| Cthulhu | Дата: Воскресенье, 16.12.2012, 20:35 | Сообщение # 1 |
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“Dr. Teague, our friends would like to view the fruits of your ingenious labors.”
Teague radiates authentic pleasure, plainly relishing this unwonted attention from important laypeople. “Ah, you’ve come to see the benthic. Very good, very good. Follow me.”
On the far side of the lab, an interior window grants a view into a small sealed room. A pair of remote-manipulator gloves extrude into the airtight enclosure. A joystick and several simple buttons flank the glove cuffs on the humans’ side of the partition. Stickers depicting the familiar wheel-like labrys of the biohazard trefoil are pasted at several points.
Teague positions himself at the controls, quickly jabs two buttons and wambles the joystick. Beyond the window, a robot trolley begins to move toward a rising hatch similar to a dumbwaiter door.
“The benthic,” explains Teague, “is a literally unique creature, the only entity composed of one hundred percent realtime totipotent cells. It lives in a scrupulously controlled environment that replicates many human physiological parameters. We can decant it into its observation container for only a short time.”
Something very like a small lidded aquarium studded with monitoring devices is sliding out of the hatch on a metal tongue and thence onto the trolley. Teague next maneuvers the trolley with its cargo before the window. The contents of the liquid-filled observation vessel become apparent.
Velvet golden-magenta convolutions, a welter of amorphous limbs, rugosely flocked, writhe with fluid grace, alternately shyly hiding and boldly revealing finer hairlike, hooklike or papillary structures. Coiling and uncoiling with languid strength, teasingly half-illuminating more recondite assemblages, casting fairy-delicate pseudopods and tendrils out only to reel them in, the strange asymmetrical uncentered creature conceals its true form in its extravagant display, a dancer clad with diaphanous yet impenetrable veils. The benthic seems to mass only as much as a housecat, but judging by its variable sinuousity, might very well be capable of spreading and flattening to cover the floor of a good-sized room.
Kerry can’t remove her gaze from the fractally hypnotic creature. Its beauty nearly disables her lungs’ autonomic functioning. Like a matador’s empty supple suit of lights come alive, the benthic sparkles in her vision. How could she have been sharing a building with this uncanny living artifact without sensing its pulsing aliveness even through several concrete floors?
The Senators appear equally taken aback by the alien presence. Ferryway finds her tongue first.
“It—it can do everything you claim for it?”
Jarius answers. “You’ve seen the videos, Senator. Did you suspect we were faking them?”
“No. But it was all so incredible to me.”
Jarius’s teeth gleam. “Diaverde specializes in producing precisely that reaction, Madame Senator.”
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| Pathfinder | Дата: Воскресенье, 24.02.2013, 00:54 | Сообщение # 121 |
 Глаголом жгу сердца людей
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| Silk-Wire! Мои поздравления!!!
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