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Mutaciulo

by Coppice Halifax

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UR SLATE / SECTION VIII - 17463.space/ur_slate_sec8.png

UR SLATE / DISTRANS TELEKOMM REPORT - 17463.space/ur.txt

2021.08 OBSERVATION REPORT: A breakthrough! After over seven months of waiting and watching and wondering, the Slate has sprung to life (well, perhaps 'activity' is a better word) and we've been gathering more data in the last eighteen days than we have in the entire last year.

It pleases me immensely to be able to report these findings now, for not only the scientific world, but to finally have something solid to show for all the investment Distrans Telekomm has faithfully made in my theories. Where to start then?

As you know, we've had nearly nothing to log or even analyze for the last year, sitting in this control room next to the Slate behind three layers of buffed plexi. We've tried to passively record the atmosphere surrounding the Slate to no avail, and we've also tried every external stimulus you can think of - electricity, sound/vibration, light, varying degrees of heat and cold, even human speech - in our attempts to elicit some type of observable response. I've long held the feeling that the Slate is more than it appears to be on the surface(s), and until now I've been unable to prove that it is anything other than a very strange piece of foreign matter, some buried remnant of stellar debris that the government managed to dig up decades ago.

What happened on the evening of August 4th shocked the whole team. We were about to clock out for the day and go home, when something triggered the building's fire alarm - a seismic event somewhere very close to the facility - sending all our systems into panic mode. The overhead sprinklers were set off in the chaos, and apparently the one inside the Slate's chamber was also activated, because as soon as the water touched the Slate, it screamed.

At least, that's what it felt like in the moment - to be more specific, it acoustically projected an immensely loud sound signal somewhere in the upper frequency range of human hearing, a searing sustained tone that must have been even louder than we perceived it, since the Slate was behind a considerable amount of sound-dampening material. The instruments weren't online so we can't be sure of what the frequency was or if there was even more visible activity in the output signal, but after trying to recreate it from memory the next day, we narrowed the sound down to a sinewave in the 6-7kHz range. DT sent us all home, despite our requests to remain, out of fear that structural damage was sustained in the building, so we did not get the chance to return to our work until late in the afternoon the following day.

Upon returning, we immediately set about exposing the different sides of the Slate to varying saturations of water, with and without alterations to pH and alkaline, salinity, the whole nine. Turns out that while any type of water we expose it to compels the Slate to reproduce an audible tone of some kind, seawater with a heavy ferric component (much like the 2018 Precambrian seawater proposals www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-22694-y ) seemed to allow us to zero in on some kind of designed cause and response of the Slate's original purpose. Within the week, DT installed a modified water line routed into the overhead sprinklers, which allowed us to "sweep" the saturation levels of this seawater mixture onto the Slate from the control room, monitoring the system's readings in realtime.

What we're getting is so much more than just some interesting sounds, it's a very detailed and seemingly deliberate blend of six sustained tones that very slowly move between different frequencies. We're recording hours and hours of the stuff, and writing a program to help us analyze the data set and find patterns within it, if any actually exist. It feels so purposeful and yet so utterly alien, interacting with this object from another epoch, and perhaps even another planet entirely. It feels less like analysis and more like a conversation.

On that note, I've also been going back through the Slate's inscriptions with a renewed vigor, and the eighth section of the Slate certainly does not fail to deliver some very interesting information concurrent to our ongoing explorations:

"Mutants, filled with compulsions to wander, define, multiply their number, and yet be defined themselves by desires they could not know, even then belonging to this system of fixed inevitability"

Are we looking into a mirror? Was all of this supposed to happen? It's hard to feel otherwise, at the moment.

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released August 22, 2021

Recorded at Distrans Telekomm, August 2021. Mastered by The Analog Botanist. Photograph of the Ur Slate and reproduction of text courtesy of the Distrans Telekomm lending library. Used with permission. This is Milieu Music number EARTH 68, entry #68 in the Deep Earth series. milieu-music.com analogbotany.com

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