{"id":365,"date":"2009-09-20T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/narguslab.com\/press\/?page_id=365"},"modified":"2023-05-12T03:10:16","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T20:10:16","slug":"gray-feather-ch2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/narguslab.com\/press\/fiction\/gray-feather-ch2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray Feather Ch2"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Days at the Park<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I skipped over much in my first entry around my arrival at the old park and the labs that lay with in.\u00a0 I thought it best to make that another entry in its self.\u00a0 The first Nargus Labs Dinosaur Park was located on a peninsula which made it easier to isolate, though not as well as the island the new one is on.\u00a0 A peninsula is also far cheaper than an island and cheaper to access.\u00a0 This lead both to its early success and its demise.\u00a0 The first park fell victim to a terrorist attack that destabilized the power core.\u00a0 All where safely evacuated and the park left for lost.\u00a0 I think Nargus Labs still owns the land just to keep others from taking it over.\u00a0 Well legally anyhow.\u00a0 Unofficially that was just what I was about to do.<\/p>\n

As I drove up to the old domes I was both surprised how good of shape they where in yet dismayed too.\u00a0 My stomach was knotted in fear that I would find every thing a complete loss.\u00a0 My fears where quickly put to rest though as I made my way through the debris of the front door though the dryness of my pants nearly came into question as I triggered the sensor for the greeting system.\u00a0 It was the same one in the new park but badly damaged and a little garbled and between that and the crackling of the door mechanism trying to work, I darn near jumped out of my scales.\u00a0 Well, skin still at that point.<\/p>\n

After I got over my shock I felt giddy as a school girl who got her first kiss.\u00a0 Not only was something left in the part, some of it was still functioning.\u00a0 It was more than I ever dared hope for!\u00a0 As I made my way past the mostly open door I stared looking around at the mess in side.\u00a0 I had no desire to clean any of it up.\u00a0 This was the visitors area and of no use to me.\u00a0 Besides, I wanted no out ward signs any one was using the place again.\u00a0 The blast had even knocked some of the roof out and blew out the door leading out to the park completely.\u00a0 I wouldn’t miss the door.\u00a0 The doors leading into the second dome where no better than the front one but that is where the access was to the lower levels.<\/p>\n

Once I got into the lab I found the power to the old stasis area to be rather shoddy, a bit hit and miss.\u00a0 It could never manage to sustain all the tubes at once, yet it kept trying to power them up.\u00a0 I would have to get the power rerouted to just one though.\u00a0 The one I had brought with me.\u00a0 It might not be the most up-to-date, which is why it was never fix even though it had minor issues, but these ones where piratically antiquated.\u00a0 I marveled that they ever managed to get the transformations to work at all in the old things.<\/p>\n

It only got worse though as I dug into the computer systems in the lab.\u00a0 Not only where they out of date, nothing like what I was use to, but most where only partially functional.\u00a0 That turned out to be my first task, getting at least one computer system fully working between the parts I had with me and the other ones at the lab.\u00a0 These where not simple computers with normal inputs but specialized to what they where made to do, for handling massive amounts of input and doing even larger amounts of calculations on that input to make sure the transformations went as smoothly as possible.\u00a0 As worked on that I also started putting together a new control input set up for wireless control.\u00a0 Raptors do not have good hands for manipulating controls, sadly.\u00a0 One of the draw backs though still worth it.\u00a0 The helm I made was designed to work off mental input, basically controlling things with my mind.\u00a0 I will not bore you with the details of it, and the helm its self was down right ugly but hopefully It would fit a raptor head alright and be work well enough.\u00a0 The amount of data that it might have to put out at one time I felt best handled by a few anti.\u00a0 I may yet change that setup, but at this point I feel it is best to be as safe as possible.<\/p>\n

I explored too during this time, inside and out.\u00a0 I found the elevator to the old breeding and nesting area to be in poor shape to say the least.\u00a0 The lift was laying half out of the shaft on the ground.\u00a0 I would need help in fixing it so for the time I have left it be.\u00a0 Getting help will be the next thing on my list.\u00a0 Exploring outside felt nice though I felt inadequate now in my human body.\u00a0 I also slept outside.\u00a0 I had not found a way to turn off the dang alarm, and while I can tune it out while working, it can get on ones nerves when not distracted by other things.\u00a0 Besides, I had found being inside any building to be rather oppressive.\u00a0 I longed for my raptor body once more.<\/p>\n

That is why the third task, after the computer and power routing where done…\u00a0 Well fourth if you count the control helm, was to get the stasis tube in and working\u00a0 This proved to be one of the easier tasks.\u00a0 One of the biggest problems was a motor for opening the tank.\u00a0 It was a design flaw in this model, the motor was too weak and often burnt out.\u00a0 I was able to rig in one from the old tanks there but it was not in the best of shape either.\u00a0 I will, for now, have to go easy on it.<\/p>\n

Even as a human I still seem to sense more than I use to.\u00a0 Not physically though, but in some other way.\u00a0 I had felt as if I where being watched by some one, and after several days I finally caught a\u00a0 glimpse of them.\u00a0 It was a raptor!\u00a0 I had thought they where all taken away in the evacuation.\u00a0 Seems some got left behind, or at least one did.\u00a0 I called out to it but it darted away with out looking back.\u00a0 Perhaps it is one of the ones that went fully feral in the early days.\u00a0 I have not seen it since.<\/p>\n

Against my better judgment, I decided to go raptor for a short while.\u00a0 The human body is useful in many ways, I can not deny that.\u00a0 But to be a raptor…\u00a0 It is to be alive!\u00a0 I often wonder if it feels so for other creatures such as wolves or dolphins.\u00a0 Maybe some day soon one with the same vision and drive as Nargus will develop a program like that as he did for the raptors.\u00a0 It might not be as amazing as bringing back prehistoric life, or rather turning people into it, but I for one would not mind trying it as well.\u00a0 I do fear the darker sides of this technology.\u00a0 No one is blind to what it can do for harm as well as what it has done for good. I hope it has not been used in such ways yet, but I would not be surprised to learn that it has….\u00a0 My the gods help use if the balance ever shifts to the darker side of it….<\/p>\n

Having now enjoyed a couple days as a raptor and having reverted back I now have two new tasks at hand.\u00a0 One, I need an assistant who is mechanically inclined.\u00a0 That will be the harder of the two.\u00a0 The other is to gather some up to become creatures for prey.\u00a0 While I have food it is more for human and the urge to hunt as a raptor is great, especially when hungry.\u00a0 I have plans for how to solve this problem, though some may not consider them to be very moral.\u00a0 It really is how you look at it..\u00a0 For now I must rest and prepare for my journey to the city tonight.<\/p>\n

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