[Audio] UN: Greywords

[heartlessswordsman]

Let's see... I've never put anything on this network thing before, so. Here's hoping I do this right...

[There's a pause, accompanied by the sound of rustling while this guy tries to figure out wtf he's doing. Zel can't technology for shit ok, give him a minute.]

Okay, there. My name is Zelgadis, and I'm interested in hearing more about alchemy. Specifically, I want to learn more about how it pertains to the creation of chimeras. Nothing I've been able to read so far has been of very much help, and I'm unable to preform alchemy myself, so I was hoping that reaching out like this might yield better results. So... hm. I didn't think this through very well... That's about all I have, I think. If you're able to use alchemy, or know someone who can, please get in touch with me.

...Okay, now how do I turn this off--

[And then it abruptly ends in the least cool way possible.]

Comments

[notquitetamed]

Can't really fault them because they had good intentions and the subjects supposedly volunteered. It was the results of the experiments that were kept in the dark and given no say regarding their involvement in all that.

Thing is, I'm not quite sure how you'd even undo such a thing either and not knowing how it happened makes it harder to figure out how to undo. I just know alchemy definitely could do it, some of the results of those experiments could definitely be called chimera even if we gave them a different name.

What I do know is that I'd recognize a lab capable of it if I saw one here.

[heartlessswordsman]

That still doesn't really sound great.

That's been my whole problem, the person responsible didn't exactly leave me any good notes. How are chimeras made where you're from?

[notquitetamed]

First off, do you know what homunculi are and anything about how one would be created? Not necessarily the precise spell since even I don't know that.

[heartlessswordsman]

Homunculi? If that's something I've ever read about, it's not something I remember.

[notquitetamed]

They are a copy of another creature made through alchemy. It copies not just their body, but also can replicate their soul so they have the memories and knowledge of the original subject. Take that one step further and combine multiple creatures and you got a chimera.

[heartlessswordsman]

Now that you've explained it, it does sound like something I've encountered before. The person I mentioned earlier, who knew how to create chimeras, also made a copy of himself to experiment on.

[notquitetamed]

Makes sense. Why risk harm to himself or even a valuable test subject when a homunculus can be created and experimented on. I'm more surprised he didn't use it to extend his life. The idiot from my world doing it sure did.

[heartlessswordsman]

His life had already been unnaturally long. He was using his copy as a test subject for methods to cure his own blindness.