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Evasion

by Tower Curator — “If we exit to the street side, will we run into the threat?” Dyna asked. Beatrice wasn’t giving them an exit. She had to do it herself. The planchette shuddered. Why? Was the question not specific enough? Was ‘run into’ too vague? Dyna obviously didn’t mean physically sprint into someone, but did the board know that? How did it decide how to parse her questions? Some obviously had been less than specific, but she still got answers. “Will the threat—” “This is taking too…
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Theta

by Tower Curator — “She’s becoming a problem.” “Becoming? She’s been a problem since the moment we discovered her.” “We’re lucky to have discovered her. Imagine what she could have done in someone else’s hands.” “What she did do in other’s hands. I, for one, do not believe Tartarus was an organization at all this time last year. She’s manufacturing new enemies for us out of nothing. Likely thanks to careless words delivered by our artificers.” “Perhaps it is time we reexamine our…
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Situational Awareness

by Tower Curator — The Men’s Wearhouse was, as far as Dyna and Emerald could tell, a perfectly average men’s clothing store. They had gone around the building a few times, both inside and outside, to ensure that it wasn’t some front for Ignotus-33 or a trap for them. Emerald had been snooping about in stopped time, checking employee only areas and snooping about. She had been unable to locate any secret passages, hidden rooms, or scraps of paper that didn’t look like they belonged. Dyna didn’t have much in…
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Stolen Information

by Tower Curator — Emerald’s car was the sort of thing that Dyna expected from an overly prepared doomsday prepper. She had seen the armory of weapons in the back before, which ranged from a dozen pistols of varying makes to high precision sniper rifles, but was still surprised with the sheer amount of stuff that she had to dig through to get to Emerald’s stash of ballistic vests. Long-lasting food, mostly in the form of Meals Ready-to-Eat, literal kegs of water, wilderness survival gear, first-aid and other emergency…
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Guilt

by Tower Curator — “I really have to protest,” Dyna said, hurrying down the hall alongside Administrators Theta and Gamma. “Id came in good faith to deliver a warning. I admit that I don’t like her much, but even still, this is an asshole thing to do.” “Id is not being imprisoned, Onyx,” Gamma said. “Her presence here is for her protection. We have not even demanded that she remove her mask despite the advantage Sapphire could give us over Tartarus.” “Has she asked to leave?” Dyna asked.…
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Flying High

by Tower Curator — Dyna shuddered as she looked at the tarmac through the windows of the Idaho Falls Regional Airport. It was a bit of an overcast day. No dark, roiling storm clouds. Just a light gray canopy over the sky. There was a single jet, the small and private type with a long red stripe on its side, out in the boarding area at the moment, pulled up to the jetway. No one was actually boarding, however. This entire section of the airport had been cleared out. Dyna wasn’t sure how the Carroll Institute did it. The…
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Flash Cards

by Tower Curator — Routine, Dyna found, helped handle stress more than anything else in her life these days. Dyna woke up every morning at the same time, headed to exercise or training with Ruby and Emerald for the first half of the day—with the occasional guest appearance by Walter or Hematite—followed by experiments or study in both classical college courses or psionics in the afternoons. She tried to eat dinner with Mel, Matt, and November every evening, though their own responsibilities with Phrenomorphics…
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Tartarus Labs and Demo StageTartarus Hardware Laboratories and Demonstration Stage

by Tower Curator — “Um, hello—” Tina’s voice cut off with a sharp squealing noise of a microphone too close to a speaker. “Gah! That’s loud.” Dyna stopped where she was, glad for any excuse to take a moment of rest. She considered herself quite athletic. That hadn’t always been the case. Before becoming an artificer, she had been a lot more lethargic. Now? After all the training and effort she had put into living up to the likes of Ruby and Emerald? She found it disappointing that she still wasn’t…
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P-Beam

by Tower Curator — P-Beam clipped to the backpack’s harness, Dyna used her submachine gun to dispatch several tulpa within Id’s workshop. Unsure about how well the experimental weapon would work on the eye-tulpa, she wanted to save as much of its limited charge as possible. Until she needed it, a gun worked just fine. Though, given that heavy door requiring a handprint to open, Dyna was a little surprised that she needed a weapon at all. She just wasn’t sure how the tulpa got inside. Then again, she wasn’t sure…
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B.E.A.T.R.I.C.E.

by Tower Curator — Dyna wasn’t sure if her successful departure from Tartarus was thanks to her power or simply because Ignotus didn’t bother attacking the train. She was too busy trying not to think about it out of fear that her fears would change reality and turn the situation into a nightmare. It was already precarious enough. Her mirror had been black throughout the entire journey to the city. No one was observing her directly, but hostile threats remained in the area. She expected that to change as she got…
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