canon is welcome to night vale.

[neat_science]

(( thinking about playing with the idea of tentatively bringing this guy to eway! ))

Mun, listen to me. I have several... very... time-sensitive samples incubating in my laboratory, you know the ones, and an interview scheduled for this week with an angel. I'm sure, this time, it's a real angel, not a... a child in a dollar-store costume, or a malevolent hungry spirit wearing that same exact costume. I can finally start gathering a representational sample of Night Vale's alleged angel population, and...

Listen, what I'm trying to say is that I don't have time to hop into another dimension, I'm... sure I could schedule something for January but until then I really... can't leave at a moment's notice. What about Cecil?

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[neat_science]

Is there a way to reason with them? I'm not saying 'never', I just... need time to sort out my commitments, and find the equipment I'll need for samples and readings.

[damncompass]

Sometimes. The best way is to show them clearly how important what you're doing is. And then sometimes even then they don't care. However, if you're really lucky, you get a better place to do your work. I did, but I think I lucked out.

[neat_science]

[ He recently saved the town from being permanently absorbed into buzzing shadow creatures, does that count as important? Mun? Hi? ]

What kind of work do you do? [ Interested smile! It's always nice to meet a fellow scientist who isn't, you know, being chased by politically active dogs or fighting with their double or daring people to ring the doorbell of a non-existent house. ]

[damncompass]

I study Artifacts. [ His face lights up. He absolutely loves what he does, as odd as it is. ] Er, well, they're objects that have really strange properties. They do things that they're not supposed to do, like a snowglobe that freezes things, or a teleporting compass. People haven't actually studied what they do or how they do it, like ever. So I'm working with that, trying to figure them out.

[ And needless to say, it's awesome. ]

[neat_science]

Oh -- that's almost exactly what I'm doing in Night Vale!

[ WEIRD SCIENCE BROS ]

Everything is so strange -- no, [ he corrects himself, though he doesn't stop sounding enthusiastic. ] Not everything, I collected some bark and leaf samples from a very old tree recently, and so far I haven't been able to find a single thing unusual about them! They might be unique in being the only things that aren't, well, unique!

[damncompass]

Huh. That's really cool. [Joshua gets thoughtful, but no less animated. ] So, Night Vale's your town with all of the weird? Maybe the tree was there from before the weird came, and hasn't absorbed any of it yet. That's fascinating, though, that there's only one non-strange holdout in all of your research.

[ HE IS SO EXCITED TO TALK TO ANOTHER SCIENTIST OF THE WEIRD ]