>>23627940
Let's go see if anyone is around the computer room and let them know we had a breakthrough earlier today.

>>23627940
"Of course, something as greasy and unhealthy as a burger is legally obligated to taste amazing."

When we're done eating/chatting, might as well see if we can't do some technopathy this time instead of failing constantly.

>>23627940
I think we're going to make more hamburgers for everyone. Summer stole our last one, so we must be hungry.

>>23627940
"I'm glad you're enjoying it, Anna."

"Of course. Something as greasy and unhealthhy as a burger is legally oblicated to taste amazing." You say. "I'm glad you're enjoying it, Anna."
She nodded.
"I think I'm ruined for rations, now." She said, taking a final bite of hers as you finish up the rest of yours, somewhat glad that you'd made plenty.
For a time later, while Anna and Summer chat, you finish up your meal and get to your feet.
"Are you going to go do some of your training?" Summer asked, scrambling to her feet. "Can I come with? I want to see what they have you doing."

>>23628041
"Sure! It's a bit boring though, I just sit in a supercomputer array and think things. Then the circuits burn out."

>>23628041
"Sure, I had a breakthrough earlier so I might not destroy all those poor computers any more."

>>23628041
sure thing you can watch me make a pile of burned circuits

and some times I don't

>>23628041
Sure. It's all flashy lights and I'm making everything explode, so you'll have to let me pat you if I get miserable.

Hopefully after I managed to get things to work today I'll have more luck!

"Sure. It's all flashing lights and I'm making everything explode, so you'll have to let me pat you if I get miserable." You say. "Hopefully, after I managed to get things to work today, I'll have more luck!
"Hopefully." Summer said.

"I think I'm going to bed early tonight." Anna said. "All this walking around is making me tired. Good night, you two." She said, and waved at you as you and Summer made your way toward the technopathy computer.

"This looks a lot like what they have for my manifestation." Summer said.
"That's because it's the same general concept." Keen said. "Allow the psion to see the direct effects of their powers close up, teach them to use it more easily."
He was the only one there, but he seemed to have recreated Mini-Elysium from scratch.
"So, Heather, are you ready to try again?" Keen asked. "The doc asked me to shut all this down after your failures, but Damien blew past and told me that you'd be here. He had some sort of fire in his eyes."

Rolled 57

>>23628145
go on.

>>23628145
yea I think I got it figured out a bit better also I blew one of his visions out of the water.

>>23628145
"I guess I had a breakthrough with it. He wasn't expecting it, to say the least."

>>23628145
"He went into the isolation chamber and apparently saw a lot of stuff. I had a bit of a breakthrough earlier with using telepathy instead of telekinesis so hopefully I can not blow up too much equipment today."

Rolled 15

>>23628145
"Well, here goes nothing..."

>>23628145
"Let's get's started, I'm feeling pretty confident at the moment."

"He went into the isolation chamber and apparently saw a lot of stuff." You say. "And I had a bit of a breakthrough earlier, with thinking of it as telepathy instead of telekinesis, so hopefully I can not blow up too much equipment today."
"Alright, then, climb on in there." He said, nodding to the chamber, and climb on in you do.
"Let's get started." You say, as he plugs in Mini-Elysium. "I'm feeling pretty confident at the moment."

>Should you really be so confident? Roll!

Rolled 2

>>23628199

Rolled 47

>>23628199
*cringe*

Rolled 84

>>23628199

Rolled 58

>>23628199
Dice for the dice god!

Rolled 96

>>23628199
Here goes nothing...

Rolled 12

>>23628199

Rolled 66

>>23628199

Rolled 34

>>23628204
>>23628205
>>23628209
>>23628215
Clearly Mini-Elysium is a soulless thing, and talking to it doesn't work. Maybe we should try talking to his analysis machine instead?

Rolled 31

>>23628199
dice

Rolled 36

>>23628199

Rolled 32

>>23628199
might as well throw my hat into the ring

Rolled 32

>>23628226
Or maybe his personacom?
Anything? Please?

>>23628199
Yeah we just killed all computers in a twenty meter radius.

STOP ROLLING

Not long later, under Keen's direction, you climb out of the chamber.
"Aha!" He said, holding the small computer. "It seems like it was a conceptual issue or something like it. It was just the way you were thinking of it, it looked. See if you can direct it to send me a message."
Not even in the chamber, you focus on the computer, and ask it to send a message to Keen - which it does, apparently, when his personacom pings.
He grinned, setting the computer down and looking at the data.
"Apparently it's mostly lighting up your language centers." He said. "I'm not a researcher or a brain scientist, but it looks like you're using mostly telepathy with a bit of telekinesis."

>>23628254
Putting away my dice for this thread. I don't want the station to forget to maintain orbit or anything.

>>23628269
"Everything went better than expected!"

Rolled 6

>>23628269
So does this mean the whole machine was a waste of time and effort?

Sorry about that.

I might just try mailing things to people, or chatting to Einstein for a bit.

Speaking of which, technopathy: "Einstein, play some music." as though we were talking at him.

>>23628313
Not with that roll we aren't

"Everything went better than expected!" You say, grinning. The computers around you were almost buzzing now, their minds determined to do their duty. They didn't have much personality, you felt, but you were rather certain you could... 'talk' to them, or even 'talk' to Einstein.
"So does this mean the whole machine was a waste of time and effort?"
"Oh, of course not." Keen said. "You'll still need practice, and if not, then it's still a supercomputer. Those are always useful."
Summer manifested a human body quickly, and clapped, as Dr. Manus came into the room.
"Heya, Doc. Apparently we had a breakthrough. Look at this data."
Manus read through the data on the computers for a bit, and then nodded.
"It all looks good." He said. "Heather, did you try something differently, or something?"

>>23628328
"Yeah. I was thinking 'mechanics' but I needed to be thinking 'minds'."

>>23628328
"Yep, I need to think of it more as telepathy than anything else."

Make all the computers display a thumbs up.

>>23628328
"Can I test it against encrypted files? Do you think I can break through them?"

>>23628328
"Yeah, I figured it out in the isolation chamber. Managed to talk to Damian's personacom even though he Predicted me failing."

>>23628328
All I have to do is talk to the cute machines as though they are alive. Which is kinda what I do anyway, but now they talk back!

>>23628328
yep more telepathy less telekinesis
>>23628341
rather ask them to do this

>>23628350
>break through them
You mean ask the computer nicely to give us the decryption key?

"Yeah." You say. "I was thinking 'mechanics', but I needed to be thinking 'minds'."
You softly ask the computers nearby to display a thumbs up, and most of them did, Elysium and the technician's computer too high-strung to obey any orders from anything that wasn't their designated master.
"Can I test it against encrypted files? Do you think I could break through them?"
".. Sure, go ahead." The doctor said. "James?"
"On it." James said, and transferred a file to Elysium.

You climb into the chamber again, pull the goggles on, and focus on Elysium. Almost immediately you know where the file is... but when you try to understand it, to look inside it. Elysium directly stops you. If you don't have the key, it says, you don't need to.

>Roll!

Rolled 32

>>23628373
Come on compubro.

Rolled 26

>>23628373

lets

Rolled 34

>>23628373
"We're a master hacker!"

Rolled 80

>>23628373
"Pretty please with RAM on top?"

Rolled 13

>>23628373
Yes I do. I need it for reasons.

Rolled 7

>>23628373
I'll tickle your power supply if you don't!

Well, this didn't work.

Rolled 77

>>23628373
"I'll get you more silicon wafers if you play along!"

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>>23628393
hacking with adorable

We are so bad at this...

"Elysium won't let me look at it." Pout.

Rolled 92

>>23628373
our specialty keeps on failing!

>>23628373
If we know where it is, even if Elysium won't let us look inside it, can't we have it transfer the file to Einstein, who will almost certainly let us decrypt it without any hassle?

You focus, trying to peer past Elysium into the file, but it 'steps' into your way again, its' presence directly blocking you.
You spend a little time asking it to move, promising to give it new parts, but it refuses. Insulted, even by the idea that it would prefer components over obeying it's directives... and finally, frustrated, you try to force your way through.
The fans on the computer all start up, and your mind slams into a wall made of pure RAM.

"Elysium won't let me look at it." You say, and pout.
"Interesting. The computer thinks you're an unauthorized user. Give me a second." Keen said.
A moment later, reluctantly, Elysium 'stepped' aside, allowing you access to the file. You get a minor headache, your mind confused as to how to decrypt the file without Elysium to help, and you can't quite understand it. It feels almost like trying to solve one of the harder math problems after a class that you slept in - you don't even know where to even start. It was all just dizzying information, both to you *and* to Elysium, and you can't figure out what the file is.

>>23628448
Elysium might be able to stop us copying it. And Einstein would try his best at deciphering it but he doesn't have the key.

Rolled 73

>>23628468
"It's all numbers! I'm not good at numbers!"

>>23628468
"I don't know! Elysium won't help me and I need to solve MATHS!"

Bawwww.

>>23628468
"It's like trying to ask an eight year old to do high level calculus. I know that there's an answer to it somewhere, I just don't have the first clue where to begin."

>>23628468
Man, Elysium is like our antagonist this quest. Forget metaphysical entities or cross-dimensional demons, training computers are the new villains!

>>23628494
I'd hope we were good at numbers. Can't build a spaceship without math.

Rolled 71

>>23628468
"For a computer named Elysium, it's not a nice place to be."

>>23628544
Yeah, we're probably decent. But there's a difference between being able to solve equations you are familiar with, and hard data crunching your way through encryptions.

"It's all numbers!" You say. "I'm not good at numbers, and Elysium won't help me."
"Just... try to calm down." Summer said. "It's like in school. You can let your subconscious do it, if you keep from thinking about it too directly."
"... Wait, is *that* how you had that good of transcripts?" Manus asked.
"I was able to sleep through classes." Summer responded, gloatingly.
"Well, good thing to know that the entire class can just subconsciously know everything I try to teach." Manus said, grumbling.

You close your eyes, and think toward the file, trying to subconsciously figure it out...
And a key appears in your mind.
Focusing on the key, you gently slide it into the lock of the encrypted file. Your headache gets worse, but elysium starts running, the drives whining and chips pulsing with power as it decrypts the file.
The picture was a trid of an adorable kitten, and borrowing Elysium's graphics software, you watch it.

>>23628564
Obviously. I'm just saying "wahh I hate numbers!" seems a bit over the top.

>>23628572
"Aha! D'aww, that kitten is adorable."

>>23628572
"Oh man, data decryption is adorable~!"

>>23628572
"Daww! You're the best, Keen."

>>23628581
As a Maths graduate, I can assure you that hating numbers is perfectly fine. If you have to resort to numbers then you're doing things wrong.

>>23628572
"Cute!"

>>23628572

"my head hurts."

"Aha!" you say. "D'aw, that kitten is adorable."
"I thought so!" Keen said.
"What? What was it?" Summer asked, lost.
"This." Keen said, and inside the chamber, you couldn't see anything... but you could feel him flip on his personacom.
"D'aww." Summer said.

"... My head hurts." You say, finally, climbing out of the chamber.
"I think I heard something about Jilly having the same problem, eventually." Manus said. "I'll talk to her counselor about that, and about Summer's counselor about the way the machine works for her."
"It works fine." Summer said.
"I assume so, but I'll talk to him to make sure." He said, and turned to you. "Please, if you feel the need to meddle with anything in your free time, try not to meddle with either the life support, the external airlocks, or the centrifugal thrusters." He said. "But the rest, well... the rest can be fixed."

>>23628572
yea ! kitten
got any excedrin ?

>>23628572
"Hmm. Is there anything that Elysium can't do? I wonder if it's easier to create programs like this than conventionally."

>>23628645
Yay! Free license to cause trouble! I'm going to convince the ice cream machine that it's my best friend and ice cream is totally appropriate for breakfast.

>>23628645
"I won't mess with anything too dangerous."

>>23628645
"I don't plan to, I doubt I'd get into them either, considering I had trouble just getting past Elysium."

>>23628645

"ehehe, cold shower water."

"Yay! Free license to cause trouble! I'm going to convince the ice cream machien that it's my best friend and ice cream is totally appropriate for breakfast."
The doctor chuckled.
"Oooh, can you tell it that I'm it's best friend too?" Summer asked.
More seriously, you turn to Manus.
"I won't mess with anything too dangerous." You say.
"Glad to hear it." He responded, with a nod. "Make sure to get some sleep."

>>23628735
"Time, Einstein?"

>>23628735

depending on the time we should get some rest, grab a snack while we're at it.

>>23628735
"Ice cream before bed, Summer?"

"Time, Einstein?"
"Ten PM, Station Time." Einstein responded.
"Oh, it's not that late." summer said.
"You're also nocturnal, aren't you?" Manus asked.
Summer shook her head. "Maybe if I was a late-uplift. I don't actually know much about tigers."

>>23628735
Head back to our room with Summer.

Is there a station main computer? We should say hello and introduce ourselves.

"What's your Extranet address, Summer?" Give her ours.

>>23628804
Tigers are huge and dangerous and full of teeth and claws and yet they look really cute and you just want to hug them.

>>23628804
"You are the best tiger. Shall we get ice cream, and then find something to do? I wonder if I can telekinesis water. That would be cool."

>>23628804
"The most important thing to know about tigers is that they're really fluffy."

"Tigers are huge and dangerous and full of teeth and claws, yet they look really cute and you just want to hug them."
"You have teeth and fingernails." Summer said. "That doesn't make you any more dangerous."
The two of you made your way out of the room, and toward the cafeteria.
"What's your Extranet address, Summer?" You ask.
"It's, um, Spring Showers, at Khaluea." She said. "Khaluea is my homeworld."
"Shall we get ice cream?" You ask. "And then find something to do? I wonder if I could telekinesis water. That would be cool."
"It would, wouldn't it? Just make it all blobby like water gets in zeroG."

Some time later, you were in the cafeteria with ice cream, Summer licking at her own bowl. The ice cream machine beeped, pleased it could help.

>>23628886
"Hmmm...forget water, let's see if how telekinesis on ice cream works."

>>23628886
Send her a message. WITH OUR MIND.
Something trivial like: "Your sundress looked really pretty earlier."

"What was Khaluea like?"

Rolled 16

>>23628909
LET'S DO IT! ICE CREAM FIGHT

>>23628886

such a nice machine, not like those big mean computers that require authorization.

"what is Khaluea like?"

>>23628886
Compress the icecream into a singularity.

>>23628886
Don't even use a spoon to eat. Lift perfectly sized scoops of it with TK.

"Hmm... forget water." You say. "Let's see how telekinesis on ice cream works."
With a thought, you lift up your ice cream, compressing it smaller and smaller as it hardens.
"What was Khaluea like?"
"It's a really large moon orbiting a violet gas giant." Summer said. "It's made of really tall, pretty towers, all interconnected and those make up the streets. It's pretty. And then our house was also really big, but that's because daddy's rather rich." She said. "The moon doesn't actually have seasons, though."
You nod - all you knew of Heaven's Jewel was that it had a dry season and a wet season, and no more.

>>23628968
"That sounds pretty nice. Do you miss your parents?"

>>23628968
Were your parents from Khaluea originally? It seems odd that they would name you Summer if there are no seasons there.

Inflate the ice cream again and feed it to Summer.

>>23628968
"Do you get along well with your parents?"

"That sounds pretty nice." You say. "Do you miss your parents?"
"Dad was never really home." She said. "Always busy. And... well, after the aircar incident... mom started to get ill."
She was quiet.
"Me and Winter might have been sisters, but the two of them never saw me as a daughter." Summer said, eventually, as you take a bite out of your levitating ice cream.

>>23629037
But Winter did, didn't she?

>>23629037
"I'm really sorry to hear that. How did they, uh...end up adopting you?"

Think hugs are in order.

>>23629037
Strategic Hug deployment.

>>23629037

scoot over next to her and offer ice cream.

"I'm sorry to hear that." and sling an arm around her.

>>23629037
so what do you plan to do after well here school that is

>>23629057
I'm pretty sure she's already explained it.
Something along the lines of "Winter wanted a pet she could talk to" or something.

"But Winter did, didn't she?" You ask, and pull Summer into a hug.
"We were twins." She said. "That's how we saw it."
"How did they, uh, end up adopting you?"
"I have a little explanation of the process on my birth certificate." She said. "Dad paid for me, I was cloned from a tiger from four hundred years ago, and then given transgenes when I was still in the artificial womb to make me bigger and fluffier, and then uplifted when I was a cub. Apparently I was ... adopted... because my mom always wanted a pet when she was growing up, and the two of them decided that Winter would want a sister, as well. So they decided on doing both at once."

>>23629111
The only thing I can think to say is about how they don't know Winter is dead, and I don't think we should talk about that now.

So just hug her. And eat/feed her ice cream.

>>23629111

"want to keep talking about it or just hug for a bit?"

>>23629111
Just hug her.

You pull her close and give her a tighter hug, and she simply leaned into you.
"Want to keep talking about it, or just hug for a bit?" You ask.
"How about option three?" She asked. "Keep eating ice cream and then just hug for a bit."

Some time later, you were pinned to the floor of the cafeteria.

Summer was asleep, her six hundred pound frame keeping your legs pinned down entirely. You were full up on ice cream, but the cafeteria was too cold and hard for you to go to sleep there easily. The time, you estimate, is almost midnight, and talking to Einstein confirms that.

>>23629111
"Did you have any good friends on Khaluea, Winter excepted? Someone as cool and nice as you would have been very popular where I grew up!"

>>23629186
TK her and ourselves into bed. Full hovermode.

>>23629186
TK her to our room, go to sleep in a proper bed.

Rolled 16

lets try warming up the floor, or making a TK mattress.

>>23629186
Float her all the way back to her bed.
Yay psychic powers.

>>23629186
Pick up summer and carry her back to our room. Let her sleep on top of us there.

Push the beds together so there's space for both of us.

>>23629186

lift Summer up with TK and try to float her to our room, or as far as we can manage and bring back pillows, blankets.

Rolled 19

>>23629205
Maybe we could turn the floor into a giant mattress?

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>>23629205
>oh shit nigger, what are you doing

>the floor is now lava

>>23629205
I'm pretty sure we don't need to roll for this, we lifted her and Anna into bed without rolling for it.

>>23629246
You should read posts you reply to, anon.

You focus, trying to lift Summer up, and you're barely able to slide your legs out from underneath her before losing your grip of her.
Her ears twitched, and eyes opened.
"Hm? Oh. Did... did I fall asleep? Sorry!"

The two of you make your way into the dorm room, climb into bed, and soon enough, you were asleep.

When you wake up, Einstein chirps happily, signalling that he'd updated his tip of the day.
>http://pastebin.com/CaAF0yS8
Summer was still asleep on her bed, rolled onto her back. Her belly was impossibly fluffy.

>>23629304
Try to resist rubbing the belly; fail.

Serously, it's impossibly to resist rubbing a cat's stomach, there's no way.

>>23629304
Snuggle with the tiger. We can be late for classes today.

>>23629304
Pet the fluffy belly, hug the tiger, check the time, if we're getting close to class time wake her up with scritches.

>>23629304
>From: *CLASSIFIED*
>To: Arcturus/Einstein@HeavensJewel.EX.NEXUS
>[Nothing but a long string of garbled Data.]
Ooh, fun. Let's see if we can do the decryption thing again.

>>23629304
Use techno-powers to read our emails instead of doing it the manual way.

>>23629316
Afterwards try to decrypt your classified message if there is time before classes.

Rolled 46

>>23629304
try to make sense of the garbled message we just got.

>>23629304
Try to decrypt the long string of garbled data!

Rolled 80

classified huh, yes lets try decrypting it

>>23629304
well its a new day lets get some food

>>23629304

garbled data, lets check it out

>>23629372
>>23629365
>>23629358
>>23629354
>>23629353
>>23629349
Fuck data, snuggle cat.

Rolled 89

>>23629396
do both

Rolled 41

>>23629396
Multitasking, it's the way of the future.

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You've been awake for less than six seconds and you're already petting the fluffy belly, snuggling up next to Summer. You're there for only a few minutes before you mentally ask Einstein what your email is. When he sends you the garbled data, you close your eyes and try to decrypt it.

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You're screaming before you hit the ground, your back arching, your mind pounding with unimaginable, impossible pain, limbs seizuring out of control, your heart pounding it's way out of your ribcage, trying to tear it out.

Someone's talking to you.
The noise causes you pain.
You have to destroy the noise. You have to remove it. Make it... go away.
Your hand lashes out, claws tearing into her face-
"Heather!" Summer suddenly says, her voice full of worry.

You take a deep breath... and open your eyes again. Your fingernails had fur underneath them, and Summer looked to be missing a bit, a small amount of blood under her cheek.
"Heather, are you okay?" She asked. "Please, talk to me."

>>23629427
"I'm okay, I'm sorry I scratched you, I was reading my email, I tried to decrypt something, it hurt, it hurt so much."

>>23629427
Summer! I'm so sorry!

Hug the kitty better.

Rolled 5

ouch

>>23629427
"I- wha- sorry. I think I'm okay."

>>23629427
>.gif

>>23629427
Apologize profusely, then hug the tiger hard for comfort/to try to stop the shaking.

>>23629427
"Oh you are hurt! I'm sorry, lets fix you up."

>>23629427

"oh god, Summer! I'm so sorry, i got this weird message and i was trying to make sense of it and then the pain and... i'm so sorry!"

Rolled 60

>>23629427
"Oh god, oh god, I'm so sorry, Summer. I-i just tried something I shouldn't have."

>>23629427
"Oh my god oh my god oh my god. I am so sorry Summer! I just tried to decrypt a file but it hurt so much!"

"Oh god, oh god, I'm so sorry." You say, your head pounding. "I- I just tried something -"
Those thoughts, near the end... those weren't your thoughts. It wasn't your pain you felt... but you're not sure who's.
"I... I think I'm okay." you say, quietly, and the hug her tightly, trying to stop your limbs trembling. "I'm so sorry, Summer."
"It's okay." Summer said. "It's okay."
While you hugged her, she started purring, the sound - and feel- comforting, helping you stop trembling uncontrollably. You took a deep breath as Summer held you close.
"I'll be okay, you'll be okay, we'll all be okay." Summer said, and licked her paw, wiping at her cheek. She did so a few times, until the blood had all been wiped away.

You notice she didn't ask what you'd tried.

>>23629508
Lets go talk to the Researcher/Councilor person.

>>23629508
"Did- did I say anything just then? During the thrashing around?"

>>23629519
Sounds like a good idea.

>>23629508
"Thank you Summer. You are such a good friend. And so fluffy."
Hold in hug with her for while and then say
"So should we go for a breakfast? I heard it makes the bad feelings go away."

>>23629508

will you go with me to see Dr. Manus?

Einstein, quarantine that message.

>>23629508
Is the file still there? We should use more conventional methods the next time.

>>23629532
This.

"I need some waffles."

"Did- did I say anything, just then?" You asked. "During the thrashing around?"
"... You.. you talked about destroying this place. Tearing it out of the infinite depths, into the light of the sun." Summer said, quietly.
"... Thank you, Summer." You say.
"... I didn't translate it with telepathy. Telepathy... stopped working." She said, quietly.

"Einstein, quarantine that message."
"No message found." Einstein said.

>>23629574
"I'm scared."

>>23629574
"I'm scared Summer, we need to tell Manus and Max everything that happened."

This is gonna happen the next time we look at a bunch of text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7g-v3d7-Gk#t=72s

>>23629574
"It's the void queen."

>>23629574
Let's take some time to be miserable and think about things, then report what happened together with Summer.

>>23629574

>"... I didn't translate it with telepathy. Telepathy... stopped working." She said, quietly.

>I'm a little confused about this one

"I need to tell Dr. Manus and Max about this."

"... I'm scared, Summer." You say, and hold her close, your stomach coiling within itself... and then someone - someone you wanted to kill - knocked on the door.
"Hey, I was wondering if either of you wanted to grab breakfast." Alex said, and you wanted to kill him.
"Just a second!" Summer called, and - kill Alex - hugged you close.
"I need to tell Dr. Manus and Max about this." You say, and you wanted to kill Alex.
Your head pounded.

>>23629692
"It's in my head, Summer. It wants me to hurt Alex. I'm not safe. Get him away from here.

Rolled 13

>>23629692
Kill Alex.

>>23629692

"no no no. Summer grab Alex and get him away from me, please get Dr. Manus and Max."

"get out of my head!"

>>23629692
"Get away! Please Alex, run and send Dr. Manus over!"

>>23629702
"Summer, my mind is not entirely my own right now. I need you to pin me to the bed and not let me move for any reason.

Alex call Manus and Max, get them over here right now."

Rolled 12

>>23629692
Reboot into safe mode

Rolled 48

get out of my head.

>>23629692
"GET OUT OF HERE!"

>>23629746
"Alex, Burer's Glyph is happening again! GET OUT!"

"... No, no." you say - to yourself, and to Summer. "No. Summer... Grab Alex and get him away from me. Please, ki- get Dr. Manus and Max."
"But-"
"Get out of here!" You screech, and push Summer away.
"... Okay. Okay." She said. "I'll go. Kill Alex, Heather. Be careful, Heather." Summer said, and got to her paws, running out of the room.

And then you were alone. Alone in your thoughts.

"Message recieved - Kill Alex." Einstein said, bringing a knife down on Alex's neck, tearing out his heart with a claw of steel.
"From CorvusMonedula." It continued.
That part of you - that part of you that wanted you to tear the entire station out of the sky... didn't want you to open the message.

>>23629814
Open.

>>23629814
Well, that part's obviously the worst ever, so we have to open it.

>>23629814
Kill Alex.

>>23629814
Well shit.

>>23629814
Open it.

>>23629814
"OPEN THE MESSAGE EINSTEIN"

>>23629814
"What the fuck is happening to me?"
Wait for doctors to come and try not to destroy the whole dorm.

>>23629814
OPEN IT

>>23629814
What?

I'm not even following anymore.

Retreat to the workshop. We'll feel safe there. Try to build a simple something to read the message.

>>23629814

i don't like that part, open the message.

>>23629814
kill the message

open Alex

Rolled 91

>>23629814
Maybe it's a copy of Common Sense 2013.

Rolled 80

>>23629814
Use TK to rip the station apart.

>>23629906
No, no, no, no, no. We do not rip the poor station apart.

>>23629814
Open the message. Fuck the voice.

>>23629906
>Implying we have that much power
Just disable the life support with technopathy.

You kill Alex - open the message - and the words in it are simple.
"The message follows: Your name." Einstein said. "Is Heather Leery. You are Arcturus. Alex... Alex is Prometheus."

Something in your mind... snaps. A tendril, from far away, something that was touching your mind - snapped, and that alien part of you was gone.
Reality crystallized, and you took a deep breath.
You were you again.

"Warning." Einstein said. "Quantum entanglement has been lost. Access to the Extranet has been lost. Warning. The station's Quantum Entanglement has been lost. Access to the Extranet has been lost. Warning. The station's Quantum entanglement has been lost. Access to the intranet has been lost. Message received from CorvusMonedula."
Einstein chirped... and your gut roiled.
Nothing would cut three entanglements at once, especially if they were connected to different places.

>>23629814
just kill something.

>>23629929
>CorvusMonedula.
who is that.

>>23629929
Tell Einstein to read the message, then puke our guts out.

>>23629929
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.

Okay, we're in crisis mode now, we've got some seriously weird stuff incoming.

Get up, find Max, he has to know what's going to happen.

>>23629929
Einstein, play message from Damien.

Where is Damien?

>>23629942
That's Damien's email name.

>>23629929
Have Einstein play it.

>>23629929
Read the new message, Einstein.

>>23629929

what is the message?

3 entanglements lost means the station moved? really really far?

Rolled 75

>>23629929
More people have recieved that message then you. People who can't fight it it. Warn everyone you can that they are NOT to open that message. Use telepathy and technomancy to contact everyone and get a view on Alex.

So, looks like what happened to us/at Burer's Glyph is done through the net, probably with some kind of advanced technopathy. Good thing we decided to focus on it ourselves.

"Einstein, play it." You say, and you hear Damien's voice.

"Oh gods. Okay, this is simple." He said. "We are all going to *die*. You're the only one that can help us. I don't know how. Jilly is in the cafeteria, Sarvesh is in his room, Anna is in hydroponics. I'm ... I'm in my room. Summer... she's in the hall, with Max, and those... those THINGS. I... don't know where Alex is."

> Where do you go first?

>>23629968
It might mean that, or more likely they got cut off like what happened with Burer's Glyph.

>>23629968
Entanglement doesn't give a shit where you move. Somebody's smashed the routers most likely.

>>23629991
Get to summer in the hall, she can be in two places, and is a 900 pound tiger. She'll be the most help.

>>23630012
>That's the only way to deentangle something.
>.... But Einstein has a router inside of him, and his was also disconnected.

>>23629973
Get to Summer.

>>23629991
Summer and Max are closest, right? She can't have gone far. And Summer is a giant tiger. Or an army of giant tigers.

>>23629991
>Summer and Max
>Anna
>Sarvesh
>Jilly

>>23630028
>>23630012
Someone smashed the entanglement hub stations? But they would have had to get the one at Heaven's reach, as well as the one out here...

>>23629991
Summer, Max, and Alex first.

>>23630028
>.... But Einstein has a router inside of him, and his was also disconnected.
So they smashed the other end (in Heaven's Reach?).

>>23629991
Summer/Max first, they're closest and would be the first to potentially be in danger (from each other).

>>23629991
Go to Summer, then Anna.

>>23629991

Summer, Max and likely Alex too are in the hall with an immediate threat, get them first!

>>23629991
Send a message to everyone to meet somewhere, emergency situation.

>>23629991
Telepathy a message to everyone, setting a meeting point would be far quicker than rushing off after everyone in turn.

Rolled 18

Don't bother sending messages through normal means, it will most likely be blocked. Use technopathy or telepathy to talk to them directly. Be prepared to help them fight off the darkness.

>>23630073
If we can't get onto everyone, we could talk to Jilly, who can tell to the others.

You scramble to your feet, and then reach out with your mind...
And those tendrils were in the way, entangling everything like brambles. You couldn't reach out.
You slam the door open and run up to Summer and Max, just outside of your door. You pant... and they look at you rather strangely.
"Heather, are you feeling okay?" Max asked.
Alex was nowhere to be seen.
"Heather. Please. Talk to us." Summer said.
There were no.. 'things' nearby, either, as you look this way and that.

And then a Thing suddenly appeared. A massive creature, with four powerfully taloned legs, and two... scythes for arms. Six beady eyes stared out at you...

And it was psionic, you knew.
It snarled, and dove for you, it's jaw splaying open as two secondary jaws snapped out at you.
Max responded instinctively, and blasted it back with TK, sending it slamming into the steel hull of the hallway.
"What the hell..." Max said... and then his tone changed. "Get to the hub. There's a evacuation shuttle there."
The creature started to scramble to it's feet, and blasted Max against the wall with it's own TK.

>>23629991
Go to Summer. She's in danger if she'S just in hall like that.

Rolled 73

>>23630110
Rip the Creature apart with TK. KILL IT.

Rolled 76

>>23630110
Help Max

Rolled 4

>>23630110
Use one of them fancy-schmancy annihilation spheres.

>>23630110
Help Max, hit that thing with some TK of our own, no way we can go to the shuttle and abandon everyone.

Rolled 58

>>23630110
Rip and tear, with TK.
"We have to find everyone and tell them where to go Max, they're blocking telepathy."

Rolled 81

>>23630110
"We've got to get the others. Damien said they're all going to die unless we help."

Get something heavy from the workshop, like a piston or a jack that we can throw about with TK.

Then squash that creature's head with it.

Rolled 44

>>23630110
Try to rip that thing apart with our TK
yell "WITNESS YOUR DOOM!"

Rolled 48

>>23630110

like with the array, slam the creature in to the wall

>>23630110
Kill it with TK. Then go to Anna.

Rolled 85

They are all over the station. . Alex is their target because they are psionic and he destroys that.

Damien said we are going to die unless I do something. And I don't know how. And neither does he.

But... I can feel them. And I know they can be severed.

Try to sever the tendrils.

>>23630110
"Damien sent me a message, the whole station seems to be under attack and if we don't do something everyone will die. I know where everybody except Alex is, do you know where he went?"

>>23630110
Okay, so, let's think about this logically. Max is experienced, and he and Summer are together, so they should be safe to leave alone as they evacuate to the shuttle. Anna is really proficient at psionics that are very combat-useful, and has probably seen fighting before, but she's in hydroponics and might not even know there's danger until it's too late. Sarvesh is huge and powerful and really used to combat in addition to his psionics, so probably in the least danger. Jilly is pretty much an unknown in terms of combat ability. Damien seems pretty weak - his specialty is pretty useless in combat beyond dodging/running away. Alex is helpless but also unknown location.

I'd say Damien -> Anna/Jilly depending on who's closest -> Sarvesh, while keeping an eye out for Alex.

You focus... and slam your own TK into the creature, blasting it back.
"We've got to get the others." You say, and lean into the workshop. "Damien said they're all going to die unless we help."
You pull an entire crate of metal plating out, and with a powerful push, you slam the crate into the creature's head.
It twitches, once, and dies.

And then two more creatures appeared, identical to the first. Their heads tilted... and then the crate was tugged out of the corpse, and shot toward you.

Max stepped in the way, stopping it with telekinesis of his own.
"Go!" He roared... and then you heard the sound of gunfire, from hydroponics.
"... Anna." Summer said.

The corpse demanifested, and that's when you realized.
These were all the same mind.

>What do?

Rolled 25

They are all manifestations summer! Can you demanifest them?

>>23630195
Get to hydroponics, help Anna.

Rolled 60

>>23630195
Go, find the others, now. Try to break the tendrils, sever them with brute psychic strength.

>>23630195

to hydroponics!

these are all the manifestations.

Rolled 38

>>23630195
"Anna is in hydroponics, let's go."
shout back to max: "We'll meet you at the hub, try not to fight!"

Rolled 15

>>23630195
"They're all the same creature! Summer, can you demanifest the copies?"
Move towards Anna, try and break the link controlling them.

>>23630195
If Anna's close enough that we can hear what's happening there, there's no reason not to fetch her for the party.

>>23630227
>She's being overpowered
>No reason to go and help her

>>23630195
Go help Anna!

>>23630242

i don't think you've read that correctly.

>>23630242
He's saying no reason NOT to; i.e. "She's nearby enough that we can hear her, so we should probably go get her ASAP since it doesn't really take us all that far out of our way to do so."

Could someone have taken over Summer's subconciousness? Tell her to occupy her powers by manifesting harmless things or try to demanifest those creatures.

Don't go anywhere alone! Single psions can be surprised and overwhelmed quite easily, in a group you are basically invincible. Hopefully they don't have an interest in the researchers. They wouldn't stand a chance against those invaders.

You bolt, toward Anna, trying to reach out with your mind to break the tendrils, to break the links controlling them. But they were strong, too strong.
Summer loped after you, the Knight of Burgandymoor there to help Alex.
"They're all the same creature!" You call. "Can you demanifest the copies?"
"I can't!" Summer said. "It doesn't work like that!"

You run past the cafeteria - just to see Jilly torn in half by a pair of scythes. Keen's Jilly writhes in pain, unable to scream, as the scythed, fourlegged creature tilted it's head, looking at you, before stomping his talon down on her skull.
Summer vomited, and you continued running.

The gunfire, in hydroponics, stopped. You saw two dead... creatures, before they manifested, and there was the ladder up.
"I can't... " The sobbing Summer said. "I can't climb ladders."

>>23630284
>Keen's body sat collapsed on the ground, not breathing.

>Whoops, got cut off!

>>23630284
"I'll get Anna, you go help someone else, we'll regroup soon."

Rolled 10

>>23630284
"I hope you inherited your ancestor's grace."
Throw her up. No stopping now.

>>23630284
"Then manigest yourself a lift or something! We don't have much time!"

Rolled 86

>>23630284
TK her up the ladder.

>>23630284
>Keen's Jilly writhes in pain
Huh?

>>23630354
"I'll get Anna, you go help someone else. We'll regroup soon."
"I can't." Summer sobbed, and the six hundred pound tiger collapsed. "Jilly's *dead*."

With will, you *throw* her up into Hydroponics, and climb up yourself.

There were one of those... creatures, staring at Anna in her full military-grade powersuit, shotgun in hand.

Anna's eyes were pure black, as she nodded at the creature and pointed the shotgun to the cowering Alex on the ground.
Then she cocked it.

Rolled 85

>>23630364
Asplode the shotgun.

"Anna no! Think of your father, throw it off!"

Rolled 35

>>23630364
Telepath to Anna <STOP>

Rolled 60

>>23630364
Break the link!

>>23630364
Pin it down with TK so it can't dodge the bullets.

Rolled 47

>>23630364
Knock her away with TK.
"Anna! Your name is Anna! Please don't kill Alex!"

Rolled 60

>>23630364
Yell at her while clotheslining both her and the creature with TK
"YOUR NAME IS ANNA, DAUGHTER OF ASMODEUS!"

Rolled 56

>>23630364
Technopath the Shotgun not to work. Yell at Anna for her to stop.

Rolled 11

You are Anna. He is Alex... and I Heather. And you won't take any friends away from me.

Destroy all the tendrils controlling everything by severing them all at once.

>>23630364
I really hope this is some sort of dream sequence.

>>23630399
she's aiming at Alex, not the creature.

>>23630406
seconding this

>>23630364

"your name is Anna daughter of Asmodeus!"

>I'm freaking out

Rolled 65

>>23630414
same. if not poor Jilly *sobs*

Rolled 86

>>23630364
dematerialize to monster and the shotgun

Rolled 42

>>23630364
break thr monster in half

"Anna, no!" You say, and with telekinesis, you tear the shotgun out of her hands.
"Your name is Anna Mobius, daughter of Asmodeus!" You cry, and Anna trembled, her eyes restoring color.

A snarling, maddened Summer pounced the creature, wrestling with it, her claws and tail writhing as she tried to tear through the creature's thick leather carapace.
Alex was sobbing, cowering on the ground... and then Anna slings him up on her shoulder.
"Summer, get back!" She called. Her other exosuited fist covered in flame.

Summer didn't seem to hear her.

From below, you hear a loud buzz - almost like a grief-stricken cry of pain, from Sarvesh.

Rolled 43

Move Summer away.

Rolled 52

>>23630453
Try to teleport/swap Sarvesh and the alien thing.

Rolled 91

>>23630453
Chuck Summer back down the ladder to help Sarvesh.

Rolled 73

>>23630453
Get Summer out of danger.

>>23630453

pull summer off of the creature and rush to Sarvesh.

>>23630453
Move summer away, help her.

Rolled 63

>>23630453
Get summer away with TK, tell them to get to the Hub, try to save Sarvesh.

Rolled 4

>>23630453
Tackle hug Summer off the thing.

"Sarvesh, use the fist Punch those things!"

>>23630482
You don't fucking chuck your friends, what the fuck.

With powerful Telekinesis, you tear Summer off of the creature, and throw her back down the ladder. "Help Sarvesh, get to the hub!" You cry.

Anna slams her pyrokinesis into the creature, and it writhes and crackles... as the fire spreads, into hydroponics.

The hungry airvent for the life support started to gobble up as much smoke as it can, pumping smoke through the system.

"We have to GO." Anna said, her legs hissing as she stomped toward the ladder, Alex on her shoulder.

>>23630453
Move Summer out of danger and yell at her :
"God damn it Summer! Our friends are dying! We don't have time to play with our enemy!"

>>23630529
Move, Go to the shuttle!

>>23630529
"Get to the Hub, I'm going to help Summer and Sarvesh."

>>23630529
"There's a shuttle in the hub!"

>>23630453
Pull Summer off, remind her of her name. Then get everyone the hell down the ladder and go help either Damien or Sarvesh.

Either makes sense; Damien is good at not being found (though with this thing, who knows) and Sarvesh can probably hold out for reinforcements, even if he is going to need a moult afterwards.

>>23630529

get down there to help Summer and Sarvesh, we still need to get Damien out!

>>23630529
"Yes. Let's go Help Sarvesh. I hope he makes it."

>>23630529
Go.

Rolled 36

go back in time to when we woke up.

>>23630529
Move it, move it. Get Anna started on going towards the Hub, we need to get Damien and Sarvesh, they're in their rooms.

>>23630529
"Get to the Hub, grab Damian from his room if you can."

Rolled 9

Damien next.

Rolled 87

>>23630529
Get Alex to the hub. Max should meet you there. I have to save Damien and the others.

The two dead, shot creatures were gone by now, and Summer was just trembling, not moving. Anna landed down next to you, her armor hissing as she did.
"Let's go help Sarvesh." You say, and Anna nodded.
"No, Anna, get to the hub." You say.
"But-"
"There's a shuttle in the hub!" You say. "Grab Damien from his room, if you can."

Summer was still sobbing, her claws extended, screeching against the plating. She didn't know what to do.

Rolled 63

Knights aren't enough. We need soldiers. Do you think you could give them weapons?

>>23630588
Summer, I'm with you, I need your help, summon your knight and lets save Savresh.

Rolled 71

>>23630588
"Summer! Summer, think. What would the Knight of Burgandymoor do?"

"We have to get ourselves and our friends out of the station."

>>23630588
"Summer go with Anna!."
She isn't in the state to help out, we need to get her out.

>>23630588
Slap Summer. Yell. "You are a giant fucking Tiger. Get it together. We need to save Sarvesh and Damien, and we need some manpower. So get me some soldiers, NOW!"

>>23630588
REMIND SUMMER OF HER NAME AND IDENTITY.

>>23630625
No, let's keep Summer with us. We'll go help Sarvesh, and then get the hell to the shuttle.

>>23630588

"Summer, sweetie, we need to move."