Snippet #1477525

"Underground laboratories. Weapons. Hmm, sounds like a nice place. I wonder if I could get clearance. Yes. Perhaps a sneak of the happenings- could be very useful. Would need more subjects- Rats. More rats." Etzel muttered to himself the entire time. When Pandora mentioned him indirectly, he looked up, broken from his ramblings. He decided to pay attention for once. His fingers quietly tapped the table. He didn't like it here. It was too small, few points to escape. Though his apprentice didn't know it, there are exactly thirty-three different points of exit throughout his small clinic in Beta. Suddenly the girl, Zade, finished speaking about the situation at the dead Marquis' manor. He had giggled when Zade gave the murderer's description. He realized most of the attention had turned to him.

"Oh yes. I was present in Ms. Elling's Clinic when a man, garbed in cloth from Beta or Alpha stumbled in. By her request, she kept him stable while I developed a suitable antipoison while taking a swab of his blood where the poison made it's point of entry near the navel area and mixed it with other reactants to check the acidic levels. I was lead to believe that it was some sort of corrosive poison due to the man's synapses firing erratically causing abnormal body movement while our healer kept his body fairly inert which was a surprise considering most neurotoxins are no produced anywhere but Alpha. This man took far longer to die in comparison to Goldwater, which I suspect had a much more concentrated amount of poison injected in him if it took him that long. This man had a scentless, diluted amount of toxin to test rather than outright kill. I don't know whether the perpetrator has confirmed that the target survived but I am sure that they are the same person regarding the similarities between the two poisons due to the inherent incapacitating nature and the mark-less corpse save for point of entry. I have gathered several possible candidates based on my limited knowledge- Jellyfish Poison found in the Laboratories, Tobacco Leaf Extract from the Laboratories, Cyanide and Cyanogen from the Chemical Plants, Gem Leaf Extract from the Laboratories, and... and... That's right, the Dart Poison Extract from the frogs in the Labs."

He didn't particularly care if everyone understood what he was talking about. He couldn't explain any further anyways, his mind worked too fast to slow it down for others that couldn't comprehend it, though he had a slight feeling most of the understood some of what he was talking about.

He contemplated standing up and leaving at this point, but unless Amon or the Princess dictated it he was stuck here, fiddling with his hands and table and looking around uncomfortably.

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Growing up with chemicals meant that Taylor understood what the masked doctor was talking about. He was rather impressed that he was able to concoct a counter-poison so quickly after a patient had stumbled in half-dead from the toxin itself.

"I can assure all of you," He said after the doctor had finished, "That no Cyanogen has been manufactured- and all Cyanide has been tracked from the production line to the destination." He realized some might not know who he is. Bowing his head slightly, he smiled warmly. "I am Caelin Taylor- Head of Taylor Chemicals dealing with most ingredients volatile and inactive." He paused. "There has been no record of manufactured Cyanide going anywhere besides large Clinics and the Laboratories regarding research." He sat back. There was little he could contribute to the conversation, so he simply conceded with that point.