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>Add gold extract to the pool, see what happens when a clovette frolics in it

Not only is this just a plain bad idea, you’re pretty certain it wouldn’t work, anyway. You installed expensive and rare White crystals into the base of the Playground, which makes the mutation effects of the extracts unable to spread beyond what the extracts would apply to. If you hadn’t done that, the extracts would mutate the Playground itself, as well as muddying your tests by making any application of extract affect all creatures in the Playground.

You may make another Playground sometime to specifically test the time it takes for mutated environments to affect the creatures living in them, but that’s for later.

also what would happen if you dosed yourself

And THIS is an even worse idea. Obviously, you’d mutate, and that would carry with it the possibility of your mental functions and personality changing, as well as social stigmas.

Not that you haven’t put previous thought into what colors of mutations would actually be pretty cool, though.

Anyway. You’re dilly-dallying. You decide to add a single dose of Blue extract to the Flysnap, leaving you with 9 doses of Blue extract.

It takes longer this time, nearly 30 minutes, for the effects of the extract to fully take place:



The Flysnap is now a teal hue, and has developed thorns. It also seems to have become a bit more aggressive, snapping at the Clovettes when they get too close. The Clovettes are now keeping their distance, as the Flysnap cannot chase them.

Well, now you’ve run out of test subjects for a moment -- you just noticed it’s been over an hour since you sent out your assistant.

You call them up to ask how the errand is going.
They it’s going mostly well, they found most of the stuff on the list you gave them… but they can’t find everything, and the market is kind of crowded…
You tell them it’s okay if they have to make more than one trip, and to remember to get the mail on their way back, and then you end the call.

A small alarm buzzes from the other room - another Flysnap is ready.