For Science [Vexen]

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Still working.
[August 7th, 2010]

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Daniel had recovered okay, but it was tampered by the fact that he'd been working quite a bit. Gabriel had been helping, of course, but he didn't feel too greatusing him for manual labor right after telling him that he was the 237th of a series of experiments and all the past oens died horribly.

I concur. That would be awful compared to all the great things you've done so far.[/color] When he wasn't in a robotic state, his sarcasm was overhwleming. Perhaps that was the closest he could come to hatred.

Daniel looked around at the underground lab. It needed work, but he could start to build here. The crystals around here could easily be used as conductors for electricity, as they were known far and wide for their abilities as plot contrivances and conductors.

He bent over a table carved out of stone, pulled in some makeshift machinery he had constructed from old gummi ship parts, and began work on a metallic exoskeleton while Gabriel worked on improving the state of the lab itself.

Daniel was going to have to work to be able to stop Jericho.

[Matt]

A Curious Find

Vexen's eyes moved between the cave's shimmering crystals and the shard of crystal in his hand. From the look on his face one would have been able to tell that he was studying the objects before him intently. No... he decided to himself after a moment. Clearly different.

The mysterious object in the Academic's hand was actually the entire reason that he was currently in Radiant Gardens. After previously finding it laying very out-of-place on the ground in the World That Never Was, he had become very perplexed as to what the substance he had found was. Reminding him of the crystal fissure that existed on his home world, he had thought that it was perhaps similar. Unfortunately, this hypothesis had evidently proven to be incorrect...

Why exactly he was wasting his time investigating a strange rock, one would likely wonder. But it was hardly as if he really had anything more important to be doing. The Organization's meeting a couple of days ago had ended rather abruptly, with no real decision made as to what their next step would be. And as for Aixfeur-- well she had still yet to report back with her findings; no doubt she was still gathering information.

In was then that something in the corner of his eye caught Vexen's attention. Taking a closer look, he realized what it was: a trapdoor. "Hmm?" When did that get there? More important, what lay behind it? There was only one way to find out.

A corridor of darkness opened inside of the lab, behind the man in the lab coat. Vexen supposed he technically COULD have actually used the trapdoor, but that would have been far too much trouble. "Well now, what do we have here?" Glancing at the man's attire, he raised an eyebrow.

"It appears that I've stumbled upon some sort of secret lab! I suppose that makes you the evil scientist. And that..." he gestured to the thing on the table which the man appeared to be working on. "must be your latest creation." What exactly was it, he wondered. Some sort of... Metallic Exoskeleton?

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Oh god please don't kill me.

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Daniel nearly jumped two feet when he heard a voice behind him. He didn't even hear the trapdoor opening.

That's because he used a Corridor...but he's a Nobody. Don't worry.[/color]

Evil scientist..he'd heard that one before. Not from strange blond men who could make Corridors, but...

Hm. Daniel saw a strange glint in his eye when he spoke of the exoskeleton, a glint of knowledge. "Actually, it's only the beginning of one. I still have to build the essential parts- right now it's just an incomplete shell."

Gabriel decided to join the conversation while working. "If you want a finished one of his experiments, I'm one. Of course, there were a bunch of failures before me."

Daniel looked back at him. Please calm down a little.[/color]

Yes, master.

[Matt]

Interesting

Vexen nodded slowly, surveying what of the uncompleted shell lay on the room's lone table. "Clearly... It obviously wouldn't do you much good in its current state." But regardless, the fellow scientist's project still interested him, even if in such an early stage at that point. It reminded the Academic of some of his own work.

"Oh?" he asked curiously, turning to face the other person in the room. Or rather the other experiment, as it apparently was. Well, the wings had certainly been a giveaway that the thing wasn't human, but he had assumed that it was simply some sort strange species that he wasn't familiar with. It was very realistic, after all.

Raising his hand to his chin, Vexen began to study the man's invention like a bug under a microscope. "I must say, I'm impressed... Quite the artificial life form you've managed to create." Not nearly as genius as the Academic's own creations, but that was only to be expected. His standard wasn't one that he could expect other scientist to be a be meet, nor was it one he wanted them to.

He turned to the man who had yet to introduce himself. "What exactly is your method of creating these, I wonder. You build them mechanically?" While not nearly as impressive as creating an actual human clone, for a robot the thing in front of him appeared unusually sophisticated.

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Well, let me tell you...

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Someone wanted to talk to him? About science? It wasn't to condemn him or anything, too- this man was actually just curious. Yes, he was definitely a scientist. Otherwise he'd be screaming about tampering with things that man should not know and all that.

"Building life forms mechanically is more efficient, of course. However, Gabriel is not mechanical in origin. His genes are a combination of human and various other species, and he was indoctrinated while still being formed. In that way, his thought process is much like a robot's while still retaining the human ability to reason. There is a mechanical being that is part of him, though- it was designed for the express purpose of fusing with him and cancelling out any self-destructive or rebellious thoughts. If I die, the life form clamps down upon the functions of his brain and kills him. It also creates a sort of telepathic connection so I can give orders no matter what the circumstance."

In his excitement, he was thinking of Gabriel as an experiment, not a person. That being said, he did not notice the cold, robotic silence that Gabriel was now exhibiting.

[Matt]

I See...

"I see..." So the thing-- Gabriel, as it was evidently called-- wasn't mechanical in design. Whatever it was that the man was currently working on was something entirely different. That made more sense, actually. It had been hard to say for certain, but he had thought that its physical features hadn't appeared at all robotic.

"That sounds extremely fascinating." he said, with slightest hint of admiration. The means by which the man had created this Gabriel were quite ingenious. "As it so happens, I consider myself quite an expert in this particular field. Though the methods which I use are somewhat different." The project at hand may not have been exactly the same as the Replica Program, but it did bear a resemblance.

"For one thing I don't typically combine the DNA of different animals, and I can't say I've ever tried anything like this mechanical being which you included in your designs..." Vexen couldn't say he was particularly fond of the idea of making one of his own replicas so robotic in mind. After all, studying things like memories and the heart especially were the biggest interest for him.

"Then again, it appears that the primary purpose of each of our creations differ. While I do such experiments mainly as tests for gaining knowledge to feed my own curiosity, it seems you're trying more for the purpose of creating tools-- weapons really-- for yourself. That much isn't too hard to deduce."

He paused momentarily. "What I can't say that I'm able to deduce, however, is what exactly you intend to do with the weapons you're creating." Expectable, generic evil-scientist forming an army with which to take over the universe? Perhaps.