(β:001), written,

[readytobe]

[The camera for this journal has been obscured completely, so that the writer's identity is somewhat of a mystery. It's someone with small, neat handwriting, at least, something close to cursive but not quite there, and almost too perfect to have been written by hand.]

The only useful information I have been able to gather is that I am now part of an experiment on a world other than my own. Why, and how, seem unimportant to my fellow captives, but it does seem as though this communication network has been in use for quite some time. Perhaps the answers are buried further than I have dug.

I do not expect assistance, but I would not mind being pleasantly surprised by it.

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[cilantro]

[Sorry Mewtwo, Cilan has a very odd manner of speaking, to say the least. You'd think he'd realize by now that most people here have no idea what the heck he means sometimes, and yet here we are.]

I meant that someone might feel or see things differently here than another person would. Some people don't mind some of the strange occurrences they have here, while others might despise a few of them with their very being. [Hence, it's a matter of one's personal tastes when it comes to how they might feel about certain experiments...or at least that's how it makes sense to him, anyway.]

Some of them are relatively harmless and may simply be a change in scenery or appearance--there was once a time where the area around our house here changed to look like a desert, for example. [That was actually fun though, since it involved a scavenger hunt.] Others, however, might be more invasive and involve tampering with our emotions, or even our memories. [That time everyone had amnesia, that time our memories had been replaced with ones of an alternate life, or even just a month or so ago of thinking his memories were from right before he met Ash certainly come to mind. But he's quick to add--] Thankfully, they don't last very long, a few days at most, before everything seems to resolve itself and return back to normal.

written;

[readytobe]

[Huh, he does speak kind of weirdly. SO STRANGE CILAN. But fortunately Mewtwo is smart enough to follow it, mostly.]

I see. But the fact that individuals experience things differently from one another is not unique to this world. And one's feelings on the situation will not change the cause of the situation.

[He takes a moment to digest the information.]

Tampering with our emotions, and our memories...

[Reminds him of himself, except he erased memories for a good reason (kind of. in his opinion), not to be an ass.]

If your memories are tampered with, then how can you be certain that everything resolves itself?

written;

[cilantro]

Well...take for example one incident that happened a few months ago: one day, I had woken up to find that I was missing about [a slight pause as he seems to be gauging how much time that was] a year and half's worth of memories. The last thing that I could remember was the day before a gym battle with a friend of mine. I couldn't remember anything that happened after that day, nor any memory of the life and friends I had here in Luceti. I wasn't the only one either--there were other people who couldn't remember some of their most recent memories either. But after a few days, all of those missing memories came back. It seems the memory loss was only temporary and as a result of an experimental shift that the people in charge here were conducting.

I have also had experience with being unaffected by some shifts--I would still recall everything, but my friends would not remember certain details or had different memories than they had before. Again, these moments typically last for about a few days, and then afterward they would remember everything they had previously forgotten.

...Perhaps saying that "everything was resolved" is a little inaccurate. It's more like "a feeling of normalcy" that comes back after these incidents. They are bothersome, but in comparison to some of the other experiments and such that take place here, these ones in particular are thankfully not as frequent and are in rare taste.