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Definition: Collective Thinking
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Protection
Dyna set her phone down on the small table of her dormitory living room. There were… a lot more kidnappings around the Los Angeles area than she had thought there would be. Information wasn’t easy to come by either. Dyna expected to need little more than a simple search to pull up a list of all kidnappings in the county. She hadn’t been able to find anything like that. Instead, she had found a list of statistics. Having lived there, she never would have suspected that ninety thousand children…-
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Proposing an Experiment
Preparing for possibilities took the form of more training. Part of that was the usual firearm practice, exercise routines, and tactical-simulated combat. Another part took the form of brainstorming. “I do believe this is what I was warning you about,” November said, seated in the rear seat of Emerald’s station wagon. Although the vehicle had a rear bench, Emerald really only intended for occupants in the front two seats. All her weaponry and supplies took up a great deal of space throughout…-
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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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Plotting
“What the bleep are we doing out here?” Ruby said, rubbing her gloved hands together in the cold air. She wore a thick coat, one quite a bit too big for her. The lower edge hung down around her knees, making it look more like some kind of coat-dress. It looked a whole lot warmer than Dyna’s coat. Before moving to Idaho, she never owned anything heavier than a light jacket. It just didn’t get that cold in Los Angeles. Now? Here in Idaho’s November? She had gone out and purchased a much thicker…-
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Plain Jane
Artifacts produced a wide variety of effects, but not too many of those effects were fully confirmed. Some were obvious. The Red Feather, said to be a feather from the mythological phoenix, caused spontaneous combustion to flammable objects in its immediate vicinity. Others were more subtle. The Writer’s Journal was a leatherbound notebook that, on its first page, had a small animated window looking into a small island that had yet to be located out in the real world. Aside from the animated window, no…-
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Pastries and Pursuit
Dyna had been given the incredibly imprecise instruction of bonding with her selected artifact. It was only after arriving in Idaho Falls that Dyna realized that Doctor Cross hadn’t told her how to actually do that. Neither had the technician, Harold—pretty much all he had done was complain about Doctor Cross. Under normal circumstances, she would simply have called them up and asked. There were two problems with that at the moment. The first was that neither had given her contact information. That…-
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Paranormal Investigation
“Where is Hematite going to die? How is Hematite going to die? When is Hematite going to die?” Each question brought with it a scratching noise as the rough felt under the planchette slid across the larger board. Some questions Dyna asked got definite answers. Where was Hematite going to die? Central Park. Presumably a park in or near Idaho Falls and not the famed park in New York. The latter was a bit too far away to fit within the time scale of when Hematite was going to die. Two…-
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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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P-Beam
P-Beam clipped to the backpack’s harness, Dyna used her submachine gun to dispatch several tulpa within Id’s workshop. Unsure about how well the experimental weapon would work on the eye-tulpa, she wanted to save as much of its limited charge as possible. Until she needed it, a gun worked just fine. Though, given that heavy door requiring a handprint to open, Dyna was a little surprised that she needed a weapon at all. She just wasn’t sure how the tulpa got inside. Then again, she wasn’t sure…-
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Onyx
Dyna looked over the longest incident report she had ever written, skimming it to check for any major errors or falsehoods while also making sure that a handful of details weren’t accidentally present. Dyna had no intentions of revealing Beatrice’s unshackled nature to the larger Carroll Institute. Neither did she intend to let them know what Id was. There were a few other items of note to be left off but those were the major ones. Removing the data drive from her terminal, Dyna stood, stretched,…-
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