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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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Revelations

by Tower Curator — Dyna awoke to a familiar location, though she was a bit surprised to wake alone, she focused on her surroundings. It took a few moments to recognize it, but the wood and brass architecture matched with the aesthetic of just about any room in Psychodynamics. Except, this wasn’t a room in Psychodynamics. At least, not one she had ever visited. A long couch and a smaller chair, both fashioned in red leather, sat around a small pit of fire. One wall had a rack of weapons, various pistols, submachine guns,…
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Split

by Tower Curator — Knowing what she knew now about Ignotus-33, Dyna expected the mountain man to charge her. Ignotus was an organization out to kill her specifically, as long as Id’s information was correct. Thus, it could be reasoned that the Ouija board incident had been another attempt at killing her. Or perhaps their first real attempt to kill her. Hematite and Ruby being targeted were likely incidental, collateral damage. Even stealing the Ouija board and ransacking her apartment had either been a crime of opportunity…
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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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Tours

by Tower Curator — Dyna wasn’t sure what she expected Tartarus to be like. The Carroll Institute topside was a relatively modern school campus-like area. It had fairly standard dormitories, overly artistic administrative buildings, auditoriums for lectures, advanced medical facilities for testing and research, and a variety of meditation rooms. Underground, Psychodynamics had an elegance to it. All the wood and brass fixtures made the entire facility feel like a high-class lounge from the early twentieth century. The…
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Noosphere Adjacent

by Tower Curator — “Noosphere adjacent?” Dyna asked, looking around. If she blocked out the impossibly large cavern they were standing in, the place—Tartarus, apparently—looked remarkably similar to the containment areas of both Phrenomorphics and Tartarus—the real-world section. There were large containment units stationed around, though far less organized than either of the real-world locations. Everything was lit in that odd, uniform, near-twilight look to it. That might have been enough to make her realize…
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Tartarus Ejection Port 012

by Tower Curator — Dyna was in a full-on panic and she knew it. Her periodic therapy sessions with Doctor West had gone over how to identify such situations and calm herself down from them. Knowing what she knew now about her power, knowing that the administrators had known all along, certain aspects of those therapy sessions came across in a different light. Doctor West must have gone over calming exercises specifically to help her stop before she could destabilize the world around her. None of those lessons were helping…
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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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Retrospective

by Tower Curator — Dyna watched over Doctor Cross’ shoulder, not at all sure what she was looking at. A machine of some kind. The main body had three parts, all made from shiny silvery metal. A spherical chamber with several jutting canisters, a cylinder lit by a dozen bright green lasers shining into it, and a long narrow pipe connecting the two parts together. Cables, pipes, tubes, wires, and all manner of other dangling parts hung off the machine from nearly every point. Dyna wasn’t sure what the day’s tests…
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Investigation

by Tower Curator — Emerald sniffed at the chill air biting her nostrils. Idaho Falls normally had a nature smell to it. Farmland, the Snake River, and the generally undeveloped area all gave it a natural scent. Without a large population and with the rising popularity of electronic vehicles—as slow as the people here were to adopt new technology—exhaust smog was effectively nonexistent. At the moment, however, Emerald didn’t smell much. Cold air had a way of deadening the senses. The natural senses, anyway.…
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