Location Lab 5-Q

[Balderdash]

Lab 5-Q Deep underneath Sahova’s citadel, through dank, winding tunnels and past a mold-covered iron door lies a very special sort of lab. After passing through the dark and humid caverns, one is presented with a spotless, eerie white rectangular room not unlike a hospital ward. Sterile, cold, impersonal, and orderly to an extreme. The only difference is that instead of sick and injured, this particular room contains screaming test subjects. They aren’t moaning from pain of a physical sort, though. Indeed, there isn’t a single torture tool in the entire laboratory. Their agony is entirely psychological, and in the opinion of the master in charge of lab 5-Q, that is far more potent than any ache or sting. Indeed, if you were to talk to Grombard Shrag about torture, he would laugh at you. The research done in this lab is simple: Discovering how to extract as much information from a prisoner as possible, as quickly as possible, and with maximum accuracy. Judging by the constant babbling of the poor souls trapped in the lightless laboratory, this research is going along very smoothly. NPC : Name: Grombard Shrag Race: Nuit Gender: N/A Eminent genius in Auristics, and skilled Hypnotist on the side, Grombard Shrag could have been a charming man, if he had the slightest interest in it. Completely indiscriminate in the choosing of his bodies, male or female, and appalling in his upkeep of them, Grombard certainly doesn’t look the part of a master of Sahova. He has little fondness for other people, and people have little fondness for him. Being capable of reading almost anything instantly, his fellow researchers, and everyone else, often feel far too uncomfortable in his presence to strike up any conversations, lest they lose some important secret. Reclusive, driven, and capable of astounding feats of focus, Grombard is completely and utterly devoted to his work. He prefers operating alone, though it isn’t unheard of for him to take apprentices. Possessing an almost childlike amount of curiosity, the Nuit is almost obsessed with learning how things work and operate… Especially human beings. When something catches his interest, he often shuts out everything around him, even external stimulus, until he has comprehended whatever the object of his fancy is in all its complexity. He also derides torture as a tool for the sloppy, and uses no physical pain in his laboratory. The foolish call his methods softhearted... Until they see him at work. Skills: Auristics 94 Hypnotism 68 Interrogation 77 Glyphing 34 Observation 55 Persuasion 62 Negotiation 59 Voiding 27