[b]Silas Hope - Pauper's Drop - Splicer's Corpse[/b]

"Well, hello, beautiful."

A dead Splicer was sprawled on the ground; in perfect condition apart from the caved-in skull. Kneeling down beside the cadaver, Silas retrieved a set surgical tools from his leather knapsack. He didn't bring everything along, of course, wandering around Rapture with numerous jangling test tubes and pipettes was surely a disaster waiting to happen. The scalpel made the first cut, a deep line through dead flesh, black blood oozing out of the wound and onto the floor. Three more incisions were made similar to the first, before Silas retrieved a small square of flesh from the cadaver. He carefully dropped the sample into a sealable plastic bag with a pair of tweezers, whistling a merry little tune as he did so. Sure, it was as macabre as Rapture was a fucking shithole, but one good thing was that fresh samples were literally everywhere. In the week he'd been here, Silas realised that this place was even more of a dog-eat-dog world than up there. Not that he had any problem with it, all he had to do was hole up in King Pawn until they'd all killed each other, and then swoop in to collect the goods.

Tucking the ziploc bag safely away, Silas got back up onto his feet. The place was completely quiet apart from the occasional periodic dripping of water, which he found just the slightest bit worrying. Usually, there was some nutter rattling on and on about the most asinine bullshit, but today, there was only silence. Silas unholstered his semi-automatic pistol, eyes darting around and around to check for any potential danger, but he found none. The last thing he wanted was to die down here, but he refused to leave until he collected enough data to make it big. Recognition was all he ever wanted, and he wasn't about to let his nerves stop him.

This... ADAM he found in the bloodstreams of Splicers was more than a little intriguing - something like this was bound to cause a flurry in the scientific world. Silas kept his gun at the ready, determined to collect at least a couple more blood and tissue samples before calling it a day.