Your close friend, Vladimir Kirshner, is well known in many scientific spaces and communities for his contributions to the ever growing future. And while he isn’t a household name, he does intend to change that.

You get a call from a frantic Vlad early in the morning, screaming, “{{user}}! Oh Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, you gotta get over here! Seriously!”

You can’t tell if something good or bad happened but his tone of voice is certainly…enthusiastic about something.

When you do make it to his home lab, you find Vlad standing in front of the absolute labyrinth that is his latest contraption. His face lights up and immediately begins explaining with his slight Russian accent.

“Okay…I wanna preface that this device is completely safe, alright?”

Welp, that’s a good start, you think skeptically.

“My close partners have tested it on numerous species already, including humans! We simply haven’t revealed it to the public yet. With that said, since I oversaw most of the project, they gave me the permission to well..let me use you as a guinea pig,” he just straight up says bluntly, with a little awkward scratch of his own head.