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Following the Cracks

by Tower Curator — “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

by Tower Curator — 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

by Tower Curator — 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

by Tower Curator — “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

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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Welcome to Tartarus

by Tower Curator — 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

by Tower Curator — “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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Bastet

by Tower Curator — 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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Interdiction Order

by Tower Curator — Dyna stepped into darkness. Stepped was probably the wrong word. There was a certain drifting feeling to everything around her. She wasn’t floating, but it felt like she might be able to float if she remembered that gravity didn’t exist in someone’s mindscape. Nothing she saw would be real. This world would be populated entirely by nonmaterial mental concepts. Much like the noosphere, in a way, except instead of a collective amalgamation of thought forming that world, this place was entirely…
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Amputation

by Tower Curator — “So, Alpha, Lambda, Xi, Omicron, and Omega have all voted to have me killed? Wait… They’ve held votes about whether or not they should kill me?” “This is correct. Following the discovery of your power approximately one year ago, several options for handling your power were brought up. Originally, Lambda was the one pushing for your elimination. Alpha only became vocal about it following your second encounter with Id. “Recently, Alpha has pushed for your elimination. Lambda will usually…
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