Experiment....04[Accidental Video]
Sep. 20th, 2011 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
crabbygenius[At first there's static, then a sharp breath can be heard over the com as the machine's dropped. Seconds later a tilted image of a kitchen comes into view. In the kitchen is a table covered with tools and bits and pieces of metal and other miscelaneous things.
However, there is also someone sitting at the table with their head resting on their arms, covered in blood. Within seconds, Washu rushes on screen to touch the dead woman. Hands immediately comb through the cyanne hair, brushing it away from a peaceful face. Soft sobbing can be heard from Washu locates various bloody wounds. Soon enough its obvious to her what the woman died from, a stab wound to the chest.]
Little Ryoko, stop this... You're scaring your mother! I built you to be stronger than this. Please Little Ryoko, open your eyes! Yell at me, anything! Come on, do you want Tenchi to see you like this? You can't be dead.. you've survived worse!
[Washu hugs the corpse to her small frame and cries as the device times out at last.]
However, there is also someone sitting at the table with their head resting on their arms, covered in blood. Within seconds, Washu rushes on screen to touch the dead woman. Hands immediately comb through the cyanne hair, brushing it away from a peaceful face. Soft sobbing can be heard from Washu locates various bloody wounds. Soon enough its obvious to her what the woman died from, a stab wound to the chest.]
Little Ryoko, stop this... You're scaring your mother! I built you to be stronger than this. Please Little Ryoko, open your eyes! Yell at me, anything! Come on, do you want Tenchi to see you like this? You can't be dead.. you've survived worse!
[Washu hugs the corpse to her small frame and cries as the device times out at last.]
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[Video]
Date: 2011-09-21 12:28 am (UTC)[Haer'Dalis was unsure about what words of consolation could even be said in such an instance.]
I... I am truly sorry. Are you... sure it is your daughter? Are there any distinguishing birth marks or...
[He pauses knowing this might be a sensitive area for him to be stepping.]
Is there... anything I can do?
Re: [Video]
Date: 2011-09-21 01:37 am (UTC)A mother knows her own daughter.
[She fell silent for several long moments as she strokes the woman's bloody cheek.]
Make this stop. She can't be dead like this.
[Video]
Date: 2011-09-21 01:52 am (UTC)Would you like me to come over there? I have just recently made it back to Discedo.
Re: [Video]
Date: 2011-09-21 01:55 am (UTC)No gems.. Washu breathes a soft sigh of Relief.]
Yes, please Haer'Dalis.
[Action]
Date: 2011-09-21 02:01 am (UTC)Re: [Action]
Date: 2011-09-21 02:33 am (UTC)She lets him in and turns back towards the corpse sitting at the table.]
...You're right, it's not her. She lacks the gems...
[There's a soft intake of breath.]
But it looks so much like my daughter. I just... Whoever is doing this is going to pay.
[Action]
Date: 2011-09-21 02:53 am (UTC)Gems? You're daughter had gems?
[He wracks his brain trying to remember to back when Washu had told him about Ryoko, and thinks he vaguely remembers some sort of gems being involved.
He begins a soft chant, trying his hand at another one of his spells to see if the body was in fact an illusion. To his surprise it was not. It didn't mean that the girl was actually Ryoko, but it meant that someone went very far out of the way to create a dead duplicate.]
Normally I would assume this might be another ploy of the scientists that brought us here, but I do not truly know.
Re: [Action]
Date: 2011-09-21 04:20 am (UTC)Yes, I created her to harness their power. I'm afraid I don't know where they came from, just... that they held great power. They were found with me when I was a baby.
[She glanced towards him when he began to chant and just.. observed for a few moments before turning back to the corpse. Even it it wasn't Ryoko, seeing it still upset the petite scientist.]
We'll have to figure that out. No one deserves this.
[Action]
Date: 2011-09-21 05:30 am (UTC)What bothers me is I can't pinpoint the age of the body. For all I know it has been in cold stasis for decades even, just waiting for some bizarre purpose, and I just can't tell. Then again, given the blood, I would have to assume it is recent...
Then there's also the question of... are they human, or are they made to look like humans, like how the doppelgangers stole people's skin.
Re: [Action]
Date: 2011-09-21 07:00 am (UTC)If it were Ryoko, I would understand why age would be impossible to pinpoint, but since it's not, there should be nothing stopping you.
[Yes, she needed to focus on something else, something non emotional. Science fit her needs rather well. Especially now.]
If you remember, I arrived at the tail end of the doppelganger fiasco so I don't know much about them. However, If they were created, I would consider the possibility of clones raised in a laboratory. It would be nothing to grow the body and then kill it without the clone ever being alive to begin with.
[Action]
Date: 2011-09-21 02:25 pm (UTC)[He rubbed his chin thoughtfully. Thinking of this as a bit of a lab project was much easier on the psyche, so he was glad to try to lead it in that direction.]
It's actually possible that they may have taken samples from our memories to create these clones. They may have attempted to find in our minds the ones we hold most dear, and then at a later date they shaped the clones in whatever way they thought they would need to.
Re: [Action]
Date: 2011-09-21 03:34 pm (UTC)[Though,she had to give Clay credit, Zero was a rather nice piece of work.]
To create a clone, one would need a sample from the original. Though with the right technology, they might have been able to use our memories. If that is the case, then I would really love to sit down with one of these so called 'scientists' and have a little chat.
[Action]
Date: 2011-09-22 07:24 pm (UTC)[Haer'Dalis looked a little nervous as if he was thinking of something that he likely should not be.]
This... may seem a little unorthodox, but may I try something with the body?
Re: [Action]
Date: 2011-09-22 07:35 pm (UTC)[Her emerald eyes narrow as he asks.]
That depends, what do you want to do.
[Action]
Date: 2011-09-22 07:44 pm (UTC)Re: [Action]
Date: 2011-09-22 10:08 pm (UTC)Then do what you must.
[Action]
Date: 2011-09-22 10:27 pm (UTC)Hmm...
[He paused tasting something... off.]
Well that's strange. It tastes exactly identical to what it should taste like. Human(Or insert species here), female, but... hmm... there is only one thing I can really say that tastes peculiar. It's like... hmm... the taste is like... it's a bit like the taste you get when you freeze something, then it get's exposed to open air, and then frozen, and then thawed again... It's... a little bizarre.
I don't know how else to describe it, but otherwise I cannot detect any abnormalities whatsoever.
Re: [Action]
Date: 2011-09-23 05:52 am (UTC)[She raised an eyebrow at that and glanced back to it again. Well, that answered a few questions, and managed to disturb even her.]
[Action]
Date: 2011-09-23 01:15 pm (UTC)Hmm... I have no idea what this means though. The only time I've tasted something like this was in Cania, the icy 8th layer of hell.
Re: [Action]
Date: 2011-09-23 09:29 pm (UTC)It's the closest I can think of that sums up what you described.
[She lets out a soft sigh and glances at the body again, this time smoothing away a lock of cyan hair.]
Usually, I would insist on dissection and identification of the copy.. but I just don't have the heart to. Even if she isn't, she looks too much like my Little Ryoko. I feel like I should bury her... or cremate her.
[Action]
Date: 2011-09-23 11:31 pm (UTC)Then that likely is an accurate enough description.
[Haer'Dalis looked down at the poor girl with a look of pity on his face.]
I can understand that. It is truly hard to do that to a loved one. Perhaps we could find another of the bodies at a later date to work on, but I agree that perhaps it is for the best to bury her. I would not advice cremation, as when I tried that on the corpses I dealt with, the simply reappeared without having been burned elsewhere. Burying may have more permanent results.
Re: [Action]
Date: 2011-09-24 06:37 pm (UTC)Then will you help me bury her Haer'Dalis? As I am now, I wouldn't be able to move her on my own.
[Action]
Date: 2011-09-26 02:21 am (UTC)Your wish is my command dear Washu.
[He gingerly lifts the body of the young girl who was the striking image of Washu's daughter, with a measure of remorse. He couldn't help but chuckle sadly, noting that this wasn't exactly what he had, had planned for their date. Yet, he was glad that he could at least help in some small way.]
Will you please get the door Washu?
Re: [Action]
Date: 2011-09-27 07:54 pm (UTC)Of course... Thank you for this.
[She got the door and quietly lead the way out, catching any other door as they went. Eventually she led them to the cemetery. It was only appropriate considering.]
[Action]
Date: 2011-09-28 03:00 am (UTC)Re: [Action]
Date: 2011-09-28 05:27 pm (UTC)..So am I. Whatever is happening needs to end soon.
no subject
Date: 2011-09-24 10:56 am (UTC)[All the sympathy and heartbreak here.]
[Voice: Sometime Later]
Date: 2011-09-24 06:35 pm (UTC)[Voice: Sometime Later]
Date: 2011-09-24 11:13 pm (UTC)[Voice: Sometime Later]
Date: 2011-09-27 07:55 pm (UTC)[Voice: Sometime Later]
Date: 2011-09-27 10:43 pm (UTC)Re: [Voice: Sometime Later]
Date: 2011-09-27 10:47 pm (UTC)[Voice: Sometime Later]
Date: 2011-09-28 09:06 pm (UTC)I see. But you can tell it's not real, right?
Re: [Voice: Sometime Later]
Date: 2011-09-29 05:47 pm (UTC)Yes, I can tell. She lacks a few key figures my daughter has but that still doesn't diminish the shock.
[Voice: Sometime Later]
Date: 2011-09-30 12:10 am (UTC)