raisetheearth

[action - private, set on August 4th]

( The things one puts themselves through for the pursuit of science. )

[network - voice]

Hello everyone. Many of you don't know me yet, but my name is Doctor Edwin Weller, and I'm a scientist. I'm pleased to be among you, and I'm hoping we can begin a relationship of mutual cooperation.

I don't know if any of you noticed, but the slime that appeared approximately a week and a half ago seems to have spontaneously disappeared. The samples my assistant and I gathered have all vanished, despite being sealed and stored, and I've been unable to find anymore in the "wild" so-to-speak. It seems that it's all gone.

In light of that, I'd like to share with you all the findings of my study.

First of all, most individuals studying the slime immediately found, and stated, that it's composed of the microbe organism that appeared after the alien invasion. Unfortunately, I cannot take credit for that, and this whole exercise has not brought me any closer to determining their origin.

That being said, I can give perspective on what happens after they come in contact with one of the Numbered. I experimented on two samples, and caused each of them to transform. One triggered an Echo and the other did not. After a certain period of time, the one that didn't trigger an echo reverted back to its gelatinous state, and subsequently disappeared with the rest of my samples.

The item that triggered the echo, however, remains, and has shown no sign of disappearing. My analysis of it shows that it has undergone a complete transmutation, in that it is no longer composed of any microbes and is an object of inorganic matter. It is as if it were never "a ball of slime" to begin with.

Before yester, any echoes that bestowed items possessed by my previous self have caused an item to be spontaneously generated as if out of thin air. I've yet to see something become something else until now. If any of you have experienced such a thing, I'd appreciate it if you could share it with me.

Aside from all of that, I also did a test to see what would happen if the "slime" were blown up. All it did was cause the substance to split, and it showed no signs of damage. That being said, I believe I can bring this little report to a close.