I2DT - Experimental Treatment

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I2DT - Experimental Treatment

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Fri Nov 27, 2015 8:29 pm

Ashlie carts the sample container and Will into the research lab and over to a large machine. She connects the sample container to one of the many valves and intakes and starts the machine up, which begins to hum.

"Basically what's happening is that the machine sucks in the sample and superheats it in the large compartment back here until it reaches a plasma state. Then the injector condenses it into a narrow stream that's injected into the accelerator. The accelerated sample is shot past a detector that'll calculate the molecules that make up the sample and attempt to measure their isotope composition and radioactive decay. Finally the sample is shot into the quantum detector where a high-energy proton stream shatters atomic cohesion. Enough fragments and it'll give us an idea of the spin and angular momentum of your subatomic particles."
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Postby Will Stanton » Sat Nov 28, 2015 11:20 pm

"Sounds like a fun way to spend a Friday night," Will joked.

He had definitely gotten a bit larger since wheeling from one room to the next.
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Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sat Nov 28, 2015 11:54 pm

A narrow beam of what mostly looked like glowing liquid is visible through a view-port in the machine as one of the monitors starts displaying various moving and adjusting peaks and readouts.

"Looks like... a lot of complex carbohydrates, saccharides... Very few lipids or proteins. Biological material but no signs of complex cell structures, no nucleic acids. Almost like dense primordial soup. Lacking in nitrogen compared to terrestrial life, but a good lattice for biological forms. Base materials. Probably subject to a lot of quantum drifts across the periodic table during shapeshifting. Too little information available on that to make a call whether this is naturally occurring or a planned base matrix."
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Postby Will Stanton » Sun Nov 29, 2015 12:25 am

"What do you mean, a "planned matrix"?
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Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sun Nov 29, 2015 1:29 am

"Like I said, I think it's a possibility that you were artificially created."
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Postby Will Stanton » Sun Nov 29, 2015 1:41 am

"Well, how the heck would you even test for that? Looking for a maker's mark?"
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Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sun Nov 29, 2015 3:20 am

"That would help, but aside from that there are some other things that could point towards that. Molecules that are rare or non-existent in nature, mechanisms that don't occur naturally. Nothing I can see so far, though I'm getting some strange readings here..." she says as she watches the data peaks fill out more into distinct, narrow peaks. "There are almost no radioactive isotopes here... This can't be right?" she starts typing away on the computer attached to the machine, double-checking calculations and reads, even bringing up the raw data from the detector.

"How is this possible? How can there be almost no Potassium-40? It has a half-life of a billion years!"
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Postby Will Stanton » Sun Nov 29, 2015 4:36 am

"Do I need to pick some up at the store or something? Is there a supplement I could take?"
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Re: I2DT - Experimental Treatment

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:37 am

"It's not something you need." she says, still sounding almost confused. "At this point in time, 0.012% of all Potassium is Isotope 40. The only only place you'd find this low levels of it is 14 billion years from now." she says as she's interrupted by the machine loudly beeping at her. Additional windows are popping up, displaying complicated patterns of quantum particle trajectories along with rows and rows of numbers.

"Wait, hang on... Different dimensional quantum signatures... I knew it! You're not from this Universe. You're from one of the adjacent ones Emilie has been bouncing through or from one of the same causal clusters anyway! But those would be in a similar universal era, the only way the Isotope decay could have advanced billions of years is if..." Ashlie speechlessly turns her head away from the monitor and towards Will. "...if you somehow spend a long time in suspended animation. A really, really long time."
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Postby Will Stanton » Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:39 am

"...That.

That's not possible, Ashlie," Will said, nervously.
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Re: I2DT - Experimental Treatment

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:46 am

"Is it? They found you in the ice. Do you know how long you were there? Or how you got there?"
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Postby Will Stanton » Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:48 am

"I....only remember...." Will said, trailing off.

"Blackness," he said after a moment.
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Re: I2DT - Experimental Treatment

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:52 am

"Nothing else? Heat? Pressure? Anything at all?"
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Postby Will Stanton » Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:59 am

"Well, cold, and lots of it," Will laughed. "Ice, you know?"

"LOTS of cold..."
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Re: I2DT - Experimental Treatment

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:10 am

"The vacuum of space is pretty cold as well. If I dug into the US Army's files, what do you think are the odds it'll say they found you in the crater left behind by something that impacted from space?"
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Postby Will Stanton » Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:11 am

"Um...Antarctica has a few of those, don't they?"
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Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:16 am

"Yes, but you don't find strange, sentient substances in most of them."
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Postby Will Stanton » Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:23 am

"I'm just saying, the answer's probably yes, because I had to be found somewhere, and there's lots of craters there."
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Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:33 am

"Well if these numbers are correct then you're older than this planet. The only logical explanation is that you fell from space at some point."
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Postby Will Stanton » Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:34 am

"Or that your numbers are wrong," Will pointed out.
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Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:38 am

"I'm nothing but numbers. They're correct. I will double-check this as well as the machine but it's unlikely that it would fail only on this one particular parameter. It's possible you weren't even sentient. No more than I was when my base-components were extracted from the ground."
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Postby Will Stanton » Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:39 am

"I'm just saying, Occam's razor and all that. The Earth's really old. Machines malfunction."
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Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:43 am

"You don't seem to like the implications of this." she states the obvious, sounding kind of confused by that, as if she doesn't quite understand why.
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Postby Will Stanton » Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:44 am

"Well, I'm NOT billions of years old. I'm, like, maybe 50. What you're saying just isn't true..."
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Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:47 am

"It just means that the materiel you're made from is that old. There's no need to be upset, Will."
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Postby Will Stanton » Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:51 am

"I'm NOT upset!" Will said, upset. "Do I sound like I'm upset?"
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Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sun Nov 29, 2015 7:54 am

"You do and I don't believe I am malfunctioning either."
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Postby Will Stanton » Sun Nov 29, 2015 6:47 pm

"Well, if you were malfunctioning, you might not realize it!"
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Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:20 pm

"Will, why is this so hard for you to accept as a possibility?"
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Re: I2DT - Experimental Treatment

Postby Will Stanton » Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:43 pm

"Because it's not true! I'm not...not some strange, ancient...thing from another dimension. I'm just a normal thing!"
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Postby Ashlie Minamida » Sun Nov 29, 2015 8:47 pm

"You're not a thing any more than I am. And you wouldn't be the only refugee from a different dimension either."
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Re: I2DT - Experimental Treatment

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Nov 30, 2015 5:45 am

"Of course I'm a thing," Will said, annoyed. "What else would I be."
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Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Nov 30, 2015 6:17 am

"To humans a 'thing' means an inanimate object. If that's what you call yourself they won't respect you. I thought that's why you chose a humanoid form to interact with them. It's why I did."
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Re: I2DT - Experimental Treatment

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Nov 30, 2015 6:45 am

"I get plenty of respect. I get all the respect I need.

I turn human for five minutes, I get thrown in jail. I am what I am, and there's nothing that that...that...that machine can tell me that makes it any different."
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Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Nov 30, 2015 6:54 am

"They didn't lock you up because you turned human but because they weren't aware of your presence and you know that. All this machine is saying is that you're ancient. It's possible that you only recently developed sentience as you were embedded in the ice. This doesn't change anything about who you are."
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Re: I2DT - Experimental Treatment

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Nov 30, 2015 7:52 am

"Of course it does! I mean, it doesn't, because it's wrong, but still!

You're crazy. This whole science thing is crazy. I regret coming here."
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Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:59 pm

"I'm sorry you feel that way."
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Re: I2DT - Experimental Treatment

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Nov 30, 2015 9:34 pm

"Yeah, well, it is what it is," Will said.

He suddenly--and contrary to his earlier claims that it was impossible--grew legs.

"I think we're done here, yeah?"
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Re: I2DT - Experimental Treatment

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Nov 30, 2015 9:41 pm

"Yes. I'm sorry if I upset you." she says, showing no outward reaction but making a mental note of Will's sudden change in shifting ability. Objects or machines don't have instinctual abilities like that. Or dimensional counterparts that are human. I really need a sample of that American kid...
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Re: I2DT - Experimental Treatment

Postby Will Stanton » Mon Nov 30, 2015 9:47 pm

"Call me if you need me," he said, and then stormed walked out, seething perfectly calm.
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