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The alchemist was busy. Busy attempting to keep various small rodents from eating their way through the makeshift cage he'd constructed. The specimens were to be used in seeing if he might be able to extract their stomach acids for a decomposing agent. A slightly off kilter method, but Bulbous had his way, he would find a use for the little rodents sooner or later.

If anything he could harvest them for meat and bones. Bone dust was useful in oh so many things. And the eyes! The eyes helped to produce- a clatter of glass, vials were knocked over as one of the rats managed to escape, a fat hare that attempted to follow plugging the hole. It was one way he supposed. Carrying the rodents to a the edge of the woods, and to an empty pit, they were dumped into the earthen hole.

Squatting down to lay various gems and symbols on the earth he clicked his tongue and rattled the bones on his belt. He needed something else, something more. he needed-

"You!" He had only seen movement, not whoever he called, eyes still focused on the various rodents trying to escape then soon to be tomb. "Come here and help me."

Bulbous finally looked up to the one he called. "Conquest." He said, tone flat. Eyes snapping back to the pit he pulled a mixture of herbs from his stomach, dropping it in... and apparently knocking the rodents out.

"I am in need of some assistance. I can reward you of course." A moth flew out from his stomach before landing harmlessly on one of Alva's horns.

"You have any experience with pests? And not the human kind I mean. I means these nasty moth eating monstrosities." More tongue clicking, the famine alchemist was half tempted to-

"....." He'd kill them in time. All in good time.

"Conquest." Bulbous repeated. "Names are earned. And as for wearing my companions-" Pulling a beetle from the folds of his robes, the alchemist set it on his shoulder, gossamer chitin reflecting a myriad of colors.

"Those who scorn nature's bounty are born to suffer it's silence. But now you help with nature's little shhhhhhhhhhzzzzztttttt-" His speech turned to a hiss, Bulbous reaching to the pit to pull out one rodent.

"Pests, they eat those who would give us a great boon." Tossing the rat back, fingers went to pet the beetle on his shoulder.

"I intent to harvest them for their stomach acids. That is easy. What is hard is catching them. I have a good pool of specimens already but more is better. Go gather me more creatures such as these. Ah, and do try to get them alive. The fresher, the better."