June, Year 1
"All right folks, our egg hatched, and now we gotta figure out what to do with it. Someone get to work on translating that gobbldegook it's saying, and if it steps out of bounds, freeze it. Actually, see if you can't modify it so that it just slows it down really really slow. Anyway, we're going to be getting some more personell soon, so brush up those people skills. You can start by seeing if you can't make some sort of mind to mind communication rune. Secrets will be spilled, so watch your thoughts. Especially Jim. There were witnesses. Resurrection team, keep working on that. Try to see if you can make them less 'shambling horrors' and more 'shambling workaholics.' otherwise, don't let them bite you. It's gross.
Dan Smithson out."
You send a scientist and a team of assistants to work on translating the Rune Giant. The scientist looks at you with a mix of worry and anger. "We should just kill the thing! It murdered my best friend!" Murmurs of agreement spread among his assistants. With some calming you manage to convince them to just do it, and give them a stasis rune just in case anything goes wrong. The scientist and his team find that the language the giant is speaking is actually the spoken form of the runic language, while the runes themselves are the written form. The giant stays in the room, toying with the bodies, fascinated by the world he was born in, much to the disgust of your workers.
You set another team to work on telepathy runes. They discover a very basic one that allows one to read thoughts, but not to place thoughts or receive thoughts. With the very basic slimes they have to test on they will take around five months to get real results.
The resurrection team continues with their work. They combine the new telepathy rune to see what the undead are thinking, which actually isn't much except for "FOOD" and "PAIN" and some "KILL ME", but the scientist working on it doesn't seem to be that much disturbed. Come to think of it, he hasn't left his lab in a month. When you decide to check up on him you find his lab a wreck, him crying in a corner, arcpistol in hand. The corpses of the undead slimes lie dead again around him. You can hear him whispering to himself when you try to get near him.
"I-I could feel their pain. It was too much, too much! I needed to end their misery..." he sobs. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." He raises the gun to his head, but you pull it away and throw it across the room. You call for security and they take him to the lounge to give him some rest.
The rest of your guild heard about the incident, and everyone seems to be in a gloomy mood. The stasis team tries to shake the bad thoughts out by focusing on their research. They reach another point of progress as they created a two-part stasis rune that can control the slowing or speeding of time, as well as the radius of the affected area. The progress lifts their spirits up, though not by a lot.
The new scientists arrive by the end of the month. The five are excited to finally be in the Tower and be in their first guild, but their enthusiasm isn't showed in kind by the gloom and darkness of your guild members. Anyways, they introduce themselves to you and you show them around the guildhall.
Welcome back to Floor News, ladies and gentlemen. Sad news on the front as catastrophe strikes again. The proposed key that the Cosmic Flame created did not succeed, and even backfired on the poor guilds. The trap exploded, killing hundreds of the Righteous Flame and Cosmic Fury members. However, it did open the boss gate, leaving just a glimmer of hope that we can beat this Floor, like we have for the past 20 years. The Righteous Flame are horribly undermanned now, and are requesting that other Clear guilds take their place and kill the boss. Let's take a moment of silence for all the fallen.
Menial Staff: 1 engineer, 15 mechanics [Done!]
Scientists: 8 scientists [3 researching] [5 standby]
Assistants: 15 assistants
Guardsmen: 3 adventurers, 10 men-at-arms
Translation [indefinite]
Resurrection Rune [indefinite]
Stasis Rune [Done!]
115,000 Cor [10,000 Cor/month]
1 Fame/10 Fame (I've heard of them in the news. They sell prunes right?)
There's been some bad rolls for everyone, even the monsters, but there's always next month.
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