[RL with Maraich]

[demondoctor]

Stein's laboratory was...impressive, and rather creepy. It was an oddly-shaped building, like several huge stone boxes all jumbled together with small windows. The largest part was shaped like an arrow, thrusting upwards towards the sky. Lines of what looked like stitching crawled across the face of the building, each 'stitch' at least a foot long

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[maraihi]

Maraich already had a bad feeling about this place. Could he have possibly gone for more creepy vibes? It didn't seem like Dr. Stein was aiming for a hospitable look, and he wasn't sure he wanted something like this to be the first thing his son ever saw of the world. He might get scared and try to go back in.

And then he tensed up when he heard some sort of whirr. He glanced down to see a hideous, horrible rodent. With twice the ugly.

He raised a hand up to his mouth with a gasp, then let out a scream at the top of his lungs, frantically stomping around the mouse and then dashing away from it towards the building. He did not like rodents.

[demondoctor]

The door was flung open before Maraich even reached it. Stein himself stood in the doorway, the sunlight flashing on his glasses as he stepped out onto the stoop.

His face had a line of stitching running down his forehead, down the side of his nose and across his cheek. And his clothing and labcoat looked like they'd been made by a crazy one-eyed seamstress with a bad palsy, but it was clean.

He also had a huge bolt sticking through his head.

"Are you all right, Maraich?" he called with concern.

[maraihi]

As soon as Maraich entered he was focused on closing the doors behind him. His clothes were fairly prissy, much like the look a high class lady might have. Matching shawl and beret, a simple but elegant dress and a modest amount of jewelry, all bright and colorful in mostly pastel purples and pinks. He did not look like he belonged here.

"There's a rat outside! A giant, disgusting, disease-filled rat!" he huffed, already feeling a bit sore from running. His tone was as exaggerated with disgust as his actions were.
Clean laboratories didn't include rats. He made a mental note to deduct 10,000 points from Stein.

[demondoctor]

Stein dodged out of the way as the pregnant man flung himself through the door.

"A rat?" he asked with bemusement. "Oh, I think that's probably the one I made. It's only mechanical - just a wind-up toy, basically."

"Can I offer you some water, or coffee?" he asked, moving to precede Maraich further into the building. They were now standing in a sitting room. Stein's computer was on the far end, the monitor glowing. A couch sat in the middle of the room, a chair opposite it and a coffee table in between. There were racks of lab equipment on the walls.

The walls themselves also looked stitched up, and there were arrows running along the floor, as if directing people towards the available exits, all of which were heavy steel doors.