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Definition: Collective Thinking
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A Gift for Cross
Doctor Phillip Cross stepped away from the terminal screen with a sad shake of his head. They were getting nowhere. The small fog-emitting machine demonstrated exactly one anomalous effect and it was nowhere near the level of proper artifacts. The only unusual property of the fog machine was that it didn’t need to be refilled or charged. It could run perpetually and indefinitely—or at least for seven days, the longest they had tried thus far—and would emit the same level of white clouds of fog, never…-
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The First Words
Two weeks following Mel’s successful use of the fog machine, Dyna found herself seated on the floor of her insulated apartment room. The Ouija board sat in front of her, the wolf statue loomed over the ‘No’ corner, and the voodoo doll was slumped over near the ‘Yes’ corner with its crochet hands touching the planchette. The planchette wasn’t moving. Dyna didn’t really expect it to. In fact, despite that being something she was trying to change, it felt like it would be a bit spooky…-
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Evasion
“If we exit to the street side, will we run into the threat?” Dyna asked. Beatrice wasn’t giving them an exit. She had to do it herself. The planchette shuddered. Why? Was the question not specific enough? Was ‘run into’ too vague? Dyna obviously didn’t mean physically sprint into someone, but did the board know that? How did it decide how to parse her questions? Some obviously had been less than specific, but she still got answers. “Will the threat—” “This is taking too…-
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Theta
“She’s becoming a problem.” “Becoming? She’s been a problem since the moment we discovered her.” “We’re lucky to have discovered her. Imagine what she could have done in someone else’s hands.” “What she did do in other’s hands. I, for one, do not believe Tartarus was an organization at all this time last year. She’s manufacturing new enemies for us out of nothing. Likely thanks to careless words delivered by our artificers.” “Perhaps it is time we reexamine our…-
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Situational Awareness
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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Stolen Information
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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Guilt
“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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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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Tartarus Labs and Demo Stage
“Um, hello—” Tina’s voice cut off with a sharp squealing noise of a microphone too close to a speaker. “Gah! That’s loud.” Dyna stopped where she was, glad for any excuse to take a moment of rest. She considered herself quite athletic. That hadn’t always been the case. Before becoming an artificer, she had been a lot more lethargic. Now? After all the training and effort she had put into living up to the likes of Ruby and Emerald? She found it disappointing that she still wasn’t…-
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