Test Subject I

**Test Subject I** (real name unknown) is a patient who was used for experiencing the infection process of the PTB Flowering.

## Biography

### Introduction

Greeted by the new student of the medical university, the patient mentions briefly about the PTB flowering and gives out some tutorial infos about using the neutron coronal scanner for his incoming transformation stages.

### Stage 1

During the examination, the identified infection sights are:

* **Topical System** - Face-like growth from the right shin.
* **Skeletal System** - Flower-resembled infections from the right femur.
* **Nervous System** - The spinal cord.

After exploring his body, the patient starts to realize that the next phase of the Flowering mutation starts kicking in. He desperately asks for a wallet to bite down on, in order to prevent himself from screaming out loud.

### Stage 2

In the second stage, the patient's body mutates into a grotesque, unearthly-looking human/fungi hybrid creature. Regardless of his slow mutation progress, he oddly feels satisfied about it.

Resuming the examination, the infection sights to identify are:

* **Topical System** - A stump from the missing right hand.
* **Skeletal System** - The right side of the pelvis.
* **Nervous System** - The brain-like growths from the right side.

### Stage 3

Just as the patient begins the final stage of his unnatural transformation, he screams out of sudden once more as his body collapsed, forming into a shapeless fungus-like entity.

## Notes

* He first appeared in *Discover My Body* as the only test subject of the entire short game.
* He is a violinist, informing that he is unable to play the violin anymore due to having his hands coming off in his mid-Flowering mutation.
* He has an unnamed mother, as he states that the face-like growth from his shin reminds him of his mother. He even states he missed her, which is unknown if she were still alive or already deceased.
* In his final Flowering stage, he will repeatedly say "*I AM SO HAPPY*" whenever the player tries to skip the dialogue.

## Stages

Topical System

Skeletal System

Nervous System

## Dialogue

Stage 1 - Introduction
* *Ah, you must be the new student Dr. Morrison was speaking of.*
* *I hear you're quite bright!*
* *Have you ever studied a Psychical Trans-Boletutian Flowering before?*
* *I see. Well, you’re in for quite a treat!*
* *I have assisted with many Flowerings before.*
* *However, this is my first time in the "hot seat".*
* *This facility is equipped with a neutron coronal scanner.*
* *You'll be able to view my transformation and its various effects on my bodily systems.*
* *Just navigate the "eye-con" over my body and scan for "info points" to click on.*
* *My brain's Broca Area has been linked to a digital readout so even when I am at the point where I am beyond human speech I will be able to communicate.*
* *Well, please begin your examination.*

Stage 1 - Topical System
* *Aha! You've discovered the injection site.*
* *Two weeks ago, Dr. Morrison took a bone-deep needle to my right shin.*
* *It hurts like Hell!*
* *However, what he injected was worth its weight in gold...*
* *It was a skin graft of a successful PTB flowering.*
* *What's that? It kind of looks like a face?*
* *Well, the PTB organism is a psychical organism.*
* *Its physical manifestation draws from a shared pool of all its denizen's trauma, fears, dreams...*
* *I believe that's my Mother's face on my shin.*
* *Oh how I miss her!*
* *But enough about me. Please continue the examination.*

Stage 1 - Skeletal System
* *Aha! You've discovered my rotting bones.*
* *Yes, the rot has set in, certainly.*
* *It itches like the Devil!*
* *But soft bones are required for the PTB to do its work.*
* *The human body was never intended to experience a Flowering.*
* *In the process one is contorted psychically and physically.*
* *Soft, rotting bones are pliable enough to assume a Flowering shape.*
* *Again though, very painful stuff.*
* *When I begin to scream, I expect you to keep your cool though!*
* *This should all be academic to you.*
* *Are you getting any class credit for this by the way?*
* *I see. Well, please continue.*

Stage 1 - Nervous System
* *Aha! You've discovered the primordial inhibitor.*
* *This is a device implanted in my brain stem which helps to undo certain evolutionary safeguards against operations like this.*
* *It limits bodily and mental reactivity to meta-existential stimuli.*
* *In not too many words, the Flowering is an evolutionary aberration.*
* *One which requires some retooling of our formation of mental concepts.*
* *For instance, one who has Flowered does not experience the human idea of time...*
* *But if I tried and apprehended this with my regular old monkey mind, I would go quite insane!*
* *But anyway, please go on! Discover! Explore!*

Pre-Stage 2
* *Aha! According to the concentration of the PTB in my blood, I will begin the Flowering process very soon!*
* *Quick, give me your wallet to bite down on.*

Stage 2 - Introduction
* *Wow, that hurt.*
* *...*
* *Sorry, I seem to have bit down too hard and broken a couple teeth.*
* *Give me a moment to spit them out.*
* *...*
* *Now then, as you can see by my face...*
* *I am midway through the Flowering process! Hurrah!*
* *I can feel the inkling of a pan-psychic connection and my body has experienced amazing and terrible growth.*
* *See for yourself!*

Stage 2 - Topical System
* *Aha! You’ve discovered that my hands have fallen off.*
* *Well, I suppose I'll never play the violin again, ha ha.*
* *Joking aside, this is pretty much to be expected.*
* *Part of the primordial inhibitor is to disassociate brain and hand connectedness.*
* *As a result of  this, the hands fall off as they are merely vestigial baggage standing in the way of a superior evolution.*
* *...*
* *I'm sorry, just briefly had a bit of Ego Death there for a moment.*
* *I can feel my thoughts intertwine in the rhizomatic group mind...*
* *Please continue...*

Stage 2 - Skeletal System
* *Aha! You’ve discovered my bone growths.*
* *As I was saying about the dramatic changes a PTB Flowering incurs...*
* *Well, now, at a bone deep level, my skeletal system is basically sponge cake!*
* *But look closer...*
* *My bone fragments have begun to re-assemble into a complicated, if fragile, latticework of wafer-thin psychic receptors.*
* *Some of the bones are poking out of my skin?*
* *I knew that! I felt it, haha.*
* *...*
* *Please, go on...*

Stage 2 - Nervous System
* *Aha! You’ve discovered my new mind to the extent that the brain is a mind that is....*
* *We'll leave that to the philosophers!*
* *As my own mind-brain disintegrates into the group mind...*
* *What remains of my body becomes a small distribution of other Flowering mind-brains.*
* *As we speak, I am flooded with powerful memories that are not my own.*
* *I feel - well, it's hard to even use the word 'I' anymore.*
* *Even to distinguish ourselves from our timeless Unity seems wrong!*
* *I feel infinite pleasure as well as infinite pain.*
* *Is this what Death is?*

Pre-Stage 3
* *Aha! I see we are in the final stages...*
* *I... complete the Flowering.*
* *Infinite pleasu- p-pain.*
* *Death...*

3rd Stage
* *I AM SO HAPPY.*

## Sources

1. ↑ "*Aha! You’ve discovered that my hands have fallen off. Well, I suppose I'll never play the violin again, ha ha.*"
2. ↑ "*I believe that's my Mother's face on my shin. Oh how I miss her!*"