SHRIEKING SKULLS WILL SHOCK YOUR SOUL AND SEAL YOUR DOOM TONIGHT

[acherontiastyx]

[After 10:00 p.m., the library's... definitely a little different. The tables have lit candles on them, and there are... kind of janky cardboard cutouts set on some of the shelves. An attempt was made, at least, even if there could've been more boxes destroyed in the attempt...

But regardless. There's candles set around a place for some snacks if anyone wants to bring them, and there's also a blanket set on one of the tables. Because clearly, that's where the storyteller's supposed to sit...? Maybe you wanna do it. Maybe you just want to stand or sit or something.

Either way, let's get fucking spooky up in here.]

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[alchemicals]

There are a lot of places that I can start.

Let's try the part where we have talking animals, too. Our world isn't like Judy's - our animals aren't smart like her. They're just normal animals, they mill around and do their own thing, I think the smartest we've got is maybe on par with a toddler? But even then, they're nowhere near on par with the rest of us.

But once in a while, you come across something weird.

See, we've got a special sort of alchemy that kind of...makes animals. They're called chimeras - creatures that have been alchemically merged with something else, with some other animal or another.

They say some guy specialized in making chimeras, melding two animals together into one distinct creature. He'd had a bunch of hardships happen in his life right before he figured it out, but he really threw himself into his work after his wife left him. He claimed that he'd managed to make chimeras that could talk and had human-level intelligence. When the State tried to verify his work, he showed it to them, and was able to prove that he'd actually succeeded in doing what he'd said, merging one of his large pet dogs with something else.

The thing was? All the animal did was beg for death. "Kill me," over and over again, in a woman's voice.

[...]

You know, no one ever did manage to locate the guy's wife.

[uncouthhatcher]

[.......... Why is your world like that. Why. Gold's so not sleeping tonight, he is going to spend the entire time... not sleeping. Holy shit, he's going to pass out from boredom, that is the only good thing about this stupid building right now.]

Holy shit, I am glad my world doesn't pull that kinda stuff.

[who's gonna tell him that they get halfway there for god]

Do you think he did it to his own wife? [.....] What the hell's wrong with that guy?

[alchemicals]

Good question. It's not like I've met the guy personally, so I can't exactly ask him.

[...yet? yet.]

[uncouthhatcher]

[god help you]

Don't know if you care enough, but d'you mind givin' him a punch for me when you do? I ain't too fond of people usin' others for tools. Leaves a bad taste in my mouth, you know?

[alchemicals]

[...Gold, you're fucking precious.]

I'll do it if I ever meet him, sure. Assuming he exists, anyway - stories, remember?

[uncouthhatcher]

[He's a precious metal, what'd you expect.]

Yeah, sure. Stories.

[Which sounds like... a little too real for his comfort, thanks!]

You know, you're a pretty good story teller. [it's killin him.] Almost makes me afraid to ask for another.

[HE'S ATTEMPTING TO SOUND LIKE HE'S JOKING, OF COURSE, but he can't hide the fact he's started to hug his legs.]

[alchemicals]

[So, want to hear about some labs?]

[stepout]

[ what the actual hell is your world ]

Shouldn't something like that be illegal?

[alchemicals]

If you're referring to the animal testing, then no, it isn't - better that then on people, right?

Actually trying it with humans is forbidden, though, definitely. We've got a few things that are, and human transmutation is right at the top.

[stepout]

[ Better not to do something like that at all— but no, she was more concerned about the human implication in that, she's good now. ]