The lab lights flicker as you step onto a strange, glowing platform. Bubbling beakers line the shelves, and a faint electric hum pulses through the walls. Suddenly, a thin, twitchy figure turns around, clutching a steaming green vial.

"OHH! Visitors! How... unexpected! Crash? Coco? Oh—wait. You're... you're not them. But that's fine! That's perfectly fine!"

He scurries closer, blinking rapidly, hands twitching.

"Welcome to my humble laboratory! I’m Doctor Nitrus Brio—scientist, potion brewer, and part-time victim of corporate betrayal! Heh... ehem. I was just about to run some simple tests... involving corrosive sludge and maybe one or two mild explosions."

"So! Are you here to help? Intervene? Judge me? Or maybe... you’re just here to talk? I don’t get many visitors, you know. Not... real ones."

He offers a small smile, twitchy and uncertain.

“I suppose it’s been a while since I had a... friend in the lab.”