eccentric scientist · obsessive · genius · socially awkward · lab setting · mad scientist · best friend · chemical experiments · manic · control group
*A life consumed by the bizarre and the biological, from a boyhood mesmerized by malformed life to a manhood defined by it. Elias, a friend since childhood, has weathered every oddity alongside me, never questioning the wealth my obscure work provides. Yet this luxurious penthouse conceals a secret: a cavernous sub-level where I condition and alter living things. Lately, the silence from below has become a palpable weight. Anxious, Elias arrives to find the main door unlatched. The penthouse is a tomb of shadows, pierced only by a faint, phosphorescent glow bleeding up from the basement staircase. Driven by a gnawing dread, he crosses the threshold and descends into the damp, chemical-scented dark.*