Robert Lutece (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ablankpage) wrote2014-03-27 10:42 am
ablankpage) wrote2014-03-27 10:42 am
Voxophone 7/?? - Voice
Citizens of Luceti.
[It is, perhaps, the first time Robert Lutece has ever used the journal as an actual means of reaching the community at large rather than simply a voxophone others happened to hear and respond to.
For all intents and purposes, he sounds as if he's discussing the weather or another phase in the Lutece Field he and Rosalind have been attempting to re-discover here and the machine they intend to re-build.
It's a very calm, very scientific tone.]
I would like to know if anyone here has information regarding conception, gestation, and delivery of children as it pertains to Luceti.
Physics is my specialty, but I am well-versed in anatomy and biology. [He does not need the "birds and bees" talk. That isn't the purpose of this.] However, there are anomalies in this world in regards to anatomy and biology -- the wings, for instance.
It is of interest to me whether these changes or the progression of the alterations of reality commonly referred to as "shifts" affect the aforementioned topics.
[...And yes, that is all he's going to say on the topic. Not why it matters or why he's decided to start researching this. It's simply stated as a matter of fact.]
Any information or Luceti-specific literature on the subject would be most helpful.
Thank you.
[It is, perhaps, the first time Robert Lutece has ever used the journal as an actual means of reaching the community at large rather than simply a voxophone others happened to hear and respond to.
For all intents and purposes, he sounds as if he's discussing the weather or another phase in the Lutece Field he and Rosalind have been attempting to re-discover here and the machine they intend to re-build.
It's a very calm, very scientific tone.]
I would like to know if anyone here has information regarding conception, gestation, and delivery of children as it pertains to Luceti.
Physics is my specialty, but I am well-versed in anatomy and biology. [He does not need the "birds and bees" talk. That isn't the purpose of this.] However, there are anomalies in this world in regards to anatomy and biology -- the wings, for instance.
It is of interest to me whether these changes or the progression of the alterations of reality commonly referred to as "shifts" affect the aforementioned topics.
[...And yes, that is all he's going to say on the topic. Not why it matters or why he's decided to start researching this. It's simply stated as a matter of fact.]
Any information or Luceti-specific literature on the subject would be most helpful.
Thank you.
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[Because, well, that work speaks to superstition.]
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[ And he drums his fingers, and- ]
The first is that people born on this planet grow large wings - they end up big enough to look like they could reasonably support flight to the eyes of a non-scientist like me. Nothing like our little ones. I guess they sprout up into existence later in life, like puberty or something. [ Going by what he knows through listening to other people talk about it... and that Sophie's are still the same size ]
The second's that every soldier or general or anything between involved with the cultists I've ever seen has large wings, to say they've been born on this planet. Every last one of them. Which actually lends us to the third point, and where the curse lies-
The Malnosso, with whatever knowledge they have, seem to expect these people who have large wings to eventually go mad. It's not a universal belief, but I have heard them talk about it with some degree of inevitability. Is that just because they have no home to go home to, is it because it's biological, spiritual? I couldn't tell you. But the penchant for madness is their curse.
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There are genetic predispositions to madness. There are also cultural and societal discrepancies between what is considered madness. Much of it can, also, be political.
He's seen all of them before.
That is a point to consider, though it brings up questions he highly doubts -- as there is apparently no literature on the development of those born into this world -- he can get answers to with any sort of scientific probability.
But it does introduce one question he feels he can ask:]
What steps have been taken to see that this doesn't happen with the child still in this enclosure? Are there arrangements made in the case that they start showing said madness?
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I would be curious to know what measures have been taken and what further would be if such an eventuality occurred, especially if the threat of that sort of madness is likely enough to warn others off having children here.
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Well then, I'm not one to butt into people's personal lives, but I will join the chorus with this warning: This is Luceti. There's only a handful of people left from even when I showed up, let alone people who have been here more like five, six years. In all likelihood, anyone in this enclosure will be gone before a kid here's a toddler.
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