VHS TAPE LOG – AUDIO ONLY
Experiment 0169 – Interview Attempt #2
TAPE LABEL: Visit Tape: 0169 Interview Attempt #2
Log Code: 1-6-9-VT2
Interviewer: Dr. Valtorvathys
Location: Subject Holding Cell, Tenebrous Spire Laboratory
Date: [REDACTED] GD
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[Tape Begins – faint static, footsteps echoing against stone]
Dr. Valtorvathys (measured tone):
"Subject 0169. We will begin the second session. I trust sedation has worn off by now."
[Low growl answers, deep and rumbling, chains rattling faintly]
0169 (snarling voice, distorted by corruption):
"You again… the one who burns blood with shadows."
Dr. Valtorvathys:
"…Good. You remember. That is progress. Tell me how do you perceive the infusion now? The dark marrow in your veins?"
0169 (heavy breathing, words clipped):
"Feels like fire chewing bones. …Like hunger that never ends."
[Silence for four seconds only chain creaks]
Dr. Valtorvathys (scribbling heard faintly):
"Hunger. Not pain? Clarify."
0169 (snarls, strikes chain against wall):
"Both. Always both. You made me want to tear. To feed. Even when flesh rots in my teeth."
[The wolf huffs, sound like tar-laden breath. Distant dripping of ichor.]
Dr. Valtorvathys (leaning closer):
"Yet you resist my commands. Why? Do you not crave direction? Purpose? Vorgath offers power beyond any wolf's limit."
0169 (low, venomous):
"I bow to no master. I was pack-born. I led hunts before your chains. No voice but moon and blood tells me when to strike."
[Long pause researcher exhales slowly. Notes being shuffled.]
Dr. Valtorvathys:
"…Still autonomous. Glyphs ineffective. Fascinating. You may yet serve if not as a soldier, then as a weapon unleashed."
0169 (growls, quieter this time):
"You speak like you own me. But remember this, shadow-doctor… even cages break."
[Sudden loud chain snap, heavy lunge recording distorts with screech of metal, followed by alarm chimes in background]
Dr. Valtorvathys (urgent, off-mic):
"Restrain it! Reinforce wards now!"
[Sounds of guards shouting, dark magic hums, subject howls in rage before muffled impact cuts off sound]
[Static surge, tape halts abruptly]
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END OF RECORDING – FILE ARCHIVED
Note appended by Dr. Valtorvathys:
"Subject continues to resist all obedience conditioning. Escalating rabid tendencies noted. Recommend field-testing subject under controlled battlefield scenario rather than further interviews."
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