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Definition: Collective Thinking
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Paranoia
Dyna took therapy. Doctor Bellows, a psychiatrist who formerly worked for NASA. A nice man, if a bit formal. Dyna had one session a week, barring certain events, mandated by the Carroll Institute. She was supposed to deal with self-esteem issues and paranoia. Watching an old woman standing on the sidewalk across the street from her apartment, taking photographs of everything around, had her paranoia acting up. She looked like an old woman. She had a walker with tennis balls on the ends. Her camera…-
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Priority Objective
They stole the Ouija board. It was the only explanation. The fifth threat, the one that neither Dyna nor Hematite could account for, hadn’t engaged in combat. The group was looking for artifacts. They could easily have had detection tools similar to what Tartarus had. Dyna hadn’t checked the bodies for such tools; she was focused more on weapons than other equipment. How were they planning on extracting themselves from the situation and the city? Grafton had tried using the airport. Would they do…-
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Wedding Crashers
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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Following the Cracks
“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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Encounter Id
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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Impromptu Appointments
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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Confrontations
“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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Doorknocker
Unfortunately, getting an experiment setup wasn’t as easy as running down to Psychotronics—or Phrenomorphics, in this case—and finding the first scientist available. There were a few rules and protocols to follow. Really, it was much easier doing these kinds of things on her own, but Dyna was fairly sure that she would be in a lot more trouble if she went off and caused another incident trying to do things on her own. She had tested the institute’s patience, found it quite great, but was worried…-
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Welcome to Tartarus
It took a long few hours to fully explain what was, in effect, mostly conjecture analyzed by a few million instances of Dyna. All the information Dyna had on Alpha, how she got it, and the existence of Dyna-tulpa. Seeing that Id was also a tulpa of Dyna, somehow, didn’t exactly make her more trustworthy in Dyna’s eyes. While Dyna could understand Id’s motivations a bit more now, she had a hard time believing that she would do all that invasion of her mind and manipulation to herself. Still, given…-
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Blank Thoughts
“They aren’t literal gods,” Darq explained as they ran through the noosphere-adjacent facility. “They’re more like the idea of gods.” Dyna stopped abruptly as a catwalk ahead of them fell through a bottomless pit. “Is that any better?” she asked through clenched teeth. “Yes.” Darq, seemingly unconcerned by the sorry state of the facility, simply turned and began walking in a different direction. He didn’t even pause in his strides. “If they were actual, original beings, the…-
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