Re: In the Shadow of Imperator: Extended Interludes
Thursdays 31, January 2019; Evening - A Cure for Hitori
A dark eyebrow raises questioningly when Levi begs for his brain and mind to be spared.
"Your brain is the only useful aspect of your person. No. I will put it to better use than you ever could. Now … goodbye Dr. Kripke."
There was something definitive about that goodbye. It signaled the end of Levi Kripke. A death sentence. Dr. Sokolov raised his hands and his fingers began to move through the air. In response the mechanical arms raised like puppets. Craning over Levi's restrained form he jabbed needles between sections of his brain tissue, injecting chemical and sending electrical currents through the vulnerable organ.
Looking up Levi was able to watch as this occurred. In the mirrored ceiling he could see it all. As he watched, his memory began to fade. As though his mind were flayed by the chemical treatment and disrupting currents of electricity that assaulted his brain. Recent events in Hadron City were gone. His family stripped. His education, his youth … all gone. There was nothing left of Levi Kripke and when there was nothing left … he experienced nothing.
Friday 1, Febuary 2019; Morning - A Cure for Hitori
Hitori waited in front of the elevator. Hours passed. The evening lapsed and Dr. Kripke still had not returned. So Hitori retired for the night, deciding retire and rest for the next day. Sleep was easier than it had been in the previous days. He had eaten two youths hours ago, and though the hunger remained, it was reduced to a tolerable background pang rather than desperate need. After performing his morning routine Hitori decides it is best to keep himself fed, rather than starve himself and risk loosing control. On his way out to hunt the Under City depths for suitable sustenance he sees Levi's body sprawled out on the floor in front of the elevator.
Thursdays 31, January 2019; Evening - A Cure for Hitori
Flashing back to the night of the 31st we see Dr. Sokolov performing his machine assisted surgery on Levi. After the needles play their chemicals and electrical shocks they retract. Specialized limbs move in and set about extracting the brain from the body. With motions from Sokolov's hands the brain is carefully maneuvered over to half of a container, shaped like the lower half of a brain. Levi's thinking organ is set into it, a matching top is soon placed over the container. Tubes are connected to this upper segment, and once in place a blue fluid moves through these thin tubes to fill the empty spaced within the container, supporting and suspending the brain within it. Afterwards the tubes pull away, and in their place are chrome colored connecters.
With this process completed Dr. Sokolov steps away from the corpse on the surgical table and over to the tray where Levi's brain rests in it's container, the fluid suspension making it turn blue. The mad scientist takes the brain into his hands and studies it and the container. While studying it he turns slowly to another table a couple meters away where we see a humanoid shaped form masked in shadow.
"... better than you ever could."
Sokolov lowers his hands to the back of an opened head that exposes a metallic interior, and inserts the brain into it's new home.
Thursdays 31, January 2019; Evening - A Cure for Hitori
A dark eyebrow raises questioningly when Levi begs for his brain and mind to be spared.
"Your brain is the only useful aspect of your person. No. I will put it to better use than you ever could. Now … goodbye Dr. Kripke."
There was something definitive about that goodbye. It signaled the end of Levi Kripke. A death sentence. Dr. Sokolov raised his hands and his fingers began to move through the air. In response the mechanical arms raised like puppets. Craning over Levi's restrained form he jabbed needles between sections of his brain tissue, injecting chemical and sending electrical currents through the vulnerable organ.
Looking up Levi was able to watch as this occurred. In the mirrored ceiling he could see it all. As he watched, his memory began to fade. As though his mind were flayed by the chemical treatment and disrupting currents of electricity that assaulted his brain. Recent events in Hadron City were gone. His family stripped. His education, his youth … all gone. There was nothing left of Levi Kripke and when there was nothing left … he experienced nothing.
Friday 1, Febuary 2019; Morning - A Cure for Hitori
Hitori waited in front of the elevator. Hours passed. The evening lapsed and Dr. Kripke still had not returned. So Hitori retired for the night, deciding retire and rest for the next day. Sleep was easier than it had been in the previous days. He had eaten two youths hours ago, and though the hunger remained, it was reduced to a tolerable background pang rather than desperate need. After performing his morning routine Hitori decides it is best to keep himself fed, rather than starve himself and risk loosing control. On his way out to hunt the Under City depths for suitable sustenance he sees Levi's body sprawled out on the floor in front of the elevator.
Thursdays 31, January 2019; Evening - A Cure for Hitori
Flashing back to the night of the 31st we see Dr. Sokolov performing his machine assisted surgery on Levi. After the needles play their chemicals and electrical shocks they retract. Specialized limbs move in and set about extracting the brain from the body. With motions from Sokolov's hands the brain is carefully maneuvered over to half of a container, shaped like the lower half of a brain. Levi's thinking organ is set into it, a matching top is soon placed over the container. Tubes are connected to this upper segment, and once in place a blue fluid moves through these thin tubes to fill the empty spaced within the container, supporting and suspending the brain within it. Afterwards the tubes pull away, and in their place are chrome colored connecters.
With this process completed Dr. Sokolov steps away from the corpse on the surgical table and over to the tray where Levi's brain rests in it's container, the fluid suspension making it turn blue. The mad scientist takes the brain into his hands and studies it and the container. While studying it he turns slowly to another table a couple meters away where we see a humanoid shaped form masked in shadow.
"... better than you ever could."
Sokolov lowers his hands to the back of an opened head that exposes a metallic interior, and inserts the brain into it's new home.
Originally posted by OOC
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