File #003 :audio | written:

[unfringed]

[The audio file follows exactly as it is written, save for a few places where Walter stutters or mumbles.]

Greetings fellow inmates of Luceti, my name is Walter Bishop and I am constructing a laboratory in my living space. If anyone should come across any equipment that may be of use in doing so, I would be most obliged if you could tell me.

Now, onto the important matters. I was told there are others who are experts or at least versed in transdimensional world travelling and I should very much like to speak to them. Particularly the one named "Tony Stark" if he is available. A young girl named Harlem said I should say hello to you.

I have also heard there were others involved in a failed attempt at returning home. I should very much like to speak to these individuals if they are still present. I believe we may be able to help each other.

Also, if anyone has seen a set of tuning forks, I seem to have misplaced them.

Please check your microwave ovens and other such devices before turning them on. It would be most unfortunate if you should end up with one in your neck.

Thank you for your time.

Oh, and residents of Building 1. Flame Building - what an unfortunate name - if you see sugar cubes lying on the counters, please return them to me. But do not touch them with your bare hands. Thank you.

Comments

[Voice]

[spohkh]

Mister Bishop, it is good to see you well underway with your own laboratory. Do you require assistance?
[Because Spock enjoyed the whole science thing.]

[Voice]

[unfringed]

I've managed a small thing so far - nothing quite like what I had in Harvard at all - but it's enough that I was able to synthesize a few things. I still need spectrometers and other more advanced equipment, but I haven't seen them come to the shop yet.

Usually Agent Farnsworth or Agent Dunham can produce them for me. ...I'm not quite sure how to find them myself.

Voice

[tea_lover64]

Microwave ovens?

[Tuning forks he had heard of, but that concept is a little advanced for his world yet]

Voice

[unfringed]

Oh, are you unfamiliar with the devices? They're in the communal kitchens and our own apartments - rectangular white, black or silver boxes. It heats items inside the box using electromagnetic radiation causing polarized molecules in the item to create thermal energy - self-heating. Quite revolutionary. Just don't put your head in one.

[Text]

[sand_lost]

What's wrong with the sugar?

[Text]

[unfringed]

I dosed some, but I seem to have misplaced them. My coffee wasn't right this morning.

voice

[stilldontgotit]

But what are the chances those tuning forks even wound up in our microwaves? Unless you're breaking into people's rooms, I don't see that happening.

[A beat.]

What do you need sugar for, anyway?

voice

[unfringed]

I hide things. This apartment building and the others are quite adequate for my needs in finding places to store important items.

Oh, and the sugar is mine. I just seem to have misplaced them somewhere.

[Voice]

[materiathief]

...You made sugar cubes dangerous?

[Voice]

[unfringed]

Only to those who have never had an LSD trip before.

Of course, the drug is still untested - I'm having trouble synthesizing it here.

[Voice]

[i_speak_softly]

I don't know if I'm an expert, but I've experienced transdimensional travel.

[Voice]

[unfringed]

Excellent! Could you recount for me your experience? And have you tried to recreate its methods here?

[Voice]

[magicalesbian]

[Oh no, it's the crazy guy.]

[She really should just ignore this. There is no reason she has to reach out to him. None whatsoever. Even if he is asking about the one topic she feels confident enough in to consider herself something of a professional.]

[Just close the journal, Kari. Just close it and walk away and--]

Well, I guess I'm something of a professional. I mean, I've certainly studied it enough, and it's kinda what I used to do back home, so...

[Damnit.]

[Voice]

[unfringed]

Wonderful! Were there ever any negative side effects of moving between worlds, or did you have a stable method?

voice

[fightforthelost]

Bit of a mouthful.

voice

[unfringed]

Oh, it's you.

Hello, it's Walter Bishop again. I've found new lodgings. And they haven't been destroyed yet. I think I'm doing much better now.

voice;

[lorentzian]

Okay, one? I'm the wormhole specialist around here. Hi. Two, I was one of three people involved in the attempt you're talking about. Three: my name is Jane Foster. What can I do for you, Walter?

voice;

[unfringed]

[Finally! A response from one of the actual people he was searching for!

Not the one he named, and now there is apparently a third person with whom he must speak. That is more information in one encounter than he's received so far.]

Wonderful! Ms. Foster, my name is Walter Bishop. I'm a scientist studying primarily what would be called fringe science - and your work on an attempt home is of utmost interest to me now that I am here. I've successfully crossed worlds before, but never in a place where so many worlds collide. I was hoping to speak with you about what you did - and what went wrong.

Perhaps over pancakes? Unless you prefer crepes. I used to make them in the shapes of whales. Pancakes, I mean. Crepes can't be made into whales.

[voice] should we do a fork hunt

[relinquishing]

The microwave? I'm... pretty sure those aren't for cooking.

[The cadence is a little bit familiar to Guy. He could have sworn he's heard this man before... maybe on the stairwell?

Does he dare to go check the third floor's microwave...]

Anyway. Do you remember what you were doing when you last saw them? Or the, ah... sugar cubes?

[voice] YES, let's microwave some tuning forks

[unfringed]

Oh, it wasn't for cooking - I was experimenting with the microwaves to see if they might be able to tell me the frequency on which this reality vibrates.

...Unfortunately, I don't remember. Either. I thought I had gone out this morning, but now I am not so sure since I'm no longer wearing pants.

[Voice]

[luckynumberthree]

Morning, Walter! How goes getting settled in?

...Do I want to know how you danger-fied sugar cubes?

[Voice]

[unfringed]

Simon! Hello there, my boy. I've found a good location and begun to build my laboratory. Are you bringing your friends over for testing or just tea?

As for the sugar cubes, just so long as you don't touch or ingest them, I'm sure you'll be just fine. I'm trying to synthesize my old medicines and it's taking longer with the lack materials here.

[written, camera obscured]

[readytobe]

A laboratory? What sort of experiments will you be performing?

[written]

[unfringed]

Anything I can think of, really. Isn't that what a laboratory is for? Although primarily I will be focusing on building a machine capable of travelling between universes that does not create any significant damage to either one, but that is rather difficult what with the variety of universes accounted for here.

Are you a scientist?

[ Voice ]

[godbent]

Haruhi.

[ Voice ]

[unfringed]

Oh hello there! How are you, young lady? Thank you for your help the other day, I've been able to reach one of the scientists involved in that experiment you mentioned.

voice;

[breezing]

What sort of equipment d'you think would be useful?

[ She'll try to keep an eye out. ...Although. ]

What's wrong with the sugar cubes?

voice;

[unfringed]

Oh...just about anything really. Chemistry sets, chemicals, microscopes, slides and collection trays, scalpels, wires, electrodes, brain wave monitors, a centrifuge, autopsy equipment, a bonesaw, such things like that.

Oh and yes, please don't touch them if you see them. I don't believe your family would be very happy with me if you were to do so. Just tell Uncle Walter should you see a tray of sugar cubes sitting around, would you, dear?