Fenris is moved by something to play chess by himself.

The Cloning Machine is standing a few feet away. A perk of being a scientist.

Felix is similarly moved towards the Cloning Machine where he starts the process of creating a clone of himself.

Then he blinks and... with a sudden sharpness in his mind he wonders why the hell is he doing that? He turns around and tries to... figure out how to turn the machine off. Maybe if he tries to damage it?

He tries kicking it.

Fenris pauses in moving a pawn.

"Why...?"

He doesn't have time to finish the question.

The machine explodes and there are sparks, and smokes, and a third person in the room.

"Uh."

"Mhm... what did I do that for?"

"Don't ask me? Hey, do you know why?"

"No..." He looks around. "And why did we move here?"

They exchange looks.

"I... uh-"

"Well, it looks like no one knows. At least no one here. Fun."

Fenris looks down at the chess piece still in his hand. He puts it down.

"I remember... things? From, before... here. But they are weird."

"Vague? Like... I don't know, this is weird."

"Well, to me, this is the normal."

Right about then, there is a knock on their door.

"Let's go see who it is?"

They do. Fenris opens the door...

And there is a small group of people standing in front of their door.

"Welcome, neighbours!" says the lady at the head of the group, flashing a fanged grin. "It's so nice to meet you!"

        She's carrying a tray filled with what looks to be a fruit salad of some kind, and a couple of the others have trays with food themselves. "We brought regular food in case you're not vampires," one of them says, causing the others to chuckle.

    "We also have vegetarian things!" says a third, even though presumably the fruit salad is vegetarian.

Fenris looks down at the salad and then back at the fangs. He starts moving to close the door...

"Don't be rude," Felix says reflectively, stopping the door from closing. "Thank you."

"Did you just say vampires?"

"Of course!" says the one who mentioned it originally.

    "I'm a vampire," admits the first one. "Did you know vampires don't need to drink from other people? It's true! My salad is a plasma fruit salad."

"Oh, that must be cool!"

Felix and Fenris give the third one a look.

"Uh, thanks for the food?" He says, unsure of what else to do and going for... the polite (?) thing to do.

Fenris reaches for it. "I don't think we knew about plasma fruit."