Fallout Equestria: Recordings of an Equestrian Monster

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Time is twenty minutes to three in the afternoon.

I have taken the liberty of acquiring one of those popular voice-recorders everypony else seems to be gushing over, thankfully the department had a few of the portable ones left. While I do prefer to write down my thoughts and findings, with the increasing demand for successful ventures like Project: Steelpony I find I have less and less time to write.

*shuffling of papers followed by a sigh*

In any case I believe this batch of test subjects which, for the first time, were specially selected actually might be the breakthrough we’ve been looking for; along with the new technique we’ve decided to try out along with the breakthrough in the isolation of key gene-types, hence the specially selected subjects, we predict that we will have greater control and a higher success rate than in previous experiments. I’ve got an inkling on how they found out that a technique with a four to one ratio of Flux to liquefied magic during the process will be a deciding factor in our success but then again I am not willing to ask them for the full details.

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Time is fifteen minutes past six in the evening.

I have been perusing the records of the current test subjects and have given some consideration to their induction into another pet project of Trueblood’s other than Chimera.

Project: Mesmer, while the theory behind Mesmer is sound, when tested in reality it was an utter failure. The aim of Project: Mesmer was to develop a device that would, when deployed, cause the affected subjects to become highly reciprocative of external suggestion. In layman’s terms, total mind-control. The idea was to use it against the Zebra Caesar and tribal chiefs to force an end to the war.

The problem was that brain chemistry became the decisive factor in success or failure, no matter how much they tried to alter the device to affect different chemistry’s it only ended in failure. So they decided to use the screening process in the Equestrian routine health check-up’s to see how many ponies/zebra’s/etcetera would be affected…it was found that statistically, one in a thirty million would have their mind fully under control. That was deemed unacceptable of course. There was another statistic however, that was debated upon before being rejected: one in two million would have their mind under a weaker, partial form of control. It meant the mind could resist an order the subject wouldn’t want to do, much like hypnosis, for example: If I told a doting motherly mare to murder her foal she wouldn’t comply, but if I asked her to stab that neighbour she found annoying, she would.

After perusing the notes I now realise that maybe this partial control could be taken advantage of, in the past our successful hybrids were affected psychologically in a very bad way. For instance, Stonewing lost his mental faculties almost instantaneously because of the cockatrices’ overly-aggressive nature; his mind wasn’t ready to put up with it. Others who did retain a semblance of sanity succumbed to a variety of ailments over time ranging from nervous breakdowns to total apathy.

I think if we screened the new batch so I can look for any of the markers that would indicate a susceptibility to the Mesmer device then hypothetically we could ‘force’ their mind to fight against the foreign part of themself to maintain total control.

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*slam of a metal door closing, hoof steps in the background*

Time is nine in the morning.

I spent much of this morning preparing my proposal on what I talked about last night. I also found out that in a few cases when trigger words were used on some of the more reciprocative subjects that seemed to give a good response. If we get the go ahead then I believe there is a greater chance, however unlikely that a subject will actually be viable for Mesmer, of having a successful hybrid that can see active use. I am almost at Trueblood’s office; I will speak of the results later.

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Time is nine thirty-seven in the morning.

Trueblood has given the go ahead, I’ll be taking a blood sample from the subject after we move him to the new cell; I will be given the others later on.

*scribbling in the background*

I’ll just finalise the correct forms and off they shall go. I hope to try this out tomorrow, or the day after should everything run smoothly.

Oh, I thought I should mention that while I said this current batch of subjects were specially selected, it was the first time Trueblood allowed us to pick a candidate out of a pool of thirty. I chose two-five-nine; his recent history is quite…different than most others.

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