FDS: Handling Step 2 — When

AUDIO: "Good enough. When was this?"

Response Options:

Continue routine

• I've said aloud and written down when it was

Change

• Blow

• Shutting down | Don't want to continue | Realization

Write on Report:

Write down the false datum. BIG!
Write the source
Write when it was
For example:

FALSE DATUM: GJKRE KJWEE QPOLS DN NHNSW MNHCBD FGHET!

Source? Pwhn ndbe bhsv xsjee mnk.
When? LLkp njht.

Notes:

When

You simply want to spot when it was, either precisely or roughly. If you can be precise, great, but don't beat yourself up over it.

Difficulty in spotting the answer

If you really cannot answer this question, again see if you can take some charge off the incident of receiving the false datum, using the usual Rub & Yawn procedure, but don't overdo it. You only need to take enough charge off to be able to answer this question.

Simply use informal Rub & Yawn procedure

If you do need to Rub & Yawn here, then just do it. There is no need (this time, anyway) for any formality or opening up other pages. Just have your topic in mind, rub away for a bit, and get some charge off. Again the caution to not overdo it, as you do not want to take off all the charge from it that you can, but just enough to enable the spotting of the source of the false datum. This is important.

Say it aloud

State the answer to the main question aloud, and write it down on your report.

Don't overdo the FDS procedure

At any time in this procedure, once you have located a false datum:

if it seems that the charge on the false datum has blown, and
it is not acting on you any longer as a hidden datum, then

don't continue with the procedure to blow this particular false datum! Click the "Blow" link.