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  {
    "type": "snippet",
    "category": "lab_postit_psi",
    "text": [
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_1", "text": "Pink for the body, grey for the eyes, green for…hmm" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_2", "text": "Don't look into the dull ones" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_3", "text": "If the mathematician asks for me, I was never here" },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_4",
        "text": "Our clears keep waking up from screaming nightmares.  Higher-ups say it's nothing"
      },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_5",
        "text": "Subject can lift 14.82g.  15g or higher causes migraine"
      },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_6", "text": "Note: order some Zener cards" },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_7",
        "text": "ONYX LIGHTNING?  GRAY DAWN?  COLD BELOW?  VERDANT HAND?  Oh come on"
      },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_8", "text": "I can't believe she wants to call them psi-cops" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_9", "text": "Two more subjects overloaded.  Need to request more" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_10", "text": "Maybe a teep can communicate with them" },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_11",
        "text": "Reminder: Tell the immersion teams we need more samples"
      },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_12", "text": "It won't kill you but you'll wish it had" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_13", "text": "Brains show no physical differences" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_14", "text": "Animal testing approved.  Try the TK on the mice" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_15", "text": "Can't wait for cross-testing" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_16", "text": "She tried to scan Y65-08.  Now in a coma" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_17", "text": "Scanning them doesn't work.  It's just static" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_18", "text": "Stay away from those GRAY DAWN guys.  Creepy" },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_19",
        "text": "Need to up monitoring of GRAY DAWN candidates.  Who watches the watchers?"
      },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_20",
        "text": "<given_name> is up for awakening.  Ban her from the poker game"
      },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_21",
        "text": "A better lightbulb.  What's next, a matrix mousetrap?"
      },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_22", "text": "So does my PB still count post-awakening?" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_23", "text": "What's my dog thinking?  I should ask" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_24", "text": "COLD BELOW is a bit too on-the-nose" },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_25",
        "text": "\"Gentlemen, clinical immortality is within our grasp\". There, if I write it here I won't be tempted to put it in the powerpoint"
      },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_26", "text": "They've done it.  Frikkin laser beams" },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_27",
        "text": "I get why.  But TIAMAT or SERVITOR would be much cooler than XE157, right?"
      },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_28", "text": "Better than kings.  Gods" },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_29",
        "text": "There has be more out there.  Cryokinesis?  Prescience?"
      },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_30",
        "text": "Be careful in subplane R82-34.  Rodriguez nearly blew the entire team up"
      },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_31", "text": "SMOKE USHER can't cure zombification.  Had to try" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_32", "text": "Snapped as soon as he entered the dive" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_33", "text": "Mix with XE037 for better results?" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_34", "text": "Have we tried it with mice?" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_35", "text": "But what is the medium?" },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_36",
        "text": "I am not going through that training.  Safe?  Yeah, no"
      },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_37",
        "text": "Why does no one else remember <family_name>?  And why isn't he in the employee roster?"
      },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_38",
        "text": "We finally find real superpowers and then it all goes to hell"
      },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_39", "text": "Brain injections make no difference" },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_40",
        "text": "She ran a marathon on a treadmill.  That better be enough data"
      },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_41",
        "text": "Not meeting with that mathematician again.  Once was too much"
      },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_42", "text": "All of them, witches" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_43", "text": "Need to dive again.  It's better on the other side" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_44", "text": "Those poor mice" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_45", "text": "We should have just used regular cards" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_46", "text": "Going to put \"Psi-cop\" on my resume" },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_47",
        "text": "Five percent increase in lifting across the board.  Why?"
      },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_48", "text": "Can't block them out anymore" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_49", "text": "Can they go through halfway?" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_50", "text": "Same dream, every night" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_51", "text": "Great, some of the mice escaped" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_52", "text": "It's like a shadow and it won't go away" },
      {
        "name": "post-it",
        "id": "lab_postit_psi_53",
        "text": "SMOKE USHER found something.  It's everywhere.  It's in us"
      },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_54", "text": "Zombies can't awaken.  What a surprise" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_55", "text": "She hurled a quarter 45.8 smoots" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_56", "text": "Highest recorded temperature at 1247°C" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_57", "text": "Eyes, always watching from outside" },
      { "name": "post-it", "id": "lab_postit_psi_58", "text": "We're definitely sailing the black seas of infinity" }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "snippet",
    "category": "lab_file_biokinesis",
    "//": "Phavian designation for biokinetic study is BURNT NOVEMBER.  Designation for use in combat is VERDANT HAND",
    "text": [
      {
        "name": "AAR ID# V78-08",
        "id": "lab_file_biokinesis_01",
        "text": "At 1756 (dive time), Sergeant Eric Collins's team came under attack by an XE157 entity near the end of scheduled in-phase time.  Despite the expenditure of most of their ordinance, XE157 suffered no significant damage and continued its attack.  Despite the known combat capabilities of XE157 and with no regard for his own safety, Sergeant Collins ordered his team to retreat to the dive breachhead and engaged it in hand-to-hand combat, holding it off for several minutes while his team exited the dive.  The apeture was held open for an additional minute afterward, allowing just enough time for a severely-injured Sergeant Collins to exit the dive and preventing the exit of XE157.  Sergeant Collins suffered severe lacerations, the loss of two fingers, and burns across fifty percent of his arms and upper body; he has since volunteered to be a test subject for SMOKE USHER.  In lieu of a medal, we have authorized a meritorious service bonus to be applied retroactive to the beginning of the year."
      },
      {
        "name": "Notes written on the back of an unimportant memo",
        "id": "lab_file_biokinesis_02",
        "text": "Treadmills?  Blood ox tests?  Have them try to punch through walls or something\nAny cellular difference?  Should check\nBrains show no difference but what about organs?  Lactic acid production, inflammation, blood flow, etc.\n\nOutrun a horse?\n\nYeah, yeah, faster than a speeding bullet.  VERDANT HAND vs ONYX LIGHTNING?\nOh come on.\nWhat about jumping distance?  Height?\n\n\n*a doodle of two stick figures engaged in a martial arts battle*\nActually do the shoryuken.  Too bad gun still beats fist\nHadoken?  Wouldn't surprise me at this point\nGrip strength tests?  Charts?  zzzzz  *a surprisingly-detailed picture of a curled-up sleeping cat*\nSummary: Ban them from the Olympics"
      },
      {
        "name": "Come One, Come All!",
        "id": "lab_file_biokinesis_03",
        "text": "The battle of the century!  H84 and E94 will fight to determine the true greatest VERDANT HAND graduate!  No holds barred, no attacks banned, no referee, don't sit in the front row or you might ruin your clothes!  Be there or be square!\n\n*below the text is an picture of a man and a woman striking a boxing pose at each other in an ordinary office room.  Both are wearing street clothes and baring their teeth at each other.  The date of the fight is one week before the end of the world*"
      },
      {
        "name": "incident report: 385924",
        "id": "lab_file_biokinesis_04",
        "text": "Upon leaving for the evening, Dr. Erikson neglected to seal cage #3, allowing one of the experimental mice (#748562) to gain access to the matrix crystal supplies.  One crystal discharged, affecting 748562 and apparently causing an awakening.  748562 escaped the room, squeezing under the door, and is currently loose within the facility.\n\nDr. Erickson has been placed on administrative leave pending a full investigation and new procedures for storing matrix crystals are currently being implemented.  A search for 748562 is still underway."
      },
      {
        "name": "torn notebook page",
        "id": "lab_file_biokinesis_05",
        "text": "They wanted me to keep a logbook of my daily exercise but I don't understand the point.  I run, I lift, I sleep, that's about all these have me do here.  What, they want \"5:40 a.m.: 30 reps 250 lbs, run 20 minutes, 100 burpees (10 sets)\" blah blah who cares?  That shit doesn't matter.  We're all trapped here and things are going to hell and we got some kind of poison in our bodies that's going to bring us back when we die so we can eat brains.\n\nWell, fine, here's my log: 6:05 a.m.: 50 reps 400 lbs, sprint 10 minutes, 200 pull-ups, triple somersault from a standing start.  Put me in the Olympics right now."
      },
      {
        "name": "The VERDANT HAND combat protocols",
        "id": "lab_file_biokinesis_06",
        "text": "They demanded that I include that title on this report even though it's pretentious as hell.  This isn't some superweapon that will change the face of modern warfare, it's just a better form of hand-to-hand combat.  They can't dodge bullets.  They can't punch through brick walls.  They can't do that movie thing where the hero hits a bad guy and the bad guy goes flying twenty feet.  They're just faster and stronger and hit harder, all good things, but they aren't going to beat someone with a gun.  There's a reason we invented guns and why functional martial arts training is about defending yourself and getting away, not about going on the offense.\n\nSo is it worth training people?  That's the wrong question.  This isn't a codified martial art, it's just using dimensional metaphysics to enhance existing methods of combat.  A VERDANT HAND candidate will be better at Muay Thai than anyone who hasn't gone through BURNT NOVEMBER but they still need the actual martial arts training.  This is just another tool.  I'm not sure why there's so much focus on this, to be honest.  With the cost of retrieving materials, surely we could spend that money better elsewhere.  Modern warfare does not rely on single superheroes winning battles."
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "snippet",
    "category": "lab_file_clairsentience",
    "//": "Phavian designation for clairsentience study is NOBLE HORIZON.  Phavian designation for use of clairsentience to find appropriate portal targets for immersion dives is COLD BELOW",
    "text": [
      {
        "name": "Notes scribbled on notebook paper",
        "id": "lab_file_clairsentience_01",
        "text": "I'm looking up at the sky.  I can see the same constellations on Earth, but they're shimmering somehow, like there's a haze or a fog or something between us.  Then, the stars start to slowly go out.  Not in a wave, but randomly--one here, one there, faster and faster until the entire sky was dark.  Then the moon disappeared as well and everything went black.\n\nI'm standing on the edge of a cliff.  Below me is the churning sea, the waters black under the stormclouds.  The sea rises slowly as rain falls in sheets, lightning striking the waters.  They break over the edge of the cliff, then over my head.  I drown.\n\nI am standing in a forest.  The trees rustle all around me and the birds sing, and then clouds pass over the sun.  The sun dims and then starts to go black.  It's an eclipse.  The light fades and all the birdsong dies.  I stand in pitch blackness with the rustle of leaves around me."
      },
      {
        "name": "testing report I2-8129",
        "id": "lab_file_clairsentience_02",
        "text": "Subject O21 was placed blindfolded in a completely dark room with a deck of shuffled playing cards, instructed to remove the blindfold, and asked to sort them in standard order: clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades, each in numerical order.  Task was completed in 6:03 with 18/52 cards in the proper order and minor to major ordering errors in all other cards.  Subject was then asked to to drink from the coffee cup in the room.  Cup was placed on a shelf above the door to prevent movement around the room from discovering it, but task was completed in 1:14, with the only difficulty being subject's height (158 cm) making it harder to reach the shelf.  Subject was then asked to cross the room to the table, pick up the paper, and read the sequence of numbers written on it.  Subject was unable to do so, only correctly reciting the first two digits.\n\nExperiment does uphold the thesis that successful NOBLE HORIZON mathematicians perceive their surroundings through means other than light.  As O21 was unable to read the document, their sense is not \"sight\" as such.  Further experimentation to determine its limits is necessary."
      },
      {
        "name": "COLD BELOW progress report",
        "id": "lab_file_clairsentience_03",
        "text": "Dr. Richardson,\nAfter all of the time and money I wish I had more promising news to report.  Netherum mathematics is an inexact science, as you well know, so it's very hard to find a protocol that will work the same every time.  Melchior has the advantage of processing speed but our mathematicians have to put in the hours, but they can make connections Melchior cannot because he can only work with the data he's given, whereas NOBLE HORIZON provides new data.  But, unpredictably.  We've discovered any number of immersion destinations where the physical laws are so different even the probes wouldn't work, much less a dive team.  The majority of them, even BURNT NOVEMBER wouldn't be sufficient to sustain a diver.  There's no value in exotic materials that will probably not survive the transition.\n\nOn the other hand, COLD BELOW did discover Plane 398RG and we got quite a few awakenings out of it before testing was prohibited.  And on the other other hand, they found 9472P where the entire world's biomass had been assimilated by XE157 and we lost the entire dive team because XE157 ignored the probes.  It's like that bell curve meme where Melchior is in the middle and COLD BELOW is both ends.  If only we had a better way to get the far side."
      },
      {
        "name": "GRAY DAWN vs. NOBLE HORIZON testing",
        "id": "lab_file_clairsentience_04",
        "text": "In the interests of testing Dr. Al-Masri's hypothesis, we assembled a group of NOBLE HORIZON and GRAY DAWN mathematicians and had them both attempt to conduct a simple number guessing game.  Melchior provided a six-digit number and both teams attempted to guess it.  GRAY DAWN were competitive when the number was overseen by a third party, as expected, but when both teams were provided with a terminal interface and instructed to enter their guesses, GRAY DAWN scored no better than chance.  On the other hand, NOBLE HORIZON consistently managed to guess at least three digits and successfully guessed the entire six-digit sequence twice (out of ten total sequences).  This disparity was maintained when both groups were placed in empty rooms, instructed to write down their guesses on a sheet of paper, and place it into a box before leaving the room.  Finally, NOBLE HORIZON attained a better than chance score on the final test, when both groups were instructed to guess the sequence before Melchior was asked to provide a sequence.\n\nThis leads to two conclusions.  The first is that the alarmists are wrong; Melchior is not secretly harboring a genius intellect and plotting to control XEDRA from within, it is a computer, capable of processing vast amounts of data and using netherum mathematics to process that data much faster than would otherwise be possible.  The second is that while GRAY DAWN requires a specific source from which to attain new information, NOBLE HORIZON does not.  Even in situations where no information transfer would be possible, such as the final two testing scenarios, NOBLE HORIZON still had a better-than-chance rate of correctly determining the sequence."
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "snippet",
    "category": "lab_file_telekinesis",
    "//": "Phavian designation for telekinetic study is JUNIPER GOLD.  Phavian designation for telekinetic study for use in combat is ONYX LIGHTNING",
    "text": [
      {
        "name": "It's all just motion",
        "id": "lab_file_telekinesis_01",
        "text": "Why is there a distinction between pyrokinesis and telekinesis at all?  Fire isn't a fundamental element, it's the result of heat which is the result of molecular motion.  There's no conceptual reason why a pyrokinetic couldn't make all the molecules of an object move in a particular direction, producing motion of the entire object, or a telekinetic couldn't produce a more chaotic motion that resulted in the object's energy increasing.  Furthermore, in no test has a telekinetic been able to move part of an object unless that part is designed for motion; pulling a lever is possible, but breaking a plate in half is not.  And a pyrokinetic cannot apply the reverse and slow down an object's molecules to reduce heat unless that object is on fire.\n\nMy theory is that it's all psychological.  We've all grown up with modern culture and stories about what psychics are \"supposed\" to be capable of, and so the matrix crystals and Netherum mathematics shape the candidates' abilities toward those pre-determined pathways.  If we could get a SMOKE USHER mathematician from an uncontacted tribe, maybe they'd be able to induce diseases in their targets or steal their soul, in accordance with that tribe's beliefs and practices about supernatural powers.  But since our candidates come from a culture where pyrokinesis and telekinesis are separate things and geokinesis or osteokinesis are very rare to nonexistant in fiction, the former result from awakenings and the latter do not.\n\nI would like to formally request a wider variety of cultural backgrounds for our project candidates to test this theory."
      },
      {
        "name": "re: the Third",
        "id": "lab_file_telekinesis_02",
        "text": "Sarah,\nI read your email and you're right--it's not a law anymore if we have such an easily-demonstrable counterexample.  \"Newton's Third Conjecture\" doesn't have the same ring to it but seems more accurate.  We've done a lot of experiments to find some sort of consequences for the TKs and so far there's nothing other than the standard metabolic cost.  Netherum mathematics is work, but the mechanism of the force is unclear.  We've already tried both a scale and water displacement and neither of them showed any measurable counterforce.  That leaves a few possibilities:/n1)There is no counterforce.  That breaks classical mechanics in half but frankly we're already at that point anyway.\n2)The counterforce is exerted elsewhere, such as the Netherum.  This is basically just handwavium, \"well, we can't see it but it must be out there.\"  Must it?  Plus then the counterforce isn't actually acting on the origin point anyway unless you buy Dr. Ho's ridiculous \"The soul is a Nether construct\" theory.\n3)The counterforce applies in some way we aren't looking for, like, I don't know, DNA damage or other microscopic-level areas.  We already had comprehensive checkups and didn't find anything, but we're not entirely sure what we're looking for.\n\n\"we're not entirely sure what we're looking for\" is basically the theme of this whole project, honestly.  It's amazing we've discovered as much as we have.\n\n-Neha"
      },
      {
        "name": "testing report B8-9123",
        "id": "lab_file_telekinesis_03",
        "text": ".00: No penetration\n9mm: No penetration\n10mm: No penetration\n.357: No penetration\n.22: No penetration\n.308: No penetration\n.30-06: No penetration\n.50: Mathematician refused to continue with experiment despite repeated entreaties from supervisors."
      },
      {
        "name": "testing report I4-7707",
        "id": "lab_file_telekinesis_04",
        "text": "Dr. Richardson,\nPer request, we assessed the ability of three JUNIPER GOLD mathematicians to affect very small masses.  Subjects were ordered to look into a microscope at water flora, then at bacterial samples, and then at images from electron microscopes.  While it makes intuitive sense that larger masses would require more effort and control to manipulate through telekinesis, its actual behavior does not always follow logical constraints--see the way that barrier react to external forces.  In this experiment, we found that manipulating water flora was possible but bacterial samples and electron microscopes both failed.  Our initial hypothesis was that direct observation was required, but the bacterial test provided that is not sufficient to explain JUNIPER GOLD's limitations.  It is currently unclear if this is a psychological limitation or something inherent to to JUNIPER GOLD.  Further testing with a wider variety of mathematicians is required.\nMadeline Robbins\nResearcher"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "snippet",
    "category": "lab_file_telepathy",
    "//": "Phavian designation for telepathic study is GRAY DAWN.",
    "text": [
      {
        "name": "testing report C3-6204",
        "id": "lab_file_telepathy_01",
        "text": "Subject is female, of East Asian descent, age 35 years.  In good health.\n\nInitial test using standard deck of playing cards.  Subject and experimenter facing away from each other, with opaque curtain blocking line of sight.  Prompt was triggered by a light on subject's desk to prevent drawing any information from experimenter's tone of voice or word choice.  Experimenter drew ten cards and asked subject to state number and suit.  Cards are shuffled back into the deck after each guess to prevent already-drawn cards from affecting future guesses.\n\nResults: Subject guessed two of ten correct on the first test and three of ten correct on the second test, versus control who guessed a single card correct on the first test and zero correct on the second test.  Very promising initial results."
      },
      {
        "name": "incident report: 897237",
        "id": "lab_file_telepathy_02",
        "text": "During a routine visit by Dr. Davies, at 1134 a COLD BELOW mathematician diverted from their standard schedule and entered the room where Dr. Davies was being briefed about netherum mathematics developments.  The mathematician stared at Dr. Davies for approximately three seconds and then, before security could intervene, physically attacked the doctor with their bare hands.  Witnesses report the mathematician incoherently screaming, mixed with statements such as \"You'll kill us all\" and \"Stop, stop stop\".  The mathematician continued to scream until restrained and sedated.\n\nFollow-up: COLD BELOW overseers received official reprimand and required to attend additional training.  Mathematician diverted to project SUBSTRATE."
      },
      {
        "name": "AAR ID# T38-11",
        "id": "lab_file_telepathy_03",
        "text": "I don't know if an AAR is the best way to write this but I couldn't find anything else in the procedures that fit.  I want to be reassigned.  I went through GRAY DAWN two weeks ago and back home I can occasionally pick up a sentence or two but when we went through to T38-11 it was like everyone's brain was projected onto their forehead.  Mostly fine, I went through the exercises and managed to block it out, but it didn't work for Gallagher.  I don't know how he functions with what's going through his brain.  And not just the sex stuff, fine, whatever, but that he would get enraged whenever something would go wrong.  Carvalho came back from scouting and said he didn't find anything and Gallagher literally immediately thought about just shooting him and leaving him there!  \"Fucking worthless\" was the least-offensive thing Gallagher thought about him.  I know he's calm and professional on the surface but there's something wrong with him and one day he's going to snap.  I don't want to be there when he does."
      },
      {
        "name": "Project DRIVING MIST (update)",
        "id": "lab_file_telepathy_04",
        "text": "We've been trying to find the medium that telepathy works by and have come up empty.  It works, it's replicable, that means it's amenable to the scientific method, right?  Okay.  It's not affected by gravity.  It's not affected by the atmosphere, since people in sealed rooms or environment suits can still communicate with others.  It's not affected by physical barriers, neither lead not steel nor a tinfoil hat.  It's not affected by light lag, either, so we finally have proof that FTL is possible at least for some things.  We've tried to send messages into the past but so far no luck--maybe we don't have a large enough distance between receivers?  Without an amplifier the range is still very short, so we can't do a two-way test.  We put the data into Melchior and didn't get any conclusive reply.\n\nI'll report back in two weeks as scheduled.  I refuse to throw up my hands and say \"It's magic, who knows how it works?\"  If it affects the physical world it must obey some set of physical laws."
      },
      {
        "name": "testing report N2-7394",
        "id": "lab_file_telepathy_05",
        "text": "1) Subject native Arabic speaker.  Asked to think of word sequence in English.  Mathematician successfully determined sequence word.  Asked to think of word sequence in Arabic, mathematician unable to determine word boundaries and isolate words.\n2) Subject native English speaker.  Asked to attempt to think of Chinese poem (phonetic transcription provided).  Mathematician able to isolate word on second attempt.\n3) Subject native English speaker.  Asked to think of word randomly-generated using English phonemes.  Mathematician able to isolate word on second attempt.\n4) Subject native French speaker; also fluent in German, English, and Italian with some ability in Romanian, Latin, and Russian.  Asked to think of a word sequence in Russian.  Mathematician unable to isolate sequence word despite six attempts.\n6) Subject native Yiddish speaker.  Asked to think of word in German, which the subject did not speak.  Mathematician able to isolate word on third attempt.\n7) Subject native English speaker.  Asked to think of word sequence in Sindarian, the invented language from \"The Lord of the Rings\".  Mathematician unable to isolate word despite six attempts.\n\nUnfortunately, a deficit of mathematicians who lack English fluency limits the range of our experiments.  Nonetheless, the results are consistent with there being no universal language of thought."
      },
      {
        "name": "OS812 Report",
        "id": "lab_file_telepathy_06",
        "text": "One of the major problems with GRAY DAWN study so far is the need for either line-of-sight or extreme proximity (generally within 2 meters, though certain mathematicians have a range of up to 4 meters), limiting its value in most real-world applications.  We can hardly use GRAY DAWN for long-term communications if 4 meters is the maximum range of effective communication.  However, I am pleased to report that OS812 is successful far beyond our initial expectations.  While the construction requirements are extremely expensive, including, among other things, three active matrix crystals, but it increases the range for GRAY DAWN communication up to several kilometers.  While this is still obviously too short to use for most practical purposes, it represents a very promising breakthrough over previous range limitations."
      },
      {
        "name": "Handwritten notes on lined paper",
        "id": "lab_file_telepathy_07",
        "text": "I know this isn't part of my report but I have to write it down somewhere.  People are getting weird.  They teach us to block out stray thoughts and I used to have no trouble with it, but even since the lockdown and the news about the outbreak it's gotten so hard that I can't always do it.  Sometimes it leaks through, and lately it's all bad.  I came around a corner into a group of researchers yesterday and accidentally knocked into one.  She didn't even drop the coffee she was carrying, but just for a moment I caught her thinking about ripping my throat out with her bare hands!  She snapped out a \"Watch it!\" and kept going without even giving me time to apologize, but her mind…  And when Dr. Chen was arguing with his assistent earlier this morning, both of them thought about shooting each other.  The assistant even thought about going on a mass shooting afterwards!  I'm no therapist but I don't think this is just us being cooped up in here.  Something is really wrong."
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "snippet",
    "category": "lab_file_teleportation",
    "//": "Phavian designation for teleportation study is LOST RAIN",
    "text": [
      {
        "name": "On Time Travel",
        "id": "lab_file_teleportation_01",
        "text": "Let's start with the obvious.  Teleportation is moving faster than light, by definition.  Even though our most powerful mathematicians can currently only teleport a few grams a few meters distant, we've used slow-motion photography and confirmed that while the transit is not instantaneous, it's still faster than c.  So, as the saying goes, relativity, causality, faster than light travel, pick two, right?  Which are we going to pick?\n\nWell, as much as it pains me as a physicist to say it, relativity, at least as it relates in this case.  Now we have a third domain alongside quantum mechanics and general relativity: netherum mathematics.  While I hesitate to speculate on something that we have collected so little data on, it is possible that the Netherum provides its own reference frame coterminous with our own (or multiple) realities.  If we built our satellites with matrix technology, would they still need to account for time dilation?  Would relativity override netherum mathematics in that case?\n\nBut to return to the title: there is no evidence time travel is possible despite repeated attempts.  Perhaps if we had a LOST RAIN mathematician capable of moving interstellar distances we could ask them to come back before they left.  Barring that, I'm afraid asking LOST RAIN to retroactively avert any disasters is not on the table."
      },
      {
        "name": "COBALT RAIN progress report",
        "id": "lab_file_teleportation_02",
        "text": "Alright, so should I even be working on this?  The world is ending, we're on lockdown, and I'm pretty sure some of my coworkers have lost their minds.  I should be looking for ways to get out of here, right?  But hell, I've always buried myself in my work in a crisis and this sure is one of those.  So my report is that ever since we detected the spread of XE037, COBALT RAIN has been running at…well, it's a perpetual motion machine so I can't exactly talk about \"increased efficiency\" but it's been putting out even more power than it was a month ago.  On the order of 3x more.  Maybe all that nonsense about the fabric of space expanding or whatever was right?  I regret to inform you that it's still occasionally popping out monsters, though fortunately the only thing I had to deal with so far has been those blobs and I set up an isolation chamber for COBALT RAIN to run in.  It's keeping the lights on down here, so there's that.  If I can just fix that one flaw, we'll see set.  Too bad my assistant is out trying to figure out how to jump floor to floor so they don't have to use the stairs anymore."
      },
      {
        "name": "testing report I4-9469",
        "id": "lab_file_teleportation_03",
        "text": "Testing began with an area two meters square, marked on the floor by electrical tape.  A robot set to travel at a constant speed of 0.1 m/s, verified before the experiment began, was set on one side of the testing area before LOST RAIN mathematician D85 used his abilities on the area.  The robot traversed the space in 16 seconds, verified by both its internal measuring software and external measurements.  We repeated the experiment with a request to extend the relative distance, causing the robot to take 25 seconds to traverse the space.  It is currently unclear whether the disparity in relative distance change is a property of LOST RAIN itself or of D85's abilities.\n\nThe only difficulty was caused when Dr. Caldwell crossed through the marked space before D85 had ceased maintaining the disortion and almost immediately collapsed.  She was rushed to the infirmary but in the end was discharged after tests showed that she had fainted but suffered no lasting damage.  Dr. Caldwell explained she had experienced severe vertigo on entering the area, possibly caused by an defect in proprioception caused by actual distance being different than perceived distance.  I have submitted a proposal to further test this characteristic of LOST RAIN--see attached."
      },
      {
        "name": "testing report B4-2567",
        "id": "lab_file_teleportation_04",
        "text": "Attempt 1: Move pencil at least 400 cm: Successful\nAttempt 2: Move pencil at least 2 m: Failed\nAttempt 3: Move pencil inside sealed, clear plastic bag to outside the bag: Successful\nAttempt 4: Move pencil inside sealed, opaque plastic bag outside the bag: Failed\nAttempt 5: Move eraser without moving the rest of the pencil: Failed\nAttempt 6: Rotate pencil during transit of at least 400 cm so that eraser previously facing the door is now facing away from the door: Successful\nAttempt 7: Move pencil 400 cm into pencil sharpener: Successful\nAttempt 8: Move pencil at least 400 cm into bucket of water: Successful\nAttempt 9: Move pencil at least 400 cm into block of ice: Failed\nAttempt 10: Move stationary pencil 400 cm so that it arrives at destination with upward velocity: Failed\nAttempt 11: Preserve velocity of falling pencil after moving it at least 400 cm: Successful\nAttempt 12: Move pencil gripped firmly in hand at least 400 cm: Successful"
      },
      {
        "name": "It's alive!  IT'S ALIVE!",
        "id": "lab_file_teleportation_05",
        "text": "Like we won't be for much longer.\n\nNews outside is a nightmare.  I saw some phone video of a giant monster destroying LA before the net went down.  There's no way I'll be able to report this to Dr. Liu, but I finally made a breakthrough.  Or maybe I should say, a breakthrough was made, because I sure as hell didn't do anything to cause it.  I went to go test QN283 today and it just worked.  I didn't change anything, I didn't make any adjustments, I just turned on the remote and the payload vanished and reappeared near the beacon just like it was supposed to.  Is this because of the end of the world?  I can hear gunfire and shouting in the distance and there's nowhere to run because we're been on lockdown for weeks but I invent functional teleportation, one of the greatest discoveries in human history?  Great.\n\nIf I only had gotten C78 to sneak a beacon outside before lockdown.  If she can get out of here with her powers, maybe I can still escape."
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "snippet",
    "category": "lab_file_vitakinesis",
    "//": "Phavian designation for vitakinetic study is SMOKE USHER",
    "text": [
      {
        "name": "SMOKE USHER anti-agapic properties (revised estimate)",
        "id": "lab_file_vitakinesis_01",
        "text": "Initial estimates of successful SMOKE USHER mathematicians showed increased vitality and vigor.  Testing post-awakening showed the oldest mathematician--Doreen McHugh, age 62--underwent a complete secession of her previously-diagnosed (at age 35) rheumatoid arthritis.  She is now capable of running a mile with a time of 7:12 despite minimal training, well below the average for a trained woman in her age group.  She expresses increased well-being and vitality, going for walks in the facility exercise area when before recruitment she was mostly homebound.  Furthermore, her grip strength, blood oxygen level, skin appearance, calcium levels, and muscle mass are more consistent with a woman decades younger, and most convincingly to me, the roots of her hair are coming in black instead of gray and just last week, she sent an urgent request for menstruation products for personal use.\n\nWe'll have to revise our estimates way up.  I originally thought that SMOKE USHER would provide health and vigor but the benefits would be modest, maybe 20% increased lifespan with a corresponding increase in healthy years.  Hey, living to 100 regularly would still be great, right?  But SMOKE USHER mathematicians literally getting younger means I have to throw all the initial estimates out the window.  Is SMOKE USHER the fountain of youth?  I know that sounds ridiculous but you can read the test data for yourself."
      },
      {
        "name": "Compound XV471 update",
        "//": "This is a refernce to Panaceus testing",
        "id": "lab_file_vitakinesis_02",
        "text": "Application of matrix technology and XE037 samples together with cutting-edge medical advances blah blah you know the drill.  Anyway, we sourced the samples, we synthesized the compound, we did the tests.  It's magic.  I know that sounds dumb but it's literally magic.  Animal testing showed complete remission of every cancer they developed.  \"Alright, Eric,\" you say, \"that's fine but cancer testing in animals is b̵u̵l̵l̵s̵h̵i̵t̵\"clinically irrelevant due to to high real-world failure rates in humans\".  Sure, yes, you're right.  But we sourced some enthusiastic voluntolds from XEDRA-12's stock and a couple of them had cancer they were planning on testing XE037 interactions with.  Well they aren't going to anymore because XV471 cleaned them right up.  Totally healthy.  Zero cancer.\n\nSubject B84 had cystic fibrosis and it's gone.  GONE.  Perfectly normal lungs.  Now what's that other than magic?\n\nYou want to get more funding for this, just authorize selling XV471 to some sick Russian oligarch for like $10 billion.  He gets cured and the money keeps flowing.  And honestly it needs to be that expensive with how much this stuff costs to produce.  We get the materials and process them and nine times out of ten it's just a sugar pill for no damn reason I can find.  But that tenth time, wow.\n\nShred this after you read it.  I don't need the director lecturing me about professionalism again."
      },
      {
        "name": "Treatment time until complete recovery",
        "id": "lab_file_vitakinesis_03",
        "text": "Common cold: 34 hours\n\nInfluenza: 27 hours\n\nMononucleosis: 85 hours\n\nNorovirus: 26 hours\n\nGonorrhea: 43 hours\n\nHepatitis C: 71 hours\n\nHIV: 148 hours\n\nMalaria: 112 hours\n\nSmallpox: 76 hours\n\nEbola: 93 hours"
      },
      {
        "name": "Zombie Revivification",
        "id": "lab_file_vitakinesis_04",
        "text": "Gentlemen, can we cure death?\n\nSorry, I had to.  Anyway, the answer is no.  We had multiple SMOKE USHER mathematicians try everything they could against a properly-restrained zombie and no luck.  The furthest we got was D93 managed to discover some way to kill zombies faster; her attempt to restart the normal biological processes caused accelerated decay and resulted in the zombie returning to an inert state after approximately thirty minutes from initial contact.  Subsequent revivication was delayed for an additional six hours.\n\nFurther testing on lab rats indicate that this ability functions on living subject as well.  I plan to start human testing once the lockdown ends and I can acquire suitable volunteers."
      }
    ]
  },
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    "type": "snippet",
    "category": "lab_file_OS647_P",
    "text": [
      {
        "name": "OS647-P Response",
        "id": "lab_file_item_OS647_P_01",
        "text": "Dr. Zweidler, I understand your excitement at your breakthroughs in matrix technology, but I hope you understand there is no way I can approve OS647-P for general usage.  You write here that the effect field has a \"94% effectiveness rate\" but this is not comparable to ballistic performance standards because it has no ablative properties.  What if the first shot fired is part of that 6%?  How can an operative trust their life to your device when every possible shot might be the one to penetrate?  That fact that your data shows it provides complete protection against rifle rounds, grenades, and even anti-tank weapons is immaterial in the face of the effect field's failure rate.\n\nSecond, you write that currently OS647-P has a 2.67% device failure rate, over and above the chance of the effect field failing!  You want me to recommend this for general usage when our field operatives could end up not only with a bullet in the chest, but also a box full of burnt plastic while some horror is charging at them on an immersion dive?n\nFurthermore, the active time is simply unacceptable.  Ballistic protection works because it provides passive protection with no additional effort necessary.  When in danger, an operative would need to insert the matrix crystal, flip the toggle, and then hope that the attack occurs within the \"5.65 second median protection time\" in order to gain any benefit at all!  You've read those immersion dive reports too, Matthew.  If an operative is face to face with XE157, what happens on the sixth second?\n\nI'll be frank with you.  I'm amazed that you asked me to approve this given its current device specs.  Matrix crystals--even depleted ones--are extremely valuable, and given their already unacceptably-high failure rate in training new mathematicians, Dr. Liu is not going to accept anything less than 100% effectiveness from an alternative use case.  You're simply going to have to refine OS647-P until it's more reliable.\n\nYours,\nAnna Stephenson\nDirector of Research"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "snippet",
    "category": "lab_file_matrix_research",
    "text": [
      {
        "name": "Response to Proposal 96255-R",
        "id": "lab_file_matrix_research_01",
        "text": "Yes, I saw your design specs for the \"Everglow Lamp\" and I understand that it provides a greatly-increased efficiency over standard off-the-shelf lighting.  But may I remind you that off-the-shelf lighting literally comes from a shelf and you can go down to the hardware store and buy a dozen LED bulbs for $50 and they'll last you ten years.  There is no use case for a matrix-powered lightbulb that makes any sort of sense, even in hostile or in-phase environments.  Until you can achieve a similar cost-benefit ratio using matrix technology--check the budget for a single immersion dive if you need the data--I strongly advise you to take your research in a different direction.\n\nYours,\nAnna Stephenson\nDirector of Research"
      },
      {
        "name": "Preliminary report: OBSIDIAN RING",
        "id": "lab_file_matrix_research_02",
        "text": "Dr. Richardson,\nAs you directed, we've been attempting to find a way to increase the strength of mathematicians' powers without having to send them on an immersion and we've made a breakthrough.  With some caveats, I'm afraid.\n\nWe put five volunteers through the OBSIDIAN RING process and achieved complete success with two of them.  LOST RAIN mathematician U23, previously capable of expanding or contracting the effective volume of a space up to two meters across by 15%, is now capable of displacing his entire body up to two-thirds of a meter, effectively allowing him to walk through walls.  CRYPTIC FORGE mathematician V97 displayed similar enhancements, suffering no ill effects when exposed to up to 4 Gy of radiation.\n\nUnfortunately, the process is imperfect.  While B54 underwent the process with no apparent effects, BURNT NOVEMBER mathematician E43 has suffered from persistent tremors and muscle weakness since emerging and NOBLE HORIZON mathematician Q12 is currently on leave after suffering from hallucinatory psychosis.  Both candidates are undergoing SMOKE USHER treatment and hopefully will recover soon.\n\nwhile matrix crystals are a rare resource, the sheer amount of additional power available to an OBSIDIAN RING candidate makes the resource expenditure worthwhile.  ONYX LIGHTNING may soon show real progress.\nAlexandra da Silva\nLead Researcher, OBSIDIAN RING"
      },
      {
        "name": "Preliminary Report: Matrix Awakening",
        "id": "lab_file_matrix_research_03",
        "text": "Initial testing shows that the rate of awakening from matrix crystal exposure is over 50% with no side effects.  Candidates that failed to awaken complained of headaches and bad dreams but the effects rarely last longer than a week (see fig 4).  In approximately 5% of cases, however, awakening causes serious side effects including hallucinations, high fever exceeding 39.5°C, muscle tremors, unconsciousness, disassociation, and amnesia.  This can occur in either successful or unsuccessful awakening and is a serious danger in certain cases (e.g. incident reports ID39483 and IC49378).\n\nMultiple awakenings are not cost-effective.  Despite a wide range of candidates and repeated attempts, only two incidents have ever occurred and no specific commonality between the mathematicians other than gender exist.  No further attempts should be made until a similar effectiveness to initial awakenings has been achieved.\n\nIn-phase awakenings show variable efficacy, sometimes much lower or much higher than normal.  Efficacy is in general consistent within each plane, though some planes show variable efficacy.  Plane 398RG shows 99% efficacy; however, side effects rise to 35% of cases and so further experimentation with 398RG is prohibited.  Melchior has so far been unable to find any specific characteristics of a plane that would lead to greater or lesser efficacy.  Further testing and sampling are required."
      },
      {
        "name": "LV-429 Analysis",
        "id": "lab_file_matrix_research_04",
        "text": "Human-portable laser weapons suffer from three major problems--high power draw preventing them from easily being transportable or usable in skirmish combat, long dwell times meaning that the operator must remain exposed to return fire in order to do anything more than blind the target, and common atmospheric conditions like dust or haze severely reducing the effectiveness of the beam.  The LV-429 solves all three of these problems.  Before the primary laser is fired, a secondary netherum mathemathical beam clears the path of the laser, removing atmospheric contaminants without affecting the target.  The laser is fired in a series of short pulses, each much higher intensity than a standard laser, eliminating the need for extensive dwell time.  Finally, the power source contains a small ND-cell, capable of powering the weapon effectively indefinitely.\n\nOne problem remains to be solved.  While the weapon is capable of providing enough power for every shot in succession, matrix technology has not yet provided us with more efficient battery storage.  This means that the ND-cell must charge existing batteries, allowing the LV-429 to be fired only once every few seconds, obviously too low a rate of fire for any live engagement.  An attempt to overcome this limitation by including processed matrix crystals for additional energy production led to unacceptable heat levels, rendering the weapon unusable after less than a minute of sustained fire and, in one case, leading to the detonation of the prototype and the death of the tester.  Further enhancements in power storage technology will be necessary before proper deployment."
      },
      {
        "name": "XE037 or whatever",
        "id": "lab_file_matrix_research_05",
        "text": "Yeah, we did the research.  We're all stuck here so what else can we do, right?  Just research our heart out while the world falls apart.  Well, I've attached all the figures so you can look at them, but the theory is right.  XE037 enhances exposed mathematicians (aka all of them) by a factor of anywhere from 10x to 100x or more, basically as much as using a matrix crystal.  Meshram used to be able to lift around 18.5g, one of our strongest telekinetics.  Now he's up to 2kg and with a crystal he can lift two bowling balls.  Or a dog, that was hilarious.\n\nSubject U76 could pick up surface thoughts if touching the target and now can easily read someone's mind from across the room and can occasionally pick up deeper memories.  We figured this out by accident, by the way, and I'm pretty sure when we get out of here Dr. Connolly is going to find divorce papers waiting for her.  You'll probably want to keep U76 away from anything sensitive, except that we only just discovered this and now it's too late.  Oops.\n\nOh yeah, K34 can just walk through walls now.  So much for security.  Everything's fucked and we're doomed.  That's my report, hope you like it."
      },
      {
        "name": "Re: COBALT RAIN",
        "id": "lab_file_matrix_research_06",
        "//": "XE843 here is a Gracken",
        "text": "As my initial report indicated, COBALT RAIN has passed all the tests we've performed.  In fact, it exceeded our production predictions by over 15%.  It's not actually a perpetual motion machine but it might as well be from the end-user's point of view.  It produces energy with no fuel required, at a constant rate, with no waste byproducts and very little heat.\n\nHowever--there's always a however in this line of work--it has the significant disadvantage that prevents me from recommending it for deployment at this time.  COBALT RAIN works through a microportal to the Netherum, siphoning energy through without the possibility of hostile incursions.  During normal operation, this remains true, but if the device is damaged it can destabilize containment and the portal can rapidly expand without warning.  Just last week we had an incident during testing, and while the engineers were able to get the device shut down quickly, something still came through the portal.  We're lucky that it doesn't seem hostile or really even interested in us.  Despite its appearance (see attached), XE843 is indifferent to the presence or absence of others, light levels, food, or noise.  It just wanders around its containment cell.  We've contacted XEDRA-40 to ask them if they want to take a look at it.  I'll forward the reply to you when we get it.\n\nWork to overcome this significant drawback is ongoing.  At the moment, however, COBALT RAIN should remain in the prototype stage.\n\nAnita Morales\nSenior Researcher"
      },
      {
        "name": "Matrix mechanics testing report",
        "id": "lab_file_matrix_research_07",
        "text": "As requested, we conducted multiple tests using various matrix crystals to determine the precise effect on mathematician capabilities.  The first test subject was V72, representing JUNIPER GOLD.  In previous capability testing, V72 was capable of lifting 10.23g and holding it steady for at least 300 seconds, as well as consistently being able to reduce their acceleration when free-falling to 9.32 m/s².  When holding a charged matrix crystal, the effect was nothing short of astonishing--the mass limit on lifting increased to 2.43 kg and the acceleration when free-falling dropped to 7.17 m/s².\n\nBURNT NOVEMBER Subject Q51 displayed a resting heart rate of 65 bpm, a grip strength of 30 kg, and a 8:31 mile time.  When holding a charged matrix crystal, these improved to 55 bpm, a grip strength of 41 kg, and a 5:45 mile time.\n\nThe evidence shows that skin contact with a charged matrix crystal dramatically improves mathematician capabilities, up to several hundred times depending on their exact capabilities.  While matrix crystals are always in short supply, some of them should definitely be earmarked for usage by our most capable mathematicians."
      }
    ]
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    "type": "snippet",
    "category": "lab_file_phavian_memo",
    "text": [
      {
        "name": "To all employees: re: GASPAR",
        "id": "lab_file_phavian_memo_01",
        "text": "Colleagues,\n\nI'd like to take a moment to address the recent rumors.  I know that stress levels are high with the quarantine and the XE037 news, but there is no need to engage in unwarranted speculation.  In these unprecedented times, it's important to remember that we're all in this together and we will solve the problems before us, as we have so many others.\n\nI will be perfectly clear.  There is no \"Project GASPAR.\"  Trained mathematicians are the most important resource that we have, and it would be the height of folly to waste them on replicating a resource that already exists simply because the current state of emergency has placed us out of contact.  Furthermore, it is important to remember that Netherum mathematics are not magic.  They obey a consistent set of rules and we are capable of determining those rules empirically.  We can test how much a JUNIPER GOLD mathematician can lift to the milligram.  We can determine the effective communication range for a GRAY DAWN candidate down to the decimeter.  We would never simply \"throw things at the wall and see what sticks.\"  Science requires rigor.\n\nThese are troubling times, but we will get through them together.\n\nSincerely,\nHarold Liu\nDirector, Project PHAVIAN"
      },
      {
        "name": "To all employees: re: terminology",
        "id": "lab_file_phavian_memo_02",
        "text": "Greetings everyone,\n\nI would just like to take a moment to comment on the importance of proper nomenclature.  Just as we would respect the names and pronouns by which our co-workers wish to be addressed, we should use the approved terms for candidates for the various projects under our umbrella.  Some frankly disturbing news has reached me of harassment or even bullying aimed at those who have gone through the training process.  These people are not \"witches\" and they are most certainly not \"freaks,\" and I am frankly disturbed that I have to emphasize that point.  These are your colleagues who have volunteered to advance scientific understanding as we explore the unknown.  There is no reason standard HR policies do not still apply.  I have already received several complaints which I will be acting on in the near future, and hopefully I will not receive any more.\n\nSincerely,\nRosemary Pierce\nAdministrator, Human Resources"
      },
      {
        "name": "Re: your proposal",
        "id": "lab_file_phavian_memo_03",
        "text": "Anna, I know things are stressful, especially with some of the irregularities in staff behavior we've been witnessing, and under normal circumstances I would never countenance your proposal.  I have to admit, though, that I was extremely disturbed by what I've heard of the behavior of several VERDANT HAND mathematicians, as well as Dr. Holland and Dr. Almeida's recent public argument.  As such, for the duration of the emergency, I think that your \"psi-cop\" proposal is a good one.  I'll draft a memo immediately to Dr. Nayak to organize the GREY DAWN mathematicians toward keeping order and maintaining morale.  Hopefully, this will only be the matter of a few weeks before Dr. Sidhu and his team can find a solution.  They already found one way to remove XE037 contamination, so hope remains.\n\nSincerely,\nHarold Liu"
      },
      {
        "name": "Introductory materials",
        "id": "lab_file_phavian_memo_04",
        "text": "Colleague,\n\nGreetings.  You have selected, or have been selected, to participate in XEDRA-23, or as we call it, Project PHAVIAN.  As a member of XEDRA, you will already have seen many extraordinary things in the course of your work, things which you previously might have scoffed at or dismissed out of hand.  You will see more extraordinary things in the course of your work here, things that even those at other XEDRA divisions would have thought impossible a few years ago.  Phase experiments expand the range of human exploration, but matrix technology unlocks human potential to a degree never before seen.  You will be a part of that endeavor, advancing human knowledge and ensuring the United States of America's place at the forefront of scientific advancement throughout the 21st century.\n\nThere is an ancient proverb that is often translated as \"A single spark can start a prairie fire.\"  Our work here will be the light that will lead humanity into a new age.  I look forward to working with you.\n\nHarold Liu\nDirector, Project PHAVIAN"
      },
      {
        "name": "Something is seriously wrong",
        "id": "lab_file_phavian_memo_05",
        "text": "Dr. Liu,\nSorry for the inflammatory title but, well, something is seriously wrong.  The LOST RAIN mathematicians are universally reporting that something strange is happening to space itself.  You've seen the testing data about them being able to change effective distance between two points and they're reporting that ALL distances are being affected to a very small degree.  I don't know if this has anything to do with the erratic behavior from the staff or XE037 contamination but coupled with all the BURNT NOVEMBER reports of impending doom, plus all the news filtering from the outside, I think we need to prepare for the worst.\n\nJohn Goldberg\nResearcher"
      }
    ]
  },
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    "type": "snippet",
    "category": "lab_file_phavian_private",
    "text": [
      {
        "name": "Hastily-scribbled note on XEDRA stationary",
        "id": "lab_file_phavian_private_01",
        "//": "Hank here is Dr. Harold Liu, the director of Project PHAVIAN",
        "text": "Dammit, Hank, what the hell is wrong with these researchers?  Matrix-powered lamp, matrix-powered car, matrix-powered oven, next they'll want a matrix-powered vibrator.  Do they even understand how expensive a single matrix crystal is?  I keep trying to get them to work on something new and they bring me this.  We need force fields, jetpacks, laser guns, lightsabers, starships, I don't know, something!  It's all I can do to stop them from trying to make us the Amazon of XEDRA.  Do the XE037 researchers have this problem?"
      },
      {
        "name": "OSHA violations",
        "id": "lab_file_phavian_private_02",
        "//": "Hank here is Dr. Harold Liu, the director of Project PHAVIAN",
        "text": "Mo,\nI know you're worried about maintaining secrecy what with the NOBLE HORIZON/GRAY DAWN research locations, but I assure you that it's fine.  We need them higher-up to test for line-of-sight-based range anyway, and we don't have all the problems that XEDRA-12 has with maintaining secrecy.  If some normie somehow gets past security and wanders in, they're just going to see an ordinary office with maybe a few weird room layouts, there aren't going to be wolfmen wandering the halls.  The mathematicians are just people, and if some of them are creepy, we've ALL worked with the creepy guy before.  If it were really that serious of a concern, we'd be underground like the LOST RAIN guys.  And with a bunch of clears here, we'll get warning hours or days before anything goes wrong.\n\nAnd besides, look at the advantages!  There's a gym and a bar on the ground floor.  Drinks with Priya and Ishaan on Friday?  I've already checked the menu and I know there'll be something there for you.\nSridhar"
      },
      {
        "name": "We're getting out of here",
        "id": "lab_file_phavian_private_03",
        "text": "Jen\nI know we're in lockdown but it's obvious we're doomed.  Word gets out, right?  You heard about Dr. Greene and Dr. Summers?  It's only going to get worse.  I talked to K̶3̶4̶  Erica about it and she's positive she can take someone else with her on one of her little trips.  It's not that far to the surface, right?  You with me?\nAlex"
      }
    ]
  }
]
