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Emerson Video Log No. 7

Emerson Video Log No. 7

Last modified by Charter Agent SHI
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Who Was Jean Selig?

Who Was Jean Selig?

Last modified by Charter Agent KWE
Where did Jean come from? Was she an avatar of the Anomaly? Did the It send her to lead a rebellion against us? Or was she a Charter agent turned traitor? My theory is that Jean was too disciplined, too methodical to be an incarnation of creative chaos. I’m looking out of my window at the Anomaly right now. It’s trapped in our courtyard. It appears to be as mindless now as it did during the creation of the Multiverse. It radiates creative chaos into the Multiverse. That’s all. Jean, on the other hand, was disciplined. Shrewd. She hid her motives from us across three generations. That would suggest that she comes from the Charter. But we are all accounted for. Not one of us is missing. A puzzle.

The Metaphysics of Emerson Selig

The Metaphysics of Emerson Selig

Last modified by Charter Agent PXN
In the journal entry quoted below, Emerson lays the philosophical groundwork for his experiments with resurrection. What is meant by essence? What is meant by, “It is manifest... that every soul and spirit hath a certain continuity with the spirit of the universe, so that it must be understood to exist and to be included... Anything we take in the universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way the entire soul of the world.” If this is true and if I am always entering every room I have ever entered, perhaps I will always be and always be entering still. Perhaps we do not end. The Egyptian King did not die, his murdered servants did not die and the crops on the walls of his tomb were real crops with real sustenance and the king and his workers still eat them. As long as we still say them, names live. The Egyptians called this essence Ren. Ren is one fifth of a thing’s essence. All that has been named, people, minerals, elements, stars - they all have this essence. A thing without a name is incomplete. To say a thing’s Ren gives this essence sustenance. Although he certainly comes off as a crank, Emerson hit on a truth that more respectable scientists had discarded: the link between a thing’s name and its essential spirit. Instead of calling on the deceased’s literal name, Emerson tracks the deceased through his or her unique sonic spectrum. His machine then harmonizes with this spectrum, drawing the spirit back into its original place. Selig is impressive for an adult human, but he’s mistaken. One can never recall deceased energy. Our own experiments with resurrection were never successful. Most of those ended with an industrial water hose, a drain in the middle of a concrete floor and an agreement to never speak of the experiment again. [caption id="attachment_312" align="alignnone" width="650"] Jean's influence runs thickly through Emerson's scientific pursuits.[/caption]

The Laser Harp: Nicolae’s Instrument of Chaos

The Laser Harp: Nicolae’s Instrument of Chaos

Last modified by Charter Agent VRL
Connection to the Anomaly: Nicolae has control over the physical properties of sound. Through specialized instruments, Nicolae is able to distort the laws of time and space. Sound holds the Multiverse together. Someone with enough skill could use the laser harp to travel between stars, communicate with other realities, reanimate dead tissue, etc. In the hands of someone like Nicolae, sound will most likely punch a tattered hole straight through the world. We’ve been lucky that sonics are an ignored field of study on Earth. Nicolae’s harp changes that. We should remove it from the home before someone else gets their hands on it. [caption id="attachment_330" align="alignnone" width="650"] Nicolae meddling in our territory.[/caption]  

Suggested Actions: Nicolae Pastore

Suggested Actions: Nicolae Pastore

Last modified by Charter Agent YDK
We have a spy in the Selig home: Nimsesku the family hamster. We could rig Nimsesku with a sonic bomb, a “shrieker.” If we were to detonate this bomb in the vicinity of Nicolae it could ruin his hearing.* *(Administrator note: Denied. The last time we detonated a shrieker on this planet several hundred Anomaly-conscious individuals quit their jobs and became music producers). [caption id="attachment_332" align="alignnone" width="650"] Nimsesku captured this image from his vantage point in the childrens' bedroom. Nicolae imparting his scientific disease to his son.[/caption]

Suggested Actions: Cleaning Up After Jean Selig

Suggested Actions: Cleaning Up After Jean Selig

Last modified by Charter Agent SRJ
Solving the problem of Jean’s origin is key to solving the Selig/Pastore problem. We need to find out where she came from and what her goals were. I suggest that we audit everyone in the Charter. I will lead an investigation of the entire Pyramid in an attempt to find the traitor. The traitor cannot know we are looking for them. We cannot cause a panic. After the audit is over and we can say for certain that Jean did not come from our organization, then we can shift our focus. The Anomaly is our next suspect. Personally, I’d prefer that Jean came from within the Charter. The Anomaly, for now, is a known quantity to us. It is mindless. We know how to control it. But what if it is learning how to operate outside of its cage? I’d prefer not to think about that for now. [caption id="attachment_370" align="alignnone" width="271"] Who are you?[/caption]

Potentially Useful Information: Lucius Selig

Potentially Useful Information: Lucius Selig

Last modified by Charter Agent S4S
Type A Personality. Pulled out of the 5th Grade due to “health condition,” relationships with friends never recovered. Favorite color: lavender. Most often sneezes in multiples of 3. Refuses to save money, citing his spiritual beliefs. Lucius thinks that saving money is “a negative thought pattern” because it prepares one for failure. Favorite animal: Nimsesku, family hamster. Blood pH: 7.4 Childhood Hero: Charles Atlas

Potentially Useful Information: Lex Pastore

Potentially Useful Information: Lex Pastore

Last modified by Charter Agent 56H
Favorite Dream: Seeing his grandmother Jean after she died. Jean said she came back to give him a special present from beyond: a box of crayons with colors that are not on the visible spectrum. Lex colored for a while, even though he couldn’t see what he was putting on the page. He gave the drawing to his grandmother to take with her. Least Favorite Dream: Watching his twin sister rearrange her facial features, looking less like herself, less like him. She shoved Lex aside when he tried to stop her. When she was unrecognizable she laughed at her brother and stepped outside, disappearing forever into the crowd. Hiding Space: In his bedroom closet, behind the clothes. He keeps a child-sized laboratory there. The twins' bedroom used to belong to Piper and Lucius when they were children. The closet has, for generations, been a place where the dreams of the Selig children pooled and crystallized. They formed an elaborate crystal village which is only visible to our agents. [caption id="attachment_284" align="alignnone" width="650"] Lex trying his best to outrun fate. Childish.[/caption]

Suggested Actions: Emerson Selig

Suggested Actions: Emerson Selig

Last modified by Charter Agent AGI
Emerson’s flirtations with auditory chaos appear to be over, but we could still use him should one of his other family members step out of line. Our point is prefaced with this entry from Emerson’s journal. It occurs to me that the emotions are just waves or constants (like time/space/vibrations/air/light) or something eternal - an aspect… I am not sure that there is ever more or less happiness, envy, charity; how do we not know that these are constants, undiminishable elements (for happiness leaves a body, a relationship, an experience or exchange, but it seems to me that it slides into others and doesn’t dissipate, but redistributes itself to other people, life forms, elements). How do I know that rocks and trees aren’t sad or ecstatic; how can I be certain that the oceans aren’t reverent and irreverent towards the moon? Emerson is obsessed with animism, the idea that the entirety of the Universe is conscious. He’s right, of course, but we should encourage him along this line of thinking. If everything he sees is loaded with meaning, backstory, narrative, or emotions, Emerson will be unable to function. Imagine walking outside and hearing everything around you scream for your attention. It would be unbearable. We could break him in a few days, if we had to. It would be less messy than violence. [caption id="attachment_299" align="alignnone" width="650"] On top of everything else, Emerson is obsessed with conspiracy theories. He's been searching for us his entire life. We're closer than he realizes.[/caption]

Piper’s Transdimensional Art

Piper’s Transdimensional Art

Last modified by Charter Agent GY1
[caption id="attachment_341" align="alignnone" width="300"] Piper in her studio. Most of her paints have gone dry.[/caption] Our consultants on Earth artwork tell us that Piper’s paintings make very little sense unless you know her personal background. She certainly hasn’t shared her history with anyone else, so perhaps that is why she has languished in backwater galleries for her entire career. Art is a crutch for Piper. As someone who could once see the totality of the Multiverse, her own dimension must look very plain to her. In high school Piper studied the poet William Blake, who wrote about “seeing infinity in a grain of sand.” Piper’s work reaches for that concept with heavily-abstracted realism. If she were to paint a still life—  a bowl of fruit, for example— she would try to capture every conceivable iteration of that bowl on the canvas. To all outside observers, the bowl of fruit would look like a hazy wash of color. Ironically the Charter has become Piper’s biggest patron. We buy her paintings to keep them out of circulation and to determine what link, if any, exists between people who lost their connection to chaos and their creative output.