Antonia

The Once and Forever Queen

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The Sub Rosa Smiles Trials

Cellar Laboratory – Undisclosed location

Following a biological attack on Kamelot by a now somewhat infamous attention-seeking clown, Antonia Dain vanished from work and, seemingly, off the face of the Earth. No one close to her had seen nor heard from her since guiding Lena Dante to Quintus Knightfall’s secret location below Kamelot for debriefing on the Smiles situation. Although, briefly, she had managed to successfully sneak into the mortuary at Grace Memorial Hospital in order to obtain a blood sample from Herman Anto. Since that time, she had locked herself away in her own sort of private laboratory for studying.

Dressed from head to toe in the protective ivory suit, she wore a pair of goggles over her eyes and a surgical mask over the mouth. The lab was cluttered, even by her own standards, littered with a small number of suspended stiffened mouse corpses on various tables, microscopes, needles, and various other instruments for research. Each corpse had one thing in common: Vibrant green fur with pale skin undertones, and a slight to severe red coloration at the tiny lips of the creatures.

“This…is killing my vacation days,” she sarcastically murmured to herself whilst scribbling something in a pad littered with meticulously written and, if one looked from the outside, seemingly disorganized, notes. “It better be worth it.” In truth, she had forgotten to even call in sick or on vacation. The notes themselves detailed various trials of experiments with the chemical, measuring effects on the mice themselves, Antonia just then finishing an abridged summary of her findings.

Unidentified toxin found, extracted from subject(Herman Alto)’s blood. EXTREMELY small volume of toxin found per pint to be able to work with. Must acquire more for further study. Will need to meet with clown.

Small concentration, combined with victim-specific calculations (body weight, age, approximate levels of physical fitness) suggest extremely high potency; very small dosage introduced prior to subject’s entering Kamelot. Result: Gradually rising panic, followed by various erratic (and shortly violent) behaviour, hallucinations* and hysteria (marked by uncontrollable laughter),mortality within minutes.

Trace amounts of chemical element dubnium located within. Dubnium (Db) – Historically alternate name: Hahnium (Ha). Commenced trials on mouse subjects for measured effects.

-Doses measured CAREFULLY by size of mouse subjects, equally concentrated amounts given to all.
-Isolated dubnium, extracted from doses given to control group. Not so for experimental.
-Following introduction, subjects exhibited behaviour similar to that of the original subject (Herman Alto) before assuming rigid posture and dying.
-Presence, or lack thereof, of dubnium shown to have no effect on toxin. Working conclusion: Inclusion of “Hahnium” was intended simply for its chemical symbol, Ha.**

*Hallucinations as concluded from first-hand witness. Erratic behaviours indicate distorted perceptions, potential artificial visions. Further study desired.

**Reminder: Add notes to psych. profile.

Next logical move: Preparation for possible escape. Target has obsessive need for attention, will likely be compelled to announce departure from holding facilities, or otherwise leave a “present.” Frequency of biological attacks suggests likely to continue in future. Would allow for further study, potential synthesis of counter-measure (to be applied immediately upon signs of infection). – Consider preemptive strike. While risky, in potentially placing self on other side of law, murdering the attention-seeker would prevent further damage to society…Plan: Extract knowledge, conduct studies, terminate target.

Personal side project: Ways of synthesizing gas-based variant?

While not totally necessary for one with her total recall, the notes would serve to ease explanation, should she choose to communicate studies and motives with anyone else. As for the moment, however, upon pain of having her own sanity and morals called into question, she opted to keep these secrets locked away for herself. Rolling the chair back from the desk, Antonia rose, closed the notebook, shut it up inside a locked desk drawer, and headed back up to change clothes and prepare to present her best case for why she should keep her job.

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