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[Mulder has more or less settled into an apartment with the things he's found so far from the shops... but that's not where he is at the moment. Too restless to hang around, and convinced he can figure something out, he's gone out on a trip to take a look at the barrier. He's even equipped himself with some camping gear he managed to find and enough supplies for a few days at least.]

[When he finally gets to the barrier, he wastes no time in emptying a clip as he shoots at it. Of course, it does nothing. And of course that doesn't mean he's about to give up so easily, he just needs to give it some more thought. He stays up well into the night at his 'campsite', thinking and wondering about the situation in general. Sleep, what's that? Eventually some other issues start weighing on his mind too, and he gets out his journal. He's too paranoid to ask about barrier breaking tips over the journals anyway, so he sticks to relatively safer topics.]

Since this is transmitted to the general population, I've got a few concerns I'd like to bring up...

First of all, I need to know if anyone has run across a Samantha Mulder or a Dana Scully at any time past or present during their stay here. It's really important that I get any information I can on either of them. [He pauses for a moment.]

...I'm also interested in learning more about these 'filial spirits' as the guide calls them. What's been the experience for any non-natural magic users in particular, did you find it very difficult to master their skills? Do most people find it easiest to start contacting those friendlier spirits and then going on from there?

I'd appreciate any information I can get.

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I know the feeling. Especially when the New Feather cycle brings people in at the beginning of the month, when it's quiet to the point of dull.

...even when they're horrible, they experiments can never be called dull. The less horrible ones are even fascinating.

[Mulder really hasn't been around long enough to see the dullness. Or to get over having a place saturated in the supernatural, but that's probably the part he'll never get over.]

See, that was my thought. As much as I know it's probably not a good idea to wish some of the effects on anyone. I for one wouldn't mind gaining strange powers for a week or walking in someone else's shoes... to take some of what I've heard. I've heard they rarely repeat the same experiments, though?

No, they don't.

They prefer to have experiments repeat all at once.

Multiple effects, at the same time? That sounds like a hell of a mess.

It was.

And it wasn't just multiple effects on the village itself. Some people were even suffering from multiple experiments at once.

I keep picturing rooms of scientists standing around watching the village and laughing... What else could they possibly get out of observing any of that but a sense of sadistic pleasure?

Oh, so it isn't just me?

...the party line is that they're using us to find a way to return to their home world.

It's definitely not just you.

I still have to wonder how exactly some of these effects I've read about can be of any use for their finding a way out of this place.

There are some aspects of this place that they don't control. We're fairly certain that they don't have their choice in who arrives here, nor are they entirely responsible for bringing back the dead.

The experiments might be their attempt to fix that.

So they don't go in with the intent to turn us all into animals or otherwise, rather it's all some kind of... byproduct? It makes an odd kind of sense.

...I'd still hate to know what would happen us if we stopped being so useful to them.

Some of the experiments are very deliberate. Others are probably less so.

...and I don't know. I don't like to think about it, honestly. Because even if they can't permanently kill us here, they could certainly make us wish for it. And besides that, I don't even know whether or not they're responsible for the death penalties.

That's right, I read that they can... bring people back. But how they could accomplish something like that remains a mystery.

[Like so many things here. IT'S ONE HUGE X-FILE.]

It's something about the world. Luceti is sometimes thought to be very focused on cycles.

Including the cycle of life and death.

That makes as much sense as anything else around here. I'll have to keep an eye out for these cyclical pattens, then... that should help to have in mind, especially if I'm going to get anywhere in investigating this place.

The experiments, the New Feather cycles, and the death of anything. Those are the ones I'm familiar with.

They can be disrupted, but such cases seem to be the exception rather than the rule.

Being aware of these cycles and their rare disruptions could be important... at this point I'm willing to look into any lead that I can.

Let me know if there's anything more I can do to to help with that. Because that's probably the best place to start.

I'll be sure to, you've been very helpful... Oh, yeah. Introductions. The name is Fox Mulder, by the way. Though just Mulder will do.

Well, I'm certainly happy to be helpful whenever I can be.

Rupert Giles. Giles is fine.

It's good to meet you then, Giles. I'm glad to have gotten your insight about this place.

All it takes is having friends who've been here a good deal longer.

It'd make life a hell of a lot easier, to have people you can trust here already.

[And he's put things together by now.]

You're a friend of Buffy's, right? She mentioned you.

Everyone knows Buffy.

But I did come from the same world, yes, and we have known one another awhile.

Must be nice to have someone from home. And not so nice, considering everyone is stuck in this situation, but still... it's good to have people you can trust completely.

[There is a moment of hesitation from Giles before he replies.]

It is difficult.

But I am glad she's here.

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