05 BRAINS ; VIDEO

[livable]

HEY!

[ This video is definitely set up with Liv's device leaning against something in her living room. She can't be bothered to actually face it- she's clearly doing something off screen. It's entirely possible that she's playing some kind of gaming console. From the sounds in the background, she might be shooting zombies. For the irony. She glances over at the video for a second, then keeps playing as she talks. ]

First off, thanks to everyone who ambushed me at the Christmas party to ask how this was going, it's really nice to know that I can do a job and not be hounded about it any time I go anywhere by literally everyone I talk to. Now that all of the holidays I was supposed to be enjoying are through, I'm going to go ahead and actually answer.

Most of you are probably aware I work in the morgue at the hospital, but back home I worked in the city morgue for the Seattle PD Police Department. I love lively jobs and never getting to see the sun, what can I say? The test that we were doing was a forensic technique used to age murder victims or blood samples found at crime scenes when we don't have other possible clues. I got the idea when I ran out of other things to test on some of the newcomers after some other general tests that are often run on kidnap victims. It wasn't the first test I ran, but it was definitely the only one with actual visible results.

The test typically reveals information about the age range within about 9 years by looking at a byproduct of the T-cells in the immune system. Most of the non-humanoid samples I didn't have a standard to go by, go figure, so most of those tests were inconclusive. I'll have your participation awards sent to you via mail on the 6th Friday of July. I had our lab retest the actually useful samples multiple times and the results were fairly consistent. Most of the people who come here to Genessia are currently between the ages of 0 and 10 years of age.

There are a few different explanations for this, so hey- panic on hold, it could be the least terrible of options in which.. [ She has to think for a second. David came up with this theory while she was a little bit drunk and a little bit anxiety-ridden on top of depressed. Thanks brains. It's a good thing she found a much snider snack to help her report this. ] Some forms of teleportation to other worlds apparently involve cellular breakdown and I guess the cells could've been lost during that process? I'd have to test everyone again to find out if they were missing anything else considering how specific it would have to be to just be missing that. Great theory David, I'm sure all teleportation specifically leaves out tiny cells that hint at what age you are. Other options include that we're all clones of whoever we look like or someone made us up in entirety and none of our lives are real.

[ On second thought, this was probably a terrible brain to eat before making this announcement. She puts the controller down finally and gives the camera two thumbs up and the most sarcastic smile possible. ]

Happy New Year everyone!

[ And the video feed ends on her leaning over the edge of her couch to turn it off. ]

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[son_of_durotan]

[Pls pardon the green man who doesn't know hardly anything about biology other than how to heal with magic.]

And what exactly do these... tea cells do?

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[livable]

They help immune systems function, genius.

[ She raises her hand up, one hand still on the controller. ] The point's here and your head's kind of [ she lowers her hand about a foot. ] here.

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[son_of_durotan]

[He growls a bit as the fire totem off to his side spews a jet of flame upward, though the fire doesn't seem to affect anything around it.]

You would do well not to trifle with me, human. I am not an enemy you wish to make.

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[onewhostays]

Dr. Moore...

[He had his own chance to freak out, which he thankfully managed to do when he was alone. He didn't want Nezumi to worry and then find out what was possibly going on. Yeah, his New Year's But now that didn't seem to make much of a difference. Now he just frowns in concern. He thinks she's just reacting this way because she's upset. Who wouldn't be?]

We don't know enough about their teleportation technology yet. If they had the technology to implant memories and...create us, then eliminating the cells might be intentional for some reason. What if we gathered some X-rays of the thymus glands of different age groups and compared them?

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[livable]

You can get right on that, Shion.

[ She doesn't really sound interested in doing much of anything right now. ] Whatever they decided to do, they obviously have the technology to do whatever they want, including somehow alter or create an immune system without overwhelming the body the second we walk out of the Bay. They can bring back the dead and they're using that to bring or make and keep people here instead of helping them.

[ The sound of gunfire from the game increased rapidly, but the music changed. Liv lost. She tossed the control toward the coffee table, but it slid off and hit the floor. She's.. just going to stare at it for a moment here. ]

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[onewhostays]

[He goes silent for a while. He doesn't like to think about the significance of the the results--he was there, he saw them for himself--but they're there. It isn't even the possibility that there lives were not "real" that disturbs him. He wants to go home, and a lot of the people here did as well. Did that mean it wasn't an option?]

[Then what...what happened to people when they disappeared? He shakes his head. It doesn't get rid of the thoughts, but he has other things to worry about.]

How long have you been playing that game? [A game like that would haven't been allowed in No.6. It would have been deemed a threat to the citizen's health immediately.]

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[namemeansbeauty]

So I assume the results were not as you were expecting. Though if we were clones... that would be something to really think about...

[She didn't want to think that her life was something that wasn't real, that would be too horrible. However thinking about it more the thing she had been told... that theory wouldn't make sense, so it went from her mind for now.]

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[frostheartedrose]

Don't think too hard about it. Even if we are clones we have all the memories and abilities of the original as well as the new experiences we've gained here. I don't care if I'm a clone, two Bridgets are better than one since that means two Bridgets are driven to the preservation of the Bloodline.

[There might be a bit of an amused pause.]

But there might be a bit of a problem on sharing a man with myself if that sort of situation ever came up.

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[namemeansbeauty]

Yes, but if your a clone those memories and abilities don't truly belong to you. They are given to you. That's really a lot for someone like myself to take in personally if it's true. Knowing that in truth you are simply a copy of the original and that all your own choices might not have been ones you would make if you weren't.

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[livable]

The results were pretty much what I expected after I finished your and one other person's tests. You two gave me the idea.

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[namemeansbeauty]

I see. So were the others to test is the results were all similar? So that you were certain.

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[frostheartedrose]

I think I prefer this kind of announcement. It gives a bit of useful information without the dreary dramatics of a politically bent newscast. And since you seem to be working with David, I'd be willing to give a sample. It might be of use since I'm somewhere around 1275 years old and returned home once without the use of the dream docks.

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[livable]

[ She's not bothering to lock anything, sorry. That would require actually messing with her device and she's clearly busy with her hands. ]

I'm not working with David, I'm friends with him. Samples are already done and if you're 1275 years old, I'm guessing not human so we don't have a standard to test against for you.

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[frostheartedrose]

[A soft laugh. She'd considered such an outcome. Besides, her locks won't be as frequent in the future.]

I don't really care, actually. You know David, thus I'm willing to consider working with you. It might be worthwhile to sample the oddities of non-humans at different stages just to know when we aren't our usual selves. If only you had been around three years ago when I was still partially human...

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[skilledwithwords]

[Levy feels a little bit bad for bringing up her work at the Christmas party. She hadn't known the nature of Liv's work and she always thought that work was something more fun than that. Of course, Levy's a Fairy Tail wizard. Her work is fun and only sometimes involve dead things.]

Hey, sorry about the questions at the party... [There is a pause.] I hope you had a good tome though.

[Her head tilts slightly as she flicks through a book sitting in her lap.]

I did have some theory's also and they work with your results. I've been pulled to another world before this one but when I arrived I was a crystal. Which might not make a lot of sense but there was a reason behind it and it might be similar to how we are represented in this world.

[Being a clone wouldn't be too bad. She's still herself and she at least knows her friends at home aren't without her.]

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[livable]

[ Liv wouldn't normally want to make her feel bad about it. Unfortunately, the intense dry sarcasm she's expressing isn't exactly her normal nature. Not that she really has one that could be considered entirely consistent some days. ]

I left early after talking to David. He's a real rockstar with caring whether I ask him to drop something or not.

[ She did enjoy herself up until that point, but she's not likely to express it right now... ]

A crystal. Want to explain or am I just expected to know how that's relevant?

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[skilledwithwords]

[Levy now wants to yell at David but she'll do that later. He shouldn't go and chase people away when they are trying to relax.]

Well we were turned into our magic and in that world we took the form of a crystal. I don't know exactly what happened but it might be similar here. We have new forms and while we are still ourselves we are how this world can see us.

[She pauses.]

Sort of like each world has it's own set of rules.

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[askypirate]

[Balthier looks a little amused at her transmission.]

Well, now. If telling the lot of Genessia they may well not be real doesn't cause a panic, we may just make it out of this.

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[livable]

Make it out to where?

[ If they're clones or newborns or whatever they are, that means this is their home. That means the people who disappear here are dead. ]

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[strawberrypenguin]

If it turns out to be the whole teleportation thing, that would be pretty cool.

[Not that he was planning on letting this get to him really, not at all. EVen if it was kind of a big thing.]

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[livable]

Yes, because kidnapping being the coolest option we have isn't depressing at all.

[koishi_komeiji]

Koishi appeared on the screen after some fiddling. She was frowning a little, though she didn't seem upset. Just thinking.

"I dunno what you found in my blood and Sis' blood, but from the blood you can understand you think we might all have been rearranged or copied? Kinda?"

[livable]

It's a possibility. What the tests I showed that the human samples all had the same results as would be expected of a small child between 0 to 10 years old. Anything beyond that is just tossing theories out there.

[gammavirginis]

Most of hte people who come to Genessia are under ten years old?

Is that really true?

[livable]

Yes and no. The tests I ran are used to age blood samples using a particle that t-cells release as the immune system develops. It's useful within an age range and all of the cells I could test against the standard measurements tested within what would be expected of someone between the ages of 0 and 10 years of age.