Thomas is willing to volunteer for general health, tether scanning, and power tests.
Thomas's strange case (beyond using magic to slow his aging) was that he was (in canon) already someone who was flung from one world to another. He's hoping to find some hint about his world of origin, even if he's convinced himself that the Void Ministry doesn't have the means to physically transport him home. (Even sending or receiving messages would be useful.)
What Thomas doesn't know is that the extradimensional entity that had flung him from his original world (and took steps to keep others out of the bottle universe it had commandeered) was recently killed (as it happens, by Thomas's own granddaughter). Most of the difficulty of getting anything out of the universe/dimension/etc. is still there, but it's something.
(Also Thomas's wife has taken up dimensional travel to find him, and has her own methods to stop her aging, as well as developing a reputation as a bounty hunter. Given that there hasn't been much intersection between the game world and other world-crossing magics/techs, it probably won't come up.)
Re: SCA Experiments
Thomas's strange case (beyond using magic to slow his aging) was that he was (in canon) already someone who was flung from one world to another. He's hoping to find some hint about his world of origin, even if he's convinced himself that the Void Ministry doesn't have the means to physically transport him home. (Even sending or receiving messages would be useful.)
What Thomas doesn't know is that the extradimensional entity that had flung him from his original world (and took steps to keep others out of the bottle universe it had commandeered) was recently killed (as it happens, by Thomas's own granddaughter). Most of the difficulty of getting anything out of the universe/dimension/etc. is still there, but it's something.
(Also Thomas's wife has taken up dimensional travel to find him, and has her own methods to stop her aging, as well as developing a reputation as a bounty hunter. Given that there hasn't been much intersection between the game world and other world-crossing magics/techs, it probably won't come up.)