Baldur's Gate : The Sword Coast Chronicles : NWN2 Persistent World

"Draining a subject of its blood has proven troublesome. The subject must be living as long as possible. Taking cues from butchers, I suspend the subject upside down with its limbs tied securely. A blindfold is not necessary as eyesight is the first sense they lose due to blood loss. Cutting major arteries i allow the blood to gather in a tub under the subject. Keeping the blood from clogging is can be a bit of work, the wounds must stay as open as possible. Hearing is the last to go before the subject experiences death. On average a gallon and a half of blood can be found in a human subject. The last step is to collect the blood that has pooled under the skull that can only be collected with a drill.

The labor is more then i would like, but once the blood is collected experimentation can start. The collected blood can be used to create a Blood Amniote, that will grow larger as it collects more blood from prey. The remaining cadaver can be striped of its skin to make a Skin kite, or reanimated as another zombie. "

"Note, i've had visions of darkness as of late. Where life is destroyed, and unlife sucked away. There is beauty in the emptiness."

'I can feel my own negative energy being pulled away from me. My time run short and i plan to use it to watch what is about to happen. The Shade that was created from my experiments is moving fast. It steals away life, and unlife the same. It nourishes itself on the negative energy left on the prime. Soon the very air that gives life will be no more, and the environment will become to hostile for life, and too draining for unlife. It is...beautiful." -Herbert North

"I look over my shoulders more often of late. Shadows follow me into even the darkest depths. I can hear extra footsteps as i walk. "Tap tap tap" i walk, then stop yet i still hear "Tap tap" before i turn around finding no one there.

The drain on my energy's are clearly taking there toll. I know the shade seeps into the earth, like water, no thicker, like black blood. It can manifest anywhere negative energy can be found. A number of my creations still roam, fueling the creature further. "

"So it comes to pass i have to write my last notes. As such am afraid you will have to escuse the less research based thoughts and more emotional ones. The bindings of my soul to my phylactery are falling bit by bit. As such i decided to give what is left of myself to the Shade of Negative energy next we meet.

My work will live on in the notes i left behind may they serve whoever unlocks them. My creations will carry on as well, the Quell, Adsorbing zombies, skin kites, blood oozes, and the Shade. I can feel the pull of the emptiness, and for the first time in century's i dream. So i walk into empty, leaving behind many lifetimes of study and horror. "

-Herbert North 496-536 DR gone again 1349 DR