Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25389303-20190127200805/@comment-25389303-20190217161905

Helldrix raised his hands in a non-violent gesture, unfazed by the threats sent his way.

"No need for violence here, Doctor Nobel. I'm willing to hear you out - after all, it must be important considering you to have come all this way, despite the obvious secrecy of everything around you, hence why I am speaking to you now." He turned his gaze on Arthur momentarily, who looked none too happy about his situation. "After all, none can reach this floor without my knowledge...and allowance. My curiousity is the only thing keeping this prison from going into lockdown."

"Never mind that, what's going on here?!" Arthur demanded angrily, gesturing to the rows of suspended bodies around him. The young doctor looked mildly confused for a moment, before his eyes widened slightly in realisation.

"Ah...yes...I suppose it could be a surprising sight to the unprepared," Helldrix pondered lazily, seemingly incapable of fully understanding Arthur's repulsion."These are my patients. Don't worry, they're anaesthetized - they aren't away of anything going on around them."

Walking up to the statis chamber with the young woman inside, Helldrix put his prosthetic hand tenderly against the glass as he looked within. "Every one of them is a volunteer - did you know that? I spared them the agony of the Black Ice Cells, and in exchange they act as willing subjects for my experiments."

"And what might those experiments be, exactly?" Arthur shot back, clearly unsatisfied with the man's answers. "This all looks like something from one of those Atlesian horror movies." His axe was beginning to shake slightly as the urge to strike began to grow inside him. Helldrix seemed to notice this, and took a small step backwards.

"Prosthetic research...that's as much as I can tell you. But rest assured, this is for the good of all humanity, and the people who would otherwise freeze to death in this lonely asylum." He turned back to Alexander. "I may not specialise in medicine, but my understanding of the fusion between flesh and metal in almost unparalleled. There is no physical ailment I cannot remedy, so long as I have the resources...

"Unfortunately for both of us, walking out of this asylum is easier said than done. After all, I am as much a prisoner in this hell as the people in these pods." Helldrix gestured for his two guests to follow him into a side room, and he continued speaking as he walked. "You are mistaken if you think I run this facility. I am merely another cog in a larger machine - an important cog, and one which will be searched for if it goes missing. The people who run this place have need of my talents, same as you. And as far as I am aware, there is no greater place to conduct my experiment than here...so, Doctor Nobel, I hope you have something to offer me in exchange, otherwise you may never leave this asylum ever again."