Abstract of Item: Wooden pillars

[geminianeyes]

2 stacks of round wooden pillars found in the warehouse. Intricately carved, the styles are reminiscent of the Kedah/Kelantan woodcarver masters. One stack, with carvings of the garuda and other creatures, was found leaning against the wall. The other had geometric shapes, suggesting it was meant for an Islamic house. At least that's what the delivery sheet said (what ink did these guys use?)

Measurements:
Weight: 0 kg
Height: 9 feet long
Diameter: 6 inches

Closer inspection reveals a hidden compartment in just one pillar in each stack, while the rest have hidden openings designed for the insertion of what might seem a tiny vial glass tubes. All pillars have tiny holes and a hollowed centre. There's not enough holes to weaken the wood, but enough to suggest they have been drilled deliberately.

Comment: We found some glass tubes and containers nearby these stacks of wood. Judging from the old, old notice stuck on both the stacks and the glass containers, they're meant to work together. Perhaps it's a prototype perfume-releasing kind of pillars? The Garuda ones were to have been sent to a Balinese shrine I think.

Also, who took my portable weighing machine??

Comments

[horusporus]

interesting. Do you think it's a prototype? I'm curious to see if this means somehow there's no longer a societal trend for incense or bunga rampai.

[geminianeyes]

I suspect so. This seems to be a more "neater" way of distributing the aroma itself, and I can foresee this being very popular in mortuaries and temples where they need the scent to last for quite some time.

The glass containers are intriguing. I believe they're meant to hold essential oils, which means theoretically they could use a little bit of oil to perfume the entire room?

[horusporus]

You'll still need a heat source to agitate the scent molecules (stupid refresher course on perfumes came in handy after all). did you detect any?

re: weighing machine - is it the one that's cunningly shaped like a durian? cos i could swear one of our minions, i mean interns, absconded with it.

[geminianeyes]

Nope, which is why I wondered if it were a prototype. I haven't had the chance to explore the glasses yet.

[horusporus]

lemme kno! also don't forget the office flame-retardant suit needs to be put back in its case by 7pm.

[geminianeyes]

Ok! *kicks suit under table*

[horusporus]

imma pretend i didnt see tht.... because i dint!!

[frangipani]

Ah, apologies -- I fear that one of my assistants might have, er, borrowed your weight machine.

[horusporus]

madam i ain't suggesting the sodium pentothal for nothing.

[frangipani]

They will have to learn to get by with a judicious dose of caffeine like everyone else. Our health insurance doesn't cover liver failure.

[horusporus]

quoi.
*puts down rum*

[nyarlathotep]

Yeah, you and I need words on that fingerprint in the middle of the goddamn manuscript I was trying to transcribe.

I could smell a certain fermented molasses-like substance. Gloves cannot, is it?

[horusporus]

wtf u kno i am differently abled. r u saying my tentacles have fingerprints. :(

[nyarlathotep]

For the last time: they're not tentacles.

[horusporus]

:( :( :( :( :(

[nyarlathotep]

They're not, okay? It's some kind of goddamn quantum flux thing.