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Loremaster Catspaw Captain
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 Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:11 pm
Techie N stared boredly at the wall of the reception room. Why again had he agreed to do this? His job was to create genetically altered beings, not to pamper children. Then again, the children that FactS had provided were essentially to the birth of his creations. It was a necessary evil, he supposed, but why did he have to be the one to do it?
Today, he'd be introducing project GOLDFUR, a gorgeous landrunner dragon, to his future bonded. Absently, he wondered what kind of child FactS might have picked.
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Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:43 pm
"C'mon, Daddy! Hurry!!" Caleb was tugging at the hands of his parents, trying to speed up their pace. The boy's tail was a mere blur behind him as he danced about anxiously before the two men. "C'mon! I wanna see him!"
"Calm down, Caleb." Kaden scolded the boy gently. "We're still early." Due to the fact you were pacing the floor as soon as you woke up! He added mentally. "It'll still be there even if we don't run down the hallway."
Caleb sighed and sulked along for the rest of the way. "Looks like this is the place," Riordan commented to the boy, which cheered Caleb up quite a bit.
"Alright!" He grinned as the men opened the door and the boy darted in, looking about eagerly.
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:14 am
"You're early." N sighed, tucking an unopened package of cigarrettes back into his shirt pocket. It was a shame his creatures had to bond at all, really. Kids were annoying. Things had been so much nicer when FactS was still using adults, but his chimera had been exceedingly short lived.
"Well, might as well get it over with. This way."
Without bothering to make sure the kid was actually following, N strode off through the familiar maze of corridors, lecturing as he walked.
"You've been asigned to project GOLDFUR. He's a xeric landrunner dragon. The true color of his scales won't be coming in for another few weeks, not that you can see much through the solution anyway. He's going to be gorgeous. I've only had two xerics in the past and both of them were sandy speckly, but it looks like this one is going to be bright gold. Wipe your feet on the mat. He should grow to a fair size. I'm predicting at least eight feet long. They've an interesting design, these landrunners. The forelegs are longer than the hind, so it shouldn't pace very smoothly, but the skeletal simulation programs show that he should be able to get going at a pretty fair clip and take a swipe at a passing object while he's at it. This way please. I don't know how long the tail will be though, although I imagine it'd be fairly short because of the angle to the spine. A long tail would get in the way, as would wings. Here we are." he paused as he was fiddling with the key. "Kid, I'd like to you meet Goldfur.
Inside the darknened room, a creature was suspended in a huge tank of substitute amniotic fluid.
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:28 pm
Kaden raised an eyebrow at N's tone. Someone who was unhappy with them being early? That was definately a first. The man reached out to grab hold of his charge. This appeared to be a person that was not very fond of children.
Riordan and Kaden gently guided Caleb along behind the grumpy tech. The boy was eager to get to see his chimera. "A dragon? Cool! Gold would be neat! He'd match my fur!" The boy raced forward (quickly wiping his feet as instructed) to thrust the hand that was covered in fur at N. "See?"
The men exchanged nervous glances at each other at some of the things the tech had said. Eight feet long? And it would like to run?? This was not going to bode well...
"So it's a boy? And he'll like to run like me? And he'll be able to run fast?" Caleb's long string of questions were interrupted with a "Whoa!" as they entered the dark room. The boy grinned and started to run forward to the tank when Kaden snagged his arm again.
"Walking feet, please, Caleb." The man softly repremended the boy.
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Loremaster Catspaw Captain
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:43 pm
"Yes..I do see." N deadpanned. Gawd children were so obnoxious. "At this point, I think Goldfur will be male, but we don't really know, since gender is determined differently. We could be wrong, or he might start out one sex and change to the other."
((OOC: This means you get to pick the chimera's gender. Also, you may start controlling the chimera.))
He walked leisurely over to a computer terminal and began pulling up various charts on the screen. "Yup, temperature good. Fluid's good. It's all right, you can come have a closer look at him. He's probably not completely conscious, but you should get to know each other."
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:55 pm
Caleb grinned. "I hope he's a boy!" The boy eagerly followed N over to the computer and stared at the screen. "What's all that mean?" He pointed to the various things on the screen. The boy glanced over at his chimera. "What's conscious mean...?"
The boy walked over to the glass and pressed his face up to it. "Can he come out and play?"
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:08 pm
N thought for a moment. "Awake." he said carefully. "Goldfur isn't really awake yet. When he is, you'll know it. He's connected to you by blood. No, he can't come out. He's not ready to be born yet." After rechecking the computer again, N joined Caleb at the tank. "See his feet there? The claw sheaths haven't grown in yet. His scales are just starting to form too, and he needs to grow a bit before he'll be able to support himself. He should be at least 25lbs when he's ready. Right now he's only at about 20."
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:27 pm
"So he's sleeping?" Caleb peered at the dragon in the liquid. "What do you mean we're connected by blood?" He peered at his arm as if he could see the blood within it.
Caleb looked up at the tech as the man joined the boy at the tank. He peered into the tank again as N pointed out various things on the chimera. "When can he come out? Will it be soon? I hope it's soon. I want to play with him!"
The chimera stirred a bit and stared at the boy whose face looked rather funny. It's face was all flat like and squished up. What a strange creature. It didn't look anything like the thing that came in and poked the box that sat in the room. It always seemed to like that box and stared at it a lot. These beings outside were very odd.
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Loremaster Catspaw Captain
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:38 am
"It says right here." he said, tapping the screen again. "We used the sequence from your blood to make him."
Honestly, didn't those loremasters teach the kids anything these days? He was willing to bet that they didn't even know about the extra dark band on the proximal end of chromosome 4 that even allowed them to bond to chimera in the first place.
"He should be fully developed in a few more months, but nobody can tell how long it will be until he wakes up. We can't take him out until he becomes fully aware. As soon as you feel it, you should stop what you're doing and come straight down to the lab whether we call for you or not, okay? Until then, you can go home."
He wanted to say 'scram', but N was more sophisticated than that. Just so long as the kiddies left him to his work.
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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:57 am
"Oh." Caleb wondered what all was on that screen. "A few months?" The boy scowled. He'd been hoping that it would be sooner... "I'll feel it? What will it feel like? How will I know??" However, the boy's questions were halted as the two men picked up on the tech's attitude.
"C'mon Caleb... we'll come see him again soon and you can ask more questions then..." Kaden gently led the boy out the door, which Riordan held open. Riordan nodded to N as his family left and he followed them out.
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