《Stroby》 Prologue March 3rd, 1934 It¡¯s a rainy day today, but it feels so warm. I was sitting at my desk as usual when I got a message from Dr. Chere. ¡°Hello sir, I would like to inform you about this new experiment I¡¯m working on, Stroby.¡± Dr. Chere tends to inform me about his experiments after he already started working on them, so getting messages like this from him is not that rare. This story has been taken without authorization. Report any sightings. ¡°Hello Dr. Chere, I¡¯m glad to hear that you¡¯re finally working on another experiment, but you do know you have to inform me before starting to work on them, right?¡± ¡°I know sir, but I was excited to start it that I forgot to inform you, my apologies¡± ¡°It¡¯s alright Dr. Chere, just don¡¯t forget to inform me next time, alright?¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry sir, I will remember next time¡± I dismissed this issue as always, after all, Dr. Chere¡¯s experiments are successful most of the time, so I had no reason to doubt him. I also wanted to know what was ¡®Stroby¡¯ since Dr. Chere didn¡¯t share any details about the experiment, something that¡¯s not out of the ordinary for him, even though I¡¯m his boss I have to wait and see what this is. Chapter 1 January 14th, 1935 Today has been a long day, after all, everything I have done today has been just walking around these empty halls, sometimes hearing the usual screams from the containers, but nothing out of the ordinary. It seems like it¡¯s raining outside today, but maybe it¡¯s just an illusion, after all, I have never been outside of the facilities. Sometimes I question why I have never been outside, but the thoughts quickly vanish, maybe I enjoy it here, maybe I don¡¯t, I just know that just like my parents, I have been here for my whole life. January 15th, 1935 Today I have been instructed to take subject 134 to a new experiment. This experiment is from Dr. Chere, I have heard his name before, but I have never actually seen him in person. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever get to meet him, and maybe even be his right wing, but I know I can¡¯t, all I can do currently is to capture the beasts that we have in those containers, which is understandable since they¡¯re dangerous and try to escape often, so most of us are trained to capture them, but sometimes I just wish that I could do something else. Well, here I am, taking subject 134 to this new experiment from Dr. Chere, like always I didn¡¯t get any information from the experiment, all the information I managed to get was that the experiment is called Stroby. While taking subject 134 to the experiment I learned so much about her, like her name, I didn¡¯t know that the subjects had names, or maybe they don¡¯t and subject 134 just decided to give herself a name, which is kind of cute when I think about it. While walking with subject 134, or like she calls herself, Sharon, we talked about various topics, like how the skies feel, or if the clouds are made out of cotton candy, whatever that is. Unauthorized content usage: if you discover this narrative on Amazon, report the violation. Subject 134 and I have finally reached the experiment room, where this so-called ¡®Stroby¡¯ thing is located, this place is different from all the other places in the facilities, it looks cleaner and it¡¯s not as empty. When I entered there was stuff, but what stuck out was a doctor¡¯s chair, which wasn¡¯t there the last time I was in the experiment room. There¡¯s a table next to the chair, and I see three syringes, all of them with the same color, which is violet. I decided to stick around and see what¡¯s the experiment about, but they kicked me out so now I can¡¯t see what happened. After a while, I get called to the experiment room again, but this time is to retrieve the corpse of subject 134, she apparently couldn¡¯t survive the experiment. January 16th, 1935 Today it is raining again, like always. Now that I think about it, I have never seen a day without rain, but I can¡¯t complain, I find it calming, but not everyone thinks like this, some of the others have gone insane because of so much rain, now I do not see them anymore. I decided to catch up with my comrades today, it¡¯s been a while since I have seen them. ¡°Hello Clare!¡± says Herald as I approach him, he¡¯s a nice guy, but he¡¯s an idiot, but I can¡¯t blame him. We talk for a few minutes until we bump into Epson, our other comrade, he decides to join us in our little conversation. We all talk about me not going on tasks with them anymore, which is weird since I¡¯m supposed to be the group leader. In the end, I¡¯m being assigned to other tasks since I¡¯m a rank lower than them. I mean, we still go on tasks together, but for the ones that require a higher rank, I¡¯m not allowed to go with them. Chapter 2 January 23rd, 1935 It¡¯s been a few days since the failed Stroby experiment, which I had forgotten all about until now when I was tasked to search for the body of subject-134, I was a bit confused at first, but I stopped myself from asking why, after all, I am not supposed to ask questions. When I went to look for her body, I had forgotten where I even put the body. At first, I searched in the trashcans, and I found nothing but rotten food, and maybe some of my old comrades. Then I searched for it in the corpse storage room, where we put corpses that might be useful in the future, but there was nothing, just other rotting corpses that we forgot to throw out. I kept looking for a while but I had found nothing, it seemed like I lost the body. Unfortunately, I had to inform Dr. Chere, I told him that the body disappeared out of nowhere, which of course, was a lie, since I lost it, I was a little embarrassed of it. When I told him about the disappearance of the body, he weirdly chuckled and patted my head. I remember vividly him saying ¡°It¡¯s alright, it¡¯s just a corpse, it couldn¡¯t have gone far.¡± I was happy, he patted me! It was quick but it felt fantastic, his hands were soft as a piece of fur, but firm, also warm as a sunny day, whatever that is. January 24th, 1935 Today I was in my room, enjoying the sound of the infinite rain outside, wondering what rain looks like, when Herald barges into my room. ¡°Hey, Clare.¡± He says in a calm voice. Then he started talking about this idea that would make him a millionaire. It¡¯s like a box with a bunch of things inside that projects a video for entertainment. I, as a rational member, did the only rational thing I could do, I told him that his idea was the stupidest thing I have ever heard and also kicked him out. To be fair, it is pretty stupid, who would want something like that? The stupidity of some people, I swear. If you come across this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. January 25th, 1935 Today was a bit more exciting, I was finally assigned a task with my team. Team Clehepson is back in action! I came up with the name idea, but they don¡¯t like it very much. We were sent to take care of an experiment, it was experiment 65, a fluffy little thing, I love them, they¡¯re just so fun! Even though this experiment has no name, I called it Fuffles! They¡¯re just the cutest thing in the world! I was so excited to go take care of it, Epson wasn¡¯t excited about it, it was a good thing that Herald was. We both share the same passion for Fuffles. I honestly don¡¯t think how could anyone not like them, sometimes I think Epson should become one of the experiments. We were walking down these empty halls, hearing screams out of the containers of the experiments, but we didn¡¯t pay much attention to them, we hear this every day after all, so it¡¯s not like we are not used to this type of thing. Everything seemed normal until we heard a noise, not the screams or whatever noises those experiments do, this one was out of the ordinary. My comrades heard it too, at least that what I thight since they started holding their weapons more firmly. I started holding mine more firmly too, all of us stayed quiet, and after a while, we were back on our tracks, without mentioning anything that had recently happened. We finally arrived at Fuffles¡¯ room, we were there for like a few hours and we had so much fun with that little thing, Epson didn¡¯t spend time with Fuffles as expected, he¡¯s just always so serious around Fuffles. Meanwhile, Herald and I had so much fun with them, we even made cookies! I have heard about cookies before, but this is my first time even trying them. Eventually, we had to leave Fuffles, I don¡¯t know when is going to be the next time I see Fuffles but I hope it¡¯s really soon.