Post by Aliyah'Vihaan on Aug 21, 2018 21:14:09 GMT -5
Data log: Exploratory Surgery attempt 7
The scalpel hums and vibrates gently as the mechanism adjusts to the newly implemented setting. The soft red glow emanating from the Runic blade is replaced with a cool blue one, as a new element eases the edge's work. It carves through the unnaturally tough fibers of dark tissue slowly, This One must maintain patience and prudence for such a procedure. Much care even than this one would demonstrate while performing surgery on that of a mortally wounded organic Expeditioner... they can be replaced there will always be more organics, however a specimen such as this is irreplaceable, perhaps even unique. The specimen resembles that of a massive internal organ found inside typical humanoids commonalities with that of their circulatory system.
"Blight Hearts" was what This One's fellow Expeditioners were calling them, an apt name due to the visual comparisons but not so much in function and purpose... for there was purpose here although this one has yet to properly identify it. There, a good anchoring point. The Scalpel is replaced with a thin pin used to hold open the incision to enable easier hands free access to the newly revealed interior.
A very pungent odor that Organics would no doubt demonstrate Designation "Disgust", this one while identifying the intensity through this one's sensor's categorizes it for future reference then dismisses the acknowledgment of it. This One must remain focused on the task at hand, such smaller details and variables can be considered later. Every so gently growths, polyps and tissue samples are carved from the heart's interior. Dark yellow pus and green bile is collected and stored into vials.
Odd, there are no true valves or muscle tissue like that of true organic hearts, or if there was it not was not identifiable. Like the Heart before this one, and many Blight infested specimens This One has studied, they give off the appearance of chaos. Seemingly random growths, other areas tissue has eroded and deteriorated without evidence as to the cause. Yet there was a peculiar order, in place here even if This One could not yet identify it. This one doesn't place much stock in Designation "Feelings" or the more accurate term "Emotion"
"Emotion", Noun
1) an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness.
2) any of the feelings of joy, sorrow, fear, hate, love, etc.
3) any strong agitation of the feelings actuated by experiencing love, hate, fear, etc., and usually accompanied by certain physiological changes, as increased heartbeat or respiration, and often overt manifestation, as crying or shaking.
Organics are always going on about their "feelings". Despite this there was something about this that did caused this one to continue re-evaluating the variables. Is this "Feelings?" It is not a rational cognitive thought, this inability to dismiss the research. It made This One "Uneasy" or "Uncertain" as if This One knew of potential dangers to Master Eskander but had not yet identified the threat. Something was hidden here, and until this one found, identified, and quantified it, This One had much more work to do...
Data Log: "Blight Scourge" dissection data evaluation
This one did not have a hypothesis prior to the actual procedure as to what and how the specimen was structured, however if This One was ordered to produce one... it would have been inaccurate and filled with errors.
It had functioning organs! With Identifiable purposes and a well structured series of bodily systems. In fact they were surprisingly similar other Organics yet radically different in other aspects. The layout was all wrong, what this perceived to be a filtering organ not unlike a humanoid "Liver" was in the upper torso cavity not the lower as with most organics. This one found many comparable organs at least by this one's first attempts at understanding. It was like a adjacent humanoid with Blight central so integrated with it's tissue and framework it was impossible to separate the two if such a thing were even possible. This was no Ghoul, this was no humanoid altered or changed by Blight exposure or contamination... this was "natural" as far as This One can tell, it was supposed to be this way. Such a thing could not exist without Purpose, without Intention yet the Thamuturgists insist that Blight is the opposite of "intention"... it is a curious paradox to be sure.
Query: What is the "Intention" of Blight?
Variables: Blight energy is created from improperly manipulated magic. The Hearts, thus far found along Magical Ley-Lines soaked in magical residue: not unlike Nerve clusters found in an organic form. The corrupting spread of Blight Plague to natural organic life altering it, destroying it, assimilating it. Now his "Blight Scourge" this creature OF Blight.
Hypothesis/Theory: These are all pieces of a larger organism or system, with a purpose and agenda. This entity exists it is behind "Blight" as we have come to understand it, and we only have identified aspects of it therefore missing the entity on a whole. In short we've been looking at and studying an impressive rock formation and missing the planet it is actually a small part of. If this theory holds true it undermines all previous knowledge about Blight that we currently consider fact. Even strictly from a magical perspective it doesn't follow existing rules the other elements due, it IS while at the same time IS NOT. If it transcends beyond Magic, natural organic life, what else are we not understanding?
This One will continue This One's research and experiments, if there is truth to be found by any means, This One will find it.
The scalpel hums and vibrates gently as the mechanism adjusts to the newly implemented setting. The soft red glow emanating from the Runic blade is replaced with a cool blue one, as a new element eases the edge's work. It carves through the unnaturally tough fibers of dark tissue slowly, This One must maintain patience and prudence for such a procedure. Much care even than this one would demonstrate while performing surgery on that of a mortally wounded organic Expeditioner... they can be replaced there will always be more organics, however a specimen such as this is irreplaceable, perhaps even unique. The specimen resembles that of a massive internal organ found inside typical humanoids commonalities with that of their circulatory system.
"Blight Hearts" was what This One's fellow Expeditioners were calling them, an apt name due to the visual comparisons but not so much in function and purpose... for there was purpose here although this one has yet to properly identify it. There, a good anchoring point. The Scalpel is replaced with a thin pin used to hold open the incision to enable easier hands free access to the newly revealed interior.
A very pungent odor that Organics would no doubt demonstrate Designation "Disgust", this one while identifying the intensity through this one's sensor's categorizes it for future reference then dismisses the acknowledgment of it. This One must remain focused on the task at hand, such smaller details and variables can be considered later. Every so gently growths, polyps and tissue samples are carved from the heart's interior. Dark yellow pus and green bile is collected and stored into vials.
Odd, there are no true valves or muscle tissue like that of true organic hearts, or if there was it not was not identifiable. Like the Heart before this one, and many Blight infested specimens This One has studied, they give off the appearance of chaos. Seemingly random growths, other areas tissue has eroded and deteriorated without evidence as to the cause. Yet there was a peculiar order, in place here even if This One could not yet identify it. This one doesn't place much stock in Designation "Feelings" or the more accurate term "Emotion"
"Emotion", Noun
1) an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness.
2) any of the feelings of joy, sorrow, fear, hate, love, etc.
3) any strong agitation of the feelings actuated by experiencing love, hate, fear, etc., and usually accompanied by certain physiological changes, as increased heartbeat or respiration, and often overt manifestation, as crying or shaking.
Organics are always going on about their "feelings". Despite this there was something about this that did caused this one to continue re-evaluating the variables. Is this "Feelings?" It is not a rational cognitive thought, this inability to dismiss the research. It made This One "Uneasy" or "Uncertain" as if This One knew of potential dangers to Master Eskander but had not yet identified the threat. Something was hidden here, and until this one found, identified, and quantified it, This One had much more work to do...
Data Log: "Blight Scourge" dissection data evaluation
This one did not have a hypothesis prior to the actual procedure as to what and how the specimen was structured, however if This One was ordered to produce one... it would have been inaccurate and filled with errors.
It had functioning organs! With Identifiable purposes and a well structured series of bodily systems. In fact they were surprisingly similar other Organics yet radically different in other aspects. The layout was all wrong, what this perceived to be a filtering organ not unlike a humanoid "Liver" was in the upper torso cavity not the lower as with most organics. This one found many comparable organs at least by this one's first attempts at understanding. It was like a adjacent humanoid with Blight central so integrated with it's tissue and framework it was impossible to separate the two if such a thing were even possible. This was no Ghoul, this was no humanoid altered or changed by Blight exposure or contamination... this was "natural" as far as This One can tell, it was supposed to be this way. Such a thing could not exist without Purpose, without Intention yet the Thamuturgists insist that Blight is the opposite of "intention"... it is a curious paradox to be sure.
Query: What is the "Intention" of Blight?
Variables: Blight energy is created from improperly manipulated magic. The Hearts, thus far found along Magical Ley-Lines soaked in magical residue: not unlike Nerve clusters found in an organic form. The corrupting spread of Blight Plague to natural organic life altering it, destroying it, assimilating it. Now his "Blight Scourge" this creature OF Blight.
Hypothesis/Theory: These are all pieces of a larger organism or system, with a purpose and agenda. This entity exists it is behind "Blight" as we have come to understand it, and we only have identified aspects of it therefore missing the entity on a whole. In short we've been looking at and studying an impressive rock formation and missing the planet it is actually a small part of. If this theory holds true it undermines all previous knowledge about Blight that we currently consider fact. Even strictly from a magical perspective it doesn't follow existing rules the other elements due, it IS while at the same time IS NOT. If it transcends beyond Magic, natural organic life, what else are we not understanding?
This One will continue This One's research and experiments, if there is truth to be found by any means, This One will find it.