The Trial and the Error

[grimreaping]

Characters: patchworkdoctor and grimreaping
Where & When: Sometime after this meeting.
Rating & Why: Probably just PG?
Summary: Kid brings Stein his notes on the wishing experiments he's been doing.

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[patchworkdoctor]

After a few moments, the door slides open soundlessly, revealing Stein. He gives Kid the briefest of smiles, moving out of the way of the door to allow his student access. "Hello, Kid," he murmurs before stepping past him and towards a table in the kitchen. "The door will close behind you automatically."

Taking a seat at the table, he pushes a chair out from under it with his foot, looking down at the few hastily scribbled pages he's collected from his time in Splendor. "The house is empty; we shouldn't be bothered for a few hours at the least. What do you have?"

[grimreaping]

Kid frowned and straightened the chair so that it was exactly perpendicular to the table, then handed over the folder of files to Stein. "With a few exceptions," he began, "they've all been successful. While I wouldn't normally consider that a bad thing, it's puzzling and improbable."

[patchworkdoctor]

He starts to flip through the file, placing pages in a pile to his right as he finishes them. "These results are very interesting," he replies. "Why improbable?"

[grimreaping]

"Well," Kid said, eyeballing the pile to see if it was being kept neat. If anything happened to one of these sheets after all the times he spent writing and rewriting them, he'd probably burst into tears.

"You've always taught us that experiments by their very nature are as likely to fail as to succeed, that's their purpose. In a place where everyone except the Locals are unfamiliar with the design of the city, a wishing system that seems unlike anything that anyone recognizes... and yet for the most part, everyone seems to use it with relative ease."