leftinbasketforfbi | 3rd Study Done Β Video/Action for Mio Ψ

[He doesn't like going on the network. Like, he really doesn't like going on the network. Unfortunately, he has to move past it right now because SCIENCE and also his munna is sick.

So when the feed starts, Reid (who is wearing HUGE glasses today) is sitting with his back against a tree, taking a break from all the traveling with Mio. Yang the Absol is curled up next to Reid's leg, staring at the communicator. In Reid's arms is the most sad-looking munna ever, and its face looked a little green. It's a sick, sad munna.]

Um, hi?

[Reid cradles Flora the munna carefully, readjusting the glasses on his nose.] Right. Uh, for those of you who don't know, I'm Dr. Spencer Reid. Not that--you don't have to call me that. Spencer or Reid will work fine.

[As you can probably tell, Reid is not good at talking to lots of strangers.]

It's come to my attention that no one's ever formally gathered data about arrivals and departures from this place, and in hopes of finding a pattern that could lead us to being able to better predict who might come and go, I put together a survey. The more people who contribute, the more useful the results will be, so any spare moment you could use to fill it out would be appreciated.

[He switches to text briefly to provide a link to the survey.]

This, um... isn't exactly my realm of expertise? That is, my specialty is largely theoretical and practical applications of knowledge, not setting up studies, and without any kind of possible beta testing, this study isn't exactly what I would call formal. So really, any suggestions on how to improve it or any help from people experienced with correlational studies would be helpful.

On a more personal note...

[He glances down, his glasses hiding his eyes, and he shifts so the munna is more visible on the screen. The poor thing looks utterly pathetic--she's not even hovering.]

Flora has been very sick since she hatched. Does anyone know what might be wrong with her?

[She'll tell you what's wrong with her. She's living off a steady diet of nothing but sleep terrors and nightmares. Reid, you really should see someone about that.]

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Oh, yes. I suppose the bigger question is whether or not there's a discernible logic to it, as we may be dealing with a mindset that's far different from our own.

I'm afraid I won't be able to go into specifics in some areas, but I'll attempt to give as complete a picture of my experiences as I can.

That's the bigger question, especially if something sentient is behind it. Or else, if it's not sentient, it's possible that the pertinent variables are in each different world and one can't find out about them without specific equipment, like maybe some kind of localized meteorological phenomenon. Unfortunately, this is the equipment we have, so I'll see if I can make any use of it.

Like I said, anything helps. Just please. put a note where something is incomplete so I can account for missing variables.

There is technically something in my world that could account for it, but I'm not exactly sure what circumstances would have caused it. If it were the case, then an individual would have been responsible for it-and while he's infuriating on quite a few levels, this seems somewhat beyond him.

Of course-I had already intended to do that.

Well, if you can tell me at all about that, it could be really useful. The best we can do is theorize based on data at the moment.

Very well, then-it's very technical, so I'll do my best to make it as easy to understand as possible.

[...because really, he's not expecting this person to know anything about magic, and that has a pretty good tendency to kick him into condescension mode...]

In my world, it's known to a select group of people that an infinite number of parallel worlds exist, ranging from ones where the only difference is that one person turned a different direction at an intersection to ones like... well, this one, basically. It's impossible for most people to move between these parallel worlds, obviously, due to the fact that it requires True Magic to do so.

There's only one person who's actually achieved it, and most of his attempts to take on students lead to them returning as gibbering messes, so it's highly unlikely that someone else has figured out how to accomplish the same thing. While he's a troublesome individual, I've never heard anything about him doing something like this-that, and the phenomenon seems to be intimately connected to this world, so it's probably something that exists here causing it.

[Yeah, a little condescending considering Reid is probably one of the smartest men here, but people condescend to him all the time because of his age, so he can take it.]

Well, this place is a nexus. One would need to understand how a network of dimensions is set up and their separate structures before being able to understand why travel to this one has kept our minds intact but travel to other ones drove those students insane. How much do you know about this? Are there any theories, information, or studies you might be able to tell me about? There are theories of parallel dimensions where I come from, but that usually only comes up in discussion and experiments dealing with quantum mechanics.

Well, I'll admit, I don't think any of Zelretch's students even started on the magic that would allow them to move between parallel worlds, so I can't say if there's any significance to the fact that we haven't gone insane or not. As much as it pains me to admit it, there's not much else I can say about it-Zelretch has a few objects that make use of it, but for obvious reasons he's not making how they operate public, and since he's the only one who has an extensive knowledge of it... well, you can see how it would get complicated.

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