>>5874606>>5874707Oh Rinik.
What have you done?
<span class="mu-i">The Vanadian scientist, Free College trained and taught, approaches the only barely conscious man slumped against the wall. Talks a few words with him. Checks his interminable clipboard once again, for numbers and notations and calculations and the very stuff that heresy is made of.
But then, again, is it truly heresy if one approaches Divinity from the angle of a plumber? It's all leaking Potential and Possibility, and the Other is just an ocean, with flora and fauna so different from us that it defines taxomy itself and the concept of conceptualization.
One cannot commit heresy against things one does not even consider divine in the first place. Science, *proper science*, the real stuff of world-shaking, threshold pushing, paradigm shattering advancement, what place has that for sacred and sombre and something so positively backwards thinking as mere traditional respect? The only icon a proper scientist needs is the labeling on their equipment.
Spider-Rat-Man understands, in a flash, what is being attempted here. There are stories about this kind of thing. And not the stories told to happy children and delighted seekers by twitching tongue and fine cape, above, no, not the joyous stories of myth and man and ancient deeds
Find a soldier, in some tavern
ask them what they saw
Ask them about the Threshold Project, and watch, in their eyes, years hence, as terror like a shark swims across their memories. Ask them about the Rook. Ask them about Gerean's Gremlins.
There are certain things no soul should engage.
Oh Rinik, you mad little rat.
You want to feast on the stuff that gods are made from.</span>
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