Talk:The University/@comment-35574637-20190731081801

About Chiropterochronometry:

"Bats!" he exclaims. "It's a marvel what we can learn by studying bats!"

Did you know they're sympathetic to a certain frequency? That their wings can be set just like hands on a clock? A well calibrated bat is more dependable than a pocket-watch. Not to mention what else you can encode into their flight patterns. Little things the authorities wouldn't detect.

"It's precisely like the Hamburg Alphabet. Dot dash, dot dash, you know. But rather than writing a message across a page, chiroptera can write it across time. Isn't that right, Mordecai?"

The Department of Paradoxic Optics is mentioned in Sunless Sea to be very interested with the Apocyanic Blue Scintillack. They are constantly being outbidded by the Tomb-Colonist in Venderbight. I wonder why.