[MoM] Snippetathon part 3

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Summary

Mods "[MoM] Snippetathon part 3"

Purpose of change

It's been a long while since I did a snippetathon. Two psionic paths ago, I think.

Describe the solution

Add a bunch more snippets. Testing reports, PHAVIAN mathematician notes, Observed nightmares, etc.

Also it looks like I accidentally gave the Director of Research two surnames so standardize on Richardson (the more-commonly used one)

Describe alternatives you've considered

Testing

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• Are we still supposed to be doing experiments? Alright, sure, whatever. I figured throwing things at the wall would be a good way to let off steam, so I got A̶n̶n̶a̶ ̶a̶n̶ H84 and X90 and had them toss increasingly heavier things at the wall. Weirdest thing, size and speed don't relate. X90 can left 10 kg and H84 can only lift 4 kg, but if they're both throwing pencils, H84 can move them faster. X90 can even lift himself up, though he can't move except up or down. On the other hand, H84 can rotate a ball at something-something RPM, it was faster than X90 anyway. I heard a scream from the labs so I didn't have all my equipment, so I just counted them until I lost count. So we spent a couple hours doing that and we all felt better. Maybe someone in the ruins of civilization can use this for something.
• At 1804 this evening during a SMOKE USHER experiment into immune system function, mathematician N85 suddenly went into anaphylaxis. Despite the attending physician administering epinephrine and immediate transport to the medical facility, N85 was pronounced dead of cardiac arrest at 2042 that same evening. While investigation is ongoing, Dr. Walsh suggests some unknown stress mechanism caused by a full day of SMOKE USHER testing might have exacerbated a previously-unknown allergic sensitivity. However, the physical before induction turned up no such sensitivity. Further conclusions await the autopsy report.
• C,\nJust talked to ███████ on our lunch break and he confirmed what I heard--Gaspar is real. We all know people who have just disappeared, right? They say they're transferred to other sites, to keep up the variety in experiments or whatever, but do they ever get transferred back? You heard of Project Empty Mother? Sapphire Horizon? You know about the magi, right? There's always three and where's the third? They can't turn us all into meat but they're going to do it to some of us and I don't want to be one of them. We have to get out of here.\n-A
• Despite folk wisdom and popular belief, cauterization is ineffective at stopping bleeding or controlling infection compared to nearly any other method. However, controlled electrocautery is used in modern medicine; can COPPER PRIME show similar levels of effectiveness?\n\nPROCEDURE: Animal testing was done on six cows in order to provide a sufficient volume of blood, since mouse or monkey subjects would be insufficient. Three mathematicians were used, each augmented with a matrix crystal, to conduct the tests. Each cow was immobilized and had a series of wounds inflicted using a standard surgical scalpel.\n\nRESULTS: While it was possible to stop bloodflow from non-lacerating wounds and non-arterial bleeding (mathematicians consistently failed to stop arterial bleeding), results were less than promising. Two cows died immediately after the testing from blood loss and two of the remaining cows showed signs of infection in several of the cuts, showing a higher contamination ratio than electrocautery. While better than a hot iron, COPPER PRIME is not of high enough effectiveness to consider using for wound treatment, and especially not if SMOKE USHER is available.
• Dr. Richardson,\nKeeping this on the DL for obvious reasons, but my hypothesis was correct--SMOKE USHER isn't all smiles and light. Following the experiments with revivification, I conducted some trials using D93 and M33. D93 was able to repeat her previous performance on a mouse. I've attached some photos, but I suggest not looking at them if you're eating lunch. It wasn't pretty. M33 was able to replicate the process after some coaching and demonstration by D93, so it's not unique to one mathematician. This should probably be classified unless all our mathematicians start being able to do it. I can just imagine the immersion teams saying that they don't want some weirdo melting them when they're referred here for treatment after a dive goes wrong.\nAgarwal Manwani\nSenior Researcher
• Dr. Zweidler, I understand your excitement at your breakthroughs in matrix technology, but I hope you understand there is no way I can approve OS647-P for general usage. You write here that the effect field has a "94% effectiveness rate" but this is not comparable to ballistic performance standards because it has no ablative properties. What if the first shot fired is part of that 6%? How can an operative trust their life to your device when every possible shot might be the one to penetrate? That fact that your data shows it provides complete protection against rifle rounds, grenades, and even anti-tank weapons is immaterial in the face of the effect field's failure rate.\n\nSecond, you write that currently OS647-P has a 2.67% device failure rate, over and above the chance of the effect field failing! You want me to recommend this for general usage when our field operatives could end up not only with a bullet in the chest, but also a box full of burnt plastic while some horror is charging at them on an immersion dive?n\nFurthermore, the active time is simply unacceptable. Ballistic protection works because it provides passive protection with no additional effort necessary. When in danger, an operative would need to insert the matrix crystal, flip the toggle, and then hope that the attack occurs within the "5.65 second median protection time" in order to gain any benefit at all! You've read those immersion dive reports too, Matthew. If an operative is face to face with XE157, what happens on the sixth second?\n\nI'll be frank with you. I'm amazed that you asked me to approve this given its current device specs. Matrix crystals--even depleted ones--are extremely valuable, and given their already unacceptably-high failure rate in training new mathematicians, Dr. Liu is not going to accept anything less than 100% effectiveness from an alternative use case. You're simply going to have to refine OS647-P until it's more reliable.\n\nYours,\nAnna Richardson\nDirector of Research
• It is important to remember that we are scientists and this is a scientific endeavor. Regardless of the phenomena we are studying, we must maintain a proper skeptical mindset in the spirit of scientific inquiry. Dimensional metaphysics has its own laws that we are slowly discovering. This is not "witchcraft", these are not "wizards," they are people capable of tapping in to a previously-unknown source of energy. There are many previous fields of science which once carried their own stigma. Continental drift was not accepted for decades after its initial proposal, Dr. Semmelweis died in an asylum, and quantum mechanics to this day requires accepting behaviors that are counter to our natural understanding of how the world works. That does not make any of those fields supernatural either. By definition, if it is studiable and reproducible, it is scientific.\nAnna Richardson\nDirector of Research
• They say there's nothing to worry about, that our powers follow natural laws that can be tested and measured, but it's obvious they're lying. I heard what happened to Amelia when she was doing some experiment and had that asthma attack. A tragic accident, they said? Yeah, not after I saw the aftermath of that lab test with the telekinetic. What happens if they lose control in a crowded hallway, or if a telepath does in the lunchroom? Are we all going to end up vegetables?\n\nI haven't used any psi since I heard, but it's so hard. I went from getting sick 4-5 times a year to feeling like a million bucks every single day and I'm just supposed to give it up? But what if my heart just stops? What if someone else's heart stops because of me? The scientists spent a year testing and measuring and now apparently none of it matters because who knows what will happen.\n\nI never should have gone through with the treatment.
• Xinying,\nYou were right. I looked over the cafeteria camera records and the mathematicians are consistently coming in twice or three times as often as most other people. Usually just for snacks, but it's pretty consistent that after an experiment, one of them will wander in and grab some chips or an apple or cookies. We need to start weighing them in and out like they're jockeys or something and seeing if we can get some hard data on this.
• You dream you are going down into the basement to look for something, but as you step off the last step the basement door shuts behind you, leaving you in darkness. As you climb back up to look for a lightswitch, you hear the stairs creak behind you, and then you wake up.
• You take a closer look at the note and, with mounting excitement, realize its written in the Imperial Speech! The blocky Imperial-military-standard characters read, "I do not know if there are any who will read this, but I am still alive. I survived the disaster of the Texopapalotl and awakened in a scientific facility filled with demons. I fought my way out and found a place of some safety. If you can read this, find me.\nXiuhcozcatl, Squad Leader, Eighth Band" Below it is a map of a small building by a lake, though you don't recognize the nearby terrain.

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