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<blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 4546099" data-attributes="member: 21938">[SBLOCK=Vurk]Much of the junk accumulated on Sethyk's workbench means nothing to Vurk - it looks like scrap metal and not much more. What he can recognise seems manily to be legal cybernetics - medical prosthetics and the like - but a lot seems to have been modified, or is in the process of being modified to a less than legal state; a cybernetic hand with retractable blades in the fingers, for example. Most of it seems to be in a half-constructed state. There are a few pieces that seem far more advanced, and of finer construction, than most of Sethyk's clunky devices, although they have no obvious purpose and seem to be parts of a larger device.One item that stands out is next to the computer terminal. In a sealed specimen jar next to the computer is a sleek-looking device resembling a silver-grey beetle.[/SBLOCK]&quot;Trrk. Raive is my number one customer,&quot; says Sethyk. &quot;Look, I've nearly got his new eye ready.&quot; The alien holds up the artificial eye. There is a flash from the pupil and *something* fires out, ricocheting off a container of junk and knocking it everywhere with a loud crash. The eye gives a tiny &quot;Fzzt&quot; and produces a curl of acrid smoke. Sethyk gives a series of angry-sounding &quot;Tchk&quot;s and begins dismantling the eye.[SBLOCK=Ashley]Telepathy check 20 +7-4 =23This time you manage to make contact with Sethyk's mind. It 'feels' itchy, and the rapid fire thoughts make you feel slightly sick and giddy, but you manage to pick out some stray thoughts as they flicker past.-A feeling of pride at some of the 'enhancements' that he has given Raive (including retractable claws).- A feeling of sadness that Raive is planning to leave the planet.- The name 'Quentin Tryce'.[/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dr Simon, post: 4546099, member: 21938"] [SBLOCK=Vurk] Much of the junk accumulated on Sethyk's workbench means nothing to Vurk - it looks like scrap metal and not much more. What he can recognise seems manily to be legal cybernetics - medical prosthetics and the like - but a lot seems to have been modified, or is in the process of being modified to a less than legal state; a cybernetic hand with retractable blades in the fingers, for example. Most of it seems to be in a half-constructed state. There are a few pieces that seem far more advanced, and of finer construction, than most of Sethyk's clunky devices, although they have no obvious purpose and seem to be parts of a larger device. One item that stands out is next to the computer terminal. In a sealed specimen jar next to the computer is a sleek-looking device resembling a silver-grey beetle. [/SBLOCK] [COLOR="Sienna"]"Trrk. Raive is my number one customer," [/COLOR]says Sethyk. [COLOR="Sienna"]"Look, I've nearly got his new eye ready."[/COLOR] The alien holds up the artificial eye. There is a flash from the pupil and *something* fires out, ricocheting off a container of junk and knocking it everywhere with a loud crash. The eye gives a tiny [COLOR="Cyan"]"Fzzt"[/COLOR] and produces a curl of acrid smoke. Sethyk gives a series of angry-sounding [COLOR="Sienna"]"Tchk"[/COLOR]s and begins dismantling the eye. [SBLOCK=Ashley] Telepathy check 20 +7-4 =23 This time you manage to make contact with Sethyk's mind. It 'feels' itchy, and the rapid fire thoughts make you feel slightly sick and giddy, but you manage to pick out some stray thoughts as they flicker past. -A feeling of pride at some of the 'enhancements' that he has given Raive (including retractable claws). - A feeling of sadness that Raive is planning to leave the planet. - The name 'Quentin Tryce'. [/SBLOCK] [/QUOTE]

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