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As determined as you are to describe and depict everything you can see of the Nine-Dozen, it still takes some time before the proverbial well starts to run dry, and you find that you are repeating yourself, describing the same things over again, just in different ways and word. Still, for the sake of any future attempts at recreating such a gargantuan Nodule, you make a split-second decision to jot everything down regardless of how redundant it might seem at the time. After all, you are battered and tired - not to mention under the effect of a ranged-remediation cast - effects that you might not completely understand, or even be aware of. There are those ... disquieting, roiling surges of paranoia, quick to come, quick to leave, though notably, you haven't had any since you began your documentation work here, so you fail to see at the moment how you could tell if they were an effect of the cast, an effect of being in the presence of the Construct - or just your nerves unraveling from everything you have been buried under. But while that is all questions still, the your physical reaction to the cast - which you would judge to still be slowly slakening away - has been incontrovertible. And how long did it take for the realization to roost that the chills, the aches, the assorted pains - that it was the work of a slow-burning, distant Mystery? Perhaps you have grown overly ... concerned ... but, truly, what if it becomes apparent that there was another effect at some later point, an effect that ... clouded your judgement, or otherwise enfeebled your powers of observation, more-so than just the stresses and sleeplessness?
So it is with this in mind that you write down everything that comes to you, recording every thought that you have, even the ones that seem to cover already covered ground - hedging your bets, that the second or even third description of the Nodule might carry some seemingly inconsequential detail omitted in the first. A mistake, an oversight here would be unforgivable - regardless if it was caused by an unknown effect of the Mystery, a known effect, or something entirely more mundane. So you sketch and scribe until you are as satisfied as you can be under the circumstances. You blow on the last bits of ink to dry them down, then you take a moment to look at the Construct. While you have gone over every square inch of it now, depicted every Glyph, accounted for every protuberance - all you have really seen is the Membrane and the Governor. If you want to see the body of the Nodule itself - and you desperately do - then you are going to have to try to peel back some of the Membrane, to properly see what lies underneath.
