21 traps filled

[ectobabble]

[good morning, Paradisa. when everyone's journals jumped into their hands, this particular Ghostbuster was asleep ... so he woke up with a journal tucked under his arm instead of his stuffed Mr. Stay Puft. now that he's over the initial confusion, he's perusing the new transcriptions in the library, with a big mug of cocoa]

I know a lotta people are talking about this, so I'm sorry if this is beating a dead horse - no offense, Equestrians, oops - but the PKE reading on my journal is just the same as it was yesterday, and the baseline castle energy levels are the same. From a strictly statistical point of view, it doesn't look like we're in any trouble. It's just that we've lost old data... but knowing Paradisa, that'll turn up eventually, anyway. I'm in the library right now, if anyone wants to come and help me look....

Comments

dictated; you knew it was coming

[checklist]

Beating a- what!?

yes I did, and I regret nothing

[ectobabble]

Ohhhh, Twilight, I'm SO sorry! I didn't think before I said it - it's a figure of speech where I'm from ... it -- well --

Horses back home aren't anything like you and your friends, and I --

Ugh. [he sighs, utterly mortified]

It's supposed to mean "doing something useless that doesn't do any good". But it's .... it really is kind of an ugly expression. I guess humans have been using it for so long that we don't really think about how awful it is anymore. I'll be more careful ... I really am sorry.

horrible!

[checklist]

W-Well.... I suppose can see why beating a dead anything would be useless, but... [ Still, why? /sob ]

[ectobabble]

I know, it's -- I really really didn't even realize what I was saying. I'm so sorry, Twilight, I really am...

Can I make it up to you?

[psych0p0mps]

so that means everything else is normal then?
weird

[ectobabble]

So far, so good, yeah ... I don't get it either. But I'm gonna keep checking things. Let me know if you find out anything?

[psych0p0mps]

sure thing
and when i get a chance ill help you look for the lost data

[ectobabble]

That'd be great! I just volunteered to help Twilight make an inventory of the stuff Spike's still got, but once we're done with that I can meet you back here in the library?

[dictated]

[demonologist]

What data do you believe was lost?

[ectobabble]

Well, everything people had in their journals! I mean, a lot of us researchers keep separate notes, yeah, but - oratory records are completely SHOT, and sometimes those can be invaluable in backing up fact!

(going from the ooc notes about this :D)

[demonologist]

Hmmm. I found my old journal in the living room. It still contains everything it had before. It just doesn't seem linked to me anymore. The new one seems to now have that connection. So, for me, at least, nothing has been lost.

(fine by me - his is gonna be somewhere ridiculous)

[ectobabble]

Really? .... Huh! So d'you think that means everyone's journal is around here, somewhere, but we just gotta find it?

Finally doing this

[modernholmes]

PKE reading? Really?

[ectobabble]

Yeah, really! --- Wait, you know what it means?

[modernholmes]

Only that it something mentioned in those ridiculous hoaxes.

[ectobabble]

Well, maybe it's a hoax where you're from, but in my dimension of origin, PKE valances are just as real as they are here. ... Maybe even more so, since around here the castle's the biggest ambient source of energy.

Written

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

'So far as I've surmised, the castle is simply giving everyone a clean slate. I'm not entirely appreciative, since I had notes, but I suppose those can all be re-written.'

/dictated

[ectobabble]

How long have you been here? I mean, if you didn't lose much ... what kind of notes were you taking? I keep a separate notebook of observations an' stuff, so - maybe you can take some notes outta mine?

[bootsweremadeforcasting]

'No, I suppose it wasn't much. Simple observations, looking to see if there was a pattern to arrivals, attempting to track the Castle's oddities. I haven't been here terribly long, so they weren't extensive enough that I can't rewrite them.'

[goldencirclet]

D'ya think it's weird too, mister Ray? I lost my drawings!


...what's PKE?

[ectobabble]

It sure is, kiddo. But it's not as weird as some of the stuff I've seen, and nobody got hurt, so I figure it's okay. I'm sorry you lost your drawings, though! Art's not as easy to replace as notes.

PKE? It's a kind of energy that the castle puts out when it makes stuff happen.

[goldencirclet]

Yeah, it's good that nobody got hurt. S'just weird. An' I can always draw new things.

Really? I never heard that before.

dictated

[both_neither]

So this has never happened before, huh?

[Not that his had...all that much to lose]

[ectobabble]

Hey, Gren! ... Uh, no, not that I know of. But I've only been here a year. I'll have to ask Allen, he's been here a lot longer than me. ... How d'you like the castle, compared to Paris?

[both_neither]

It has a lot more stairs, that's for sure. I've really had a chance to explore much otherwise, to be honest. I'm only just getting on my feet.