People you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley

[Zathoth]

That could be useful...

 

Wolf, in what ways can you use investiture?

[18th Shard he/him]

Well, the real question is: Can her wolf scents follow the scents of tacos? Voidus, I think we have found the tracking device!

[Fatebreaker he/him]

We used an Essence Spike. She's got two souls, essentially (ba-dum-tssshhhh)

Ah, Hemalurgy puns,they never get old. Thanks to their Gold Spikes that is.

 

But don't worry about her too much. We have a number of contingency plan for dealing with her if the need arises. Not that it ever will I'm sure. But I do kinda wanna test out the device I made for the occasion. It's got some great dials and buttons on it that simply beg to be used.

[Guest]

Kipper strode over to Winter, touched her shoulder, and, with a burst of Allomantic power, wiped her metal reserves clean.

"Can we not just attack each other? It doesn't make sense to me why you would do that. He wasn't even implying that he was going to experiment on you."

Kipper sighed and walked over to Morzathoth, who lay crumpled on the ground.

Kneeling, he said firmly, "The next time you touch one of the Denizens without provocation, your sanctuary here ceases. Do you understand? The Alley is sorry for the unnecessary Spiritual damage that our procedures caused, but that is no excuse to hurt a member who was not even with us at the time."

Edited September 15, 2015 by Guest

[ostrichofevil he/him]

Maleril went into his office, and found one of the old spikes lying around.  He brought it over to Morzathoth, and impaled it firmly into his arm.

 

"That should help with the bleeding."

[Zathoth]

Morzathoth sits up, takes out the spike, hands it to Maleril and looks at Winter though the hole she made. "Fascinating... Thanks for the care everyone, but I got gold minds." he says and taps his gold minds to close the wound. He turns to Winter and smiles. "Let me ask again, Winter, in what ways can you use investiture? No need to attack me for asking questions."

[Fatebreaker he/him]

The Stranger appeared in a puff of smoke that smelled like rain and contemplation.

He tossed a small bag to Morzathoth

 

"Got you some corruption proof gemstones to work with. Mind Crystals, sentient crystalline organisms. They do scream when you grind them, so wear earmuffs if you ever plan to harvest for yourself. These are some fingers and toes I gathered a while back when I was doing some research. Enjoy."

 

He turned to Winter

 

"And technically your sanctuary was revoked when you ran away from our protective custody. Plus, we're not sorry for what happened. You willingly joined, received invaluable benefits and blessings, then were allowed to leave with your life. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. We could always make,"

 

He grinned and pulled a spike from his sleeve

 

"...other arrangements."

[Zathoth]

Morzathoth caught the bag. "Thank you Mister. I'll see what I can do with these."

"A zinc spike would be nice, otherwise she may coinshot me into a cheese... even if I am already full of holes." He cracked up at his own silly joke.

[ostrichofevil he/him]

Maleril watched her leave.  He didn't understand why she was Compounding steel; she wasn't even running.  As soon as she was gone, he stabbed himself with the trusty Titanium Location Spike that he kept in his pocket.  He disappeared in a Spiritually troubling burst of Spiritual energy as he entered the Spiritual Realm.  He then said a Redundantly Redundant Redundancy.

[Zathoth]

My dark alloys (Ally, alleys, yes, I am indeed hilarious) it seems that we have a feruchemical threat to our monopoly as the 17th shards greatest and only seller of cookies. So let me hear your ideas, how will we deal with this new threat?

[Guest]

You lost me at "threat"...

[Zathoth]

Well, I mean... if people have other cookies to choose... you may have a point, I didnt think this through, which is funny considering zinc compounding...

[Guest]

[Redbird he/him]

So Morzathoth, it seems you were looking into transferring animal abilities onto humans*. With that being similar to my area of expertise, perhaps I could assist you.

 

*Or whatever it is that occupies these alleys.

Edited September 16, 2015 by Redbird

[Zathoth]

So Morzathoth, it seems you were looking into transferring animal abilities onto humans*. With that being similar to my area of expertise, perhaps I could assist you.

 

*Or whatever it is that occupies these alleys.

"Oh, yes! Thats what I was doing before I got shot! How time flies..." Morzathoth opens his decay-safe box. Inside there are 3 spikes. One Iron spike marked Chasm fiend and two tin spikes, marked heat pit and electric field sense respectively. "Do you have any test subjects we can try these spikes on?"

[Fatebreaker he/him]

The Stranger smiled

 

"Always, but we prefer the term volunteers. Also, where were youi planning to put the heat pit spike? My first thought was to try the nose, but it might look rather silly. Under the eyes perhaps?" 

 

 

Also Morzathoth, here's a piece of encouragement

http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=1093#5

 

Spiking animal senses is canon. Keep up the good work.

Edited September 16, 2015 by Fatebreaker

[Zathoth]

"Im thinking between the eyes, these things are pretty exact, they work pretty much just like vision does, they only pick up another kind of radiation."

[ostrichofevil he/him]

Maleril reappeared in the Alley.  He yanked the Location Spike out of his arm.

 

"I'd be glad to Volunteer!" 

[Zathoth]

"Lay down and hold your head very, very still while I go get a hammer."

[Redbird he/him]

Excuse me winter, but could you stop trying to impede science? Plus that ostrich totally volunteered.

[Redbird he/him]

Well, you seem to be significantly less ashy than some others, whom the DA claims no knowledge of. 

[18th Shard he/him]

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[ostrichofevil he/him]

"And for as many 'informed consent' you get, you leave dozens of blind idiots you duped in some pile. Or just ashes. Whatever you do with 'failed experiments." Winter said, knowing they'd obviously hear. "I should know, I was one of them."

 

 

Excuse me?

[18th Shard he/him]

Steelsight is sight, too, you know.

[Zathoth]

"I got a hammer!" Morzathoth said, not knowing of the argument that was taking place as he lacked tin, his life sense however could feel Winter and he figured she was planning something. He walked into the room and saw the solemn mood on his fellow scientists. It took him 1.3 seconds to realize what was going on due to his zinc compounding.

 

"It is her, isnt it? She is holding some stupid rant about the nature of right and wrong and how we are the bad guys, isnt she?" Winter felt a spike of terror and anxiety.

 

"Ok, Wolf. 'Morality' as you have so nicely named your laws of life never adds up to more than 'I think this is wrong and so should you'. We are not going to stop, I guess you are not going to stop, so we have conflicting interests here, so be a very good puppy and go down here so we can solve our conflicting interests, in any way you please."