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"Three built them, right? She'd probably have the initial information, but since Twelve thought she sabotaged them it might be wrong... We should maybe find colored sticky notes, so we can flag journals by topic?"

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"Ooh! I think I saw some of them earlier!" Ant bounds to eir feet and returns a few moments later with a variety of colored sticky notes, and a pen.

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"Thanks! So, Viewers in blue, other time machines in red, math in yellow, events in orange, botfly stuff in green, other important stuff in purple? These little tab ones we can use like bookmarks..."

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"Sounds like a plan," Jenn agrees with a nod, reaching for one of the journals.

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She'll start helping speed read through them.

...It very quickly becomes obvious that Bina meant these for an audience of herself, and isn't good at separating topics. Mathematical info dumps turn into how much she misses Lash which has a segue about an encounter with Ira which flows into discussion of what happened to Four that one time which turns into 'why did that one journal of Four's have pages ripped out' which quickly becomes a fantasy about Lash...

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(Elizabeth emerges eventually and starts helping after getting the go ahead from Bina. She's a very fast and efficient speed reader at least.)

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Jenn's a fairly quick reader as well, and while she doesn't know what to do with finding random fantasies written in amongst technical information, but she is pretty good at skipping over it.

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There's not much discussion about the Botfly. Zero mention of Ant or the dreams. 

The information about the Viewers is mostly in Three's and Six's notes, somewhat in Twelve's. Three left a diagram, and a three page long list of instructions for how not to use the Viewers, which is slightly ridiculous. Bina's not sure if it's a joke or not. (Three does also have instructions on how to use them.)

Six mapped the inside with an ultrasound machine. Her diagram disagree's with Three's on a few points.

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Jenn buries herself in the information about the Viewers. Comparing the diagrams, and finds paper to start trying to figure out what the hell is going on with them.

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Three definitely left things out. She also made them impossible to open without damaging apparently important internal components. You can't use anything more powerful than an ultrasound on them for imaging.

There's a 'future' viewer and a 'past' viewer, each capable of looking a single loop. It's impossible to aim the Moment's inherent time travel and transport abilities without using either. It's difficult to aim the Moment even with them.

(Bina's settled down to try and construct a timeline of events. Elizabeth is focusing on time machines in general.)

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(Ant settles next to Bina, doing what ey can to help with the timeline.)

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"...There's a lot here. I'm not sure it's sensible to write it all out like in order... Maybe sticky notes on a wall?"

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"That's always a good way to do things. I think I did that for a school project."

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"We can do things above and below the timeline too, and that'd be good for these bigger notes... I think the master has a big available wall, or the living room?"

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"Living room seems like the best plan."

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"Alright. You guys good out here?" she asks, mostly turning to Jenn.

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-Who now appears to be partway under one of the Viewer?

"I'm good," she calls back, waving slightly.

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"Good luck," she calls, then turns to head back inside.

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Well then: time lining!

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She's a lot less enthusiastic, but they can definitely timeline. 

(Four seems to have kept the best records, and wrote down everything.)

Bina separately starts listing plans her past selves had, and what other things they tried prior to communication being cut off.

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It still feels like there's too many blanks to fill in.

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Jenn eventually makes a late lunch - there's no way easy way to measure the passing of time, and she was a bit wrapped up in what she was doing - and makes everyone stop to eat.

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She's grateful for the food, and the break.

"Any progress on you guys' end?"

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"Not really," Jenn says. "I'm trying to see if I can get inside the Viewers. But they weren't wrong about them being hard to dismantle..."

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"That's weird. Wouldn't they need to be repaired sometimes, even if they were designed to work?"

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