Sigh. Normally Lucy isn’t one of those people who bemoans having to take non-core classes, but her statistics TA would have gotten it.

In the evening she scrapes together a couple of projects she’s done analyzing publicly-available dungeon data and emails them to Traceless, along with a copy of her video.

Good to see you've got your arms free again! I'll make sure LAC has a copy of the video if you haven't already.

Oh good idea, I sent it to DDSI but not LAC.

IME DDSI is more for the kind of information that's already been through a layer of interpretation - like, if a person counts the number of spiders that appear in your video they want that number, the video itself they might store but aren't set up to do a lot with it

Yeah, sounds right. Also to be 100% clear I was a good girl and did my surveys before emailing you.

Thank you! Gotta have those. Any guesses how it was filtering? Spiderphobia or anything?

I am maybe a little spiderphobic now but I wasn’t before, mostly I was freaked out by being tied up by something that probably didn’t care if it restricted blood flow to my extremities until they rotted off and also if I got out of my restraints I would have more problems rather than less.

Huh, maybe the spiders were incidental, or were derived from the webbing theme rather than the other way around.

The people who collect the surveys will have a chance to figure it out!

Here's hoping! Did it interrupt you at anything very time-sensitive?

Nah. Just a literature class. It was kind of alarming to the people immediately adjacent to me but they’ll deal.

Did you see the study about how car ownership and accident patterns changed when dungeons started snatching people right off the highway? link

Yeah! I used it for class last year.

Ah, sorry, should've probably guessed that

Don’t be! If I hadn’t seen it I’d’ve wanted to.

Sorry. Apologies are a backlash side effect so I have very apologetic email habits

Oh, I see. I’m naturally extroverted and not especially apologetic so that hadn’t occurred to me.

Being extroverted seems like it must be nice, or at least it sometimes seems that way. But my backlash isn't extroversion, it just looks like it in bad light.

I enjoy it, but it’s definitely not for everyone. I am complicatedly sympathetic about your backlash because it kind of seems like they all suck but esper powers are so cool.

I have settled into a workable relationship with mine but when I first awakened I hated it soooooo much. But I AM very glad I'm an esper rather than not that, I would've taken it even if I'd known what I'd get.

I’m not gonna lie, I would rather live in a world with both dungeons and espers in it than a world that just didn’t have magic. Even not being an esper, even after today.

I think this may be in SOME ways a nicer 21st century than the null expected 21st century but I'm not positive about that and a lot of people sure aren't around to vote on it anymore because dungeons ate them.....

Well, that’s fair. I’m not opining on which one is objectively better, just, if you assume there’s one universe where espers and dungeons showed up in the seventies, and one where they didn’t, so the total number of people suffering as a result of either situation is fixed-ish, I would personally rather live in this one.

When you put it like that, I agree.