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Prototype #17: Carrion Glass

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Report #EC9CA0EBA6AC

Alternate Forms of Memory Transfer, Prototype #17: Carrion Glass

 

Target: A method of extracting and retrieving a subject’s memories in a form that can be easily reintroduced to a target subject, ideally with ability to differentiate between individual memories.

Current Status:

  • Finalization of extraction procedure completed (Report #723487).
  • Analysis of fragment composition completed (Report #832393).
    • Analysis of human-visible images in shards detailed in Section 4C. Other spectrum analyses appended to Section 4, pending review.
    • Likely correlation between subject’s years of life and mass of glass explored in Section 6.
  • Initial tests on non-human subjects completed (Report #334234).
    • Report divided into sections by size of primary test subjects (rat-to-tiger; tiger-to-voidmoth).
    • Final section contains cross-size and -biosphere experimentation (e.g., aquatic and terrestrial subjects).
  • Subsequent non-human cross-species tests ongoing (Reports #234234-232297).
  • Test on human subjects beginning shortly.

 

(See Report Series #211323 for underlying proofs explicating how this method should translate to use on revenants.)

 

Goals and Objectives:

Determine extent of effects of acquiring another subject’s memories after ingestion of various percentages of carrion glass. (Ingestion still only reliable method of administration found so far.)

  1. Does target subject have access to material subject’s knowledge and manner of thinking? [S-147 | H-321 | A-712]
  2. Does target subject acquire material subject’s remembered thoughts and impressions as part of memory acquisition? [H-910, F-121, K-231]
  3. How does order of ingestion affect target’s understanding, integration, and processing of material’s memories? [F-921, H-219, N-654]
  4. What senses are involved in process of memory integration? Is it similar to ‘viewing’ events or is the experience immersive? [V-434, F-233, U-370]
  5. At what point on average does muscle memory (body language, reflexes, speech patterns/manner of articulation) begin to exhibit changes? Is there a range within which target’s and material’s muscle memory are at odds? [U-171, H-457, F-639]
  6. At what point is target overwhelmed by material? (Tested/measured with standard interrogation and signifier scrying metrics; see Appendix 23 for details.)
    1. Analysis of pattern of signifier change ongoing; preliminary work suggests underlying algorithmic matrix logic explaining order of observed change of network of signifiers from target’s to material’s. [H-883, U-432, V-212, R-154]

 

All of these questions have been explored in the following sections of the report.

See attached databurst for relevant recordings of all subjects; particularly noteworthy examples per line of research have been indicated above.

(The first letter of a subject’s designation represents their status within the hexarchate: either their faction affiliation; that they were an unaffiliated citizen; that they were a foreigner; or that they were a heretic.)



FOR HEXARCH NIRAI KUJEN’S USE ONLY:

Report #1813812 — Preliminary Testing of Carrion Glass on Revenants

(See previous reports for details of black cradle procedures of sample revenant test subjects.)

Significant differences noticed so far: revenant carrion glass is invisible to human eye. Recommend further study of detecting location and gathering shards; ultramarine spectrum looks promising.

As expected, the revenant presence draws the entirety of the carrion blast’s exotic effect. Anchor remains mentally unharmed, though physically experiences concussive effects. Recommend further investigation of whether this is due to a true physical effect created by the carrion blast or whether it can be attributed to the strain of sudden memory extraction on the brain, similar to de-anchoring. When a second carrion weapon is used, the anchor subject is sharded as expected; no lingering effects from anchoring complicate the process.

Further conditions the team will be exploring next:

  • subjects with damaged memories (will the carrion glass be different in appearance or substance?)
  • subjects with suppressed memories (e.g., by way of psych surgery)
  • refining the method to target specific memories

Further observations are detailed in following sections of the report.

Notes:

can you tell i spent way too much time dragging up memories of how to bullshit abstracts, after spending way too much time channeling random nirai technicians about how scientific research happens? also i do not for a second believe that kujen didn’t have test subjects he disposed of being getting into the black cradle himself. (we know what shuos and nirai revenant shadows look like, but what about the other options? i think a kel revenant shadow would have that shadowfall of feathers. maybe a liozh would have fractals endlessly refracting through?) apologies for not being able to work jedao in properly!

also i couldn't find a place for it in this fic, but i now have so many awful thoughts about what that cross-species experimentation looks like. feed bird memories to a snake and have fun seeing all the freaky reactions, since snakes don't have wings! feed a fish's memories to a rat and watch the rat's competing instincts fight, and see if the rat drowns itself because it thinks it needs to be in the water! (i need to take my 'what would kujen think' hat off.)