Like oh how the world has become overrun with madmen and hybrids of man, fish and beast that should not be possible and put even the demon summoners of Garion's world and the things they summon to shame running rampant over the earth. And that thing in the distance that has been the source of more than one days of tears as Ray tried to keep records. Or the 4 jars on the mantel with brass nameplates under them.

Egon. Winston. Peter. Janine.

They're the only brains in jars that's he's even had that heart to explain the situation to. Everyone else who was still human and sane-ish got smuggled off to a moon around Jupiter. And that was about 1500 years ago.

It wouldn't be so bad these days, but he'd run out of ovaltine about 50 years back.