[network] @featherydouche; video; unsafe medical experiments for fun and profit; morning 190 [open]

[mrcreamsicles]

[No text today! Instead, the viewers of Norfinbury get a video showing a weird orange bird guy filmed from inside a house. In addition to the shades, behind which a faint orange glow is visible, he's got on the standard peacoat people receive here. It's the same violent shade of orange as the rest of him.]

Hey. A bunch of you already know by now, but the name's Davesprite, and I'm this thing called a sprite and I'm part crow.

[He caws demonstratively.]

But I'm posting this because House and I just did some experiments about the whole nonhuman thing yesterday. See, some people were positing that maybe I only look weird because of distorted perceptions and junk, so we wanted to test basically if I'm the way I should be or not.

Thing one, I've got a hole through the middle of my chest where my sword used to go, because sprites are weird. Don't worry about it. Watson told me how normal objects found here go right through anomalies, but stuff coated in rubble dust hits them. So he and Sherlock wanted me to try to stick some rubble in my sword hole. Spoilers, it worked.

Thing two, my blood's bright yellow like somebody cracked a glowstick open, and it doesn't look like a human's under a microscope. Since the admin said my bloodtype's been "adjusted", House wanted to inject some of it into himself to see if he could. And that worked too.

If you want to go and lecture us about how that was dangerous and stupid and we could have gotten ourselves killed: Yeah, I know, but too late. Sometimes you gotta be stupid to get science done. And now we've confirmed that looking nonhuman is still real and not just some illusion cast on our senses via the nanomachines, and that regular humans can accept "adjusted" blood with the right type.

Thing three's got nothing to do with the experiments, but House wanted me to share that he found an SD card back on day 183 with Andromeda and Winter talking some more. If you saw the post I made about the card I found a while back, the one where they were talking about the cult? It sounds like this one relates to that.

[Here at the end Davesprite links a few files. First are video recordings of him and House performing the experiments described above. His blood in the relevant experiment is indeed a yellow as he said and slightly luminescent. Along with this he includes a couple photos of his blood taken under a microscope. The blood cells aren't human or avian, but a shape that looks somewhere between both.]

[Next, he includes the audio file of Winter and Andromeda talking.]

(OOC: Replies may come from either Davesprite or House!)

Comments

@godsend, audio

[termineur]

Congratulations on the experiments. Sounds like you got some positive results.

[ He genuinely sounds happy about it, too. Maybe his theory was wrong, after all. ]

Now I'm wondering what was done to your blood to 'adjust' it to a normal human type. I'm guessing we can blame nanomachines for all of that, but it's still mysterious.

audio;

[mrcreamsicles]

I was waiting for you to show up.

[Zane doesn't have a direct hand in suggesting the experiments, but the talk they had the first time they met stuck with him in a big way.]

Honestly, I don't really know or care how it got adjusted. The important thing to me is we know it being adjusted means it's compatible.

[And that in combination with the other experiment, it probably means a real adjustment, not just regular blood that's been faked to look weird in their perceptions. But he doesn't say that part.]

[termineur]

Were you? I'm really glad you proved me wrong here. Didn't mean to shove all my worries on you that night like that.

[ There's nothing that really can prove their perceptions are real, but this goes a long way to making him feel like his powers still exist somewhere, that he's the person he remembers being. ]

And yeah, the how doesn't really matter. Just knowing that it is that way, especially with the transfusion option opening up- that's really good to know.

[mrcreamsicles]

Yeah, well.

[The sound of him shrugging. You did anyway, Zane! Good job with that.]

House wanted to test it for the same kind of reason as the rubble thing. Do I just look like a mistake of nature, or is this the real deal? But if you ask me, since the rubble thing worked, I actually got adjusted in that department. Not just made of nanomachines or whatever you were trying to say back then.

[termineur]

[ It's a good thing Sylar doesn't actually care, or he might feel bad a little bad about that. Davesprite provided some much needed venting that night. ]

I have no idea why someone would want to adjust your blood to fit a human type, but yeah- that definitely seems like that's what happened.

I wonder if we're ever going to get the whole story on this place.

[mrcreamsicles]

Maybe to make it easier to revive us when we die. You're not going to find a source of sprite blood in anyone else but me around here, and the other spites weren't part crow anyway. Might help the nanomachines function better, too.

We're just going to have to keep our eyes and ears open, keep digging, and keep testing what we find.