unfringed | File #005 :video

[First comes the video, with Walter in his usual labcoat with a makeshift laboratory in the background. It's obvious he's converted his living room into a lab with the sofa and table pushed up against the wall. He has taller tables arranged around with various types of equipment on it and he's looking down at some notes before he starts speaking, clearly reading what he's written.]

Hello, Luceti. My name is Doctor Walter Bishop. If you are seeing this, which I hope you are, then you are entered into candidacy for a new position as lab assistant. I am looking for individuals who are at least somewhat familiar with a laboratory setting and it's procedures. You must have an open and willing mind to see beyond that which--

[A microwave beeps and he stops reading, hurrying off excitedly.]

Ooh, popcorn's done!

[He comes back with a freshly popped bag of popcorn a few moments later and plops back in his seat, emptying the contents into a bowl off screen as he rereads his note.]

Where was I.... Open mind...lab....experiments... Ah! Yes, here we are.

To see beyond that which modern science calls "conventional." Those with mechanical expertise or degrees in physics or biochemistry are highly favored. It also helps if you can cook well or have an EZ-Bake Oven. Has anyone seen one recently? Such shame not to have one.

Oh, and yes here--

[He holds up his note, written in a careful left-handed slant to the camera so people can read it.]

Position: Lab Assistant
Hours: As necessary

Description: Looking for individuals who are at least somewhat familiar with a laboratory setting and it's procedures. You must have an open and willing mind to see beyond that which modern science calls "conventional." Those with mechanical expertise or degrees in physics or biochemistry are highly favored.

Extra Skills: Ability to cook, access to technology (EZ-Bake Oven), love of music, ability to work well under stress.

[He drops the notice and grabs a handful of popcorn.]

Please inquire within. O-or here, I suppose. I can answer any questions you may have since you'll be working for me.

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It's still nothing compared to what I had at my disposal at my lab at Harvard, but I can do the most basic of tests and I'm hoping to start building up my inventory of chemicals and other equipment soon. It would be wonderful to be able to start running tests again and experiments - I never did get to finish making that ear.

[Harvard? Even Fayt had heard of that name. But that last bit.....]

....Uh... making an ear?

Yes, experimental tissue growth formulas. Recreating body parts from tissue samples to be used in transplants - quite simple actually, but it's very hard to get a good incubator and my son nearly ate my last one.

[...Yeah, he doesn't want to know why that was outside where it could be eaten.]

Yeah, it is pretty simple, but I don't think it's possible to make that sort of thing here without the proper machinery to keep the tissue healthy.

That is why I'm hoping to find someone with mechanical expertise - constructing a sterile chamber can be done, but it will take time and materials. I have the ideas, but my field is more biochemistry and physics than mechanical engineering.

[He guessed building something very basic was always possible, but.....] You'd have to find someone pretty experienced for that.

Thus my placement of this ad. The Norse god said it would be a good idea.

Norse.... God? [....What....]

Yes, he said his name was Loki, the god of Mischief in Norse mythology.

[munch munch popcorn, as if he hadn't just said something completely craycray]

[.....You know what, he's just not going to ask.]

I see.

You really should believe me - he's right here in the village!

Hey, in a place like this? I'll take it with a grain of salt, but I won't doubt it outright.

Open your mind, boy - anything and everything is possible. The existence of this pocket universe proves it.

Nah, I have no problem opening my mind. [He laughs a bit, though Walter will never know exactly why he finds such a statement funny. Luceti wasn't the first universe that wasn't his own he'd wound up in.]

I just don't exactly believe he's what you say he is. You sure this guy is even a god?

I haven't tested the theory, no, but no one here will let me test any of my theories. They won't even volunteer something as simple as a blood sample.

[He sounds sullen suddenly, almost petulant like a child.]

Maybe I should just develop something that gives you all nosebleeds for a day.

I don't think people would appreciate that much. [And Fayt certainly wouldn't, for his own reasons.]

Stealing genetic material from people isn't exactly ethical.

Neither is holding us here against our will.

And it isn't as if the nosebleeds would kill you. I'm far more careful than that.

It's still a pain though, you know? [Seriously?]

Besides, for all you know, every person here coming from a different world means there could be a wildly different type of cellular and genetic structure even between different 'versions' of humans. Different planets means different developments, so you'd have nothing to compare it to but other Luceti residents.

You'd need a control group, and our population isn't exactly the biggest.

Edited 2014-03-10 09:12 (UTC)

I've taken that into account. Other than the non-humanoids, most of the people I've seen appear to be amino-based life forms otherwise their basic genetic make-up would make it impossible for them to survive in our environment. The only difference I can think of is the instances of certain alien species here that have slightly altered amino acid sequences in their genetic structure - which can be accounted for with proper experimentation by creating a one time virus that targets the vessels in one's nose to rupture, then immediately seal the blood vessel.

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