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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7471079" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 63, Part Two - Hivemind</strong></p><p></p><p>Not one to let a little world-altering-event threaten her profits, factory owner Jaya Isfeld had instituted a lock-in. Factory workers had been forcibly incarcerated within their workplaces, and only allowed to leave when a replacement staff member came to take their shift. By the time the unit arrived at Parity Lake, the mob had grown to encompass almost five-hundred angered workers, including family, friends, and people who just want to shout against the injustices of the new world. The mob was led by Thames Grimsley who was shouting threats that if the crowd found the owners, he couldn’t be held responsible for any bloodshed. A group of several dozen police officers formed a loose blockade between Isfeld Drilling Cortege and the growing mob, who were pushing against the police line. The officers were shaken and fired off repeated warning shots into the sky. Thames Grimsley shouted at the officers to abandon their posts so no one will get hurt.The mob began to stamp their feet in unison and chant, “Let our people out! Let us out! Let us out!” The air felt thick with intention. The unit saw something huge moving inside the windows of the drilling factory, flickering with a turquoise light. Korrigan told Quratulain to check out the factory. She arrived to find Leon was already at the gates, and discovered that they were chained from the outside. Nervous guards still remained at their posts. From where she lurked on the fringes of the crowd, Gupta stared in wonder at the turquoise light from the factory and found to her surprise that it was otherworldly!</p><p></p><p>Korrigan jumped out of the open-top carriage he had arrived in and forced his way through the crowd towards Thames. Grimsley was in no mood to listen to reason. There was something strange about the intensity of his demeanour. Korrigan took hold of Thames and told him to snap out of it. Thames looked angry at first, then his expression changed to one of confusion as he looked about him and appeared shocked that he had allowed things to go this far. Uriel used telekinesis to bear Korrigan aloft, so that he could address the crowd, persuading them of the error of this course of action – trying to use reason not emotional appeals. Some members of the crowd were swayed by his words, but the situation quickly escalated around them. Uru had stolen into the middle of the crowd and was able to pick out the culprits as a stray rock struck a police offer. As another officer moved to help him up, a second rock struck and the downed officer responded with a shot into the crowd. </p><p></p><p>There were cries of anguish and anger, and the mob surged forward against the police line, only to be repelled by a volley of gunfire. Then the mob grabbed the officers and start dragging them into the centre of their mass, yanking at their limbs and breaking bones as the cops screamed in panic. Uru tried to stymie this by releasing his <em>ghostly entourage</em>, and sending them out to pull down the trousers of all those involved. This succeeded only in making the whole thing more disturbing.</p><p></p><p>Suddenly, the front-facing factory wall bulged as if straining from within. A split second later it exploded outwards, showering the police line, and half of the unit with rubble. Leon teleported away as it came down, but Quratulain and Korrigan were both trapped. </p><p></p><p>When the dust cleared they saw a translucent blue mass of brain-like matter - gargantuan in size, encompassing all of the workers who had been trapped inside the factory. Whip-like tentacles flailed about it, some ending in fleshy hammers and sickles. Eyes twitched along the surface of the orb, and where they looked, people’s flesh dissolved into ash. It lashed out about it and grabbed Leon.</p><p></p><p>Uru thought he recognised this thing – it looked very much like a ‘tooth-anus’, and so he tried thinking at it, but to no avail. He was right, though: Uriel recognised this as a thoughtform of some sort. Had it taken just <em>two days</em> for the gidim to move on Lanjyr? But, no: this was not a Warbeast of Gidim, rather it was a manifestation of some side-effect of the Ob’s changes to the multiverse: a <em>gestalt </em>formed from the focused will of the crowd of workers – a hivemind.</p><p></p><p>Uriel concentrated and thought the form solid. It came crashing down to the ground, then tried to mentally convert Leon. Leon bampfed out of its grasp and lashed at it with tiefling fire. Then it grabbed at Korrigan and Gupta and tried to do the same thing to them, failing.</p><p></p><p>Now it was solid, Quratulain and Uru opened up a fresh can of whup-ass, tearing chunks out of it, and biting into its core. Gupta asked it a question, causing it to freeze momentarily, then she shifted into tiger form. Leon freed anyone it grabbed by teleporting them away, and Uriel kept it solid. When Quratulain fired again, the hivemind erupted in a psychic boom. The unit was unaffected, but all those who had been swept up in the gestalt collapsed.</p><p></p><p>Over the next few days, more reports of such telepathic gestalts came in from throughout the city. Delft ordered his officers to break up groups larger than a dozen strong, and Uru, from the centre of his mental web, found he was able to identify and report incidents of ‘thought crime’ before they got out of hand. Nontheless, Delft began to caution against the plan of calling the citizens of Flint to Dawn Square (although for now Korrigan remained keen to press ahead).</p><p></p><p>After a three days of rest, Thames Grimsley approaches the king and apologized for his part in what happened, though he could not help but emphasise that “something… needs… to be done; the people are… scared of this… new… world”.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7471079, member: 79141"] [b]Session 63, Part Two - Hivemind[/b] Not one to let a little world-altering-event threaten her profits, factory owner Jaya Isfeld had instituted a lock-in. Factory workers had been forcibly incarcerated within their workplaces, and only allowed to leave when a replacement staff member came to take their shift. By the time the unit arrived at Parity Lake, the mob had grown to encompass almost five-hundred angered workers, including family, friends, and people who just want to shout against the injustices of the new world. The mob was led by Thames Grimsley who was shouting threats that if the crowd found the owners, he couldn’t be held responsible for any bloodshed. A group of several dozen police officers formed a loose blockade between Isfeld Drilling Cortege and the growing mob, who were pushing against the police line. The officers were shaken and fired off repeated warning shots into the sky. Thames Grimsley shouted at the officers to abandon their posts so no one will get hurt.The mob began to stamp their feet in unison and chant, “Let our people out! Let us out! Let us out!” The air felt thick with intention. The unit saw something huge moving inside the windows of the drilling factory, flickering with a turquoise light. Korrigan told Quratulain to check out the factory. She arrived to find Leon was already at the gates, and discovered that they were chained from the outside. Nervous guards still remained at their posts. From where she lurked on the fringes of the crowd, Gupta stared in wonder at the turquoise light from the factory and found to her surprise that it was otherworldly! Korrigan jumped out of the open-top carriage he had arrived in and forced his way through the crowd towards Thames. Grimsley was in no mood to listen to reason. There was something strange about the intensity of his demeanour. Korrigan took hold of Thames and told him to snap out of it. Thames looked angry at first, then his expression changed to one of confusion as he looked about him and appeared shocked that he had allowed things to go this far. Uriel used telekinesis to bear Korrigan aloft, so that he could address the crowd, persuading them of the error of this course of action – trying to use reason not emotional appeals. Some members of the crowd were swayed by his words, but the situation quickly escalated around them. Uru had stolen into the middle of the crowd and was able to pick out the culprits as a stray rock struck a police offer. As another officer moved to help him up, a second rock struck and the downed officer responded with a shot into the crowd. There were cries of anguish and anger, and the mob surged forward against the police line, only to be repelled by a volley of gunfire. Then the mob grabbed the officers and start dragging them into the centre of their mass, yanking at their limbs and breaking bones as the cops screamed in panic. Uru tried to stymie this by releasing his [I]ghostly entourage[/I], and sending them out to pull down the trousers of all those involved. This succeeded only in making the whole thing more disturbing. Suddenly, the front-facing factory wall bulged as if straining from within. A split second later it exploded outwards, showering the police line, and half of the unit with rubble. Leon teleported away as it came down, but Quratulain and Korrigan were both trapped. When the dust cleared they saw a translucent blue mass of brain-like matter - gargantuan in size, encompassing all of the workers who had been trapped inside the factory. Whip-like tentacles flailed about it, some ending in fleshy hammers and sickles. Eyes twitched along the surface of the orb, and where they looked, people’s flesh dissolved into ash. It lashed out about it and grabbed Leon. Uru thought he recognised this thing – it looked very much like a ‘tooth-anus’, and so he tried thinking at it, but to no avail. He was right, though: Uriel recognised this as a thoughtform of some sort. Had it taken just [I]two days[/I] for the gidim to move on Lanjyr? But, no: this was not a Warbeast of Gidim, rather it was a manifestation of some side-effect of the Ob’s changes to the multiverse: a [I]gestalt [/I]formed from the focused will of the crowd of workers – a hivemind. Uriel concentrated and thought the form solid. It came crashing down to the ground, then tried to mentally convert Leon. Leon bampfed out of its grasp and lashed at it with tiefling fire. Then it grabbed at Korrigan and Gupta and tried to do the same thing to them, failing. Now it was solid, Quratulain and Uru opened up a fresh can of whup-ass, tearing chunks out of it, and biting into its core. Gupta asked it a question, causing it to freeze momentarily, then she shifted into tiger form. Leon freed anyone it grabbed by teleporting them away, and Uriel kept it solid. When Quratulain fired again, the hivemind erupted in a psychic boom. The unit was unaffected, but all those who had been swept up in the gestalt collapsed. Over the next few days, more reports of such telepathic gestalts came in from throughout the city. Delft ordered his officers to break up groups larger than a dozen strong, and Uru, from the centre of his mental web, found he was able to identify and report incidents of ‘thought crime’ before they got out of hand. Nontheless, Delft began to caution against the plan of calling the citizens of Flint to Dawn Square (although for now Korrigan remained keen to press ahead). After a three days of rest, Thames Grimsley approaches the king and apologized for his part in what happened, though he could not help but emphasise that “something… needs… to be done; the people are… scared of this… new… world”. [/QUOTE]
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