From: apm4366@cc.utah.edu (Miaullis, Aaron Paul)
Subject: Re: Vampire/Werewolf... What next?
Organization: University of Utah Computer Center
Distribution: usa
Date: 20 Nov 1992 17:06 MST  

In article <By13yB.5G4.1@cs.cmu.edu>, tomault+@cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Galen Ault) writes...
{In article <1992Nov19.191811.4610@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu> corleyj@helium.gas.uug.arizona.edu (Jason D Corley ) writes:
{>In article <Bxy528.7sr.1@cs.cmu.edu> tomault+@cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Galen Ault) writes:
{>>In article <BxJE8q.13A@news.cso.uiuc.edu> tgt33358@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Thanatos) writes:
{ 
{>
{>The
{>lab of the scientist should be sqeaky clean, maybe even one of those
{>special "clean rooms".  Everything should be in its place.  The
{>instruments are shiny, the wires are connected in an organized,
{>civilized way, the computers should be very powerful and reliable,

	Sounds like the labs I work in, a little.

{ 
{Another idea is to have the Mad Scientist working right under the nose of
{society, like in a hospital.  Maybe those patients who checked out never made
{it home.  Maybe those corpses in the morgue weren't lost by a "bookeeping
{error."  In a fashion similar to the above, the familiar and comforting are
{transformed into the strange and horrifying.  Or perhaps the scientist works
{in a government lab, and all those misapprorpiated government funds weren't
{used for department parties.
{ 

	There are very weird projects going on.  How about if we had
someone studing night creatures (vampires and werewolves, etc).  It
doesn't have to be that unusual.  You don't have to have the Mad
Scientist creating horrible monsters.  It could be just a twist on
normal lab operations.  I cite this twisted example:

	The scene opens with the vampire or werewolf on a couch in a
comfortable office.  The Mad Scientist (I'll name him Charles) is
seated at his computer terminal with his feet up on the end of the
table.  There are pastoral scenes on the wall and everything is a
rather calming shade of peach.  The window overlooks a snow covered
forest with a little creek.  Posted on the door of the office are
a child's artwork and there is an angelic picture of Charles, his
lovely wife and two darling daughters hanging above the computer.

	Charles notices the person stiring and quickly turns the 
contrast down on the alt.sex.bondage article he was reading.

	Charles:	"Are you ok?  You gave me quite a fright
			 when you passed out last night at that
			 nightclub."

	Night Creature:	"Where am I?"  Sits up.  "Who are you?"

	Charles:	"You passed out at 7am at a local nightclub
			 and nobody could wake you.  You were going to
			 be transported to the hospital but I was on
			 hand and noticed you had a bad skin condition.
			 I merely took it upon myself to use my
			 credentials as a doctor to take you into my
			 protective custody.  They thought you were
			 dead and were going to do an autopsy.  As
			 luck may have it, I noticed you had a bad
			 case of post-nurtonic-malaria and were merely
			 sleeping heavily."

	Night Creature:	"Thanks Doc, I'll be going now." Stands up and
			 heads for the door."

	Charles:	"But, we need to run some tests.  It may happen
			 again."

	Night Creature:	Reaches door and swings it open.  "Can't do 
			that, bye."

	Charles:	Removes dart gun from behind a stuffed bunny
			rabbit.  "I really must insist." Fires gun into
			the creature's butt.

	Night Creature: "What the heck?..." falls over with everything
			 below the torso frozen stiff.

	Charles:	Walks over the creature and into the hall.

			"Tim!  Jen!  I'll need your help for a second."

			Two graduate students come in.


			"Your theory was a success Jen.  I'll ok your
			 thesis on vampire sedatives immediately.  Tim,
			 I would like an amino acid analysis on this
			 creature.  Stick it's leg through a blender
			 and lets HPLC the extract.  Save some for
			 Southern blot analysis vs the antibodies we
			 got from the last one.  Now don't disturb me
			 as I have a grant to write."

	Charles:	Looks down at prone creature

			"You had better use plaster for it's mouth.  The
			 last one screamed so much I couldn't appreciate
			 the bit of Bach on KSJO.  Thank God there are
			 no animial regulations for vampires."

			Pushes vampire into the hallway and shuts his
			door.  Sweet classical music drifts from under
			the door.


	
{>Jason
{>The Mad Mathematician of Miskatonic U.
{ 
{Tom Ault
{Mad Roboticist in Training.

Aaron Miaullis
Mad Biochemistry graduate student  (I'll put it on "puree")



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