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[malnosso]

All of you, think real hard about why these experiments do what they do.

Get back to me with your ideas and then we'll talk.

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[chikaidestroyer]

[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?

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[malnosso]

Yes.

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[chikaidestroyer]

But it produced the same effect -- sending all of those affected back to their homes for a day.

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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[malnosso]

No, that was the goal.

It just...didn't work like it was supposed to.

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[chikaidestroyer]

It was a sign of progress.

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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[malnosso]

Technically, no, since Shifting is...hard to describe.

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[chikaidestroyer]

This Shifting... Is the world itself moving through something, or are external conditions changing?

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[malnosso]

I just said it's hard to explain.

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[chikaidestroyer]

Fine.

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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[malnosso]

Bravo. You could practically write a book.

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[chikaidestroyer]

How many shifts have occurred that you are aware of? We're only aware of the one that took down the barrier and exposed that void space.

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[malnosso]

Oh Jesus H. Christ, I have no idea. Billions.

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[chikaidestroyer]

[He coughs.] So these shifts are not usually visible to those within the barrier. The barrier falling like that was a huge fluke.

This still doesn't get to the heart of what you are trying to coax out of us,though. The reason why the experiments do what they do.

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[malnosso]

Obviously.

It's close enough.

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[chikaidestroyer]

Was what happened to the original Filial, and Tyr, the result of an experiment?