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Chapter

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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Comprehension

by Tower Curator — It took a few hours for the portal back to the real world to open. At first, Dyna and November had considered wandering off in search of a natural spatial anomaly or somewhere Dyna could use her stolen information from the mountain man to force open a gap in the noosphere—though she hadn’t said that part aloud—however, O’Neil stopped them. He was certain that the scientists would reopen the portal. They did, though not right away. First, they opened up tiny pinhole portals for a good hour or…
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Composition 4

by Tower Curator — Dyna slammed the door shut to the control room, not sure if she should spin the wheel to lock it or not. If Specimen Seven followed her through the halls, it might delay it. If it went straight for the vents, it might delay her. Casting a quick glance upward, she quickly found a grate dangling from a single screw in the cylindrical ventilation shaft that ran overhead. The other screws looked like they had been ripped right out of their sockets. Leaving the door partially locked, Dyna hurried further…
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Chapter

Compatibility

by Tower Curator — Walter stared down to the depths of the Vault. Psionically shielded glass separated him from the deep pit. Heavy vault doors lined the cylindrical room, layered on top of each other with no floor or connecting walkways between. There were only six doors on each level, but Walter couldn’t see the top or bottom of the shaft. A platform, dwarfed by the empty space around it, climbed a sextet of pillars in the center of the room, one pillar for each corner of the hexagonal platform. Three men stood on the…
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Communications Established

by Tower Curator — 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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Coil Gun

by Tower Curator — “So,” Dyna said, pulling an internally-suppressed pistol from Walter’s cache of weapons. She didn’t know what kind of weapon it was, but it looked far sleeker and newer than anything she had used before. Dyna wasn’t surprised that his car had just as many weapons stashed away as Emerald’s car and, after seeing the car itself, she wasn’t surprised that they were just as high-tech. But she was curious… “Why didn’t you use one of these on that mountain man?” “Mountain—” Walter…
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Chapter

Close Encounter

by Tower Curator — “Keep in mind the themes. You will not have analytical tools and will have to rely on intuition based on what the object is or represents. That will likely be the key, attempting to use a mundane object in accordance with its themes should see you infusing your psionic energy into it.” “Alright. And I can do this while already possessing an artifact?” “That answer is slightly more complex. In short, possibly. Though without running tests during the process, we won’t know for…
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Class Canceled

by Tower Curator — “Mel? Are you awake yet?” Dyna asked, tapping her knuckles against her roommate’s door. The clock had just ticked past noon and Melanie’s shoes were still on the rack next to the door. Dyna had been excused from lectures thanks to her morning MRI and CT scans—both of which came back with no obvious anomalies—but for Mel to skip classes likely meant that she had gone out drinking last night. Carroll wasn’t a regular school; everyone in attendance was being paid to be here. If people skipped…
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Chapter

Chaos

by Tower Curator — Dyna’s gun barked three times as she fired down one of the long aisles of the department store. She didn’t stand still after firing, immediately ducking down and moving, keeping a close eye on her mirror to know if she should dive for cover or swap directions. Someone returned fire in her direction. The mirror didn’t change, so they didn’t have eyes on her, but she heard a nearby display case shatter and the bright muzzle flashes momentarily flashed the store with white-orange light. Distant…
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Calm Before the Storm

by Tower Curator — Ruby stepped outside the station wagon, moved around back, and opened up the same weapon-filled case that Dyna had seen Emerald get into. “I know you… forgot your gun,” Ruby said, reaching inside to pull out a small pistol. “We’ll have to train more. You’re still not comfortable carrying it around.” “I don’t even have a permit or license or whatever,” Dyna said. It wasn’t a strong protest. There just wasn’t any point in arguing. With Ruby here and the case of weapons at her…
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