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Ticket Escalation

by Tower Curator — Dyna wiped a bit of sweat from her brow as she stepped back into the small hallway. The apartment was coming along nicely. Dyna had gone out and found a cheap place to rent. It had a single bedroom, a single bathroom, and a tiny kitchen, dining room, and living room that were all basically the same room. It had come with a fridge and stove, but no other furniture. Just a bunch of empty faux-hardwood floor. That suited Dyna just fine. She didn’t intend to live here. Maybe she could get a cheap couch…
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Administrator Theta

by Tower Curator — Following her arrival back on campus, Dyna realized that she had no idea where to go. A quick call to Beatrice resolved that problem. She had figured that she would be directed down into the deepest darkest depths of Psychodynamics, deeper even than the Vault, perhaps. However, instead of taking the elevator in the administration building down underground and into Psychodynamics, the elevator went up. The administration building had the appearance of a modern skyscraper—though stunted with only six…
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Dyna Graves

by Tower Curator — Dyna blinked her eyes open, feeling drowsy, dizzy, and yet unbearably alert at the same time. She tried to sit up but a hand against her chest pressed her back down. “Woah, hold on there. Take it easy. It isn’t everyday that you wake up from elective brain surgery.” Blinking a few more times cleared the fuzziness from Dyna’s eyes and brought the world into focus. The first thing she saw was herself. Not in a mirror, but in the form of DT, easily identifiable from the size difference between…
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A Day Off

by Tower Curator — “Alright, Miss Graves. You may remove the apparatus.” Dyna straightened her back, gripping the handles built into the armrest of the chair to help pull herself forward. She reached up, undid a small buckle set under her chin, and slowly lifted a complex series of interlocking metal plates off her head. Cables and wires ran up into the ceiling. Most were for data transfer, but a few were connected to winches and counterbalance weights, causing the helmet to practically levitate away from her with…
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Night Rider

by Tower Curator — Dyna felt calm. An unnatural calm, but at the moment, that feeling was rather refreshing. Her worries, her stress, even some of the pain she was in felt muted. It didn’t go away. It was all still there in the back of her mind. She wished the feeling would persist, but she had a feeling the calm state would recede the moment she touched the objects presented to her. The objects in the truck were definitely artifacts. No blind experiment this time, though it probably was still an experiment. At the…
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Pastries and Pursuit

by Tower Curator — 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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Of Doubts and Traitors

by Tower Curator — Dyna moved through the halls of Psychodynamics. The wood and brass walls and the marble tiles had a warm feeling to them. Not the cold, clinical decor of a research laboratory. She had to wonder if it was supposed to be comforting to the people walking through. Psychodynamics, and the Carroll Institute as a whole, delved heavily into the mind. Not just in terms of psychic abilities, but in mental health and psychology as well. They would know better than anyone how to decorate their buildings to achieve a…
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Resonance Cascade

by Tower Curator — Dyna whipped her head around quick enough to pop her neck. Grafton was gone. He must have spotted her and took off. But where? The doors to the gangway were closed. Even a mind controller couldn’t slip through them without opening them. Dyna had been standing right next to them. She would have noticed. No. He must have gone the other direction. Dyna pulled out her mirror, trying to concentrate on the people around her in the hopes that Grafton had view of them. She thought for a moment about…
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Warning: Artifact DetectedWarning: Artifact Instantiation Anomaly Detected

by Tower Curator — Dyna’s back hit hard against the hotel kitchen’s cupboards. Her chest violently rose and fell as she took in breath after breath. Sounds of footsteps had her tightening her grip on the compact pistol. Reaching into her evening gown, she pulled out her mirror. Each of the two lenses showed off different perspectives. Two different people were watching her. With her back to the kitchen island, they couldn’t see her directly, but it was enough for the mirror to work. One of the perspectives came from…
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Butterflies

by Tower Curator — “How is Ruby?” Dyna looked over to the sole bed in their cheap motel. Sitting atop the quilted faded floral covers, Ruby laid on her back with her hands pressed against her eyes. Her face wasn’t quite back to normal yet, but it was at least bearable to look at. She mumbled something under her breath over and over again. Leaning a little closer, Dyna frowned. “I’m not going to kill him. That would fail the mission. I’m not going to kill him. That would fail the mission. I’m not…
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