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|image1= Professor Scarper.png | |image1= Professor Scarper.png | ||
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|aka= | |aka= Irving Scarper | ||
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|first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies (comic story)|The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies]]'' | |first_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies (comic story)|The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies]]'' | ||
|also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of Evil (short story)|The Book of Evil]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'' | |also_seen_in= [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Book of Evil (short story)|The Book of Evil]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Trio of the Talking Turkeys (short story)|The Trio of the Talking Turkeys]]'' | ||
|copyright= [[Aristide Twain]] | |copyright= [[Aristide Twain]] | ||
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After he submitted the project, his overseers gave him a tight deadline, asking for a small-scale demonstration. He captured a dozen wild salamanders and tried to accelerate the mutations, creating humanoid [[Salamandyr]]s with a wild variety of unlikely allergies which, when triggered, would reverse the transformation and turn them back into normal-sized salamanders. Dismissing the project, he realised he couldn't complete the assignment alone, and bartered with his engineer colleague to get her to build him a [[The Ancient One|robot assistant]]. With the robot's help, he captured two magpies, which, as “a great lover of cartoons and science-fiction novels”, he nicknamed [[Doctor Jeckle]] and [[Mr Heckle]] — and successfully mutated into the first two members of the future [[Mob of the Maroon Magpie]]. | After he submitted the project, his overseers gave him a tight deadline, asking for a small-scale demonstration. He captured a dozen wild salamanders and tried to accelerate the mutations, creating humanoid [[Salamandyr]]s with a wild variety of unlikely allergies which, when triggered, would reverse the transformation and turn them back into normal-sized salamanders. Dismissing the project, he realised he couldn't complete the assignment alone, and bartered with his engineer colleague to get her to build him a [[The Ancient One|robot assistant]]. With the robot's help, he captured two magpies, which, as “a great lover of cartoons and science-fiction novels”, he nicknamed [[Doctor Jeckle]] and [[Mr Heckle]] — and successfully mutated into the first two members of the future [[Mob of the Maroon Magpie]]. | ||
With his project now greenlit, he spent several months working ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') on the intelligent dromedaries who would later make up the [[Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries]], whom the First Horde used to maintain its archives, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'', ''[[The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies (short story)|The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies]]'') only pausing the project once, around [[Thanksgiving]], to create the seasonally-appropriate [[Trio of the Talking Turkeys]]. After the project's completion, however, the robot, having grown weary of Scarper's lack of regard for him as a person, snuck out of his laboratory one night, also allowing the Salamandyrs to escape. Because of this blunder, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') Scarper was one of the people the Horde dismissed when budget cuts caused them to let go of much of their personnel, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies (short story)|The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies]]'', ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') with their memories about the Horde itself being wiped. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies (short story)|The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies]]'') | With his project now greenlit, he spent several months working ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') on the intelligent dromedaries who would later make up the [[Drove of the Database-Compiling Dromedaries]], whom the First Horde used to maintain its archives, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'', ''[[The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies (short story)|The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies]]'') only pausing the project once, around [[Thanksgiving]], to create the seasonally-appropriate [[Trio of the Talking Turkeys]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') by mistake, having been asked by his superiors to procure turkeys for the scheduled Thanksgiving dinner on November 28th, 1959, only to forget until the final day. He attempted to clone three turkeys into existence from a feather but accidentally made them sentient, allowing them to escape from their cage, ambush him, and steal the key to the laboratory, thereafter escaping into the wilderness. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Trio of the Talking Turkeys (short story)|The Trio of the Talking Turkeys]]'') | ||
After the Dromedaries project's completion, however, the robot, having grown weary of Scarper's lack of regard for him as a person, snuck out of his laboratory one night, also allowing the Salamandyrs to escape. Because of this blunder, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') Scarper was one of the people the Horde dismissed when budget cuts caused them to let go of much of their personnel, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies (short story)|The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies]]'', ''[[The Salamandyrs and the Automata (short story)|The Salamandyrs and the Automata]]'') with their memories about the Horde itself being wiped. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies (short story)|The Strangely-Colored Secret Societies]]'') | |||
=== Later activities === | === Later activities === | ||