For lastvoyages: Eighth Casefile [voice+spam]

[cannibalmind]

Well. That little stopover was certainly...interesting. [His smile has a faint predatory edge to it. No, Barge, he was not too caught up in the aftermath of his own insanity to notice everyone else going mad. He has hours of footage and pages of notes to analyze now. Thanks so much for your contributions.]

[But then his expression softens slightly and his demeanor becomes more professional.] The forcible altering of a person's mental state can be damaging if the individual accepts their new reality too firmly. It is most productive to view such an experience, whether caused by drugs, magic, psychic abilities or disease, as seperate from reality in the same way as a particularly vivid dream. Or, in the Bard's more florid language:

"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear...."

[He snaps out of it and sobers.] Repetition and self-discipline are key in these efforts.

[In spite of his current state, he manages a sort of vague curiosity.] Now what's this about messages from back home?