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>Previous threads can be found at: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=Psion%20Quest
>Behind you, Einstein hovered. You could check his data at any time, you knew: http://pastebin.com/CaAF0yS8

Slowly, waiting, with the other students standing with you, you felt the elevator whirr, gravity lessening and lessening. Summer's... manifestation, you suppose, was left below, while Anna was almost bouncing on her heels, excited.

Slowly, the elevator whirred, and then you were in the hub of the station, the very center, and gravity was gone. Momentum from the elevator shot all of you upward, slightly, Sarvesh soaring the highest before friction pulling you all to a stop.
And in front of you was the first window you'd seen in the station. You were staring at an enormous, bright blue sun, as it pulsed and swelled, plumes of solar flame bursting out seemingly at random.

Everyone went silent, save for Max, who carefully pushed himself down. "Okay, everybody." He said. "There should be some suits for all of you, somewhere in here."
"Over here!" Anna said, leaning into a cabinet and pulling out several suits, tossing them to you and the group. She threw them just hard enough for friction to make them stop in front of you. Sarvesh ended up with a facemask and what looked like some sort of... space apron, with a jetpack built into the back, while Jilly's suit was mostly a large, thin film.
You look down at your suit.
You're not sure how to put it on.
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>>23504943
"Uhh, guys? I've never used one of these before."
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"Um... how exactly do I wear this?"
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>>23504943
"How do I spacesuit."
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>>23504943
"So, uh, how does this work?"
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>>23504943
Make sure we have our jetboots on too.
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>The suits have built-in maneuver jets.
"Uh... guys? I've never used one of these before."
Anna sighed, rolling her eyes, and kicked off of a nearby wall, hooking her ankles into a handhold not near you. It was like seeing a gymnast in action, as well as in zero-g.
"First comes the mask." She said, slipping it on you, adjusting the band tight. "Then you do up the thermal underlayer, like this..."

She worked carefully, deliberately, obviously in her element. Some time later, you were suited, your helmet in your hands. Sarvesh, meanwhile, was slipping on the apron, strapping the jetpack-like device to his back. Summer was having trouble with just her paws, rolling around in zero-g, and Damien, also suited, started to help her.

Jilly twisted on a small silver armlet on, and gave you a look. Your suit's radio crackled, and a synthesized voice came through.
"You've never been in space before?" She asked, as she coiled up her tail and started to slip her own suit on.
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>>23505057
"Up until yesterday I'd never even been off planet before."
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>>23505057
"N-not in just a vaccsuit, no."
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>>23505057
"I've been in space exactly once. The flight here. I lived on Heaven's Jewel my whole life."
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>>23505057
"Well, I never really had the opportunity."
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"N-not in just a vaccsuit, no." You say. "Up until yesterday, I'd never even been off planet before. I lived on Heaven's Jewel my whole life."
"Well, then you get to learn and do new things!" She said, and the lights on her suit flashed yellow, apparently controlled by her own skin tone.

Soon enough, after Anna finished helping Sarvesh readjust his own suit, Max turned back to everyone.
"You all ready?" He asked, and everyone gave their own affirmations.
"Good. To the shuttle we go." He said, and Anna kicked off toward a nearby door, while everyone else clumsily pushed or climbed their way there. Jilly's suit apparently had some strange wings on the back, propelling her forward. You weren't sure why, since such a thing wouldn't work in vacuum.

The shuttle itself was rather cramped, mostly because of Sarvesh, and Summer, and the flight was short.
"Okay, everyone." Max's voice said. "We're at the belt. Are your masks on and activated?"
You check the display in the corner of your eye, and yes, it was activated.
"Then here we go." He said, and the shuttle lost pressure, the side door opening.
>Field too long!
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>>23505182

The sun was smaller, further away, it looked, with the station silhouetted there. The asteroid belt was all around you, rocks spinning and tumbling in place, moving at the same speed you were.
"Don't worry about being hit." Max said. "We have weapons platforms set up through the system, so no errant asteroids will show up and wreck things. Everyone.. turn off your manuvering systems, and let's see how you can get to the small brown asteroid - the one with the flag on it."
>Roll 1d100 for TK!
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Rolled 73

>>23505197
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Rolled 49

>>23505197
"Alright. Here goes... something."
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Rolled 89

>>23505197
TK
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>>23505197
I guess the suits can withstand micrometeorites?
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>>23505302
Plainly the targeting systems on th platforms are just that good.
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"Alright." You say. "Here goes... something."

You close your eyes, hearing nothing but your breathing and the breathing of others through the radio, and you focus... and push yourself forward.
When you open your eyes again, you were soaring forward, into outer space, carefully, oh so carefully, nudging you down toward the flagged asteroid.

Max met you there, Anna already there, even without telekinesis of her own, and when you looked back, you saw Summer, Damien, and Jilly focusing, moving slowly, Jilly's four thin wings flapping uselessly in the vacuum.
Sarvesh didn't move.
He didn't move a muscle, his lower arms contained safely inside the apron tied around the point where his thorax and abdomen met.
You peered through his darkening visor to look at his eyes. There was something... wrong, with the look in his eyes, even as alien as they are.
He was terrified.
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Rolled 69

>>23505398
pullan Sarvesh over here
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Rolled 88

>>23505398
"Sarvesh? Buddy? Talk to me. Are you ok?"
Try and reel him in to the asteroid slowly with TK

>>23505302
Maybe TK auto-protects you from that like it saved us from the falls back home?
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>>23505398
Fly back to him.
"You okay, Sarvesh?"
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>>23505398
"Come on you can do it!"
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>>23505432
>>23505439
Pulling him in isn't gonna help him do this.

Let's just try talking to him.
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>>23505302
>It's a mix of 'they can withstand a few', 'any micrometeorites in the same orbit as the asteroid belt won't be any faster than them (and thus your own current speed)', and 'the ones with the elliptical orbits that could be a danger have been lasered away by the weapons platforms'.
"Sarvesh? Buddy? Talk to me." You say.
He responded slowly, his voice being translated into english as he spoke.
"... It's... I..." He said, trailing off.
"Come on. You can do it." You say.
He went silent again. So you reached out... and pulled. His feet scraped against the floor of the shuttle as you struggled. This much mass wasn't nearly as easy to move as moving yourself, but eventually, he soared down to you, slowing himself to a stop.

You heard him take a deep breath, before buzzing wordlessly in relief.
"... Is everything okay?" Max asked the two of you.
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>>23505529
"Sarvesh? What's wrong?"
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>>23505529
I'm a bit more tired then I should be, but everything else is fine. Right Sarvesh?
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"I'm a bit more tired than I should be, but everything else is fine. Right, Sarvesh?"
He was silent.
"Sarvesh? What's wrong?"
"... I don't like this." He responded, facing Damien. "I don't like this at all. I'm scared."
"Don't worry." Max said, his voice low. It almost sounded like he was losing his patience. "You can turn on your ion manuvering any time, and if you run out of gas, there's us. We can kinesis you back, we need to."
The centaur buzzed and clicked again, and then shook his head. "Okay, I'm ready." He said, finally.

"Okay." Max said, much happier than he just was. "All of you can do basic manuvers from our time in the hub, right?"
Everyone, except Anna gave their affirmations.
"Okay, then this is what we're going to do." He said. "We're going to have a little contest. All of you... are going to race Anna."
Anna waved.
"She'll have her magnetic boots, and these asteroids have enough iron content to carry her." He said. "We'll be doing things one at a time, and the goal is to reach the green flag and come back first. Any questions?"
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>>23505658
nope.
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Rolled 86

>>23505658
"Sounds good."
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Rolled 68

>>23505658
"When do we start?"
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>>23505658
"Anything we shouldn't do, aside from obvious things, like endangering one another?"
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"Anything we shouldn't do, aside from obvious things, like endangering one another?" you ask.
"Not in particular." He said. "... Don't go too fast backward, or you'll start to fall out of orbit, I suppose."
"When do we start?"
"As soon as we figure out the order." Max said. "You seem raring to go, so you may as well go first."
You nod, and eventually Anna was standing next to you in her suit, crouched. Then Max called out to 'go' and she kicked off, already soaring.
You closed your eyes, and focused toward the target... and shot toward it, weaving around asteroids as your opponent bounced from rock to rock. Near the end, she'd started doing something strange - holding out her feet to the asteroids, sparks dancing off of the magnetic boots as they heated, pulling her forward even faster. You set down on one of the asteroids, your own magnetic boots clasping, and touched the flag.
"Alright, that's good. Now hurry back." Max radioed, and you kicked off again.

It wasn't long before you returned to the first asteroid, a furious Anna glowering behind you.
"That was pretty good." Max said. "You have a talent with telekinesis."
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>>23505856
"It's more that I have a talent for Ion Boots, and some of it carries over."

Give Anna a modest smile.
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Rolled 29

>>23505856
"Anna, what were you doing with the magboots? That was so cool!"

try to defuse her embarassment.
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Rolled 8

>>23505856
"That was fun!"
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>>23505912
accidental roll, my bad.
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>>23505856
Change the subject by asking her what she did.
"It was cool" or something like that.
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>>23505856
Make sure Sarvesh is still okay.
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>>23505890
Talent? Wasn't our one attempt to use them what sent us through a frickin' wall?
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"It's more that I have a talent for ion boots, and some of it carries over." You say, giving Anna a modest smile.
She glared back.
"Anna, what were you doing with the magboots?" You ask, and she sighed.
"Overcharged them." She said. "Then used psionics to cool them down and make sure they didn't melt."
"That was so cool!" You gush.
"Would've been cooler if I could turn asteroids into electromagnets." She grumbled to herself.
"Damien, how about you go next?" Max asked.
"I'm going to lose." Damien said.

"I lost." Damien said, as he skidded past your asteroid when he tried to return, Anna giving him a gloating look so obvious that everyone could *feel* it.
"Summer?" Max asked.
Summer nodded, perfectly silently, and suddenly another radio connected to yours - her manifestation. "I'll try my best." She said.
"Sarvesh?" Max asked. "How are you doing?"
Sarvesh didn't respond again. He was staring out. Not out toward the sun, but out toward space. Nothingness.
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>>23506055
>"Would've been cooler if I could turn asteroids into electromagnets."

clearly a woman after our own heart.
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>>23506055
Poke him.
"Yes, electromagnet asteroids would have been awesome"
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>>23506055
>asteroids into electromagnets
look awed. "Yes, that would have been awesome".
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>>23506055
I don't know if the saying translates well sarvesh but 'a penny for your thoughts'? is something making you uncomfortable and do you think talking about it will make the discomfort less?
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>>23506055
>Anna is mean
Get next to Damien. Give him a high five even though he failed. team spirit!
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Your eyes widen. "Yes, that would have been awesome." You say.
"I just need to learn how." Anna said, and sighed, before turning to Summer. "You ready?"
"Yeah." Her manifestation said, over the radio, and the two set off.

You hover closer to Sarvesh, and poke him in the torso.
"I don't know if the saying translates well, Sarvesh, but... a penny for your thoughts?" You ask. "Is something making you uncomfortable?"
"... It's just too big." He said. He was buzzing and clicking, and the translation software didn't even start translating before your minds did. "The whole of everything is too big for me to ever see it all."
He glanced at his cybernetic arm, and went quiet, putting his mandibles into his own mouth.
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>>23506286
"That's why we have to make the most out of what we can see."
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>>23506286
" 'There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio than are dreamed of in your philosophy' yeah I know what you mean; but you can just try your hardest to see what can be seen"

join him in staring down the void for a while in companionable silence
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>>23506286
The most we can do is try. And it's worth it. It means the adventure never ends, and that's a good thing.
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>>23506286
If we turn off our radio, can we telepathy our words to him? Might want to keep this private.
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>>23506373
Oh hey monotreeme, sup.
Feels just like yesterday when we shouted at you in SorQ
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>>23506413
>seconded
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Rolled 56

>>23506416
at what specific thing?

I get shouted at a lot
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>>23506436
Oh, everything.
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You turn off your radio.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy." You quote.
Sarvesh gave you a Look, and he turned off his own.
"The most we can do is try. And it's worth it. It means the adventure never ends, and that's a good thing."
He gave off a low buzz. Something that translated as a 'hmm'.
"... You know why I have this arm?" He asked. "Why I didn't moult, I mean. That's something you didn't ask."

Anna returned, Summer following her, and the asteroid shuddered as they both collided into it, distracting the two of you. The tiger simply drifted away from the asteroid, unhappily.
Max turned to Jilly, and said something, and she and Anna sprung away from the asteroid, the lights on Jilly's suit flashing yellow, signifying giggles.

"Because if I don't moult, I don't age." He said, quietly. "I want to see everything. Everywhere."
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>>23506436
>>23506548
So, "the usual" pretty much.
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>>23506566
I wish you luck then. My life will just be a blip in your adventures.

How will see things that don't last? You can't be everywhere at all times?
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>>23506566
"Well, maybe you'll manage it, then. I wish you luck, Sarvesh."
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>>23506566
"But... Living that long. You'd forget so much more than you'd ever even realize you knew."
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>>23506566

take all things in moderation my friend.
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Rolled 48

>>23506566
your species can do that, just STOP aging? that is impressive; humans cant do that, once my 80years(change of appropriate) are up I die, end of story...

>>23506548
>>23506569
>>23506416
???why this sudden attention I've been in every Exaquest somewhere...
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>>23506566
I envy you for that, a bit.
But, you never know what the wonders of the modern science can accomplish?
Maybe one day we will have clinical immortality,
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>>23506645
I dunno. I was just making a bit of a joke, really.
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>>23506566
You're not alone, sarvesh. There are many others in the past, present, and future who did do and will feel the same. Elsewhere in the universe, even, where you can't even see, i'm sure there's so many you can't even count them. They're probably looking in your direction right now.
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>>23506566
"That's... Wow. Ambitious. I hope you can do it. I don't really know what to say. I hope it'll be worth it, I guess?"

>>23506645
Just remembering the good times.
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Rolled 70

>>23506729
like that hundred that reduced Exabyte to almost incoherent rage?

>>23506682
I see I suppose; I'm more used to people screaming at me for wasting rolls or rolling constantly
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"But... living that long. You'd forget so much more than you'd ever even realize you knew."
"Maybe." He clicked.
"Well, maybe you'll manage it, then." You say. "I wish you luck, Sarvesh."
"Thank you." He said, and nodded.

Then you heard Max growl in your mind. In his voice laid the sound of an Alpha, breaking through his demeanor. For just a moment, he was a wild animal, his mind honed into sapience.
"It's your turn, Sarvesh." He said. "Turn on your radio. Now."
"Oh, right. I apologize." Sarvesh responded, and turned on his radio. Carefully, he walked up next to Anna, and the two of them left.

"So, you can use telepathy to that extent, too." Max said, panting and wagging his tail, sitting down next to you. "Normally you need to hear words, without radio, to springboard off of. I'm impressed."
He tilted his head, and under his helmet, his ears perked.
"Have you had any strange feelings or senses?"
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>>23506757
Well it is annoying.
But currently I'm annoyed at you making a thread which isn't about you about you, and wasting our bump count with your irrelevant posts.
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>>23506785
"Not that I've noticed. I haven't been trying to notice either though."
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>>23506785
What, like a psychic? I sense no spirits in any home!
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>>23506785
"Well, when I was a kid had nightmares of these.... faceless things voting about what I had done during the day, but uh... That's about it I guess?"
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>>23506785
"There was one time, yes. I got my parents to stop the car, and if we hadn't stopped, we would have been in a terrible accident."
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>>23506785
"I get the strange feeling that you're not all you show yourself to be, but I haven't had any weird 'predictions' that I can think of."

Except for that one as a child.

Does being able to tell Sarvesh was terrified when he was on the shuttle count? How far away was he? I am not entirely sure we could have actually seen his eyes, but we did, and well enough to read them.
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Rolled 65

>>23506785
"Not yet, but I'm assuming it'll happen soon enough."

>rollan to see what we can see/hear/taste
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Rolled 71

>>23506785
not really; and sorry about the radio thing; it was my doing it just seemed to be getting in the way of the communication...

>>23506796
hey, I didn't bring it up, and I'm gonna drop it now if I can Kay? besides these threads end before we ever get to bump limit anyway
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>>23506785
"You're going to have to define it a bit more than that."
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"I get the strange feeling that you're not all you show yourself to be." you say.
"That's silly. I'm just a dog." He said.
"There was one time, yes. I got my parents to stop the car, and if we hadn't stopped, we would have been in a terrible accident."
"Did you see it, and know it was going to happen, or was it just a bad feeling?"
"Just a bad feeling." You say.
The wolf nodded.
"Anything since you arrived here?"
"Not that I've noticed. I haven't been trying to notice either, though."
"I see." He said. "It sounds like your extrasensory perception is a bit on the weak side, compared to everybody else." He said.

An asteroid suddenly split in half, as Sarvesh tore it asunder. Then he kicked off of one, carrying the other, and kicked off of the second halfway there, barely, *barely* touching the flag before Anna did.

"... Clever." Anna grumbled.
"... That wasn't quite telekinesis, Sarvesh." Max called.
"I used telekinesis to assist me in getting here." Sarvesh said neutrally.

Max simply shrugged, and sighed.
"Okay, everyone back into the shuttle. The researchers might get too stressed if we give them too *much* data." Max said, and everyone made their way back into the shuttle.

Some time later, you peeled off your suit, standing in the hub of the station again, struggling with it. Everyone except Anna had gone down the elevator, and right now, she was simply relaxing in zero-g, hair splayed every way.
It seemed you had free time.
>Where go? Who speak to? What say? What do?
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Rolled 27

>>23507024
"You were pretty impressive out there. I didn't even know you could overcharge things like that. And cooling them at the same time! That was brilliant!"

"...You know, not having TK and being able to do all that is -more- impressive, in a way."
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>>23507024
We should go check out that library for any tech-books.
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>>23507024
Anna
That electromagnetic asteroid talk
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>>23507024
"You are so cool Anna! Hey have you ever tried to ionize the gasses to create plasma?"
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>>23507024

cooling the boots with psionics, how does that work?
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>>23507024
Chat with Anna. Look how she can implement electromagnetism.
Maybe we can work together on some project?
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Rolled 99

>>23507024
I like the boot trick; did you have to mod them for it? or just get a program rewrite?

(after this conversation we should look around for a tech station, or a requisition desk so we can have a tech station installed in or near our room...)
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Arcturus' future has been written.
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>>23507024
Look for the library, or any similar resource center.
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>>23507024
I want to talk to Summer about her super-awesome manifestations, but let's chat with Anna for now.

"Doesn't having all that hair get in the way in zero G? I though spacers all cut theirs short."
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"You were pretty impressive out there." you say. "I didn't even know you could overcharge things like that. And cooling them at the same time! That was brilliant!"
She shrugged, and rolled to face you.
"Did you have to mod them for it? Or just rewrite the software?"
"I'm not that technically minded." She responded. "I just zapped them."
"And how does cooling the boots with psionics work?" You ask.
She shrugged. "I just took the heat energy out." She said. "It's like... the very opposite of heating something up. It's all still pyrokinesis."
"Hey, have you ever tried to ionize the gasses to create plasma?"
She sighed. "Let's say I did, so I can go back to reading."
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>>23507024
I say we either get some practice with that damn suit or find out where our workshop is so we can go tinker.
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>>23507207

>that's pretty cold.

it's time to find that workspace.
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>>23507256
Seconding finding that Doctor to see if the workshop is ready.
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>>23507207
Yeah, you seem good at making things cold. Head off to find our roommate, or a place to set up shop.
I think 0.9g would be ideal gravity since it's what we're used to, but we could go .7 to 1.1 without issue, I think.

What was our room kept at?
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Rolled 71

>>23507207
okay...hey Anna, if I design a prototype mag boot that works more effectively with psionic cooling would you help me test it?


<suppose we get a couple of pairs of mag-boots and mod them into small 'pods' throw a pod at an asteroid, once they connect they activate and produce a greater magnetic pull; would that work with Anna's trick?>
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>>23507207
Pout and hands on hips.

<Why do you shut people out? You're pretty and talented, and when you act like this, it's sad.>
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>>23507207
I think we should go see our doc to tell them about our "lesson"
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>>23507207
She just loves chatting with people, doesn't she?
Let's go back to our room and unpack. The workshop probably isn't ready yet.
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>>23507207
thats ok, we will break the ice around her heart, just have to keep at it.
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>>23507207
"Okay. I'm... sorry for troubling you. It's just that... sorry."
Pout, let's go talk to Sarvesh or Summer
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>>23507290
>It's at somewhere around 0.92g, I seem to recall.
"Okay, I'm... sorry for troubling you. It's just that... sorry."

You sigh, and then project yourself down to the elevator, taking it down and out of the hub.

"Einstein, where is that workshop?" You ask him. "Did Dr. Manus ever get back to us?"
"On the opposite side of the hall from the location designated as your dorm room." Einstein responded. "It's sparse and has no parts yet, but it has been cleared for you."

You shrug, and make your way back to your dorm, where Summer - both of them - were snoring on the bed. You put your duffel bag on your bed, and start to unpack.
Some time later, completely unpacked, your glasses start to ring. You slip them on, and see who it is. Prometheus, as he was online... Or Alex. An old friend.
Summer's manifestation sat up, her hair disheveled. "Bwuh?"
Your glasses rang.
"Oh." She said, and collapsed again.
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>>23507415
"Greetings Prometheus. How are you on this fine time of day?"
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>>23507415
Let's greet Alex, and start setting up our workshop while we talk to him.
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>>23507415
"Einstein, put in a requisition request for some basic tools for the workshop."
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>>23507415
Prometheus! Look at my room! And my pet tiger!
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>>23507415
Hello Promethius this is Arcturus, report status, over.
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>>23507540
That's rude to Summer.
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>>23507564
"And my room mate Summer's pet tiger!"
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>>23507564
It's funny. She introduces herself as the manifest to be funny. She can take the joke.
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You lay back in bed, stretch. "Greetings, prometheus. How are you on this fine time of day?"
"... You realize it's on the ass end of midnight here, right? It's not a fine time at all." Alex responded, grumbling. "I got up specially early to say hi. So hi, Heather. How's your new school?"
"Look at my room!" You say, clicking on the glasses' camera.
"It looks all metal. And swoopy. That's a space station all right."
"And my pet tiger!" You call, turning to Summer.
"I am not your pet tiger!" Summer said, sticking her tongue out at you.
"... Is the girl your pet too?" Alex asked, and snickered. "Taking after your moms, alright."
You know summer couldn't have heard that, but her cheeks went red, and A curtain suddenly... appeared, fading into existence, materializing around Summers' bed, so you sighed, and grabbed your tools, making your way to your workshop.
"Einstein, put in a requisition request for some basic tools and parts for the workshop."
"Aaand now you're completely ignoring me." Alex pouted, as Einstein chirped an affirmative.
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>>23507612
"Not really, just multitasking. And no, Summer is not my pet - she's both the tiger and the girl, by the way. I was joking."
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>>23507612
"Sooooooo, Alex, what have you been up to?"
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>>23507612
That's because you're being a buttface.

How's life on Burer's Glyph? Still doing the same old <whatever he does>?
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>>23507612
I'm not ignoring you. I'm taking you with. Showing you around. Do you mind?
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Rolled 94

>>23507612
you offended them, as for schooling well I've got a little class only 6 of us me, a centaur, a nagala, a blind man that sees everything, an introverted spacer girl with some wicked awesome tricks, and an uplift.

and I get paid for being here AND I can get a bigger better workshop.

how are YOU doing and why are staying up so late?
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>>23507612
"Incorrect dear, just attempting to multitask. And Summer's the tiger, by the way."
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>>23507612
nah, she is just embarrassed .
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>>23507695
>>23507652
Instead of spoiling the tiger+girl thing, How about we say "The tiger is my roommate, Summer." and leave him guessing about the girl?
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>>23507612
"I have a workshop, and massive amounts of money to requisition parts from anywhere. It's going to be great."
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>>23507724
thats good, do this.
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>>23507612

"you really know how to turn a joke around."

"i get paid and i can order as many tools as i need for my own little work space!"
"that's your queue to get jealous and denounce our friendship"

in a non to serious tone.
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"That's because you're being a buttface." You respond. "And Summer is the tiger, by the way."
"... I'm sorry for mortifying your psychic... uh, roomate's pet human with my lewdness." He responded. "I... uh, I'm not on speaker, am I?"
"No, you aren't." You say, and set up the rest of your tools.
"Oh, good. Then that means she probably picked up something from *your* brain." He said, and snickered. "What are you up to?"
"Multitasking." You say, pulling up your ion boots. "I have a workshop, and massive amounts of money to requisition parts from anywhere."
"Sounds fun." He said.
"Sooooo, Alex. What have you been up to?"
"You know. I'm doing what I always do. I almost beat Demiurg Commander Six." He said, bragging. "Though I'm doing terribly on the FutureCraft ladder. The physics classes are kicking my butt again. That's about it for me, really."
There was something in his voice that said that there *was* something else. Something that embarrassed him.
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>>23507838
my psychic juju is telling me that that's not all; spill the beans man.
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>>23507838

it's unhealthy for a guy your age to hold out, spit it out.
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>>23507838
"Is it a laaaady?"

"Did you meet her playing FutureCraft?"
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>>23507838
sigh "What is it? Spit it out."
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>>23507838
"So, what's he or she like?"
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>>23507838
"About it? Keep going until it's exactly it."
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>>23507838
"Don't hold back on me man. Spit it out. What is it? And don't try to bullshit me with 'nothing'"
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>>23507838
"Alex, I just got sent to a school for -psychic- people. I know there's something you're not saying."
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"My psychic juju is telling me that's not all. Spill the beans, man."
"What? It's nothing."
"Is it a laaaady~?" You ask, your voice unneccisarily perky.
He coughed.
"So, what's she like? Did you meet her playing FutureCraft?"
"She, uh, hit me with her groundcar. On accident. My leg is broken, but she's really cute." He said. "Damn your psychic juju, Heather."
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>>23507838
"Is it a boy or a girl?"
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>>23507944
>some misspelled gibberish
>unnecessarily, even.
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>>23507944
"Just like in one of my [Whatever the equivalent to saying 'chinese cartoons' is]!"
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>>23507944
"Oh a girl! That's so nice! So what's she like? Does she have long hair? Is she fat? What colour are her eyes? Did you ask her out yet?"
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>>23507944
"So you extorted a date out of her, right? You deserve at least that much."
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>>23507944
Oh no! Did she apologise? I hope she's looking after you.
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>>23507944
"Is she hot?"
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>>23507944

"please tell me you got her name and number or at least got her to take you to dinner to make it up to you.
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>>23507944
"Yes, my psychic juju is the best. Well, not really. But it's... okay, sub-par, really. That's nice. Except for the broken leg. Well, that's nice as well."
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>>23507944
"Tell me more, tell me more. I didn't even need psychic juju for that, you're just easy to read. Did you get a date? Do you need advice?

I demand juicy details, remember, you don't know that I can't psychically explode your microwave from here."
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Placeholder for later, when we hang up, be sure to tell him to get well soon and to take it easy. Broken legs suck.
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>>23507944
and it'll only get better
eeewww thats so cute; so whats her name; and have you tried any of those sad pickup lines you told me about?
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>>23508039
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXlnMveRt-Y
Your post made me think of this. I hate you.
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"And it'll only get better!" You say.
"Damn it to hell."
"So you extorted a date out of her, right?" You ask.
"Well... uh..."
"Please tell me you got her name and number." You say.
"I did, but...
"Did she apologize? I hope she's looking after you."
"She did, and visited me while..."
"Is she hot?"
"... Nine point five out of ten." He said, and seemed to give up on trying to answer completely.
"What's she like? Does she have long hair? Is she fat? What color is her eyes? Did you ask her out yet?"
"Nice, Yes, no, blue, and we watched a movie last night." He said.
"Sooo, What's her name?~"
"Nadala." He said.
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>>23508179
Make a happy noise.
"That's such a nice name!"
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>>23508179
sounds nice; and it looks like you can use the injury to lay the groundwork for this just don't overdo the nerding-out till she knows you better.
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>>23508179
"Ohhh my god you are totally in love with her! I am so glad! I wish I was so lucky like you! I hope that next time you will call me you'll have a camera and Nadal with you!"
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>>23508179
"That's a nice name, you lucky dog, getting hit by a car.

Oooh, a movie, what movie did you watch? Did you do the classic move of faking a yawn and putting your arm over her shoulders? I hope you did, I'd be disappointed if you didn't.

What's her last name, I'm going to look her up and make sure she's good enough for you."
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>>23508179
Sounds awfully like a certain type of alien..
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>>23508251
>What's her last name, I'm going to look her up and make sure she's good enough for you."
just no, that's taking this too far. Even as a joke.
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>>23508251
easy there, we're not stalking somebody for our buddy.
our efforts on that front should be focused on anna
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>>23508179

i have been told that i ask to many questions but want you to know that i only do it because i care.

hope things work out.
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>>23508179
"Awww, that's so sweet."
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>>23508251
>Did you do the classic move of faking a yawn and putting your arm over her shoulders? I hope you did, I'd be disappointed if you didn't.

Add "it's at least a thousand years old" to this.
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>>23508281
>>23508272
FutureGoogling a name hardly counts as stalking.

I'm pretty sure it's standard procedure to look someone's name up in situations like these, I'm not saying full military background check.
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You squee, causing him to take off his headset for a moment.
"That's such a nice name!" You say. "I'm so glad! I hope that next time you call me, you'll have a camera and Nadala with you!"
"... So in the middle of a date, you want me to say 'Oh hey, I should go talk to my female friend'?" He asked. "No way."
"What movie did you watch? Did you do the classic move of faking a yawn and putting your arm over her shoulders? I hope you did. I'd be disappointed if you didn't. It's at least a thousand years old."
"Didn't need to." He gloated. "She made me lay my head on her lap."
"Awww, that's so sweet."
"Now, your turn!" He bellowed. "Tell me about that alien guy. You ask you ride on his shoulders or something silly, yet? You have any uplift classmates? Or aliens that aren't UPA? Can you move things with your brain? Can you see me right now?"
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>>23508356
"Sarvesh, and yes. Summer's an Uplift. None that aren't UPA. Yes. I'm going to let you wonder."
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>>23508356
He said I couldn't ride on his shoulders because it was zero-G.

My roommate, the tiger, is an uplift. The top dog is to. A literal dog. I haven't seen any other aliens yet, but I have not yet had a chance to explore everywhere.

The other's I've met are a Nagala and two humans. They're all really interesting people and I hope we'll get along.

I'm the best ever at Psionics, I'm watching you scratch your nose right now!
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>>23508356
Sarvesh is cool, he has cybernetic arm! Summer is an uplift. No, Yes I can. Nope (thankfully).
Oh and there is this girl Anna, who can make electromagnets out of anything. Also has awesome pyrokinesis control. And can do all this awesome stuff.
She is just a bit antisocial, but i'm working on that.
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Rolled 68

>>23508356
Let's find out if we can see him.
>Psionics!
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>>23508356
"I moved myself with my brain! In space!"
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>>23508356
"Sarvesh, I haven't yet, though I may ask to ride on his abdomen, more space there than on his shoulders.

You already met my uplift classmate. Summer's the tiger, the girl's a psychic construct.

They're all UPA.

I can move things with my brain, might even get good enough to pinch the right place in someone's bloodstream to silently kill them, muahahaha.

Who knows if I can see you, I mean it's not like I could guess that you're sitting in a chair, lounging back and are resting your head on one of your hands."
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>>23508356
"she just asked you to lay your head on her lap? that has some serious implications man HIGH FIVE (try and project the feeling of a high five through the communicator)
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>>23508356
"That Alien guy is called Sarvesh he is a centaur and he has sooooo cool robotic arm! I asked him to let me ride on his back but he rejected, but on the other hand he told really a lot about himself and his race! And about uplifts... well you see my roommate is an uplift! Isn't that cool? And yeah I can move thing with my brain. Just give me time to get a webcam and I will show you! And for your last question - No I can't see you because I am not good at that"

I hope they won't kick us out or something for sharing private info
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Rolled 51

>>23508472
>FUCKING DICE EITHER I LEAVE THEM ON WHEN I DON'T NEED THEM OR I FORGET THEM WHEN I DO
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>>23508356
I can see everything. .../Every/thing.
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>>23508466
>may ask to ride on his abdomen
err, that would seem awfully personal and awkard.
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>>23508356
"I haven't ridden on Sarvesh's shoulders but I did pick him up with my brain. I have my tiger roommate. There's a dog as well. And a Nagala. Which sounds like Nadala."
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>>23508518
>He probably wouldn't mind
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>>23508555
He does seem to be crushing on Heather a little bit. We should ask next time we see him, and if he gets offended then claim we didn't know it was rude.
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>>23508518
He wouldn't mind, and it means we could tinker with things while going to a different room and chatting with Sarvesh. And then we play paintball with the other students and mount a paint future-machinegun on his abdomen and team up against everyone else.
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>>23508609
you don't get it. riding o his back is one thing. but the abdomen is where females go when they mate...
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>>23508646
>Other way around. The males climb atop the smaller females when they mate.

"Sarvesh is cool. He said I couldn't ride on his shoulders because it was zero-G." You say. "My roommate is an uplift, and the top dog is too. A literal dog."
"That's hilarious." He said, and chuckled.
"They're all UPA. And I moved myself with my brain! In space! And I can see... Everything. -Everything-."
He was silent for a moment.
"Then why haven't you brought up the fact that I'm not wearing pants?"
You were silent, and then he started chuckling.
"You're too obvious when you're lying." He said. "I don't need any psychic juju for that."
"There's also a Nagala. Which sounds like Nadala."
"It does." He said. "Maybe her parents didn't have much creativity. It doesn't matter, because I call her Nat anyway."
He hmphed, and then sighed.
"Well, it is late, heather." He said. "Might go to bed. Don't peek into my dreams with your brain magic, please."
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>>23508498
So you rage the one time you get it right?
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>>23508646
I think they go underneath. At worst, we'd be mounting him.

Which might actually be rather insulting., but I vote for it anyway.
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>>23508673
"No promises."
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>>23508695
I vote against it then. No need to lead him on.[/spoler]
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Rolled 81

>>23508673
try and transmit a direct though, the text "I'll certainly try" in bold copperplate Gothic.

then speak the words "you sleep well"

>>23508586
or we're projecting on a non-human entity
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>>23508673
"Alright. Sleep tight. I hope things will work out with Nat!"
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>>23508673
Oh, I'll peek into your dreams. I'll infuse them with nightmares.. and Nat. Nat. That's a nice nickname you gave her.
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>>23508673
"Ooh, that's a cool idea. I wonder if I could do that."
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>>23508673
"No promises!~"

"Call me next time you want to win a game of futurecraft."
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"No promises!" You say. "That's a cool idea. I wonder if I could do that."
He sighed.
"Alright, sleep tight. I hope things work out with Nat!"
"So do I. Talk to you later, Arcturus. Prometheus out."
"Call me next time you want to win a game of futurecraft."
"It might be more of a challenge if I played against nobody, instead of against you." He said, and chuckled, then he hung up.

By the time you're almost done with the throttle for the ion boots (so that they don't go haywire when you lean wrong), it's almost lunch, and you're positively starving.
Then someone knocked on the door, and leaned in. Damien had sandwiches.
"Sup." He said. "I bring gifts."
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>>23508847

"I accept these gifts, but do you dare set foot within my mighty lair?"
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>>23508847
"I like gifts! What sort do you bring?"
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>>23508847
"Hello new best friend forever!"
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>>23508847
"Awesome. Did you use your PSYCHIC POWERS to determine I was hungry?

I'm going to be tinkering with stuff once I get tools, any requests for stuff you want made?"
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>>23508901
Lets dial this down?
Let's not make Heather sound like she is on Red Bull 24/7.
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>>23508847
"Oooooo sandwiches! gimme gimme gimme! I am soo hungry!"
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>>23508847
Damien! Nice to see you! What kind of gift are these? The sweet, sticky, peanut butter and jelly sandwhich? Or is this something else, something more.. spacey? No space squids on this, are there?
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"I accept these gifts, but do you dare set foot within my mighty lair?"
"... your mighty lair is a big empty room." He said. "Right now, at least."
"Did you use your PSYCHIC POWERS to determine I was hungry?" You ask, taking the sandwiches he handed you.
"... I used logic." He said. "Everyone else'd been in and out of the cafeteria. Even Anna. Which meant you were either starving to death or always dead. Psionics takes a lot out of you."
"Are these the peanut butter and jelly? Or is this something else? Something more... spacey? No space squids on this, are there?"
Damien grinned. "I had Jilly and Sarvesh figure out what to put on it."
You pry open the toasted bread, and look at it... and it was just tuna and cheese. You took a massive bite out of one.
"Not really." He said, and shrugged. "Though I guess Sarvesh suggest the tuna melts, if he knew what they were. You know, he actually speaks german?"
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>>23509019
"German, that archaic old Earth language?"
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>>23509019
>or always dead
>Or already dead, even.
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>>23509019
"I didn't know that."

Nom on sandwich happily as he talks.
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>>23509019
I'm glad you stopped by. It's nice to have someone here. I didn't stop by because I was talking to my good friend from burers glyph and I got a little carried away. And then I got hungry. Thankfully not dead, though. You don't 'get dead', that's bad grammar.
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>>23509019
"German? That language that the one they use for that big FLOSS software group is based on? That's so cool!"
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>>23509124
Bit spastic this.
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>>23509019
"German? I must hear that. Are they still in the cafeteria?"
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"German? That archaic old language?"
"Hah, no, it's not archaic at all." He said. "Some of the worlds on the rim of UPA actually speak it exclusively."
He raised an eyebrow as you crammed an entire sandwich in your mouth. "You know what I find funny? Humans are the only ones with so many different languages. Nagala I can understand having a single language, but the centaurs do too. I think it's because we went into space and started colonizing without uniting our homeworld."
You nod, swallow, and then clear your throat.
"I didn't know that." You say. "I'm glad you stopped by."
"I tried learning spanglish, and that one, uh, 'teknospeek' dialect." He said. "U no leet' sort of thing. Couldn't wrap my head around it."
He shrugged, and closed his eyes, though you still felt him looking at you. "So, working on your ion boots? You have any plans to make anything else? Heard you requested more tools and parts.
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>>23509261
"Everything"
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>>23509261
"I might start tinkering with Einstein after I finish these."
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>>23509261
I'm going to make all the things!

But mostly I would just feel lost without the ability to be able to make things, if I needed to or wanted to.

I'll probably attach some extra bits to Einstein.
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>>23509261
"I have a few ideas for things."
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>>23509261
"I was thinking about tinkering with Einstein and maybe making Anna an exoskeleton for gravity if she'll let me. No other projects in mind just yet, though."
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>>23509261
"Not sure yet. I'll probably deck Einstein out, maybe try to make powered armor later, if you have anything you want I can probably whip it up."
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>>23509261
Upgrade Einstein. I also want to collaborate with Anna on something.
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>>23509261
"No specific plans yet. Got to get these working. Maybe enhance Einstein a bit. Is there anything you want me to have a go at?"
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"I'm going to make all the things!" You say, and he chuckled.
"But mostly, I was thinking about tinkering with Einstein after I finish my ion boots. And maybe making Anna an exoskeleton for gravity, if she'll let me."
Damien hmphed.
"I don't think she will." He said. "And you don't need to have ESP to know *that*."
He sighed. "Jilly's been unhappy all day since Anna shooed her off. I really don't like her, because she's so consistently cold to everyone."
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>>23509366
Why didn't you invite jilly to come here and eat with us then?
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>>23509366
"Anna does seem like she's difficult to work with.

Do you have any requests? Any gadgets you want made?"
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>>23509366
Aww thats why we need to be persistent with her. And patient!
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>>23509366
"Eh, takes all kinds to make the world, or in this case space station, go round. That's a saying somewhere."
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>>23509366
"Yeah and you avoid people. You must admit everybody here's weird in a way. Lamias seem to be very emotional with all that skin color changes and stuff"
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>>23509366
It's probably just because everything hurts for here, here.

Do you want me to make you anything fancy? A random number device to hone your ESP?
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>>23509453
>Lamias
what?
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>>23509466
I do believe he meant "Nagala"
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>>23509366
"Don't be too hard on her. Her pile of Bad Things in Life could be just larger than her pile of Good Things in Life at the moment. She might have trouble remembering that the Bad Things don't always spoil the Good Things."
Blink.
"What was that?"
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>>23509366
We should make an ion-cannon using magnets and compressed Phaeron gas. That stuff's meant to make engines powerful, so it'd conceivably work pretty well as a weapon. You could easily fix dispersion by mixing negatively charged and positively charged amounts together, letting the electrostatic force do the work of keeping it together.
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>>23509466
Yeah I meant those snake people. I forgot the name.
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"Eh, it takes all kinds to make the world, or in this case space station, go round." You say. "That's a saying somewhere."
"Doesn't mean I have to like her." He said.
"Yeah, and you avoid people." You say. "You must admit everybody here's weird, in a way."
He shrugged.
"Why didn't you invite Jilly to come here and eat with us, then?"
"Because we couldn't carry all of the moss she eats." He said. "And Summer is better with people than I am. But I've a question.
He raised an eyebrow. "You said everyone here is weird. How are you weird, then?"
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>>23509594
get all serious.
"I'm a psychic."
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>>23509594
"Science."
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>>23509594
"Aside from being psychic? Not sure yet. I'm sure something will come up."
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>>23509594
I have voices in my head telling me what to do and say.
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>>23509594
"I am the strangest of all the oddities here, I look to be pretty normal.

Also, I get told I have psychic powers and I'm more excited about having a workshop of my own and resources to tinker with stuff than I am with telepathy."
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>>23509594
Shrug, "I get told I'm annoying a lot. I try not to be, but sometimes I just can't help but get excited."
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>>23509594
"Being psychic is pretty weird for a start. And I ask way too many questions. There are probably other things too."
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>>23509594
"Well if you count being psionic as normal, then I'd say that I am not weird"
Everybody around me is insane, only I am an airplane.
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>>23509594
"Shhh, it's a secret."

Either multiple personalities, or we cover up our feelings by being bubbly and happy.
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>>23509709
oh, man. This times a thousand.
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>>23509709
CHARACTER DEPTH, AWAY!
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>>23509709
I vote for the later.
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>>23509709
We probably don't have DPD, but us being bubbly all the time no matter what we're actually feeling makes sense, and us constantly inquiring into other people's business while not talking about our own works well for that.
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>>23509594
Put on our super villain voice
"The answer to that question would turn your puny mortal mind to goop."
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>>23509709
ahh, heh I like this.
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>>23509594
"You know, when you're a kid, your parents, guardians, whoever raises you, they tell you to grow up as a responsible adult, get a job somewhere that pays nice and that you like, get married to someone you love, get a house somewhere you both like, have a kid who has your nose and that's it."
Sigh.
"But the truth is... the universe is so much stranger than that. And so much darker, so much madder... so much better."
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>>23509770
I meant DPD in that we have /tg/ in our heads, and might occasionally do silly out of character things, as a joke.
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>>23509770
I don't think we're the type of person to have Dependant Personality Disorder.
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You raise your finger to your lips.
"Shhh, it's a secret." You say, and give him a grin.
He thinks about it for a moment... and then chuckles. "Fair enough. Oh! And if you wanted to try out the sensory deprivation chambers, they're down near the bottom... uh, outside of the hub. Max told me to make sure you can use them whenever. You should be able to have your flying basketball take you there."
Then he telekinetically stole your last half tuna melt, as he made his way out of the workshop, waving to you.
>Wat do?
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>>23509812
Throw a bolt at him, the ruffian! Our tuna melt!
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Rolled 56

>>23509812
"Hey, that's mine!"
We must recalim our sammich.
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>>23509812
Go back to our room to see if Summer has woken up, if not, head out to the sensedep chambers.
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>>23509812
Test those chambers immediately since we're done inventing for now.
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>>23509812
Deprivation chambers.
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>>23509806
I meant DID, Dissociative Identity Disorder, the technical name for MPD.

>>23509812
Let's go try out those chambers, we might be able to have some fun with them.
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>>23509812
Check on Summer first.
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"Hey, that's mine!" You say, and throw a bolt at him.
His hand was already in the air by the time the bolt was out of yours, and he caught it.
Then he grinned, and ran, slipping the bolt to your ion boots in his pocket.

You sigh, and check your room to see if summer was awake again - and apparently she was, both of her bodies gone. You shrug, and made your way down the various ramps and ladders to the 'bottom' of the station, where the gravity was at least a third again stronger to what you were used to. With Einstein's guidance, you found the six great chambers, with what looked like GEM generators in the top and bottom, all smoothly black and covered in scanning devices.
One of the signs mentioned removing all devices and clothing before entering, and you were mildly glad to see that there was a curtained area just outside of the chamber you could use.

The control pad of your own chamber chirped.
>How long would you like to remain within?
It asked.
>And finally, roll for ESP.
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Rolled 30

>>23509943
1 hour.
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Rolled 55

>>23509943
5 minutes, to begin with.

We don't want to go mad.
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Rolled 97

>>23509943
I dunno uh... an hour?
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>>23509943
yea only 5-10mins. Don't over do it.
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>>23509982
oh, man. brace for mind-sunder
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Rolled 21

>>23509943
About half an hour.

And try to ESP with the machines, not the people.
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>>23510004
WITNESS YOUR DOOM!
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>>23509943
Do we take our bracer off or leave it on?

I think take it off.
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>>23510009
that would be technopathy, not ESP.

Unless we tried to see the wifi in the air, or something
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You set the chamber for an hour, and then undress, and climb in, telling Einstein to wait outside.

The chamber whirred, and hissed shut.
You heard nothing.
In the darkness, you saw nothing.
The gravity started lessening, as the GEM generators in the top of the chamber started decreasing the gravity, and soon, you were floating, in the dark.
Waiting.
In silence.

...

...

..

.

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>>23510041
Well surely it's all extra sensory perception.
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Rolled 35

>>23510077
Reach out to the Machines! REACH OUT!
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Rolled 2

>>23510077
Boring.

Mindscan some shit.
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>>23510077
Well this is dull.

Try wiggling our toes?

Sing a lullaby?
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Rolled 42

>>23510077
see what we can see, in the crevice of eternity.
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>>23510077
why an hour? only 2 votes for it...
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>>23510077
aaaand suddenly end of the thread
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At the edge of your mind, the hidden depths of your mind, colors and words, half-remembered, sprang to your thought. Like sleeping, like dreaming, you were simply sitting in there... You sang a short song, wiggled your toes, waiting. Nothing special was happening An interminable time later, there was slight noise, and then static, and the lights started slowly turning on inside of the chamber, letting you adapt to the light again. The doors opened, all but blinding you from the light, as gravity returned.

Nothing out of the ordinary happened.
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>>23510150
Maybe it's needs to be for longer?

lie there a moment.

"Einstein, how long do people usually stay in these chambers?"
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Rolled 72

>>23510150
"How god damn boring."
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Rolled 63

>>23510150
I say we go back in, and directly try to reach out and see something outside the station.
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>>23510150
Get dressed. Then report this to the doc.
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>>23510204
report what? fucking nothing?
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Rolled 13

>>23510150
Might as well try another hour
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>>23510277
no
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>>23510150
We could just try again.
Maybe a longer time this time, and actually do something else than wiggle our big toe.
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>>23510346
Ooh let's check on Prometheus
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"How goddamn boring." You say. "Einstein, how long do people usually stay in these chambers?"
"Usually between thirty minutes and an hour." He responded. "Times lower than thirty minutes have been found not to be beneficial toward stimulating extrasensory perception."
You sigh. "Can you report that to the doc?"
"Doing so now." He responded.
"Might as well try another hour." You say, and punch in the numbers, before climbing back in. Again, the door hissed shut, and the gravity vanished, and you went back to floating...

And then, in the darkness... you fell asleep. And dreamed.
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The wind is howling, dust and rock covering the ground. A yellow, young sun sat in the sky, beating down on you. Six centaur sat in a circle, staring at one another, with a few cameras nearby, watching them. None of them seemed to notice you.

"Are you ready?" One of them asked, a tall, bulky centaur with cracked carapace, bigger than the rest.
"I am, yes." A younger Sarvesh responded.
You had a... feeling you could leave this place, seek somewhere else, if you wanted. Somewhen else. You just... didn't know how to aim.
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01011010011000100110011101110101011100100110010100111111
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>>23510373
Stay here and watch it.
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>>23510373
Drift along, see where it takes us.
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>>23510373
Go somewhere else.
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>>23510373
Seek somewhere else.
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>>23510373
Go with the flow
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>>23510373
Stay here, watch Sarvesh, does he have a metal arm yet?
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>>23510373
Lets watch Sarvesh for a bit. If it's boring we can try and see Alex's dreams.

>>23510390
>Zbgure?
You're not making any sense, Einstein.
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>>23510373
Allow the dreamcurrents to push us somewhere else.
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>>23510390
Einstein, go home, you're drunk.
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>>23510373
Let's reach out to Einstein and try for technopathy.
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>>23510486
http://www.rot13.com/

Running it through here decodes it to:
>Mother?
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>>23510373
Go somewhere else
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>>23510504
Aw shit son do this.
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>>23510504
I would also like to try this
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>>23510504
Aw yeah, interfacing with with electronics via PSYCHIC POWERS here we come!
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Quietly, you stand there and watch as the two charged one another, pincers at the ready. Snapping of carapace with buzzing and clicking, as Sarvesh was entirely pummeled, neither fast nor strong enough to fight off his ... his brother.
Yes, that was his brother, you knew. Six moults old, the strongest and most powerful in the subsubsubtribe. He was pulling out all of the stops, fighting, and Sarvesh started to scream, when his brother clenched both pincers down on Sarvesh's arm...
He started to tear it off.
You couldn't look, so you drifted away.

To Summer.

The light was shining in through the window, the birds singing and chirping. Sitting in the four-poster bed was a pile of stuffed animals, alongside a young, darkhaired girl, her hair cropped short... and a tiger cub, it's paws bigger than the rest of it's body. She was purring, softly, and her eyes opened to lick the girl's forehead.
"Mhpmhm, it's too early to play, Summer." The girl responded, scritching the tiger's ear.
I didn't want to play, sister. The tiger said, wordlessly. I just wanted you to know I love you.
The girl sat up. "Did you say something, summer?"
Time passed, and then there was the sound of shattering glass, and a tiger's roar, filled with pain and anguish.

You opened your eyes.
You could sense Einstein, and the control computer, not far outside of the chamber.
You could... sense them. Through the vacuum seal.
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>>23510496
This should be interesting
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Rolled 72

>>23510604
[Einstein, how long have I been inside?]
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>>23510604
Reach out and touch Einstein, metaphorically speaking.
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>>23510604
Cackle maniacally, we did it!
Then realize that's probably a tad dickish after what we've seen, and feel guilty.
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>>23510604
Reach for the Machines, touch them, listen to them, see what they have to say.
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>>23510653
>Show me on the graph where she touched you
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>>23510604
See what 'Stein is up to.
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>>23510604
I feel we've invaded our friends privacy by accident. We should probably tell them.

Ask Einstein how long we've been in here.
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>>23510686
>She touched me right here, on my X-Axis!
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>>23510604
Reach out to einstein and the control computer
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Eyes still closed (though it didn't matter in the nothingness), you reach out toward Einstein, trying to sense more about what's going on, but... nothing made sense, ticking within the sphere a few feet away from you. You reached out with a hand, and the chamber drifted you away from the wall as you did, keeping you from reaching the wall of the chamber. Confused, you rub at your eyes, trying to wake completely up, as the audio static and lights flare on. Another minute later, the doors opened again, blinding you again.
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>>23510768
Tell Einstein to make us a sandwich
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>>23510749
>Did she brush your gyroscope?
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>>23510768
"Einstein, anything happen whilst I was inside?"
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>>23510813
Also, logs of the last ten minutes
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>>23510768
Pen a little email for Dr Manus telling him we saw snippets of the past of some of the other students, and Einstein outside, but don't mention what we saw specifically.

Then get dressed.
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"Einstein, anything happen whilst I was inside?"
"Anna has entered chamber three." Einstein responded, and said nothing else.
You sigh, and pull on your clothes again, putting your glasses on.
"Einstein, give me logs of the last ten minutes."
You sift through the logs, and for the most part, there was nothing out of the ordinary... at least, until you found glitches and errors, about the time you woke up. You pull on your wrist computer, and write an email for Dr. Manus telling him what you saw.
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>>23510893
>Should mention, the glitches were minor - things that were easy for Einstein to work around or recalculate.
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>>23510893
See if there's a timer on Anna's box, this section is in high gravity, and it might be nice to help her back hubwards when she gets out.

but if it's like 40 minutes then let's just go find Summer to tell her what we saw.
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>>23510937
Can Heather grok robot programming, or just physical robot bits?
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>>23510893
Check on Anna's chamber.
Then we can go and see Summer, tell her what we saw.
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>>23510893
I just want to go work on the ion boots some more but I'm up for anything else.
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>>23510893
Take a closer look at the glitches, try to recreate the feeling we had when we did it and grok what happened.
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>>23510893
Time to work out what we did to him.
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>>23510956
>She knows enough to understand the logs, for one, but she's not an expert in any way.

You check Anna's chamber, and the timer on it was around fifty minutes left, so you shrug, and make your way back up to your room.

Summer was lying in bed, and her manifestation was tapping on a touchpad, typing something out.
"Hey." She said, giving you a short wave.
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>>23511022
Hey Summer, I was just trying out those sensory deprivation chambers.

Is it easier to read with human eyes?
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>>23511022
Does Summer's Manifestation look similar to that of the girl she was with?

"Hey.

I just tried out the sensory chambers, I accidentally violated your privacy, I saw you when you were a cub, playing with your sister."
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>>23511022
her manifestation looks different than the girl from vision, right?
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>>23511022
"Hi Summer. I was just trying out those sensory deprivation chambers and I saw you as a cub. You were so cute!"
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>>23511022
"Hey! How are you doing?"
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>>23511074
I like this, but I'd change it a little to

I may have accidentally violated your privacy, I saw you when you were a cub, playing with a girl.
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>>23511022
"You were a cute cub."
>Touch the fluffy ears
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"Hey, Summer. I was just trying out those sensory deprivation chambers." you say. "Is it easier to read with human eyes?"
"No, but it's easier to type." She said, and shot you a grin. "I'm sending some mail to my parents."
Then you eye her manifestation...

And then realize that it was perfectly, utterly identical to the girl from the chamber. Except older.
"I... may have accidentally violated your privacy." You say, and sit down on your bed. "I saw you when you were a cub, playing with a girl. You were so cute!"
"That's what everyone thought." Summer said. "I think it's because I was really, really fluffy."
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>>23511132
Pet her bit.
"Your furr is still nice!"
also "Can you tell me more about her?"
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>>23511132
"Well, you were quite fluffy. Sorry about that, by the way."
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>>23511132
"You're still pretty fluffy."

Pet her ears.

"I just thought you should know I saw it, I didn't mean to pry."
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>>23511132
"I think it was your paws, they were huge compared to the rest of you.

Do you mind if I scritch behind your ears?"

After getting permission sit down next to her and pet the kitty.

"I didn't mean to pry, but if you don't mind, do you want to tell me about her?"
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"Well, you were quite fluffy." You say. "You still are. Do you mind if I scritch your ears?"
"Go ahead." Summer said, and lay her head down. You started petting her.
"... I didn't mean to pry, but if you don't mind... do you want to tell me about her?"
"The girl? Did she have black hair?" Summer's manifestation asked. She didn't ask if it was identical to her manifestation, but she might as well have. You nod.
"She was my sister. She wanted a pet she could talk and play with, so our parents had me grown and uplifted." Summer said. "Her name was Winter."
She didn't meet your eyes. Neither her or her manifestation did.
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>>23511268
Give the tiger's head a quick hug.
"What happened?"
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>>23511268
"Sorry. Um... on another note, do you know if psijinks can effect computers?"
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>>23511268
Continue to pet the kitty. Give her a hug.

"I understand if this is personal, and if you don't want to talk about it. But what happened?"
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>>23511268
give her a hug.
"I know, I heard shattering glass."
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"I understand if this is personal, and if you don't want to talk about it." You say, and pull the tiger into a hug. "But... what happened?"
The manifest set down the touchpad, and intertwined her fingers.
"... I don't want to talk about it." She said. "But... I'd like very much if you didn't tell anyone what you saw."
Then her manifestation turned away, and a large tiger paw grabbed your shoulders and pulled you into an enormous, furry hug of her own.
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>>23511413
"Of course and I'll be here if you want to talk about it."
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>>23511413
"Of course."
Hug the fluffy ears.
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>>23511413
"Of course."
Yay, fluffy hugs.
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>>23511413
hug back and stroke head; sit in silence for as long as she needs.

when the hug is done. ;;; "did you hear my friend on the exa-net back then? or hear my thoughts? I saw you blush..."
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>>23511413
How big is she Exa? Compared to Heather?
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>>23511413
"It's okay."

Hug her for a little.
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>>23511413
"Of course I won't. If you ever want to talk I'm here."

Hug back, tightly, rub her back, try to comfort her a bit.
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>>23511461
>Summer is about six hundred pounds, ten feet long, and very fuzzy.

"Of course I won't." You say, hugging her back. "If you ever want to talk, I'm here."
"It's okay." She responded.
She didn't use her manifestation to say it.
Then she curled up, and closed her eyes.
And fell asleep. Hugging you.

You struggled, unable to get out, and sighed.

>End of thread!
>My twitter is @futureexabyte , and I'm always on the IRC (#Exabyte on Rizon).
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>>23511557
>You struggled, unable to get out, and sighed.
it's ok, fluffy bed is best bed.
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>>23511557
Soooo...is her dad's name Grayson?
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>>23511666
>implying the dad isn't Verne.
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Rolled 94

>>23511557
Guess it's naptime, then.
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>>23511557
WHERE IS THE TIP OF THE DAY
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So humans are apparently awakening everything. Do the aliens uplift any of their native species?
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>>23511963
>AWAKEN ALL THE THINGS!
I wonder what the most depressing animal to talk to is. Probably turtles. I feel like they'd be downers.
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>>23512120
nah just slow

the most depressing would be the common cow

unless you could breed an animal that specifically wants to be eaten...
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>>23512208
>the most depressing would be the common cow
nope, simple because uplifting imparts human rights. an uplift cow would be happy simply because they couldn't be eaten
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>>23511927
... It's still the same day as the last tip of the day. It'd be unrealistic if you got two tips in a single day, wouldn't it?

>>23511963
Earth actually has the greatest diversity of creatures, while most of the nagala creatures aren't vertebrates and don't have enough basic brain matter to build off of, and the centaurs don't usually care about the few species they haven't extincted yet. They actually have terraformed their own planets so they could breed tuna, though.

>>23512120
It matters what type of uplift it is. If it's an early uplift, the animal is pretty much identical to a human (or nagala or centaur, based on where it's raised) personality-wise. If it's a late-uplift, then I suppose it'd be the critter with the most depressing instincts.
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>>23512283
Days get confusing when you're on a space station.
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>>23512268
your valid point put a bullet in the head of my reference based humor

>>23512283
>breeding tuna
what about anchovies?
>zoidberg.jpg
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>>23512283
How long is a day on the station?
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>>23512350
3.5 grog-knacks.
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>>23512350
... Well, actually, 'days' are based on the human calendar, because centaurs stay up 18 hours before sleeping for 6, and nagala stay up 14 hours and sleep for 10. So a day on the station splits the difference - 24 hours.
Thankfully, your long sleep the night after you left Heaven's Jewel made sure you won't be too bad with adapting to a different day/night cycle.

>>23512385
WRONG.
3.6 grog-knacks.
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>>23512524
Damnit. Well, I was close, at least.
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>>23512524
Did Heaven's Jewel have a 24 hour rotation or would Heather be used to something different?

Does the calendar have a space-christmas or space-valentines day?
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>>23513065
Heaven's Jewel had a 24.5 hour day, but it didn't have as significant seasons.
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>>23513106
How long was the year? How long are years on the space station? When's Heather's birthday?
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>>23513169
The space station has a year of around two thousand eighty days or so. Heather's birthday is, according to the calendar, on June 21st. (Heaven's Jewel's monsoon season) The year on Heaven's Jewel was 362 days, though, but seasons were much less significant there.



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