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Posted: 15 August 2016 10:13 PM
From: Henir

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I finished deciphering the data I collected last month. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, my detailed findings can be found here.

The coordinates within the portal turned out to be a bit more complicated than I was expecting. I was only able to complete a partial scan at the time, but I've already identified well over 100 vastly different spacetime coordinates within the data. It's possible that my Dynamo suffered an undetected malfunction during the scan due to the disruptions in spacetime, but it would be incredibly unlikely to see such clear and varied results due to an error. The more likely explanation is that the portal leads to a space connected to multiple dimensions at once, causing my Dynamo to pick up on numerous coordinates simultaneously.

Unfortunately, this means it's difficult to determine what coordinates belong to the "hub" dimension, let alone where any of the other coordinates go. Dimensional travel of this scale is also beyond what I'm used to. I'm working on adapting my technology to be able to visit or remotely scan these dimensions more efficiently, but using my current methods it would still take a miracle to find any of the places or people I'm looking for, not to mention an absurd amount of energy for even a single trip.

So what I'd like to know is, who here is familiar with interdimensional travel and open to the possibility of collaborating?

More specifically, I'm looking for anyone who has experience with initiating travel or observation between separate dimensions and/or setting the coordinates. Technological methods are preferred, but I'm willing to try and work with magic if I have to. That includes any gods whose domain might include something like this, even in an abstract sense. I'll take whatever I can get, provided it's of use to me.

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[Unusual it might be, but the trees are still scarred by fire and by the storms that Fuujin, Suijin and Raijin had summoned to put it out. It's not busy the way the park is -- lessening the odds of someone overhearing by chance -- and it's not an obvious choice, lessening the odds of it being regularly observed.

Hakkai teleports there, himself, appearing half a minute after Add with a small notebook and pen in hand. He offers the other man a faint inclination of his head in greeting.]

I'm glad you didn't have any trouble finding your way.

[Nor was it hard to spot him. His robots stand out.]

My third god, Ni Jeni, was involved in experimenting on the modified ayakashi that Susano'o created, as well as investigating the appearance and disappearance of new gods and temples. He hadn't managed to directly observe any to my knowledge.

[He flips the notebook open, and sets about neatly removing a page.]

This is the schematic he showed me of his layout of the observational devices. Some may still be in place.

[Add has never been very good at blending in... at least it's a good thing this time?? He shrugs, waiting for Hakkai to bring out the notes before responding. It's tempting to just grab the book or the sheet of paper right away to look at it, but he'll resist that urge for now. Better to let Hakkai do things at his own pace as long as they're both being cooperative.]

I'm not familiar with a Ni Jeni. That's too bad. [if he was another scientist of sorts, Add would've liked to meet him. it doesn't sound like this god is still around, though, if Hakkai is freely distributing his research like this.] I'm not surprised he had difficulty observing the event on his own. It seems that whatever force decides when a god or temple is removed from this world, it tends to pick a time when no one would be present or conscious to observe it, for whatever reason. We need to think outside the box to be able to get around that.

[Time travel was Add's solution, though it may have been slightly overkill compared to the much more simple concept of planting devices to spy on people.]

So he did complete some of these devices after all? How very useful. Do you know where any of these devices might be? Even an unfinished prototype can collect useful information every now and then.

[Hakkai hands the sheet of paper over. It shows a rough diagram of an observational network, not of an individual device, with a few landmarks filled in. The network itself seems to have been centered around the former location of Ni Jeni's temple.]

I believe he did, and I believe they were in place. This is where he had planned to put them.

[Hakkai spreads his hands in a tiny shrug.] Unfortunately, I don't know if any of them are still there, much less operable. It's been a few months, and he hadn't collected any useful data at the time of his disappearance.

[It's a bit different from how he would've done it, for sure. Observing key locations over targeting specific individuals? It seems like it'd be overly tedious to him when many of those locations would go completely unused, but it's a bit easier to maintain compared to personal tracking devices. He considers the diagram, mumbling half to Hakkai and half to himself.]

I'll check on them. Since most of the work has already been done, it'd be a waste not to make use of them somehow... ah, but if he was collecting data it'd be important to know where the information was being sent. It'd make more sense to transfer it all to a central location over storing it on the scattered devices, but if that's the case then the files might've been lost with the temple... if they're still operational there might be backup files stored on the devices, though...

He had a computer in his temple. I'm certain that's where he would have collected the data -- he discussed some of it with me, in fact, although I didn't see the raw numbers.

[He shakes his head, frowning thoughtfully.]

It's possible there's backup storage in the devices, but if not, I hope you can at least make use of them going on.

If they're still there, that is.

Even assuming there's no data storage on the devices, if there's a way to check when the last data transfer occurred it should at least be possible to determine the exact point in time the temple vanished. That could be useful... [if he decides to do any more time travelling. It doesn't hurt to have a few timespace coordinates on hand, just in case.]

... Anyway, with the blueprints I can repair or replace any damaged ones quite easily. I'll likely have to remove most of them for upgrades either way. [He folds up the sheet of paper, tucking it in his jacket.] You've been quite useful this time, so I'll let you know if I discover anything interesting.

Thank you. [His smile is a little sharp as he adds:] I'm sure my former god would be happy to know they'll be put to good use.

[He's sure Ukoku would be mildly annoyed to have someone stealing away his machines for their own modifications, actually, but the thought of Ukoku's annoyance amuses him.]

I could give you the time down to a few hours myself, if you're curious. Should I come across anything else of interest, would you be interested in trading information?

[He shrugs off the first offer.] A few hours is too broad of a timeframe for my work. It would just be a useful bit of information to gain, so don't concern yourself with it.

I already said I'd tell you if I found anything interesting, so of course I'd expect the same in return.

Of course. In that case, I don't believe we have anything further to discuss now?

[He offers a polite bow, and turns to go.]

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