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Tight in a Box Part3

I went to the Artifactor Lab to talk to the Chief. I don’t need a multi-slide presentation and a list of achievements – I don’t care about any of that. I want to sense the emotions that the Chief will give off while telling me about them. Everybody knows, the Lab Chiefs have done a lot of really nasty things to get to their places and to stay there. If I am not able to find an acceptable level of mutual understanding with them or if their underlings can’t forgive all the abuse and fear despite my power of suggestion, he and the Chief of the Alchemists will be replaced.

I was met by a very busy crowd. Lots of newcomers were getting their first steps into the Wonderful World of making Artifacts. I have ordered everyone with Healing abilities to get training in the new Medical Center, everybody with any aptitude for Artifact Making or Alchemy was brought over for an Introductory class. GREAT!

I made it to the Chief who looked very busy and really emanated eagerness to have things done. I think he was actually happy to try himself in his new role of a caring leader working for the common good. I hope it will last for a while. He noticed me and tried to get up and I told him to please continue sitting. I asked if he has a sturdy container that would fit this Brownie. It has to be able to get sealed and be hard to break. The Lab Chief asks if I need something like a bird cage for the air to come in and the Brownie to jump and fly around a bit? I smiled and said that he’s still not fully appreciating being a zombie – that Brownie doesn’t need to breathe so there doesn’t need to be any air. He asked if he can be allowed to wonder why do I treat a dead Brownie with such care? Do I know that these Brownies aren’t rare at all? His Gatherers bring one every 10-20 days. I kept silent for a second and then said that I’ll tell him. Can he send a messenger to the Chief Alchemist so I don’t have to explain it twice? She can bring her assistants if she so desires. He reached to an artifact on his desk and pressed it a few times. The lady from the other lab almost ran into the office less than a minute later and stopped staring at me. I could feel her overwhelming fear and worry. I decided not to dig deeper into her emotions and put the dead Brownie on the desk. Now the two Lab Chiefs are looking at me, at the dead Flier and at each other.

I apologized for rushing her over and explained that I need a sturdy container for this dead thing, ideally one that can be sealed permanently and would be hard to break. The Chief Alchemist was about to ask something but the Artifact Maker said that he already explained to me that these aren’t rare, albeit they usually dissolve in the morning but the creature has no real use for making Artifacts or Potions. So now the two professionals are looking at me with a question in their eyes. I’ve re-animated the Brownie and made it walk around making angry hand gestures, gazing and even trying to scream at them. The Chief Artifactor froze and the Potion-Making Lady screamed and dashed to that Brownie with so much passionate anger in her eyes that I had to resort to stopping her through my Zombie-control means as her fist had already began to crush the little dead body. Then I forced her to release my “toy” and step away, cast a “Necro-Repair Level-3” (I got a new Level – Hurrah!) picked up the now-motionless Brownie and released the poor woman. While she was still trying gather her thoughts and get her emotions under control, the man asked, how is it possible that the “Duke” got turned into a dead Brownie. I answered that he didn’t. I’ve captured his soul when I’ve killed him with their help – you remember that, don’t you? They nodded and I told them that I’ve tried to experiment with that soul and the experiment almost blew up in my face. You see, even Necromancers have Lab Safety issues. It happened that I already had a specially-processed dead Brownie from a previous experiment that I’ve used to fly around and even into the Shimmering Veil. At this point they almost jumped looking at me but I said I’ll talk about that Veil tomorrow. Honest. Really. They were clearly disappointed. So closer to the matter at hand – I got their attention again – my experiment went horribly wrong and Dr. Nectar actually saved me. Let them be impressed with their new colleague. So, as you can see, I could not just keep the soul around and I still need to get all of its secrets out, so I had to engage an external storage capacity. Yes, now their eyes are shining – science talk, they get it. Storage requirements – they get it. So I need it stored where I can reach it while even if the Librarian procures some knowledge to do any damage to me or my Team (let them feel connected and special) he’d have no ways to communicate it to anyone or implement any of it. To my knowledge, Brownies have no telepathic abilities and shouldn’t be able to break out of a container. It doesn’t have to be large – the size of an eyeglasses case would do the trick. Light and air are not needed – the Brownie is DEAD and is sustained through Necro-means.