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[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....

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[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.

[modernholmes]

[Conan was about to continue scoffing. He'd had more than enough of idiots throwing around terminology like that as explanations for perfectly ordinary murders. But that last part caught his attention.]

You managed to measure something from the castle?

[ectobabble]

Yeah, I've got a baseline psychokinetic energy output that I've managed to calculate from nine months' worth of daily readings ... and modified my meter so that I can detect if the castle's energy is affecting something or someone. So far I've been able to scope out people on losses - it'll come in really handy for instances where people start behaving oddly ... we can use it sort of like a lie detector for losses. That way, if people say "The castle made me do it", but it's just an excuse? We'll know. It's got tons of other great implications, but that's the biggest one, I think.

[modernholmes]

It sounds interesting. What kinds of energy have you measured? And what kinds of units are you using?

[He doesn't stop to think about how odd these questions are coming from child's voice.]

[ectobabble]

Mostly I measure the castle's ambient energy - losses, changes, stuff like that ... but I can pick up on residents, too, if they have supernatural abilities or powers. It's measured in gigavolts.

[he knows plenty of smart kids, here - Aradia, Rose, John - so Conan doesn't even give him pause]

[modernholmes]

Oh? What do you measure from them?

[ectobabble]

Basically the relative degree of influence on a person or thing, based on what's happening. How much castle effect it takes to manipulate various phenomena. You know - kind of like checking the electrical meter on the side of a house to see how much power the occupants are using.