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February 10th​

The Dantian Seekers have an absolutely huge database of information, scraped from millions of forums and tens of thousands of videos. It's also highly searchable, and uses some pretty decent filtering system to weigh your search terms against what's in the database. Honestly, it's like someone bought a pretty good search engine and then optimized it for this stuff.

I'm probably not treading any new ground just looking through their stuff, since whoever put it together knows how to work it better and had more money to throw at it, but it's also not set up to just give newbies good data. There is a kind of wiki framework built in, but it's pretty blank.

Searches for false path and Lei Zhaohui don't return many results, although separately there's a decent bit of conversation dozens of different ways something worked for this person or another. Zhaohui comes up more as a curiosity, since whatever he's doing isn't really known.

February 12th​

Collecting a lot of similarities in different false paths. People post a lot about what didn't work for them, but not nearly as much on what is working. But since everything apparently works for at least one person? You can get a lot of 'barely worked' ideas that might align better with your own method of doing this.

There's a lot of 'anime' type paths. More examples to pick and choose from, I guess. But I've yet to pick a random TV show, comic, or obscure mythological powerset and not be able to find at least a few references to someone having tried it. Infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters situation.

Though, even in any powerset that is 'always on' like most powers, anyone trying to duplicate it isn't able to keep it running. Pull up power, use it, power gone until you pull it up again.

Funny video of that guy running through plywood walls, then bouncing off the last one at the end due to missing his timing.

Though, I've always got a little running regardless. Weird, and a point in favor of the alien not just stacking lies on lies.

February 15th​

Glad I don't have a boyfriend. Lot of people trying the power of love yesterday. Doesn't seem like many people have 'serenading' as the key to their power.

February 16th​

Karen noted my power sounded like a water element, but nothing I've searched really sounds right. Even assuming the alien wasn't lying and pretty much everyone else is on a false path, I'm not certain how much flowing water, mystic healing arts, or becoming one with the nature of water really sounds like my power. Or me.

February 24th​

Necessity is the mother of all invention. Somehow, I panicked enough during the fight last night that I was able to specifically overflow more into my punch than just generally into my body. Can't figure out how to do it again. I'd rather not put myself in that situation again to see if it's just an under stress ability.

Afternoon addendum:

Apparently, you can pull people onto the correct path. Or at least off the false path. Doing so changed what the alien said to Melissa. Attached recording. She's now the first off the false path and no longer mortal. Weirdly, we can feel each other's power.

We've decided to try to get CAT scans to see if it's any different. Karen and Ash are going to be control subjects. We probably need to find someone else on the false path to see what their scans would be like. Maybe they're uploaded into the Seeker system, will have to look.

Dantian: Power to define yourself? There's something in what the alien is saying. Almost like you can define the word by what he's saying.

[Attachment: LectureRecorder0224.mp5]

February 25th​

Seekers do have anonymized CAT scan data for a few people, three guys, one girl. Nothing appears to be off on their scans.

Spinning the current testing with Melissa. Wiping yourself out with the power doesn't seem to do much to increase length of time it's usable at a higher rate of spin. See supplementary tracking charts here.

Also, future note. Redefining 'spinning the current of power' as cycling. Since it does it spin it's own, it's more of a cycle that you can adjust. Also, more concise.

March 3rd​

Scans today at Phelps. Myself and Melissa have a strange not-organ showing up where we can feel the power. Dantian. Looks interesting, but just because we cycle to power it up, doesn't mean you should spin the 3-D projection of it.

Provided scans to Danny with Dantian Seekers (also, weird name coincidence. Danny, Dantian). Didn't give him any other data, not sure what data I'd have. Definitely not sure what I was expecting, either.

March 6th​

Ran into Danny today looking for research notes on whatever I've been working on. Not much to give him, what data I have is pretty imprecise and not really useful with the possible exception of 'Get off the false path' and what the right path does, I don't know yet.

March 7th​

Last night's cycling tests were bizarrely successful. See attached recording.

For future reference, Test Two will be referred to as the 'power gathering' test or exercise. Test One will be the 'block cleaning' test or exercise.

Use of the power gathering exercise increased the depth of the dantian by multiple times. New length of time unknown, but exercise lasted for nearly an hour before being startled out of it by Karen. Limitations unknown. Dad would be thrilled, mystic bullshit.

Block Cleaning has a lot of dangerous points. I nearly drained my dantian clearing the block, will need a better measurement. Worse case, Melissa's breakthrough on the false path apparently created a hole that ate everything from her dantian we'd just built to fix the hole. When she hit the block, she didn't have nearly enough to clear it. Now she's reporting it feels thicker than ever. We're going to be testing again in a few days, she'll be building power up first so we can try to get a measurement of what's needed.

Whatever is in the block seemed to boil out of our bodies. I threw everything I could away, and the carpet is probably a lost cause. Melissa didn't really get anything out due to having to fix the hole. Karen asked us to keep it for next time, she'll see if she can run it through the bio lab to figure out what it is.

With the first breakthrough, baseline is about two-thirds what my max ignore was at full cycle previously. We'll have to be careful testing my new cycling max, and possibly Melissa's.

Might be interesting to see the differences in our CAT scans now, but there's the argument over paying to give them my hard work at this point.

Attachment: [LectureRecording0306.mp5]

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He looked at the last line of the document, musing. Honestly, with real data being produced, it'd be worth wiping out any debt she owed and actually hiring her on as an actual researcher. Lord knew he wasn't aware of anyone else with tangible evidence. Thousands of hours of video, sure. Eye witness reports of people doing things well outside their physical capabilities, yeah.

But a working method, that might be reproducible, trainable, and to a level of actual usefulness? She was being cautious about max strength numbers, but just based on what weight she could basically ignore as a baseline, DARPA might not have just been throwing money down a pit like he'd assumed when they actually gave a half million dollar grant to the Seekers.

Too bad this true path was apparently noticeable to others, or he'd try it himself. As it was, he'd quit pushing his power due to the noted damage and would see if Nicole would officially provide her research notes eventually. He'd have to be careful about pushing her now though.