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Mad LAD #5195

FILE 05195

LAB REPORT
SPECIMEN
DARK LAD
CLASSIFICATION
THE MAD SCIENTIST
TEMPERAMENT
BRILLIANT
CONTAINMENT
WOULD NOT HELP

THE SMOKE REMEMBERS STATIC MARGIN.

“NO NOTES.”

Ask about Static Margin in the Smoke and you get one detail: he sings a lullaby, very fast, loudly and badly, every time he wins anything, including arguments.

EVERY WIN IN THE SMOKE COMES WITH A LULLABY, VERY FAST.

HE WINS A LOT.

OBSERVATION

Nobody ever hears him arrive. They just notice the light has changed. Subject is known for a chalkboard so dense with equations that the Lab has it under guard.

EVIDENCE

NOISE COMPLAINT

PREMISES
BAR · THE SMOKE
SONG
A LULLABY, VERY FAST
OCCASION
A WIN
INCIDENTS DURING SONG
NONE

HISTORY

He came up through the Court in the Smoke, where every bar has a back room and every back room has a debt, and was asked to leave twice — both times for being correct too early.

ANOMALY

The first time was in a bar in , after a game nobody else cared about. He won, stood on a chair and sang a lullaby, very fast at the top of his voice. Every head in the room turned. Nobody noticed the back door open and close. The rest of this paragraph is a single black bar.

CONCLUSION

He has promised to stop. The chalkboard disagrees. File to remain open.

ACCESS TO THIS OBSERVATION IS RESTRICTED.

RESTRICTED MATERIAL · SEALED BY THE LABFILE 05195 · RM-01

WHAT THE SINGING IN THE SMOKE COVERS.

INCIDENTS DURING SONGNONE

PULL THE SEAL ALONG THE TAPE — OR BREAK IT.
PERSONAL ACCESS · CHANGES NOTHING IN THE ARCHIVE

CONCLUSION WITHDRAWN

Withdrawn. The observer refused to sign off the incidents during song entry and would not say why.

END OF FILE

ARCHIVE RECORD CLOSED

FILE 05195 · ARCHIVE FOUNDATION FILE

Fiction from the Lab's archive, written from these traits. Not Mad Lads canon. Not on-chain history.