"I might change my mind about hiring you if you keep complaining about something so trivial...but no, there isn't enough room."
"Didn't you say you'd pay me in
room and board?"
"We'll work something out."
[18]
"...Alright. You've got a couch, at least?"
"Yes."
"I've slept on worse. Recently, even."
"Excellent."
You head into the house, carrying the cage and guinea pig food while Ken brings in the guinea pigs.
"Alright, I need you to take some personality tests. Hold on." You remember something like that in one of the files from the computers, and print it off.
"Here."
"Alright. Got a pen?"
"Should be one in the cracked mug over there."
"Alright...here we go."
You take the guinea pig stuff and your one vial of Red Drake to the basement.
Soon, the guinea pigs are set up in their nice, big cage, with a dish of food and one of water, and of course plenty of space to run around. You remove one, preparing to test on it. You are about to administer the formula via convenient syringe, when something occurs to you.
Should you use the whole formula, or just a fraction? Its body mass is a lot lower than a human's...but you didn't see anything about splitting formlae in the documentation. Who knows what could happen?
House
-One Bedroom
-One Bathroom
-Kitchen/Dining Room
-Living Room
-Attic
--The Machines
-Basement
Basic Ingredients:
Alkaline Bromine: 6
Alphium: 1
Anise: 9
Anthrapyrene: 9
Apolipoprotein Z: 4
Arsenic Bromide: 4
Canadium: 5
Cinquefoil: 1
Cohosh: 6
Dubnium: 9
Gold: 3
Grignard Akylhalide: 16
Holly: 11
Marble, Aligned: 10
Neptunium: 3
Newt: 6
N-Methylanisidine: 13
Pseudo-Neutronium: 7
Polyfuran: 7
Potasium azide: 1
Promethium: 7
Radion: 1
Rat: 4
Red Phosphorus: 1
Rose: 1
Seaborgium: 10
Serpent: 3
Sodium Peroxide: 1
T-Quartz: 1
Uranium Nitride: 3
Vervain: 11
X-Radium: 6
Complex Ingredients:
Formulas:
2 Azul
1 Red Drake
Ken Banner, Veteran Vagrant
$37.43 cash
$245 in savings account
Used, Two-Seat Sedan
-Guinea Pig Cage
--5 Guinea Pigs
Biofluid
Apolipoprotein Z+Newt Essence+Rat Essence+Rose Essence+Serpent Essence->10 Biofluid
Glitterlance A
X-Radium+Gold+Rose Essence->4 Glitterlance A
Advanced Ingredient
GoBro
Alkaline Bromine+Arsenic Bromide+Gold->3 GoBro
Gold Drake Formula
Gold+2 Serpent Essence->6 Gold Drake Formula
I-1
Aligned Marble+Alphium+Canadium+N-Methylanisidine+Polyfuran->4 I-1
Advanced Ingredient
I-2
Alkaline Bromine+Anise+Anthrapyrene+Arsenic Bromide+Cinquefoil->10 I-2
Radioactive Elements Mixture #1
Alphium+Canadium+Dubnium+Promethium+Seaborgium->10 REM1
Red Drake
2 Red Phosphorus+Gold Drake->2 Red Drake
General
Each formula has multiple possible "sets" of results, which "set" a person receives is determined by their personality. (R)
The people who were running the old group were idiots. (S)
Ingredients
Formulae
Powers
Individuals/Organizations
You are a lucky duck. (C)
Other
You have recovered most of the files you're going to. (G)
C: Confirmed. You know this is true.
D: Doubted. You're not sure, but you don't think this is true.
G: Guess. It could be, but you don't have enough information to say.
H: Hearsay. You heard it said, but don't know if you can trust the source.
R: Reliable. You heard it from an expert on the subject.
S: Substantiated. Tests suggest this, but it's hard to say.
X: Disproven. You know this is hokum.
Potential disaster whichever way you go in this one; the only way to figure out which is safe and which isn't is to test. Well, what'll it be? Split or no split--and if split, how much?
