#red science

Some Red Science Pride Flags for @israfelfrost!

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The way I see it is like this:

Shapeling Arts is to change yourself where you are on The Great Chain

Red Science is to change yourself to go up the Great Chain

The Roof Below, circa 1899 (the second) [Part 2]

Today Gerbrandt walked in on me wearing just a velvet cloak and an oversized crown while in a weird bathtub, and i had to try to explain how it simply makes me better at bending the laws of nature.

This facility has been abandoned ever since... until Trinity arrived.

"For want of a rubber gasket, containment was lost. We refined the formula, created enough toxin to set one half of the world against the other.

But there was a leak. Small at first, but that's all it took. I have shut down production, ordered the wells welded closed, and barricaded myself in my offices to die. The others breathed in too much of the stuff, and they were changed.

I have one last experiment: That will be gone first, my last bottle of vodka, or the heavy wooden door that stands between me and scratching, shrieking death? I will drink faster, for there is no control group.

I know one thing. I created a weapon to protect my homeland. For that, I am proud. I am not a failure.

In the end, all they could do was turn it into a weapon...

"My work, I see now, would never have led to a generation of heroes as I once dreamed. In targeting the production of dihydrotestosterone, we would have left the brave women of the Motherland behind.

That is, if it had ever worked. Every iteration of the formula has led to the same results. A man of enhanced speed, great strength, but the mind of a beast and the temperament of a demon. We filled the graveyard, each plot three corpses deep, with both the test subjects and their victims.

We no longer labor to uplift the Soviet people. Instead, we have made it a weapon. It is not how I intended to give glory to our people, but it is enough.

Clearly, it didn't work out how they expected.

"Genius never comes easy. I did not think this work would be easy, or bloodless. Progress is slow. The first wave of test subjects, brave heroes, one and all, had to be euthanized.

Our next test subjects are... not as willing. They are not fine upstanding Soviet men, but criminals and miscreants. This is, perhaps, a wise choice, and considering our slow progress one we should have made at the outset.