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Evaluation

by Tower Curator — Dyna didn’t wait for the nonsense of secret handshake numbers. The second Walter answered his phone, she shouted into the receiver, “Do you have a way of tracking Ruby?” “Tracking?” “Some chip implanted in her phone or… skin or something. You’ve got to have something, right?” Dyna asked. She switched the phone to speaker mode so that she could go back to scrolling through her notes and emails to herself. “Ruby was supposed to be here. She wasn’t supposed to leave my side for any…
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Artifacts

by Tower Curator — Doctor Cross led Dyna back down into Psychodynamics. A different section of the underground research facility than she had visited last time, though the end destination was somewhat similar. Instead of a red leather chair in a room that looked like something out of the nineteen-twenties, there was a single large table. One with polished wood and smooth, sleek brass detail work. Of course, Dyna wasn’t there for the table. The objects on the table interested her far more. She watched through a…
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The Fastest Available Route

by Tower Curator — “This system is operating in a limited capacity.” “I know you can help,” Dyna said between breaths. “You’re a lot more capable than Ruby says.” “Understood.” “Is that a yes? Great. I need to find… a police car. I don’t know the license plate or any other identifying information. The officer said his name. It was something like Olive. Don’t remember exactly. There is a guy in the back seat who walks with a limp and has machinery attached to the right side of his…
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Sane Texts

by Tower Curator — “Look. All I’m asking is why Beatrice would use this method of getting into contact with you.” “I don’t know. She did the same thing before when she told me to touch the artifact without actually telling me to touch the artifact,” Dyna said as she reset the timers on several scheduled emails intended for herself. “Maybe something about the situation forced her to do this.” Ruby scoffed. “Assuming she couldn’t just call you, or whatever, why not text or email? You think hacking…
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Road Trip

by Tower Curator — Dyna stood, stretching her back until a series of snaps ran up her spine. The drive hadn’t been that long, but it had forced her to sit roughly in one position in a rather small electric car for half the day. And she had insisted on driving. Ruby could drive, in a technical sense. Dyna wasn’t quite sure how many rules of the road she actually knew. Let her handle the high-stress situations if they came. For just a calm drive across some flat, relatively empty roads, Dyna was more than…
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Race to the Target

by Tower Curator — Dyna sped through the subdivisions at frankly unsafe speeds. Normally, she thought she was a safe driver. She might not exactly follow the speed limit, but she didn’t go so fast that she thought she was in danger of being pulled over. Without fail, she used her blinker, didn’t swerve through multiple lanes of traffic, and kept a respectful yet not aggravating distance from other vehicles. Today, however, she didn’t know that she had time to play it safe. Matt was almost certainly out here in one…
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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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Experimentation

by Tower Curator — Dyna sat in her dormitory room. It felt like months since she had been able to just sit around and relax. In reality, it had only been about one month. A month filled with debriefings over every aspect of what had happened in Wyoming, testing to ensure that there were no lingering effects from being in close contact with entities, regular training sessions, and more besides. Every day was long, hectic, and exhausting. Even if those days consisted of sitting around in a meeting room listening to other…
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A Gift for Cross

by Tower Curator — Doctor Phillip Cross stepped away from the terminal screen with a sad shake of his head. They were getting nowhere. The small fog-emitting machine demonstrated exactly one anomalous effect and it was nowhere near the level of proper artifacts. The only unusual property of the fog machine was that it didn’t need to be refilled or charged. It could run perpetually and indefinitely—or at least for seven days, the longest they had tried thus far—and would emit the same level of white clouds of fog, never…
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The First Words

by Tower Curator — Two weeks following Mel’s successful use of the fog machine, Dyna found herself seated on the floor of her insulated apartment room. The Ouija board sat in front of her, the wolf statue loomed over the ‘No’ corner, and the voodoo doll was slumped over near the ‘Yes’ corner with its crochet hands touching the planchette. The planchette wasn’t moving. Dyna didn’t really expect it to. In fact, despite that being something she was trying to change, it felt like it would be a bit spooky…
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