About Tower Curator
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“What is going on?” Dyna hissed, walking alongside Id. Walter and November were discussing what just happened a step ahead of them. A facility alert for a containment breach was nothing to dismiss lightly. It would probably be a month minimum before experimentation with that anti-tulpa weapon continued simply because they would have to figure out what happened and how to prevent it from happening again. With a slightly different perspective from everyone else, Dyna was ninety-nine percent…-
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Knowing for a fact that someone was out to kill her felt like it should have changed things for Dyna. Instead, she found herself going about her days roughly the same. She got up in the mornings, exercised, had breakfast, went to meetings, trainings, or spent time on her gadgets. The content and context of all her activities had changed. She was now actively working toward both defending herself from oblique attackers, like those snipers who had very nearly shot her, as well as coming up with…-
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Kit Maple looked at the phone on his desk, checked the caller, and quickly silenced the phone. There were a lot of things he was paid to do. His business card identified him as a logistics director. In reality, he was more of a handyman. Sure, he acquired things needed by the slowly growing number of personnel within Tartarus, but he also handled the personnel themselves. He interviewed everyone and he conducted background checks. He kept operations running smoothly and acted as a human resources…-
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“I really have to protest,” Dyna said, hurrying down the hall alongside Administrators Theta and Gamma. “Id came in good faith to deliver a warning. I admit that I don’t like her much, but even still, this is an asshole thing to do.” “Id is not being imprisoned, Onyx,” Gamma said. “Her presence here is for her protection. We have not even demanded that she remove her mask despite the advantage Sapphire could give us over Tartarus.” “Has she asked to leave?” Dyna asked.…-
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For once, Dyna felt like the Carroll Institute actually had her back. Maybe that was unfair. The institute usually had her back, but it just felt like their support vaporized the moment bullets started flying. Granted, bullets were not flying at the moment so there was still time for everything to go sideways, but Dyna didn’t feel like that would happen today. Dyna walked into Brown Bear’s Bar and Grill secure in knowing that she had Ruby, Emerald, and even Walter observing the happenings. Ruby…-
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If Dyna had known that she wasn’t going to be allowed to sit in on Harold’s interrogation, she would have asked him a few questions of her own while it was just her and Emerald. Though perhaps it was for the best. While she didn’t think that she would get hypnotized again, not now that she knew to watch out for it and what to watch out for, but if she did, she wasn’t sure that she would live down the embarrassment. Assuming he didn’t just kill her this time. In any case, Harold remained…-
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“I can’t believe I missed that,” Emerald said as she raced the station wagon through the streets of Idaho Falls. “You searched while time was stopped, right?” Dyna said, keeping her eyes closed while she pinched the bridge of her nose. Sorting through foreign memories to try to figure out what was relevant to the current situation and what wasn’t hurt her brain. She had probably only gotten a small taste of what it might be like to be Sapphire and she hated it. It was no wonder he was such a…-
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Emerald’s car was the sort of thing that Dyna expected from an overly prepared doomsday prepper. She had seen the armory of weapons in the back before, which ranged from a dozen pistols of varying makes to high precision sniper rifles, but was still surprised with the sheer amount of stuff that she had to dig through to get to Emerald’s stash of ballistic vests. Long-lasting food, mostly in the form of Meals Ready-to-Eat, literal kegs of water, wilderness survival gear, first-aid and other emergency…-
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The Men’s Wearhouse was, as far as Dyna and Emerald could tell, a perfectly average men’s clothing store. They had gone around the building a few times, both inside and outside, to ensure that it wasn’t some front for Ignotus-33 or a trap for them. Emerald had been snooping about in stopped time, checking employee only areas and snooping about. She had been unable to locate any secret passages, hidden rooms, or scraps of paper that didn’t look like they belonged. Dyna didn’t have much in…-
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Dyna didn’t often leave the Carroll Institute these days. It wasn’t that she was afraid or anything. In fact, she was pretty sure a small part of her wanted Ignotus to show up. But the simple fact was that her excursions out of the institute in the past had been to experiment with her ability in an environment where the administrators wouldn’t try to shut her down. Now that she had permission, there simply was little reason to head into Idaho Falls on the regular. Most days, anyway. Today,…-
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