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M.E. 723-I-24th
2-Lasai-30th

I have various jobs available. Pay will be reasonable for each.

1. I require a competent bodyguard to assist me with an expediton into the new territory.

2. I require someone who has video equipment and can assist with setting up and monitoring a live feed.

3. I need one writer. Preferably one that specializes in stories for kindergarten aged children. Unfortunately, beyond "The Little Emperor That Could" its following series, my repertoire of children's stories is lacking.

You may post your resumes in response to this.

M.E. 723-I-26th
2-Ealom-2nd

Update to the request for a writer: I will pay 20 dora for each well-constructed story, reading level beginner. I'm seeking approximately 20 to 30 stories at this level.

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That is fair enough. If you are working hard and are willing to share your knowledge, others will have the opportunity to gain from that.

Some may simply be too preoccupied with their own... personal concerns, as much as being brought here is a commonality for us all. There is much to adjust to. It might only satisfy them to know someone is asking the questions, if they have not yet been able to seek answers themselves.

... Do not only take my words for it, however. The more inquiries you make, perhaps others will come to speak up more regularly.

Hmm. Speaking of inquiries, I had thought before that it might be a good idea to open a guild for the scientists we have available. While I feel quite comfortable in my field, there are innumerable areas to specialize in. I'd like to gather what knowledge we have available, and have a better idea of whom we can turn to in various situations.

Our contact has been limited, but I would presume that you have held a prestigious title or two in your time?

Knowledge between worlds and even universes can vary. I have held titles as a leading researcher, but it is not my inclination to use them.

My field has focused upon energy research; for the most part, you may consider that related to refining and creating more effective processing systems, and designing the technological improvements to house them.

So essentially increasing the efficiency of current technology?

Essentially, or designing new methods to improve upon those, I suppose.

There is still much to learn about the technology here and how it has developed over time. Their scientists are less... lenient with that information, without significant trust.

Yes, I have encountered such resistance myself. It can be quite frustrating when you're prevented from working on something that you know you are capable of solving.

Though, considering their continued work on certain early experiments, it may be that they don't want us to know what other experiments are also still in the works.

That was a consideration I have held as well.

It does say much, that their earliest records of those experiments seemed to have been discarded or lost to time until we had uncovered them. Many of them may not have been possible without... new activity in the world.

My thoughts exactly.

It appears they attempted to reverse the process after it was completed. However, they had no samples left to use by the time they determined that they had made a mistake.

Having done work in this field, I understand it well. I developed a process for cloning meat myself. However, I had samples to start with.

I have considered that we may be the samples that they need.

The records had also seemed to indicate that there had been a disaster during the last time they made the attempts. In all we have seen so far of their buildings, one wonders where that location may have been.

We do not yet know if they have already assessed us for the required biological data they may need prior to our waking up, or if that will be a future intention. As it stands we do not know their motives or how far they will go to reverse the state they are currently in.

As it stands, they still require us for their... energy reserves, so even if the thought of testing for those experiments comes to their minds, this is still the higher priority for them, lest they squander and lose more of us.

It troubles me that I have yet to find how our action provide energy for them. It's nonsensical.

The fact remains that this world relies on contact for energy.

While it is newly generated it travels separately... and then unifies. It is evident that they must have had some amounts preserved, before the necessity of involving those from other universes. We do not know for certain how long it took the citizens to realize their mistakes with their advances, but they do seem reaffirmed in their spiritual connection to these gods.

You have been able to detect the energy?

Yes. Much else about it has remained illusive of course, but while I understand your frustration, we must consider that it does not and will not follow the laws of a known universe.

We remain far from knowing the laws that define it, beyond the basic principle of what is required for generating it. Perhaps we can only seek patterns in what we have experienced. Especially to note how the natives react; certain happenings may reflect past circumstances that have occurred in this world already.

This is the first I have heard of this. [And he's very interested in knowing more. He's willing to update his opinions when new information comes to light.]

What method of detection did you use?

My abilities have made it possible, although it has taken time and effort to achieve.

[ Granted, it was not something she could wholly achieve without Pyra linking to her, but Pyra would not have herself named for her part in it. ]

Can you expound upon your abilities?

It was from a ritual that utilizes divination.

I see. Is the sense based on heat? Vibrations? Visual?

It is not.

Those factors play their own roles, but not all energy is able to be perceived on those levels. However, given the nature of this city, once the materials that resonate with it can be produced and assembled appropriately, there is a possibility that it would allow for some measure of detection.

...

[This made things difficult.]

As we gather more materials I may need to invent some new machines. We have more information about some of the material they use as conduits now. Perhaps I can make some progress with that.

Perhaps.

What would be your intention with those machines?

Collecting information.

I am aware of that.

I meant... are you seeking a means to quantify it? That which is currently beyond your senses.

[ She's only curious as to what he thinks he may be able to do; and how much his designs may differ from hers. ]

Yes. I would like to better understand how it works and why, and what sort of energy it is. How it forms, how it travels. It would be immensely useful to understand the inner workings of this city.

[That's an improvement from dismissing it as nonsensical.]

Indeed it would. At best we know it directly links with the entities known as gods in this world, but even the knowledge of where they come from, and the vague stories that come from the archives that hint at more, is still not a reliable means of explanation.

One aspect remains clear; without it, this world will die.

The people here were able to utilize it until they unwittingly cut themselves off from it, hence their situation now. I would like to know more about that decline and... the forces that may have prompted that their people accept that this change would take place.

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