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<blockquote data-quote="Calinon" data-source="post: 1574486" data-attributes="member: 13737"><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Mega-City of New York</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">EPIC Institute</span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Loki</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">You reach to click on the icon, only to find out that it isn't on the screen, but about four inches in front of it. The angle made it hard to tell at first, but now that you notice it, you also see that it's an illusion. As your hand pass through it, an illusionary image of Anithos appears.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"Sometimes, it is not what everyone else sees, but what <em>you</em> see that is important," he says, his voice laden with innuendo. "Sometimes, that which is not there for anyone else, can point you in the right direction."</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">With those words, the image bows and vanishes. ARIS activates as soon as the illusion fades.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"Hello, Loki. You have an e-mail message from Monica," ARIS says.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Johan</span></span></strong></p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">OOC: This is very simple repair, but a fairly advanced piece of gear, so DC 15. You can take your time and automatically bang out the dents in about an hour without a repair check.</span></span></em></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">As one of you bangs the dents out of your armor and buffs it up to its newly polished shine, your other selves work the chain winches and use laser sighting to mount the flat scanner on the front roof of the van. The computer wiring is going to be a bit tricky, but you think you can manage it.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><em><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">OOC: Craft check (DC 15) to mount it securely results in an 18. Computers check to wire it in to the van's computer (DC 20) is a 4 (22) and you sir, have sick computer skills.</span></span></em></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">As you're working, Sanchez says, "Soooo, did you see anything... interesting at Lockheed?"</span></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Michelle</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"I dunno," Tara says, still scolding Hoppy. "I am <em>not</em> saying anything to Thunder. There's no way I'm helping to put Anithos in jail, and you know he'll want to lay a trap or something," she says.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Sanjay</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"Of course, Sanjay," ARIS replies.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">You hop in the shower quickly and get dressed again, rushing out of your room. As you do, you run into Monica as she's just reaching for your door handle. "Ooo, someone was getting anxious," she purrs, leaning up against you. "But here I am, sport," she adds, nuzzling your neck with her feline nose and whiskers.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">John</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"Looks like he's turnin' over a new leaf or something, hey boy?" your dad says after looking at the E-mail message briefly after exiting the bathroom.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"Message forwarded, Straightjacket," ARIS replies.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Vince</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">You click the message open and find it's a video message of Doctor Worthy.</span></span><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"I hope you get this in time," she starts quickly. "I was studying the skin and blood samples you gave me and suddenly," she says, and the camera pans to her workstation. There is a ton of broken glass and vials. "The samples magnified in size. The growth happened so fast, some of them shattered their containers. If this happened here, it's very likely that the same thing is going to happen to you! Get to your physician quickly and get checked out. I've attached my findings here for reference. I've already sent a message to Thunder in case you are not well."</span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The flappy bat is still flapping along when ARIS beeps and Thunder's face appears on the screen. "Vincent, I got an E-mail from Lockheed's Doctor Worthy saying you could be in for some rather sudden changes? You feeling ok?"</span></span></p><p></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Lancheng, China</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>X12</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The nurse appears very well qualified to do her job. Li comes in about 30 minutes with clean linen and bandages, along with some medicines.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"Kevin is at the academy," she says flatly, without much concern, the first time you've seen her act negatively towards anyone.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Raisa</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">You jump down into the muck and start prying up the roof. With a heave, you hoist the beams, sending mud flying everywhere, and some things you refuse to think about. The young man, about your age, watches with wonder as you pull him out of the mud, still holding the entire roof aloft in one hand, and pass him to the reaching hands of Xi above you. Finding a log you manage to brace the roof up enough to start pulling the squealing hogs out. When you finally get all eight out, you resemble more a creature of muck than a girl.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">You go over to the side and Xi looks down with a slight smirk on his face and he doesn't reach down right away. Dara looks down and giggles. "You look like a monster from an horror film."</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"Do you think it's safe to let it out among the populace?" Xi says with a slight smirk.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Master Wen's face appears over the edge of the stockade. "Oh my," he says. "Are you alright, Raisa?" he asks, then turns to Xi. "That is Raisa, right?" you hear him say quietly to Xi, who nods in response, trying not to laugh.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Kevin</span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">You kinda lay there crying. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile :-)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calinon, post: 1574486, member: 13737"] [b][font=Times New Roman][size=3]Mega-City of New York EPIC Institute[/size][/font][/b] [b][font=Times New Roman][size=3]Loki[/size][/font][/b] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]You reach to click on the icon, only to find out that it isn't on the screen, but about four inches in front of it. The angle made it hard to tell at first, but now that you notice it, you also see that it's an illusion. As your hand pass through it, an illusionary image of Anithos appears.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]"Sometimes, it is not what everyone else sees, but what [i]you[/i] see that is important," he says, his voice laden with innuendo. "Sometimes, that which is not there for anyone else, can point you in the right direction."[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]With those words, the image bows and vanishes. ARIS activates as soon as the illusion fades.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]"Hello, Loki. You have an e-mail message from Monica," ARIS says.[/size][/font] [b][font=Times New Roman][size=3]Johan[/size][/font][/b] [i][font=Times New Roman][size=3]OOC: This is very simple repair, but a fairly advanced piece of gear, so DC 15. You can take your time and automatically bang out the dents in about an hour without a repair check.[/size][/font][/i] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]As one of you bangs the dents out of your armor and buffs it up to its newly polished shine, your other selves work the chain winches and use laser sighting to mount the flat scanner on the front roof of the van. The computer wiring is going to be a bit tricky, but you think you can manage it.[/size][/font] [i][font=Times New Roman][size=3]OOC: Craft check (DC 15) to mount it securely results in an 18. Computers check to wire it in to the van's computer (DC 20) is a 4 (22) and you sir, have sick computer skills.[/size][/font][/i] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]As you're working, Sanchez says, "Soooo, did you see anything... interesting at Lockheed?"[/size][/font] [b][font=Times New Roman][size=3]Michelle[/size][/font][/b] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]"I dunno," Tara says, still scolding Hoppy. "I am [i]not[/i] saying anything to Thunder. There's no way I'm helping to put Anithos in jail, and you know he'll want to lay a trap or something," she says.[/size][/font] [b][font=Times New Roman][size=3]Sanjay[/size][/font][/b] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]"Of course, Sanjay," ARIS replies.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]You hop in the shower quickly and get dressed again, rushing out of your room. As you do, you run into Monica as she's just reaching for your door handle. "Ooo, someone was getting anxious," she purrs, leaning up against you. "But here I am, sport," she adds, nuzzling your neck with her feline nose and whiskers.[/size][/font] [b][font=Times New Roman][size=3]John[/size][/font][/b] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]"Looks like he's turnin' over a new leaf or something, hey boy?" your dad says after looking at the E-mail message briefly after exiting the bathroom.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]"Message forwarded, Straightjacket," ARIS replies.[/size][/font] [b][font=Times New Roman][size=3]Vince[/size][/font][/b] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]You click the message open and find it's a video message of Doctor Worthy.[/size][/font][indent][font=Times New Roman][size=3]"I hope you get this in time," she starts quickly. "I was studying the skin and blood samples you gave me and suddenly," she says, and the camera pans to her workstation. There is a ton of broken glass and vials. "The samples magnified in size. The growth happened so fast, some of them shattered their containers. If this happened here, it's very likely that the same thing is going to happen to you! Get to your physician quickly and get checked out. I've attached my findings here for reference. I've already sent a message to Thunder in case you are not well."[/size][/font] [/indent][font=Times New Roman][size=3]The flappy bat is still flapping along when ARIS beeps and Thunder's face appears on the screen. "Vincent, I got an E-mail from Lockheed's Doctor Worthy saying you could be in for some rather sudden changes? You feeling ok?"[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3][b]Lancheng, China X12[/b] The nurse appears very well qualified to do her job. Li comes in about 30 minutes with clean linen and bandages, along with some medicines.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]"Kevin is at the academy," she says flatly, without much concern, the first time you've seen her act negatively towards anyone.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3][b]Raisa[/b][/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]You jump down into the muck and start prying up the roof. With a heave, you hoist the beams, sending mud flying everywhere, and some things you refuse to think about. The young man, about your age, watches with wonder as you pull him out of the mud, still holding the entire roof aloft in one hand, and pass him to the reaching hands of Xi above you. Finding a log you manage to brace the roof up enough to start pulling the squealing hogs out. When you finally get all eight out, you resemble more a creature of muck than a girl.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]You go over to the side and Xi looks down with a slight smirk on his face and he doesn't reach down right away. Dara looks down and giggles. "You look like a monster from an horror film."[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]"Do you think it's safe to let it out among the populace?" Xi says with a slight smirk.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Master Wen's face appears over the edge of the stockade. "Oh my," he says. "Are you alright, Raisa?" he asks, then turns to Xi. "That is Raisa, right?" you hear him say quietly to Xi, who nods in response, trying not to laugh.[/size][/font] [b][font=Times New Roman][size=3]Kevin[/size][/font][/b] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]You kinda lay there crying. :-)[/size][/font] [/QUOTE]
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