L.T. File: 025: ÖdùlKhít-Otherspace
Otherspace is, unknown to the Aulven public, completely regulated in Aulven lands by the Tranquil Shadows, as it requires permission from the heads of the organization to use. Therefore, operatives in the field, functioning in their duties as therapists and counselors occasionally use this method in their profession. The maintennance of the ÖdùlKhítul or otherspaces is completely maintained as a close secret by the Tranquil shadows for the safety of the populace.
ÖdùlKhít are small pockets of causality that allow one to see the past through the lens of an alternative history. Unfortunately, it only allows the individual experiencing this past lens, to see through their own eyes, meaning that the events they interact with must stem from a past that they experienced. The person disappears into an ÖdùlKhít sphere, and may leave willingly at any time through a process guarded by the Tranquil Shadows, or be pulled out by the operative who placed them inside. Time moves much faster for individuals inside, roughly ten times the pace of the outside world.
ÖdùlKhít has been used therapeutically to allow people to interact with past mistakes, and say goodbye to lost loved ones. This leads to their danger without supervision. Addiction. Individuals may become dependent on the ÖdùlKhít, forcing them in a sort of dependence on non-reality. When this happens, it is recommended that the individual be weaned off of ÖdùlKhít whenever possible, though immediate ending of services may be determined by the individual operative dependent on the needs of the patient.
Otherspace is also a dangerous military tool, and as such has been disallowed by the Shadows to the Aulven people or any other military for possible tampering, though some individuals have been allowed to use them. One thing of note is that due to the discrepency of time's flow between ÖdùlKhít and "real time", individuals may never pass the time threshold in the ÖdùlKhít that represents the time and date of that of "real time." this is not a failsafe, but rather a feature of ÖdùlKhít.
Use of ÖdùlKhít should be limited to no more than once a month followed by meditation on experiences, and exposure to real-life stimuli, and natural experiences for no less than twice the "real-time" spent in ÖdùlKhít. Operatives seeking to use ÖdùlKhít outside of therapeutic use must also undergo extra psychic and psychological evaluations. Use by Non-Aulvi is not recommended as time spent in ÖdùlKhít ages the individual in "real-space" by an amount equivalent to that perceived in ÖdùlKhít. This means if one year is spent in ÖdùlKhít only one month will have been spent outside of ÖdùlKhít, but that the individual in question will have aged one full year.
ÖdùlKhít have also been used, in extreme cases as a form of prison for particular individuals, though this approach is dangerous, as it allows the individual "extra time" and is, therfore typically only used on non-immortal races, as it more humanely allows them to live out a life experience, and if the experience shows sufficient redemption for behavior, the individual might be allowed to re-enter society.
Recommended threat level Sphere 1: Uhŕ- (for use in therapeutic procedures) Sphere 4: Thè (In regard to dangers posed to unsafe usage)
Manifestation
I. FIELD REPORT TS-ÖK-12
“Unauthorized Entry Incident"
Filed by: Snowball-Containment Division
Clearance Level: Sphere 1: Uhŕ
The following testimony is from an anadi textile-worker’s apprentice within an unregistered Otherspace sphere inside a city-storage pyramid. Though untrained and unscreened, she was pulled into the ÖdùlKhít for approximately four days internal time (nine hours, thirty-six minutes external). This writer was the one to be called in by a worker on the site who recognized the object as a ÖdùlKhít, and sought out a psychological professional. I was not an active operative at teh time, but I realized the urgency of the situation, and with my experience rushed down to free the individual Sings-with-silken-song from the ÖdùlKhít.
Eyewitness Account (verbatim):
“I didn’t mean to go in. It felt like I stepped through a curtain—thin, like steam. And then I was in my workshop again, but everything was…soft. Wrong soft.
My mother was there, humming the old thread-song, the one she sang when I was little. But she didn’t blink. Not once. She looked like she’d been sewn together from memories I didn’t quite recall. When I spoke to her, she spoke back— melody to my ears, but strange, as my mother passed from this world in the conflict with Zevemlya towwards the end of the active parts of the war.
I tried to leave but could not find an exit. The space was too real. At first, I had thought myself in a dream, but as the days passed, I realized I was reliving the week leading up to my mother's decision to join the war effort. Strangely, though, I had come to terms with it, and the experience gave me a chance to say a good-bye I had never been granted in the real world.
Operative Notes:
The ÖdùlKhítul at the site was unstable how it got there was unclear. Recommend cleansing protocol, followed by re-entry by an Aulvi operative after protocol to determine safety of ÖdùlKhít pocket.
Status:
Subject currently experiencing temporal-lag disorientation as well as euphoria from the experience. Recommend maintaining therapeutic maintennance for no less than six months, will add to this writer's case-load pending approval.
-addendum from director Sashine: approval granted.
-addendum from operative Snowball: patient scheduled for therapy and therapeutic maintennance for a period of no less than six months.
-addendum from operative Snowball: After seven months, Sings-with-silken-songwas released from therapeutic maintennance, and seems to have elevated mood compared to counselling notes prior to interaction with ÖdùlKhít sphere.
II. DOCUMENT TS-ÖK-04 (Revised)
“Clinical Application of ÖdùlKhít”
Filed by: Jujube- Therapeutic Division
ÖdùlKhít is a tool of care.
Its purpose has never been escape, but closure.
Case Summary:
An Aulvi patient grieving the loss of a bonded partner entered a supervised ÖdùlKhít for nine internal hours. The space shaped itself in accordance with the patient’s memories — a perfect chronal replication of a time experienced in the past. The partner appeared as they once were: warm-handed, kind-voiced, and patient.
Therapeutic Outcome:
The patient did not seek to undo the past. Instead, they used the moment to say what had been left unsaid — farewells, gratitude, apologies. The session ended with a mutual release. The experience was relived with a lens of acceptance after grieving that allowed the patient to move on. Upon extraction, the patient cried freely — not despairing tears, but the good kind, the kind that settle the heart.
I record this to remind all operatives:
ÖdùlKhít is not an illusion. It is a conversation between a mind and ithe past.
With careful hands, it can heal.
III. Ethical Mandates for use of ÖdùlKhít.
Filed by: Director Sashine- Onyx Wind
It is important to express both to the therapist and the patient that ÖdùlKhít, as Jujube has stated, is not an illusion. Whole pocket timelines come into existence with each use of a ÖdùlKhít, and we do not know what occurs to them beyone the individual uses. Any mistreatment of individuals within Otherspace will be dealt with as severely as if those abuses had occured within "real-space"."
I cannot express strongly enough that despite existing outside of our timeline, those individuals are as real as any individual in "real-space" and should be accorded all the respects that one would give someone existing in "real time." Therapists in particular must be cautious sending individuals into ÖdùlKhít who are not well-suited for the procedure, and that all individuals going in are, as with all public procedures, briefed on the potential outcomes, including death and dismemberment that can occur in Otherspace.
Any operative found abusing the use of Otherspace will be punished accordingly.
-Sashine
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