It must be empowering, knowing just how dependent we are on you. And it doesn't matter if anyone gets tired of you; the endless cycle gives you new, sympathetic bodies when the old ones become apathetic.
The only thing that I believe changed between the original, to us, experiment and the second one ... was the barrier changing and the ruins appearing. But that had been awhile before the repeated experiments.
No, they didn't. Those who were affected by the experiment twice were not affected the same way. If there were any who were affected the exact same way, it was likely coincidental. Accidental.
[There's sound of flipping pages as Albert goes through his notes of previous experiments. Then the sound of drumming fingertips on a tabletop.]
Something isn't adding up. It seemed almost like your random kidnappings, almost as innocuous, but... There was a situation where a few people were "sent back home" -- for a day. Was that an experiment?
But I imagine, after the next change, the next ... shift, that same experiment won't produce the same effect of sending people back to their worlds for a day.
So to summarize thus far... The Malnosso experiments are done to test the effects. You are looking for a specific effect -- the ability to send people back to their own worlds ... for longer than a single day. But the Shifting changes the effects that the same experiment may have previously yielded. Correct?
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Besides picking your brain, is there anything we can do?
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What do I need to do to get you to believe me? Don't say "give me the entire story," either, I can't.
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There is no apparent standard to the experiments. Excluding a few times, none of the effects to the residents have been the same.
The few times the experiments have been "repeated"... Were those attempts to replicate past effects?
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Are you producing these experiments looking for a specific side effect?
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Something isn't adding up. It seemed almost like your random kidnappings, almost as innocuous, but... There was a situation where a few people were "sent back home" -- for a day. Was that an experiment?
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So the effect the Malnosso are looking for isn't a way to send people back? Despite your own situation being similar to ours?
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It just...didn't work like it was supposed to.
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But I imagine, after the next change, the next ... shift, that same experiment won't produce the same effect of sending people back to their worlds for a day.
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So to summarize thus far... The Malnosso experiments are done to test the effects. You are looking for a specific effect -- the ability to send people back to their own worlds ... for longer than a single day. But the Shifting changes the effects that the same experiment may have previously yielded. Correct?
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