AN OPEN DOOR FOR ANY WHO WOULD ENTER...
The MIT has a suite of research divisions that are trusted and well-funded. There were also suites for newer divisions, those were were interested in the act of learning but had yet to build accreditation with the MIT. These were naturally less-maintained, but eyes still kept careful watch on it. The purpose of these rooms was to spark innovation in all who work within them.
A particular testing room was assigned to one single man by the name of Askera Question. He proved himself at least worthy to continue his research in the safe confines of a stone workshop. He had taken a long leave after experiencing a trauma most unpleasant. It seems that his doors were now open to enter once more, for he was once again offering job opportunities to anyone who would take interest.
You will be helping him. With pay, of course.
AT THE TOP OF THE TOWER, THERE IS TESTING TO DO.
Welcome to the continuation of this open thread. This is an episodic adventure that anybody and everybody is welcome to partake in. You may post on every cycle of notes, and you may only post for one test and be done if that is all you wish to do. It is up to you to decide how much you want to participate in this thread, and I welcome you while you are here. Think of these logs as creative writing prompts for you to use for roleplay and development.
How this will work:
Askera will be writing a first-person experiment report. It will describe what the experiment was about, the result and some things that happened during the time of the experiment.
Your posts are in third person present time as normal. It happens during the experiment that was detailed during the log.
Think of it as a post that creates a flashback to a time during the experiment, with you as the assistant.
As Askera's assistant, your character will be helping him perform the experiment in any way you see fit. What Askera does to interact your character is vaguely up to you, so long as it remains within the boundaries of the experiment that happened. It is your job to ensure the experiment goes smoothly, and to conveniently leave out any questionable activity from your report to the MIT.
There will additionally be a roll with each cycle. This roll is here to introduce how much chaos was involved with the experiment. A 100 was a peaceful and productive time, if not an outstanding one, while a 1... had complications that Askera conveniently forgot to place in his after-action report.
With your help, we will create the in-game Wikipedia of our dreams. Nobody will be lost in Brishall after reading our works!
Entry 13: Foolish Endeavor
This report was written by freshman researcher Askera Question.
I have recently gone on an adventure out into the many fields of rural Falderen, and these adventures have brought surprising inspiration to me now that I have returned. By my request, several live samples of a particular kind of creature-as well as a reanimated sample of a creature I had slain with the assistance of a wonderful woman by the name of Aroda-I want to observe the behavioral patterns and adaptability of this very genus. As for what kind of creature it is?
The experiment involves the humble [Mimic] family.
The overview of this test involves the placement of various kinds of Mimics in an object-rich environment. It will be the goal of my assistants today to spot out the Mimic among the many normal objects. Thankfully these specimens are either too young to pose a threat to a lab assistant or are strictly obedient to me.
Result of 23. Notable odd events occurred that will be detailed under further pages of this dossier. For you, the assistant, this means that you can be quite very creative when writing the recount.
Results
These are the scenarios in which you, the assistant, have participated. You may react to any result of your choosing-no need to worry over which one or how many.
-Day 1-
Results 1 and 2: The first experiments saw the search for the common Box Mimic, a creature who grows within the cracks of walls or discarded containers within the room. The first test was done with a specimen that had long since adapted to its' shell (a wooden chest), and the second involved an un-shelled organism that was given twenty-four hours under observation to find a suitable hiding spot.
Subject 1 was found to be both obvious and, according to the searching party, 'cliche'. The second was notably more difficult to find, and took several times over the effort to locate by the same searching party. Details of how the un-shelled Box Mimic adapted to its' environment can be found in page 4 of this dossier.
-Day 2-
Result 3: Today's goal was to find two different species, the first of which was the Light Mimic, a similar species that displays bioluminescence. It uses this to adopt alternative disguises, such as chandeliers or glowing patches of algae and fungi. The party was capable of finding the Light Mimic despite how I had left out the details of what kind of mimic the creature was.
Result 4: In addition, the searching party also needed to seek out a Portal Mimic. This species mimics the sight and feelings of an open space, particularly favoring to imitate holes and windows in hopes that something would try to crawl through it. It took the searching party longer than they would like to admit that the room used for this specific experiment was underground, and due to such, the window within the room made no sense.
-Day 3-
Result 5: A reanimated Fool's Wheat-which I assumed to be a species within the family called The Bane of Fools-was the creature that had inspired me to begin these tests after my trip. It was instructed to hide within the room. This was expected to be difficult, as it should have been able to fit within the room given its' apparent mass. However, its' flattenable body led to a very impressive disguise. As a surprise to me, its' creature title changed after it had fully settled down. Perhaps the creature itself is named The Bane of Fools, and the title it has in the UI merely leads credence to how it currently hides.
The searching party did not figure out for a long time where such a large thing could have possibly gone. Details of how the party reacted to the slowly-discovered Fool's Room can be found in page 6 of this dossier, found in the section containing a transcription of the occurring events.
A picture is attached that details the appearance of Fool's Wheat, specimen found during XX/XX/XXXX in Pormont, Brisshal.
Special mention this cycle to @Aroda , who is related to this story.
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