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Vom #25 Supplement - Pg. 1 QUEST IN TIME by Sklifo (NOTE: The characters in the following tale are entirely fictitious, and any similarity to actual persons, living or disappeared, is entirely coincidental.) Now that Tridee has returned, though somewhat changed by his experience, I feel that I can tell you just what we planned and how we failed. For although Tridee has followed my way back, he has failed to bring with him what we sought and located but unfortunately were unable to take away. No, I can't say that our efforts were entirely fruitless, for shortly we shall have here on this table for all to see one item which is scarcely worth turning your heads to see. Perhaps that is why we are able to have it with us. Certainly, in spite of its size, it will never be - never was - missed. Surely that must be the sole reason for Nature's laws allowing the thing to be removed. Four years ago the members of this association began to hear the first rumors of our ambitious quest. That was in the year 2023. From time to time curious people asked for information, but we told very little of our plans. However, it was soon guessed that the two of us were attempting time travel. At that time we had just celebrated the centennial of an important step in the eventual founding of this association. With so many people present at the celebration, we found it difficult to restrain ourselves totally on the subject of our plans, and so a little news thus was spread throughout the entire solar system. By and by, several of you commenced to comment on Tridee's frequent absences from our bi-weekly meetings, and since I usually was acquainted with Tridee's whereabouts, I was invariably interrogated whenever I attended a meeting, through my attendance was not very regular either. I remember that I remarked that he was off someplace collecting data for a report, and you let it go at that. But that was merely putting it mildly. I need not explain here and now how we discovered the constant mental-physical radiation which must be compensated for in constructing a mechanism for corporeal transmission in time. By now most of you probably have read the report which Tridee and I submitted to the Interplanetary Scientific Control Society. This report describes in detail the construction of the machine and also the theory on which it works. This mechanism is very small and of light weight, is self-powered, and can be carried about in a small case. Of course, it is understood that in addition to being a machine for time travel, this device also enables one to travel geographically. The possibilities for future use of this machine are numerous, for by adjustment of the controls, the mentality alone may search out distant worlds or distant times, and then by further mental control the body may be made to materialize in any desired spot. Int his way physical danger is minimized, for the body need not accompany the mentality to cold localities, for instance, for observation there. I shall point out here that our visit to the past covered a period about four times longer than the time that has elapsed in our present century, for naturally we could return to any particular day or month in our own time, irrespective of the time spent in the past. As a working center Tridee chose the western coast of this continent in what was formerly called the State of California, and later he particularly concentrated his efforts in that interesting city of Los Angeles, which sank beneath the ocean in the year 1972. Tridee discovered that he could cause his mentality to influence the thoughts of others whom he visited int he past. thus he was able to help bring about certain conditions which he felt were necessary in order to collect the objects he wanted. He began his activities during the late 1920's in northern California, where he found an ideal subject upon which to center his mental suggestions. I am unable at present to name the precise nature of Tridee's quest. The Fortieth Interceptor Command has requested this, since my talk is being televised, and in war time there are certain things that must not be told. However, at the conclusion of the televised portion of this assembly, I shall be at liberty to give you a little more information. Tridee so associated himself with the identity of the person he selected that the two of them became generally similar in characteristics and personality, and their physical resemblance was very striking. Tridee's twin even became known by a name strangely similar to his own. Tridee seldom appeared physically in this past time, but at all times he was in complete rapport with his twin. Regularly, this twin consulted with representative people from all over the nation and corresponded with many others from various parts of the world. Gradually he was able to accumulate a large reservoir of the kind of object for which Tridee was searching. Tridee's plan was to take with him a large quantity of these articles when he returned into his own time. Up until now I have said nothing of my own activities in the past. Rather than use a person already established in the past, I projected my body as well as my mentality into the past. Several times I was almost embarrassingly caught in the act of appearing or disappearing from one time to another. Several of my acquaintances came close to discovering this, but they merely joked innocently about it. My presence with Tridee was due mostly to natural curiosity on my part, and I found a great opportunity to do some research on certain subjects of particular interest to me. I did not contact Tridee's twin publicly until the latter years of our stay. When I returned more or less permanently to the present (I explained my disappearance to my friends by saying that i was going on a long trip), we had agreed that Tridee was to follow me in a few days, together with the objects he had collected. He planned to leave the past at the same time his twin was called away on government business. In those last few years a world conflict had developed, and Tridee's twin was drafted into the war. Since t his fact was known to the twin's acquaintances, Tridee could no longer use this person as his medium. However, he had collected all the objects
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Vom #25 Supplement - Pg. 1 QUEST IN TIME by Sklifo (NOTE: The characters in the following tale are entirely fictitious, and any similarity to actual persons, living or disappeared, is entirely coincidental.) Now that Tridee has returned, though somewhat changed by his experience, I feel that I can tell you just what we planned and how we failed. For although Tridee has followed my way back, he has failed to bring with him what we sought and located but unfortunately were unable to take away. No, I can't say that our efforts were entirely fruitless, for shortly we shall have here on this table for all to see one item which is scarcely worth turning your heads to see. Perhaps that is why we are able to have it with us. Certainly, in spite of its size, it will never be - never was - missed. Surely that must be the sole reason for Nature's laws allowing the thing to be removed. Four years ago the members of this association began to hear the first rumors of our ambitious quest. That was in the year 2023. From time to time curious people asked for information, but we told very little of our plans. However, it was soon guessed that the two of us were attempting time travel. At that time we had just celebrated the centennial of an important step in the eventual founding of this association. With so many people present at the celebration, we found it difficult to restrain ourselves totally on the subject of our plans, and so a little news thus was spread throughout the entire solar system. By and by, several of you commenced to comment on Tridee's frequent absences from our bi-weekly meetings, and since I usually was acquainted with Tridee's whereabouts, I was invariably interrogated whenever I attended a meeting, through my attendance was not very regular either. I remember that I remarked that he was off someplace collecting data for a report, and you let it go at that. But that was merely putting it mildly. I need not explain here and now how we discovered the constant mental-physical radiation which must be compensated for in constructing a mechanism for corporeal transmission in time. By now most of you probably have read the report which Tridee and I submitted to the Interplanetary Scientific Control Society. This report describes in detail the construction of the machine and also the theory on which it works. This mechanism is very small and of light weight, is self-powered, and can be carried about in a small case. Of course, it is understood that in addition to being a machine for time travel, this device also enables one to travel geographically. The possibilities for future use of this machine are numerous, for by adjustment of the controls, the mentality alone may search out distant worlds or distant times, and then by further mental control the body may be made to materialize in any desired spot. Int his way physical danger is minimized, for the body need not accompany the mentality to cold localities, for instance, for observation there. I shall point out here that our visit to the past covered a period about four times longer than the time that has elapsed in our present century, for naturally we could return to any particular day or month in our own time, irrespective of the time spent in the past. As a working center Tridee chose the western coast of this continent in what was formerly called the State of California, and later he particularly concentrated his efforts in that interesting city of Los Angeles, which sank beneath the ocean in the year 1972. Tridee discovered that he could cause his mentality to influence the thoughts of others whom he visited int he past. thus he was able to help bring about certain conditions which he felt were necessary in order to collect the objects he wanted. He began his activities during the late 1920's in northern California, where he found an ideal subject upon which to center his mental suggestions. I am unable at present to name the precise nature of Tridee's quest. The Fortieth Interceptor Command has requested this, since my talk is being televised, and in war time there are certain things that must not be told. However, at the conclusion of the televised portion of this assembly, I shall be at liberty to give you a little more information. Tridee so associated himself with the identity of the person he selected that the two of them became generally similar in characteristics and personality, and their physical resemblance was very striking. Tridee's twin even became known by a name strangely similar to his own. Tridee seldom appeared physically in this past time, but at all times he was in complete rapport with his twin. Regularly, this twin consulted with representative people from all over the nation and corresponded with many others from various parts of the world. Gradually he was able to accumulate a large reservoir of the kind of object for which Tridee was searching. Tridee's plan was to take with him a large quantity of these articles when he returned into his own time. Up until now I have said nothing of my own activities in the past. Rather than use a person already established in the past, I projected my body as well as my mentality into the past. Several times I was almost embarrassingly caught in the act of appearing or disappearing from one time to another. Several of my acquaintances came close to discovering this, but they merely joked innocently about it. My presence with Tridee was due mostly to natural curiosity on my part, and I found a great opportunity to do some research on certain subjects of particular interest to me. I did not contact Tridee's twin publicly until the latter years of our stay. When I returned more or less permanently to the present (I explained my disappearance to my friends by saying that i was going on a long trip), we had agreed that Tridee was to follow me in a few days, together with the objects he had collected. He planned to leave the past at the same time his twin was called away on government business. In those last few years a world conflict had developed, and Tridee's twin was drafted into the war. Since t his fact was known to the twin's acquaintances, Tridee could no longer use this person as his medium. However, he had collected all the objects
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