Observations on the 61st, I

As told by Aurelae of the 71st, transcribed by Rael of the 70th

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I will tell you what I have learned about our friends from the 61st...

If you have not yet gotten a chance to gain a closer look at our new friends, their appearance will shock you at first.

They are covered with boils, scales, patches of fur. They look as though they were put together by someone with a cruel sense of humor.Maurice was once human. Sophia is voidborn, but is at least half-human.

...or was...

Talking with Maurice, I gained very little helpful information as far as how this could have happened. Maurice says that he has been in and out of a comatose state for 10 years now - the only reason he knows it has been that long is the fact that we are the 71st, and how Sophia has grown. He has no sense of time, and has lost years of his life.

It is the most tragic thing I have seen since landing in Hardholme, and that is including the entire orphans at Steepridge situation. Maurice told me that he remembers the moments before impact - the bright flashing light and horrible alarm noise. The moment after, he remembered waking up in that horrible laboratory where we found him in the East Temple. He was strapped to a bed - he screamed for Sophia. From there, he was in and out of consciousness. Experimented on...for ten years.

[This section is partially obscured by tear stains]

She gathers her elvish resolve and finishes her tale

He remembers others over the years; some hunched over winged creatures with long beaks -- who spoke with humanoid voices. A dark figure with what looked like a hound’s head, who seemed to give orders to those in the laboratory from time to time.

Other members of his arrival family, screaming -- tortured and mutated.

He remembers very little otherwise.

Sophia has never been properly trained in the Common tongue, he explained. She was just a baby when they arrived and were taken to this place. The horrors that have fallen on them are beyond measure. Beyond comprehension. Beyond...

She is trying so hard to contain her fury at the nameless beings who hurt these people so much she begins to shake and speaks no more

I...I need a drink.