Palaeomacrometer logbooks

The palaeomacrometer is a large, cumbersome but delicate device conceived and constructed by Professor Liben Corrington, founder of the Corrington Sorcerer Academy of the College of Letters, to further his researches. The device took some 18 years to complete, and is said to have over 1 million working components.

At its heart, the palaeomacrometer uses crystal eigenesis (with sulphur banoxide as a microaggressant) to hyper-experience points in space and time. The observer starts from a known point in space and time, and then experiences (through movement in space and/or time, at a vastly accelerated rate) an adjacent point in space and/or time. Depending on the skill of the observer, observation rates of 1,000 to 1 million have been recorded. This means that 1 second of observation can slip through 240 hours (10 days) of time, or 500 km of distance. The observer can stop the spatio-temporal movement at any point, and carefully study the surroundings. This allows for hyper-sensoral input - smell, taste, feeling, etc. of the object being observed, as well as for the time to make notes and drawings of what is observed.

Continued observation with the palaeomacrometer is physically and mentally draining, and not totally without risk. Since there is only one such device, and it has been used by perhaps only two people, safe constraints are not known, and the side-effects or damage potential is likewise unknown.

During the first few years of the palaeomacrometer's operation it was heavily used. None of Prof. Corrington's observations, however, were published. After about a decade of use, the professor stopped using it, for unknown reasons, and the device was essentially abandoned.

Several years later, during a congress, one of the dosents at the College of Letters, Archmage Alfred Gouranis, heard about the palaeomacrometer. He convinced Prof. Corrington to give it a good cleaning and to teach him how to use it.

In short order, A. Gouranis was taking regular observations. Several of his sessions have been published, and are reproduced here. Note that because of concerns about salangrity (temporal calibration of the device) the virtual dates of these recordings are not given, but only the dates on which the observations were made. Further research is needed to determine the former.

Observing logs of Archmage Alfred Gouranis, with the Corrington Palaeomacrometer, CoL.

Extract 1, from notes recorded 4688 June 03 Extract 1, from notes recorded 4688 June 03 532 Extract 2, from notes recorded 4681 November 11 533 Extract 3 (undated) 535 Extract 4 (date of recording lost) 537 Extract 5, from notes recorded 4689 October 17 538 Extract 6 (undated) 539-541