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libraryofbabel) wrote2021-08-25 06:14 pm
libraryofbabel) wrote2021-08-25 06:14 pm
Internal Ethics Review of Human Experimentation, Early 21st Cen
"What is it you're looking for…?"
Your colleague and the blue-haired young woman explain, together: they'd found some information relating to an experiment done by one Stephen Zachar,1 another senior member of the Ordo Dracul, in a friend's abandoned haven, and wanted to cross-reference them with what the library had, starting with an obituary for a Chicago-area woman named Dianna.
The power's still spotty,2 so you have to resort to the card catalog, but it's not too hard to track down: the experimental log on an attempt at "hybridization," which all of you come to realize, in horror, was some kind of long series of attempts to create living half-vampire children in "sourced organic incubative environments," which you all realize with even more horror means that Zachar was killing people and stealing their reproductive organs. Which, based on the numbering of the experiments—implies that he killed nearly a hundred women for this.
The young woman seems faintly surprised at the reaction from you and your colleague. At this point you start explaining in no uncertain terms that you would never have passed this on the review board, and furthermore that such experimentation is absolutely not a thing that the Los Angeles chapter of the Ordo Dracul does,3 and also frankly you're disgusted, which seems to relieve her a great deal.
In fact—on hearing this from you, she tells you that, in fact, she's been dissatisfied with the state of the Carthian Movement in the city, and that, if you'll have her, she'd like to join up with you, and you're entirely glad to accept.
[1] A member of the academy in Chicago, Yi had not known him apart from being familiar in passing with a handful of his publications. However, their spheres of interest had rarely overlapped.
[2] Due to the massive catastrophe that destroyed most of Los Angeles, the amount of power and supplies they had available at the time was impressive; Yi had been working with local groups at the neighborhood level to assist in mutual aid.
[3] Yi did have a moment of pause in wondering if it was a claim that she could make, given that she herself had experimented on vampires. While her own experiments had lacked such a visceral brutality, they were still ones that had not been wholly safe. However, since becoming the senior acting member of the Sworn of the Mysteries, which handled internal affairs, she had been quite firm in the Ordo Dracul that experiments would be held to a particular ethical standard.
Your colleague and the blue-haired young woman explain, together: they'd found some information relating to an experiment done by one Stephen Zachar,1 another senior member of the Ordo Dracul, in a friend's abandoned haven, and wanted to cross-reference them with what the library had, starting with an obituary for a Chicago-area woman named Dianna.
The power's still spotty,2 so you have to resort to the card catalog, but it's not too hard to track down: the experimental log on an attempt at "hybridization," which all of you come to realize, in horror, was some kind of long series of attempts to create living half-vampire children in "sourced organic incubative environments," which you all realize with even more horror means that Zachar was killing people and stealing their reproductive organs. Which, based on the numbering of the experiments—implies that he killed nearly a hundred women for this.
The young woman seems faintly surprised at the reaction from you and your colleague. At this point you start explaining in no uncertain terms that you would never have passed this on the review board, and furthermore that such experimentation is absolutely not a thing that the Los Angeles chapter of the Ordo Dracul does,3 and also frankly you're disgusted, which seems to relieve her a great deal.
In fact—on hearing this from you, she tells you that, in fact, she's been dissatisfied with the state of the Carthian Movement in the city, and that, if you'll have her, she'd like to join up with you, and you're entirely glad to accept.
[1] A member of the academy in Chicago, Yi had not known him apart from being familiar in passing with a handful of his publications. However, their spheres of interest had rarely overlapped.
[2] Due to the massive catastrophe that destroyed most of Los Angeles, the amount of power and supplies they had available at the time was impressive; Yi had been working with local groups at the neighborhood level to assist in mutual aid.
[3] Yi did have a moment of pause in wondering if it was a claim that she could make, given that she herself had experimented on vampires. While her own experiments had lacked such a visceral brutality, they were still ones that had not been wholly safe. However, since becoming the senior acting member of the Sworn of the Mysteries, which handled internal affairs, she had been quite firm in the Ordo Dracul that experiments would be held to a particular ethical standard.