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TAGE #2; Psi-Fi-Ting-Fantasy Stylee!

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P. Horus Rhacoid

14:19 / 14.09.05

SAY YES. ASK IF SHE WANTS TO REMOVE IMPLANTS HERE AND NOW. IF YES, THEN DO IT. MAKE THE RISKY ASSUMPTION THAT SHE NEEDS YOU AS MUCH AS YOU NEED HER THOUGH IT IS EQUALLY LIKELY SHE'S LYING ABOUT THE WHOLE PROFESSOR THING. BE WARY. LIKE A PANTHER OR SOMETHING.

14:40 / 14.09.05

You SAY YES. 314 releases you (again).

You MAKE THE RISKY ASSUMPTION THAT SHE NEEDS YOU AS MUCH AS YOU NEED HER THOUGH IT IS EQUALLY LIKELY SHE'S LYING ABOUT THE WHOLE PROFESSOR THING. You are WARY. LIKE A PANTHER OR SOMETHING.

You ASK IF SHE WANTS TO REMOVE IMPLANTS HERE AND NOW. "There's not a moment to lose" she says, "Turn around."

You DO IT. There is a soft plopping noise. "You can turn back now" 314 tells you, and when you do she has a strange looking gizmo in her hand she's wiping on her cotton smock.

It is a CORTICAL INHIBITOR REMOVAL DEVICE, that looks like a twentieth century car dashboard cigarette lighter.
She hands it to you (it is warm) and turns around, lifting her hair to reveal the metal socket at the top of her spine.

You stick it in and after a little experimentation (in Tycho city the security agent makes a small noise like 'unh') and twist, and a little red LED turns on in the handle. It blinks a few times, and turns green. 314 staggers like she's been kicked in the head, and falls to the bed twitching and moaning.

>?

P. Horus Rhacoid

14:55 / 14.09.05

SAY "shit." ATTEMPT TO REMOVE IMPLANT AGAIN. IF ABLE TO CONCENTRATE PROPERLY WHILE TRYING AGAIN TO REMOVE CORTICAL INHIBITOR, FLEX PSYCHIC MUSCLEZ. ATTEMPT TO MOVE BEDSHEETS WITH MIND.

17:12 / 14.09.05

You SAY "Shit!" and ATTEMPT TO REMOVE IMPLANT AGAIN. It comes out easily, but as you are about to stick it in your own cybersocket, you see 314 is starting to sit up, shaking her head groggily.
You also recall her saying "The cortical inhibitor is booby trapped to explode if I try to take it out myself" which gives you reason to pause with it in your hand.

314 looks up at you in savage glee, with a fierce eagle glint in her eye. Her powerful PSYCHOREDACTIVE METAFUNCTION lashes out like an an invisible whip, and you suddenly feel like your brain is being crushed in a spiky red hot vise. Argh! She's squishing your head!

However, the feeling quickly passes, and she says "Well, the old psi powers are a little rusty but that feels much better. Now, *GIVE ME THE DEVICE*."

Her voice seems to change as she exerts her COERCION on your helpless brain, and you hand over the device stiffly, like a zombie. She sounds as though there's some sort of reverb in her throat or something, and you instinctively capitalise it in your head as The Voice.

P. Horus Rhacoid

18:02 / 14.09.05

(Whoops, that's what happens when you read/respond to these things while in class (i.e. snatching glances at the screen every so often, hoping professor doesn't notice). I thought 314 had removed my cortical inhibitor already. Obviously there can be no flexing of psychic musclez yet. Apologies and carry on.)

18:02 / 14.09.05

"*TURN AROUND*" she tells you using The Voice, and you do so (protesting inside at the feeling of impotence and violation). You feel a strange sensation as 314 inserts the device in your cortical inhibitor implant. As she activates it, she adds in The Voice "*DON'T ATTACK ME*".

Suddenly a white hot explosion in your skull knocks you down as your cortical inhibitor goes offline and your PSI POWERS ARE REACTIVATED!

(more later)

18:24 / 14.09.05

Your mind opens up like a flower as parts of your brain unlock. Your memory is still missing, so you have no clear idea of how to use them, but you can feel your psychic metafunctions at your beck and call like powerful servants.

Something is wrong though- your clone brain doesn't seem able to channel the psi powers at your command properly, until you get back into your own body they will be impaired, you are like a formula one driver trapped in a Fiat Uno.

You stand up after the pain subsides feeling much better.

>?

18:45 / 14.09.05

PSYCHIC INVENTORY-

You have;

MINOR TELEKINESIS (That's pencil floating not mind bullets)

MINOR COERCION (Persuasion not Mind Control, 314 has MAJOR)

MAJOR ASTRAL TRAVEL (That's probably why you're needed for the escape plan so badly- your unaugmented range in this clone is about ten miles, so not quite enough to reach Earth from orbit, but still pretty nifty)

>?

09:15 / 16.09.05

If it doesn't count as an attack, can we FLOAT CORTICAL INHIBITOR BACK INTO 314'S SOCKET as soon as her back is turned?
Also, try USE AUTOSUGGESTION TO REMOVE BLOCK AGAINST ATTACKING 314.
And if that doesn't work, SMILE SEDUCTIVELY. WALK FIRST TWO FINGERS OF RIGHT HAND UP OWN TORSO WHILE HUMMING 'LET'S GET IT ON.'

10:03 / 17.09.05

Recap- You are in the INFIRMARY. Your PSI POWERS ARE ACTIVATED (Telekinesis, Coercion, Astral Travel). You are facing 314 who is holding a cortical implant deactivator in her hand. You are unwilling to attack her due to her COERCION (but very keen to betray her at the first opportunity) and have reluctantly agreed to her deal to TAKE YOUR EYES.

You may not FLOAT CORTICAL INHIBITOR BACK INTO 314'S SOCKET as it is held in her hand and she is very strong, what's more your fine control of telekinesis is not too hot.
You try to USE AUTOSUGGESTION TO REMOVE BLOCK AGAINST ATTACKING 314. You strain your Will, and feel you might subvert her control for a few seconds if you had to, but only if highly motivated. If only your REDACTIVE powers were working.

You have no memory of the escape plan.

>?

10:46 / 17.09.05

Useful info;

-You are called 241. Your memory erasure and transfer into a cheap quality non-gendered clone to inhibit your metapsychic powers seems to have been ordered by Dr Skinner.
-You have so far failed to seduce 3271 ('Threet') 314, and another medidroid.
-You seem to be in an orbiting space Psi asylum station.
-Your friend 312 is a sturdy bearded man with a steely gaze and a strong jaw in his fifties.
-The Reverend has room for two in his escape pod once you've zapped out, and he's got a way of contacting the Greys for the necessary distraction.

>?

14:01 / 17.09.05

314 stands facing you, stretching her arm and shoulder muscles in preparation for violence.
"Now then bitch, *STAND STILL* and *OPEN YOUR EYES*!" she commands, and your treacherous body obeys, arms limp by your sides.

She holds the cortical-implant remover like a punch dagger and draws back, obviously relishing the moment, and aiming to stab out your eyes with the metal device.

You are highly motivated to break her control, and strain to attack her, defend yourself, dodge out of the way or just move, when suddenly she looks past you as the door whuffs open, and hisses "*LIE DOWN!*" which you do. 314 dives into bed as well, and stays still, hiding the device.

A medibot enters the room escorting your friend 312 who is limping alongside it, and sporting a black eye. The bot helps him to the bed next to yours,fusses over him for a moment administering first aid, and then leaves.

After a few seconds you all sit up and look at each other. 314 says "Hello Reverend." in a mocking tone, to which he replies "It's nearly time. I hope you have the removal device."

You are free to act, the coercion seems to have subsided- clearly it is either temporary, or something that must be maintained.

GUIDE INSTRUCTION?
>?

01:24 / 19.09.05

"SUGGEST" TO SELF HYSTERICAL DEAFNESS WHERE 314'S VOICE IS CONCERNED.

08:45 / 19.09.05

WELL, AT LEAST HER *VOICE*.
If we can't hear anything she says, she'll probably twig and kick our eunuch ass again.

14:35 / 19.09.05

You "SUGGEST" TO SELF HYSTERICAL DEAFNESS WHERE 314'S *VOICE* IS CONCERNED in an attempt to avert her control of you. You're not sure if that counts as self-coercion, or whether it's a redactive technique unusable until you escape your rubbish body. Worth a try though.

314 holds up the cortical inhibitor removal device and says "I have the device Reverend, and you're just in time to watch me use it to blind this bitch. Then we take out your inhibitor, you contact the Greys, we get 241 to the Amplifier, then escape in the emergency pod. I'm coming with you and you'd better get used to it."
312 (or The REVEREND as he's otherwise known) looks at you with a frown. "Is that the plan?"

>?

14:51 / 19.09.05

He looks at 341;
"May, there's no need to take petty revenge- I'll agree to take you to Earth with me if you help us get to the Amplification Suite, but surely blinding 241 will only make it more difficult to escape? He's destined to save us all, can't you see we should cooperate?"

"No I can't see it! Guess it must be my MISSING FUCKING EYE! Fuck you and fuck your prophecy, reverend, she'd stab me in the back without thinking. No revenge, no deal. She agreed anyway, isn't that right?" she sneers at you, hefting the device like a weapon again.

>?

12:32 / 20.09.05

GROVEL SHAMELESSLY. "Noes! No stabby! I'm sorry I poked your eye out, I'm just a poor amnesiac nullo with no bits, (DROP PANTS AND POINT TO FEATURELESS KEN-DOLL LUMP) why you wanna play me like that, homey?"
THROW IN SOME COERSION, TOO. CAN'T HURT. TRY TO LOOK SINCERE.

15:00 / 20.09.05

You GROVEL SHAMELESSLY. You say "Noes! No stabby! I'm sorry I poked your eye out, I'm just a poor amnesiac nullo with no bits, (DROP PANTS AND POINT TO FEATURELESS KEN-DOLL LUMP) why you wanna play me like that, homey?" like a ghetto house-elf. You THROW IN SOME COERCION, TOO. and TRY TO LOOK SINCERE.

May (314) does not seem too impressed, but she looks at you disgustedly and says; "You're certainly not the person who defeated me. Fair enough, I'll postpone my revenge until you're recovered. Right now I'll settle for biblical justice!" and with a viciously swift snake-style strike plunges the device into your left eyeball. You try to dodge aside but are hampered by the smock around your ankles, and fall backwards onto the bed screaming, blood spurts out of your eye, the pain is incredible. (if only you could escape this crap clone body..)

You have ONE EYE.

May leans back with a triumphant smirk, wiping the device of aqueous humour and blood, and turns to use it to free the Reverend from his cortical inhibitor. He looks stunned.

>?

Regrettable Juvenilia

15:21 / 20.09.05

While her back is turned, SWEEP THE LEG.

16:20 / 20.09.05

You recover your poise pretty quickly after your wound, and as 314 (May) turns and inserts the device into the Reverend's cortical inhibitor, you prepare yourself, gripping the bedframe for leverage. Once the light goes green, 312 (Rev) drops to the bed and you take the opportunity to SWEEP THE LEG.

Gratifyingly, 314/May goes down like like a sack of soypro, but bounces off the bed on the way to the floor getting a soft landing- she seems likely to leap to her feet again pretty quick.

However, the initiative is yours, and the cortical enabler is safely in 312s spine.

>?

18:49 / 20.09.05

Bear in mind if she manages to get you in the head you may end up looking like this;

12:42 / 21.09.05

SPIT IN HER GOOD EYE AND PUNCH HER IN THE THROAT.
Let's see her Bene Gesserit her way out of that!

14:33 / 21.09.05

You wait for May to get up, readying yourself, trying to ignore the pain in your socket. When she rises, fists clenched with vengeance in mind, you SPIT IN HER GOOD EYE AND PUNCH HER IN THE THROAT.

Your depth perception seems to be a bit poorer than it was, so your phlegm misses, but 314 reflexively leans back to dodge it leaving her open to your cunning throat-strike.

Your blow strikes home and she coughs and gags, temporarily unable to speak. She leaps away from you over the bed, then backs further away clutching her throat and venomously eyeing you up for a counterattack. Lucky for her your clone muscles are puny.

Meanwhile the Reverend seems to have recovered enough to stumble toward the 'door', and has pocketed the device. He seems to be fleeing.

>?

10:24 / 22.09.05

JEDI FORCE-PULL THE DEVICE FROM THE REV'S POCKET INTO YOUR HAND.
(COERSION) "Don't leave yet, Rev- we have Unfinished Business."
T.K. 314'S CAROTID ARTERY CLOSED. KICK PANTS FREE. ASSUME CAT STANCE.

16:02 / 22.09.05

You recall her powerful PSYCHOREDACTIVE METAFUNCTION which makes you feel like your brain is being crushed in a spiky red hot vise, her speed and strength and your puniness and clumsiness.

Are you sure you wish to FOOLISHLY ENGAGE IN HOPELESS COMBAT AGAIN?

>?

P. Horus Rhacoid

18:48 / 22.09.05

FOLLOW BEEBLEBROXIAN PRECEPT: DISCRETION BEING THE BETTER PART OF VALOR, AND COWARDICE THE BETTER PART OF DISCRETION, VALIENTLY FLEE. PURSUE THE REVEREND.

08:59 / 23.09.05

TAKE PANTS.

12:46 / 23.09.05

You have no PANTS as you are wearing a white one-piece SMOCK which you pull back on hurriedly. This is what a nice smock might look like-

You FOLLOW BEEBLEBROXIAN PRECEPT: DISCRETION BEING THE BETTER PART OF VALOR, AND COWARDICE THE BETTER PART OF DISCRETION, VALIANTLY FLEE while you have the chance. 314 does not attempt to prevent your escape for some reason.

You PURSUE THE REVEREND. He gestures at the wall and a section irises open- his reinstated metafaculties are already coming in handy. He turns left and runs down the curving white corridor, mumbling something to himself, obviously with a destination in mind.
He looks over his shoulder and shouts "We must get to the mentat room, there's not a moment to lose! The Greys are on their way!" and continues running.

Your missing eye hurts and is bleeding.

>?

09:28 / 25.09.05

AUTOSUGGEST TO CONTOL PAIN AND SHOCK.
TK TO STOP BLEEDING.
KEEP UP WITH REV, ASK HIM TO GIVE MORE BACKGROUND INFO AS WE GO.

14:12 / 26.09.05

You AUTOSUGGEST TO CONTOL PAIN AND SHOCK. You grit your teeth and try to ignore it, with enough success to keep on going.
Note that you don't have any magic autosuggestion psi-powers, coercing yourself is just asserting your will like any normal person
Your attempt to use your TELEKINESIS TO STOP BLEEDING is abortive though- trying it sends a bolt of pain through your skull. Your control is poor, so it's like poking yourself in the eye. You have a vague feeling that the REDACTIVE metafunction involves healing, and yours is currently not working.

You KEEP UP WITH REV, ASK HIM TO GIVE MORE BACKGROUND INFO AS WE GO.

"I thought you remembered the plan!" He exclaims, but continues as you pelt down the corridor "My FARSPEECH faculty has been restored, so I can contact the Greys again. They love to meddle and abduct people so they'll cause an excellent distraction while we get you to the Mentat room...Which is here!"
He stops by a numbered sign that says 'Mental Amplification Treatment Facility' and turns to you, grasping you by the shoulders and looking into your eye. "It's imperative you get to Earth. The amplifier will provide enough power for you to ASTRALLY PROJECT your mind to a body below. My gift of prophecy says you'll save us all, all of mankind, but I don't know why and I don't know how- I don't even know who you really are. I do know that you promised to help me escape- will you hold to that promise? You didn't think twice before betraying Pi/May, but you'd better rescue me from my escape pod when I land, or we'll all be doomed- can I count on you?"

>?

18:47 / 30.09.05

FOLLOW PLAN TO ASTRALLY PROJECT OUT OF CRAP BODY AND SHITTY SITUATION AND SAVE MANKIND THUS FULFILLING PROPHECY?

Y/N?
>?

P. Horus Rhacoid

23:56 / 30.09.05

YEP.

10:28 / 07.10.05

ASK: "Any particular body, or am I supposed to gank the first poor shlub who comes along? And where are they keeping my old body, anyway? This clone is really dulling my edge, inhibitor or no."

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