EVERYONE: - Complete Cara Liss's notes - SUBJECT 982

SUBJECT 982

Day One

Amalgamating two mammalian forms, even ones of such dramatically different sizes, is easy by now. With its first tentative Stomps around the containment pen, it is clear that the subject is of a more feline, rather than porcine, disposition - though it does not mewl as much as oink.

Day Four

The subject is exceedingly rambunctious. This is not in itself a problem, but the creature does not perhaps realise the scale of its new frame, nor the strength therein. It crushed one of my assistants wholesale when it rubbed up against their leg. (Note to self - hire/kidnap/create more staff.)

I have devised a technique to distract the subject and make feeding times a far lesser ordeal - a 50-kilo ball of steel wire. The subject is captivated by this new toy and I’m pleased I picked someone else’s brains to think of it. The sight of the specimen playing with the ball is undeniably cute.

Day Five

The subject is nowhere to be seen and there is a subject-shaped hole in the wall of the lab. This is concerning.

Day Six

To my surprise, the subject has returned to the lab of its own volition - its jaws clamped around the writhing form of an injured Gyarados. Unequipped as I am to deal with the throes of an enraged sea monster, I was forced to beat a hasty retreat as it became apparent that the subject was attempting to deliver its new toy to me as some sort of gift. Despite the inconvenience, I am pleased to see the subject again and must admit I am somewhat touched by this novel behaviour.

I do rather wish that the subject hadn’t simply walked straight through the repaired wall again. Evidently, the reinforcement put in place was not enough.

Day 51

After over a month of comings and goings, settling into a well-established routine of naps and exceedingly careful chin-scritches with the aid of personal protective gear, I must report that I have discovered another facet of the specimen’s behaviour.

It transpires that the subject is not fussy about the company it keeps; it has been spending several days a week visiting the Frank-N-Furter Laboratory in the mist-wreathed forest down the road from Stow-on-Side. It has apparently had a whale of a time destroying their walls, crushing their staff, and bringing them wholly inappropriate presents.

I am… not sure how to feel about this. One thinks one gets to know a stitched-together test subject, only to find it taking advantage of the hospitality of others.

There is only one thing for it - I shall have to invest in an industrial-strength collar.

 

I found this subject log to be quite humorous, such that I laughed aloud as I read it, especially during Days 5 and 6, as short as those entries were. To find that the Subject had made a hole in the wall, only to come back, writhing Gyarados in tow... to me that spurred an image of a cat coming back with a dead animal as a gift to their owner, but of course this is no cat, and the Gyarados is NOT dead. And months later, when Cara Liss figures out that the creature had gone into another lab, destroying everything just as it had done to her own lab—well, she's certainly got even MORE on her hands with this development. (Also, the "kidnap/create" new staff was especially funny; how careless she is, all for scientific testing.) I enjoyed this very much!

 

Wyndon you should write more in the WW.

I think horror played for mundanity is incredibly effective if done properly—in needing to read between the lines to find it, and in realizing the layer of business as usual elevates the horror. The abnormal being normal, if you will. (I am very smart in my words.) Cara Liss doesn’t even seem to consider the subject’s murders as wrong; at worst it’s an inconvenience. OSHA is quaking.

That isn’t to say this is straight horror. It’s very clearly comedy horror, what with the subject being a cat… pig… thing. I think they play off each other really well: you feel guilty for laughing at something so wrong, but the absurdity of the atrocities is hilarious. It’s very classic camp comedy horror.

 

Review

I found this piece to be rather interesting. There is undoubtedly an element of body horror, I would say, as well as science fiction. I believe you do an excellent job of balancing the comedic sections with the creepy and slightly uncomfortable sections in this one-shot. Unfortunately, I had a somewhat more complicated time reading the entry for Day One – primarily due to the picture taking up a large amount of space and leaving the text funnelled down the side – this isn’t an issue with the story itself and more of a BBCODE thing.

I liked the action that you provided in this particular file, especially regarding Gyarados. However, I am unsure to what extent an industrial-strength collar will help protect against the creature here, as it has already been established to be strong enough to break through walls. From my understanding, you have written several of these files. Was there any particular motivation behind it? Or any specific combinations you wanted to write more than others?

Overall, it was a solid piece of compact Halloween horror.

 

Review

I found this piece to be rather interesting. There is undoubtedly an element of body horror, I would say, as well as science fiction. I believe you do an excellent job of balancing the comedic sections with the creepy and slightly uncomfortable sections in this one-shot. Unfortunately, I had a somewhat more complicated time reading the entry for Day One – primarily due to the picture taking up a large amount of space and leaving the text funnelled down the side – this isn’t an issue with the story itself and more of a BBCODE thing.

I liked the action that you provided in this particular file, especially regarding Gyarados. However, I am unsure to what extent an industrial-strength collar will help protect against the creature here, as it has already been established to be strong enough to break through walls. From my understanding, you have written several of these files. Was there any particular motivation behind it? Or any specific combinations you wanted to write more than others?

Overall, it was a solid piece of compact Halloween horror.

Haha, this was actually an old piece I spun up for a Halloween Monster Mash event, where I created 'research notes' based on some amalgams our artists created. The collar isn't to protect against the creature but to let the other evil mad scientists in the vicinity know that this kitty does, in fact, have an existing owner!