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[mathemagier]

[Screened calls go straight to voicemail, where an impatient recording answers]

You've reached Dr. Hermann Gottlieb. Leave your name, number, and business if you expect a return call. Thank you.

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[superposition]

Yeah, provided they don't have countermeasures. The Porter's been known to interfere with that kind of thing before, and if they've got something similar...

[... Oh wait, he was trying to be reassuring here. Well, but - no, he's not going to sugarcoat things for Hermann, the man has a right to full disclosure.]

... if that's the case, we'll find a workaround. Cross that bridge when we come to it.

[mathemagier]

The Porter has interfered with things nowhere in its vicinity?

[superposition]

Of course it has. How else do you explain us?

[mathemagier]

Well yes, but that's remote teleportation on an interdimensional scale. I meant in terms of influencing unrelated events across the world.

[superposition]

Interdimensional, interplanetary, international... [You can't see it, but he's waving his hand in a demonstrative fashion.] It's got the ability to abduct people across dimensional barriers, space, and time, for God's sake. Compared to that, half a planet is nothing.

[mathemagier]

Of course not, as it relates to teleportation. But to remotely interfere with abilities at will suggests an omniscience on par to some religious figures.

[superposition]

Oh - oh, you meant the interference? No, no, I meant - I'm sure you remember that debacle in my lab a few months back? The more follow-up I've done on that, the more signs are pointing to the Porter as the source. It's subtle. A spin here, a quark there. Little errors that, on their own, wouldn't be a problem, but as you start scaling up they propagate catastrophically. Whatever wave function the Porter's using, it interferes with mine. Maybe vice versa, too, I'd need more data - but that's not the point. That interference is present everywhere the wave function exists, which is to say, everywhere. Omniscience has nothing to do with it.

... Except the observer effect, possibly, but you don't need omniscience for that.

[Things Qubit should be working on: probably not this.]

[mathemagier]

Hm, that is concerning. Should it interfere with our rescue attempts however, I believe we'll need to start asking some very pointed questions.