Extend the Story - Add a Room

Aposteos-Mordial is tall, perhaps six and a half feet, and gaunt, his frame slender and frail-looking. He appears of almost impossible age, with a weathered and sunken face, his eyes are pupiless black orbs sunk deep into his bony skull, his mouth gaping and toothless. Weird runes and sigils are etched into his skin, on his cheeks, wrists, and hands. He is dressed in shimmering silver robes which hang off his scrawny physique, and a bald cap of metallic cloth covers his hairless head. His (its?) large head tils left and right, eyeblinking eyes looking you over.

"Shall we proceed with the experiment? Please approach the podium and the android model if you would."

This being, whatever he is, looks physically weak. Despite his strange abilities, perhaps you can overpowers him if you act quickly. Do you...

Attempt to converse and bargain with him?