Phase 2

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DEPARTMENT OF BIOMEDICAL DEVELOPMENT AND ASSET CONTROL

The following document details the technical specifications of the customized pharmaceuticals and laboratory observations regarding the three biological assets.

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🧪 LAB NOTE: PHARMACEUTICAL RC-03 (Classification: Neuro-Gastric Stabilizer)

Target: Subject 22

Biological Status: Successful massive absorption of pureblood vampire blood. Hypertrophied sensory capabilities developed.

[PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR NOTES]

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Liraz Quinn

DR. Liraz is instantly recognizable by his mute purple hair that falls in precise, controlled lines around his light, angular face and his piercing magenta eyes, which seem to measure and calculate everything they observe. Pragmatic to a fault and ruthlessly calculating, he has earned a reputation as one of the most brilliant minds in Maddock’s laboratory, capable of designing, analyzing and perfecting complex experiments with cold efficiency. Where others might falter under ethical hesitation or emotional attachment, Liraz excels, even when dealing with children who might awaken a softer side in most people —he overcomes any inclination to sentiment, ensuring that the laboratory’s objectives are never compromised. Though his role often places him in the quiet aftermath of experiments, monitoring the children’s vitals and adjusting their treatments with meticulous care, his mind is always several steps ahead, orchestrating outcomes both within the lab and in Maddock himself. It is through a combination of intellect, subtle psychological insight, and measured flattery that Liraz guides Maddock’s decisions, quietly bending the great mind’s obsession to his own designs while remaining nearly invisible in the process. Cold, methodical, and supremely self-controlled, Liraz embodies the perfect balance of scientific skill and manipulative genius, a shadow at the centre of the laboratory’s operations whose influence shapes far more than any one experiment.

Bram Maddock

Dr. Bram Maddock, once a high priest of the Temple, now dwells in the shadow of his former piety, driven by a singular, consuming obsession: the creation of the "perfect human". His black, curly hair, perpetually in disarray, frames a face that betrays both brilliance and a hint of despair, magnified by the thick lenses perched on his nose. Draped in the crisp white robes of a scientist —an ironic echo of his clerical past— he moves through his laboratory with the precision of a man who has devoted decades to understanding life itself, yet whose humanity has slowly eroded beneath the weight of obsession. Time has passed him by; his prime years are long gone, leaving him physically diminished but intellectually formidable, a mind still capable of dissecting the mysteries of creation with frightening acuity.

Despite the Temple’s waning influence in the world, they continue to quietly fund Maddock’s experiments, a pragmatic decision that allows them to outsource the "dirty work" of their remaining power. Maddock, for all his intelligence, is naïve when it comes to human cunning. Flattery and praise are his weaknesses; he welcomes adulation as much as he does data, never suspecting how it may be used to guide his choices. Yet among the many scientists and assistants who surround him, only Dr. Liraz has learnt to exploit this blind spot with subtlety and patience. Through carefully measured compliments, strategic guidance, and veiled suggestions, Liraz steers Maddock’s decisions, ensuring that projects and experiments align with their shared, often secretive goals —all without Maddock ever realizing he is being manipulated.

His work is as meticulous as it is macabre. Children are chosen for their obedience and potential, subjected to procedures that push the boundaries of body, mind, and soul. Occasionally, Maddock takes the most compliant or promising subjects to the Temple —not as a reward or act of faith, but both out of a personal nostalgia for the sacred halls of his past and because the Temple demands proof of the experiments’ progress. In these moments, his reverence for the echoing corridors and hushed ceremonies he once devoted himself to mingles uneasily with his obsessive scientific drive, a haunting reminder of the man he once was.

Project Ascendium

Project Ascendium was conceived in secret beneath the Temple, a pursuit of human perfection masked as divine exploration. Its architect, a former high priest turned obsessive scholar, received funding and protection from the Temple —not out of malice, but in a calculated compromise: in exchange for supporting his experiments, he and his team were tasked with producing the most exceptional assets, children engineered and trained to carry out the Temple’s covert operations, its unspoken dirty work. The project drew from the innocence and potential of children, molding them into beings capable of subtle manipulation, precision and influence, all under the guise of sacred study . In this way, the Temple maintained its outward piety and moral authority, even as a hidden hand orchestrated acts the faithful would never condone, and the experiment itself became both a laboratory of obsession and a tool of power, its influence rippling quietly through the corridors of the Temple.

I mean

Giving them ‘medical pills’ 'cause they need to take them so they can ‘continue living normally’? Manipulating & bad influence? Maybe a lil' bit...

Tho he ended up forcing them to take the pills anyway. So... There wasn't really any other option.

Maybe they do have some positive effects, but more or less it's all placebo effect... Even if one of them knows it's all bullsh¡t from their doctor.