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Doorknocker

by Tower Curator — 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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Doctor Teeth

by Tower Curator — Walter could have warned her. She wasn’t sure that it would have helped, but at least she would have beeen able to mentally prepare. Sapphire was… Dyna didn’t want to say anything rude as she didn’t really know him, but… Sapphire’s head lolled to one side. His blue eyes didn’t look at Dyna or at the two obvious technicians working on various consoles and terminals. His lips didn’t quite move and yet words formed in the air—not in Dyna’s mind—as he spoke. “My presence isn’t…
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Doctor Frankenstein

by Tower Curator — The Psychic Detector looked even more imposing from the base. Craning her neck back gave Dyna a dizzying moment of vertigo before she shook the feeling off. There wasn’t time to sit around gawking. There were still tulpa around and who knew what Alpha was planning now that she had gotten out of that trap. Entering the detector superstructure felt like the kind of place that people weren’t regularly meant to traverse. The door, unlocked with her bobby pin just beyond the garage-like dock for the…
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Debriefing

by Tower Curator — With the emergency situation dying down, or at least not escalating any further, Dyna found herself able to sit still and relax for the first time in what felt like days, even though it had only been a few hours. The alleged safe house was little more than an abandoned arcade building. Dyna wasn’t sure how safe the blue and yellow checkered building actually was, but wood covered all the windows and a storage garage around the back hid the station wagon from any passing eyes. With Emerald casually…
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Crossing the Stage

by Tower Curator — Dyna stepped out of the truck and looked around. The odd readings from the truck apparently brought them here. A larger building with two wings splitting off from a main structure. The bricks were worn, windows were broken, and a pillar out front looked like it had been hit by a car—hopefully it wasn’t load-bearing. Faded lettering above the main entrance identified the structure as a high school. Exactly what its name had been was lost to a fairly impressive yet incomplete mural of…
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Countdown

by Tower Curator — Dyna had a problem. Lots of problems, actually, including several that she probably didn’t even know about. But this particular problem was obvious and cumbersome. Encumbering, one might say. Artifacts came in all shapes and sizes, as long as the artifact could be considered a single object. A pocket watch was made of many parts, but all those parts made just a watch in the end. Dyna’s mirror consisted of a case, two reflective lenses, and a camera lens, yet it was still just a spy mirror. Ruby’s…
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Continuity Engine

by Tower Curator — “Shut it down. Shut it all down. Not the Continuity Engine!” Lights dimmed. Vats of suspended brains stopped their bubbling. Terminals winked off. One by one, the equipment in the large room stopped moving. All except the large machine that looked like three turbine engines arrayed around a grated fan set into the floor. Arcs of electricity danced between tall metal poles. Coils of wire hummed in a gentle vibration around the large rotors. “Mister Maple, proceed with relocation checklist.…
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Continuity Collapse

by Tower Curator — Knowing there was something lurking in the darkness made the tight corridors of the Psychic Detector’s underground all the more claustrophobic. Her bullets hadn’t done anything to it. Or anything obvious, anyway. That only served to make her more tense. If it did pop out of the ventilation and attack, Dyna’s only defense was to reset time and hope that changing her actions changed its actions enough that it didn’t rip her apart. This place was designed to manufacture tulpa. She couldn’t…
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Contained

by Tower Curator — As Dyna pulled the trigger on the disruptor, sending the Hatman into a full-powered spasm, two things stood out to her. The first regarded the Hatman himself. He was angry, obviously. That much should probably be expected given the situation last time she had been around him. Being locked down by the disruptor gun had not made him pleased. But the most important part was that he seemed angry with her. He was here in the auditorium and he was looking at Dyna. Unless something had happened back in the…
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Conspiracies

by Tower Curator — 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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