IIRC, it is somehow contained in their physical being. There is at least one mention in the lore that Aboleths only have the genetic memory they are both with and what they themselves learn, not that which others learn from personal study or resulting from being a divergent bloodline.
Taken from Page 18 of the Lords of Madness sourcebook, under section Aboleths subsection Internal Anatomy.
Well, it could be worse. You could have been hired to kidnap Qyburn and to steal the top secret research he is working on.I am now trying to imagine anyone attempting to kidnap Qyburn... I feel a vague sense of pity.
Imagine if Qyburn took it as a chance to discuss his experiments with someone new.
You shitposted, you are hereby obliged to write this.
Qyburn: "I don't recall ordering additional subjects, but one simply doesn't turn down willing volunteers."
Imagine that if we bookfy it the Aboleth becomes a laptop that runs on linux, what do you think people would do?
He might also come along willingly if the Corp was not sufficiently accommodating to his personal research, even after he did all that other work for them. Cue him trying to leave for greener pastures, with the runners and his choice experiments in tow.
He actually has a unbuffed +23 on Sense Motive, so he is good at smelling bullshit. It's only the active socials that he sucks at.
Qyburn consistently produces results and is hard to bullshit, but he himself is terrible at brown-nosing and unpleasant to be around. This suggests someone you'll keep on payroll because he's useful, but that you'll exile to an isolated lab with limited funding and far from head office.
The systems don't really translate too well, and both sides are kinda OCPs for one another, but the D&D magic system and special abilities of our people would heavily weight anything in our favor, up to and including combat against a Great Dragon.
Said genetic memory is eidetic and stenches back all the way to very first aboleth's first moments of life all the way to the point were whatever aboleth in question's distant ancestor was born and so it is down the generations of aboleths until whichever one we grab , so any lore or intelligence wind fall from a captured aboleth would be massive and ground breaking
Aboleths do not actually have all that in their active memory though.
There would still be a constant trickle of ambitious little suits with economic degrees that seek to prove themselves by making Qyburn more productive / proving that he is a waste of funds / using his work to show up their rivals / try to embezzle his research funds / etc.
Qyburn: "This... Ohio I've been sent to is simply marvelous for my research. Many, many helpful volunteers!"
