surely the locals won't allow such in the first place. Regardless, you're bound to kill people. They're not lab rats.

voice;

[ironicarus]

You can't make an omelet without cracking a few sku- eggs, right?

Science omelet. Oh, made myself hungry.

voice;

[rivalheroics]

Huh? What kind of testing are you wanting to do?

voice;

[ironicarus]

The most important kind. The kind with results.

voice;

[rivalheroics]

... [Not that he's against the pursuit of science and all that jazz, he just can't help but be wary, considering the last "scientist" he knew of was trying to create an army of brainwashed Pokemon when he wasn't trying to sell them on the black market...]

Well, what kind of results are you hoping to get? It's gonna be hard to get people wanting to help if you don't tell them what exactly you're doing...

voice;

[ironicarus]

The ones that will bring me immense scientific satisfaction.

And by this, I mean, how many obstacles can a person overcome to reach something they want, on the other side of a room, if those obstacles involve spikes, dangerous chemicals, and other mildly discouraging things.

[Video]

[societyslipping]

[This catches the mad scientist's attention. He has to admit that a lab would be useful, but human test subjects are... sketchy. And as the honorable villain that he is, somehow managing to avoid making this an oxymoron, his inquiry is just brimming with restrained skepticism.]

Uh, it's usually a good idea to clarify what you want before asking people to volunteer.

Are we talking frozen yogurt flavor testing, or forcing people to eat... pure wonderflonium?

[Video]

[ironicarus]

Why not combine the two? Then, you are thinking like a true scientist.

[Video]

[societyslipping]

...Because that's really dangerous.

[Also, mixing food and wonderflonium is his secret evil plan. So there! And he doesn't plan on feeding it to anyone... Just trying to make some concealable explosives. Totally not such a big deal. Nope.]

Scientists are supposed to change the world... not risk lowering the number of people in it.

[Video]

[ironicarus]

What is important is to make fun and efficient science, which the scientists, that is, myself, are not legally held accountable for, outside of royalties!

[patternprophet]

It might help to know what is being tested.

[ironicarus]

The limits of human curiosity, and a human body's limit for genetic alteration?

[patternprophet]

Genetic alteration?

[ironicarus]

More or less.

{Voice}

[mystic_heresy]

[Jade is interested.]

Interesting~ Might i ask what these tests entail~? I'm a bit of a scientist myself~

{Voice}

[ironicarus]

A little bit of luck and lots of determination!

{Voice}

[mystic_heresy]

Oh? What are you testing for?

{Voice}

[ironicarus]

Data!