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Definition: Collective Thinking
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Communications Established
Dyna felt like she needed more arms. It wasn’t the first time she felt like this either. Between the mirror, the watch, a gun, and her phone—though she lacked the latter item in this particular instance—she just didn’t have the dexterity to make use of all her equipment. She made a mental note to look into possible gadgets or artifacts that might give her telekinesis of some sort. For now, she had swapped her watch from her left arm to her right arm, letting her hold her gun while leaving her…-
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Tartarus Ejection Port 012
Dyna was in a full-on panic and she knew it. Her periodic therapy sessions with Doctor West had gone over how to identify such situations and calm herself down from them. Knowing what she knew now about her power, knowing that the administrators had known all along, certain aspects of those therapy sessions came across in a different light. Doctor West must have gone over calming exercises specifically to help her stop before she could destabilize the world around her. None of those lessons were helping…-
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Bastet
Dyna shoved back from the tulpa, ripping her hands from its momentarily loosened grip just in time to duck underneath a tiger-sized paw that swept through the air her head had occupied only moments before. Bastet didn’t stop at her. The hefty paw tipped with razor-sharp claws ripped at the tulpa’s throat. Dyna wasn’t sure if the cat goddess was attacking both of them or if she had just been in the way. Scrambling back, Bastet continued to focus on the tulpa, ripping and tearing at it. But the…-
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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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Noosphere Adjacent
“Noosphere adjacent?” Dyna asked, looking around. If she blocked out the impossibly large cavern they were standing in, the place—Tartarus, apparently—looked remarkably similar to the containment areas of both Phrenomorphics and Tartarus—the real-world section. There were large containment units stationed around, though far less organized than either of the real-world locations. Everything was lit in that odd, uniform, near-twilight look to it. That might have been enough to make her realize…-
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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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Tours
Dyna wasn’t sure what she expected Tartarus to be like. The Carroll Institute topside was a relatively modern school campus-like area. It had fairly standard dormitories, overly artistic administrative buildings, auditoriums for lectures, advanced medical facilities for testing and research, and a variety of meditation rooms. Underground, Psychodynamics had an elegance to it. All the wood and brass fixtures made the entire facility feel like a high-class lounge from the early twentieth century. The…-
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Flying High
Dyna shuddered as she looked at the tarmac through the windows of the Idaho Falls Regional Airport. It was a bit of an overcast day. No dark, roiling storm clouds. Just a light gray canopy over the sky. There was a single jet, the small and private type with a long red stripe on its side, out in the boarding area at the moment, pulled up to the jetway. No one was actually boarding, however. This entire section of the airport had been cleared out. Dyna wasn’t sure how the Carroll Institute did it. The…-
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Flash Cards
Routine, Dyna found, helped handle stress more than anything else in her life these days. Dyna woke up every morning at the same time, headed to exercise or training with Ruby and Emerald for the first half of the day—with the occasional guest appearance by Walter or Hematite—followed by experiments or study in both classical college courses or psionics in the afternoons. She tried to eat dinner with Mel, Matt, and November every evening, though their own responsibilities with Phrenomorphics…-
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Alpha
Administrator Alpha scanned the report from the most recent experiment for the umpteenth time. Each reading had her scowl deepening further and further as things just didn’t quite add up. Pulling up the report from Harold’s capture, she compared Dyna’s debriefing there to the one here. The first and most obvious change was the lack of freely offered information. The Harold incident was full of offered conjecture, full thought process of every decision, and ideas for how she could have handled any…-
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