"Old Discovery, New Results" - [PathOwOgen]
05 Jul 2020PathOwOgen
Jumping forward by years into the present, CMDR PathOwOgen now is a council member on a small upstart faction by the name of Ordo Corona StellarumUpon recently he climbed the ranks of this faction quickly, participating in events, talking constantly, and winging up for missions. However for the past few weeks he took a vacation to look back on his past, and so he remembered his Old Laboratory in a nearby system, and so he spent his time going back to his Laboratory, built into a asteroid. Nobody has set foot inside for years, it was personal to him. The only thing keeping the lights on was old robots programmed to upkeep the Lab.
Soon enough he and his flagship slowly entered the hanger of the lab, a smaller hanger only able to hold one large ship and either one medium or two additional small ships. Once he left his craft he found his hidden solice from a time before, taking time to flip through his research, remembering what he spent a lot of his time on back then, a special serum that made his name.
As he looked though his slice of life he found upon an vault with logs of all of his previous tests of the substance, he quickly decided that he will try a little bit more on his old PathOwOgen, as he never got it to work and he thought it would be nice to make one final test before he called it quits
48 Hours Pass by CMDR PathOwOgen studying his old notes and results before spending another 24 sequencing a new vial of PathOwOgen, ID 0363. He also goes to a nearby agricultural station to buy a plant to test it on, a semi large carnivorous plant with large pink petals, upon inspection its found that the interior of the petals, that are almost always closed as if a flower will bloom soon, is lined with small teeth, each tooth having a tiny hole on the tip, from what he read about it these holes are for when prey like a bee (attracted to the flowery appearance) comes close, the petals trap it and inject the prey with a venom designed to make the prey paralyzed before the teeth lined interior if the flower fills some with a type of stomach acid in order to digest the prey.
After purchasing the plant he places the plant, dubbed by the station: "Devil's Maw" on a small flat pedestal in a small blank room. The CMDR prepares the test by getting on his environmental suit with oxygen and purges the atmosphere of the room, something that makes this plant special is that it doesn't need oxygen, and that appealed to him for the test.
After preparing everything for the test he put a small drop onto the plant, nothing happened within the first 10 seconds, then the plant started to to have pink fog billow out of the plant, slowly filling the room.
The CMDR did not exit the room as if he did the sudden depressurization would have been disastrous. He set it so 5 minutes after he entered the room oxygen would be pumped inside incase something went wrong.
As the pink fog covered the floor, it began to speed up, quickly getting to his ankles, then his knees, then he moved, when he did this the fog was kicked up creating a thick mist in the room as it got thicker, from the aging station, before this there was troubles with the lights, the lights failed again during this, casting the room with darkness and pink fog, while this was going on there also seemed to be a slight sound that grew larger, the sound if you rip grass from the soil, then the sound of the flower pot smashing on the ground, slight motion growing in the fog, as the same time he slipped on something and fell, cracking his suits visor on the cold metal floor. As soon as this happened the fog poured into his suit and into his lungs, effecting his body and instantly making his eyelids feel heavy. Then his arms felt like they had weights
His eyes slowly fluttered shut
The only sound remaining was the hiss of oxygen being pumped inside at the notion of his suit being breached and the sounds of motion within the pink mist of the chamber.