>>25220507

"Oh my lord, are you two okay!?"

>>25220507
use knowlage.

>>25220507
"Ha! Knowledge never fails me. What caused the hull breach?"

Why is Devy limping?

>>25220507
"I guess she can't control it when she gets excited either uehehehehehe."

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>>25220507
>>25220507
EXPLOSION NOISE!

>>25220507
Use Knowledge on her, might as well try and help her with hints on how to control it.

>manipulation of light?

>>25220589
>Because one of her legs is currently a hydraulic piston made of biosteel.

"Oh my lord, are you two okay?!"
"We're fine." Robin said. "She, uh, accidentally melted the glass and set a bit of things on fire, but the life support sprayed stuff on the trees." Robin said.
"Sorry!" Rose said again.
"What caused the hull breach?"
"She shot a *laser*." Robin said, grinning.
"I didn't mean to!" Rose said, suddenly. Robin patted her on the shoulder.
"It's fine, you'll figure out how to use it." Robin said. "I did!"
"... I guess she can't control it when she gets excited either, uehehehehehe~" You say, and start giggling.

Rose blushed brightly- literally, in this case, her cheeks glowing red.

"Hah! Knowledge never fails me." You say, and close your eyes, focusing.

>Roll Knowledge!

>>25220589

>Why is Devy limping?

Devi went to see Damien for somthing... you think they?

Rolled 64

>>25220632
Oh, she went for the retro-old school piston.

Rolled 77

>>25220632

lasers!

Rolled 34

>>25220632

Rolled 46

>>25220632
Dice

Rolled 96

>>25220632
Bard powers activate

Rolled 60

>>25220632
"Maybe we've both got light powers! Hurrah!"

We can learn together! Though its more control in your case then power. I can only do a bit of a light show.

You close your eyes, and open them-
And Rose was a maelstrom of power. The entire electromagenetic spectrum coiled around her, welling up around her. The room wasn't dark because there was no light, but because she was *absorbing* it.

Einstein chirped.
"Radio signal lost." He said.

>>25220713
"You can do the photon powers! Hooray! Think about...turning invisible!"

Huh we can do that to. Though it takes a conscious effort. Lets get Jilly to help us pass along what we've learned so far. Maybe that will help her learn how to stop, or at least tone it down.

>>25220713

"Rose, seems like you can manipulate things like light and radio waves!"
"we can practice together!"

hug time!

>inb4 sticky, sweating twin hugs.

>>25220755
yes

>>25220713
"Oh man, your power looks pretty awesome."

"You can do the photon powers!" You say. "Hooray! Think about... turning invisible!"
"How would I do that?" Rose asked.
"Um..." Robin said. "Can you... like, sense anything?" She asked.
"Like what?"
"Like... um, well, Theta can smell things, and Isaac can feel what he TKs, and I know people's Wheres..." Robin said. "Maybe you have something like that."
"I don't know." Rose said, mortified.

"Rose, it seems like you can manipulate things like light and radio waves!" You say. "We can practice together!"
You pull her and Robin into a hug, and Rose blushed more as you did so. The closer you got, the dimmer she seemed to, until you were hugging something hardly visible. Robin giggled.

"Good thing I have clairvoyance." Damien said.
"I only have telepathy." Devourer said. "So I only have a general idea of their location."

>>25220792
"Okay, well. Right now, you're absorbing all the photons in the room. If you want to turn invisible...think about, um, shifting them around you. Yeah, think about shifting all the little photons around you."

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>>25220713
>clone
>controls the electromagenetic spectrum

>>25220792
Also if you feel like you are about to explode concentrate on releasing the energy in a single direction so you don't vaporize everything nearby.

>>25220792

"maybe trying to be more relaxed will help, like with Alex."

"Okay. Well." You say. "Right now, you're absorbing all the photons in the room. If you want to turn invisible... think about, um, shifting them around you. Yeah, think about shifting all the little photons around you."
Rose was quiet for a moment. And then, you felt things twist... And light rush around you, around Rose, and around Robin, coiling inwards. Everything, save those two, looked like it was on the other side of a glass bottle, lensed and focused strangely. Hydroponics lit up again, UV lights in the ceiling flickering on. A technician came in.
"Is everything alright in here?" He asked Damien.
"Yeah, it's okay." He said. "The glass behind that blast shield has a hole melted into it, though."
"Oh dear." He said. "I'll get the crew on it."
"Sorry." Rose said, quietly.
The technician looked around, eyes glancing right across you, Rose, and Robin. Then he frowned for a moment.

>>25220921
"What would you rather have happen? A fixable hull puncture, or a little girl set herself on fire?"

>>25220921
Hug Rose "It wasn't your fault."
"...Robin, I have to say that Rose is cuter than you."

>>25220921
"It's okay. Do you all want to get something to eat?"

>>25220921

"space ghosts~" "nah, just kidding!"

"Rose, you win the bet!"

>>25220921
"Rose can manipulate photons. She's making us invisible right now. Its neat! Though I'm slightly jealous she mastered it instantly and it took setting myself on fire that first time."

>>25220948
Rose is very fun to tease, so seconding.

>>25220957
We already won it though. We turned invisible before she did.

>>25220957
actually we managed to go invisible earlier I believe. I could be wrong though.

>>25220921
"Just think of the calamity this could cause. Invisible teleporters. What a nightmare."

>>25220957
No she didn't

>>25220979
>>25220984
>>25220989

sorry, I only remember that time we turned the lights off.

"What would you rather have happen?" You ask. "A fixable hull puncture, or a little girl set herself on fire?"
"Wait, what?" The technician asked, looking toward you. Carefully, he walked closer. "Is there someone there?"
"... No, not at all." Robin said, and giggled.
"Space ghooooosts~" You respond, and Robin's giggles redoubled.
The technician just paused a moment, and then chuckled, and made his way out of the room again.

"Robin, I have to say that Rose is cuter than you." You say.
"Of course!" Robin said, and smushed Rose's cheeks with her hands. "She's adorable!"
Rose just tried prying Robin's hands off to no avail.
"Just think of the calamity this could cause. Invisible teleporters. What a nightmare."
"Ehehehehe~" Robin said, and giggled. "Hey, why haven't you learned teleportation, Heather?"

>>25221027
"Phew. Because I'm hella overloaded on powers as it is. I'm lucky I got the light absorption done, so I can at least recharge myself when I'm tired. I still need to try out...conversion."

>>25221027
"Can't spread myself too thin, I already know a lot of things and I'd like to get better at those. Maybe later when I'm better at the stuff I have.

Besides, I don't need teleportation to perv on people, I'm just that good."

>>25221027

"I don't know, it never really crossed my mind? i have so many abilities right now, most of which i still need to practice with."

Rolled 98

>>25221027
because I get things Wong over and over and over before I get them right...... its not safe for me.

>>25221027
Quite a peaceful thread so far, I'm surprised.

"I'm already practicing too many. I won't have time to do anything at this rate."

>>25221027
"When I got here Sarvesh was just learning how to control his teleportation and I wanted to learn something unique so I mainly concentrated on tecknopathy. After that I never really thought about trying to do it myself. When tecknopathy seemed to be a bit limitting I tried biokinesis, which made Devourer and Theta turned out much better. Recently I started I tried photokinesis. Now Rose here has stolen my thunder in that area. "

Mock pout at her.

" But that doesn't mean I'm going to quit!"

>>25221027
"Well, as of right now I've got telepathy, telekinesis, knowledge, awakening, manifestation, and photokinesis.
That's kind of a lot on my plate as it is."

"I don't know. It never really crossed my mind." You say. "And I'm hella overloaded on powers as it is. I'm lucky I got the light absorption done, so I can at least recharge myself when I'm tired. I still need to try out... Conversion."
"Conversion?" Rose and Robin asked simultaneously.
"Conversion's cool." Damien said. "Or will be. Unless you mess up too badly."
"Yeah, but what is it?" Robin asked.
"That's for Heather to find out." He said, and stuffed his hands in his pockets.

>>25221188
>This is me! Shit.
>Any of you playing the drinking game where you take a shot each time I drop my trip, go ahead.

>>25221188
The tripdrop! Huzzah!

Rolled 46

>>25221188
"Well... no time like the present, since this place is already going to have some fixing!"
Let's try this Conversion that's supposedly so hot shit.

>>25221188
"You mean there's more to it? I did the knowledge thing, and as far as I know, it's just that. What more could there be?"

>>25221188

"are you tempting me? because i think you are tempting me..."

to the scientists to practice conversion!

>we really should have someone there to take notes, we promised to involve them more.

>>25221234
conversion probably contains a whole subset of powers.

>>25221188
<Can't you at least give me a hint?>

"Oh, let's go spook some people with your invisibility powers."

>>25221246
"Come on Rose, they probably can set up something for you to practice control of your new powers too. And Robin and I can supply toys so you can work on it while... distracted."

>>25221188
"Conversion? Like transmutation?"

>>25221253
I can only think of 3:
matter to energy
matter to different matter
energy to matter

>>25221289
Energy to Energy

>>25221274
Like turning heat into electrical/kinetic/potential energy.
>>25221289
Energy to different energy

>>25221299
>>25221305
why didn't I think of that

*sigh* we should have tried to be Accelerator.

>>25221289
What about energy to different energy?
I mean turning gravity into electromagnetism would be pretty sweet. Also energy to matter is manifestation if I recall.

<Can't you at least give me a hint?> You ask Damien.
<You can use it on energy, or matter. And maybe reverse entropy.> He said, and gave you a grin. <There's your hint.>
"... Are you tempting me? Because I think you're tempting me."
"I am indeed tempting you." He said.

"Come on, rose, they can probably set up something for you to practice control of your new powers too."
"Okay." She said, quietly.
"I'll call Max, have him tell us who to meet." Robin said.

>>25221289
Haha oh god this is going to be hilarious.

Ten grams of mass is going to be a 200 kiloton nuclear bomb. Unstoppable.

>>25221326
>energy to matter is manifestation
the key difference in my mind is that this way Alex couldn't just dispel it with a touch

>>25221334
"Do you want to try now? We can both do some simple stuff, like balls of light."

Also Rose I admit I can get a tad carried away with teasing people. If it gets too much tell me and I'll tone it down.

>>25221334
Presumably it's matter/energy conversion, and presumably in both directions. Kind of like manifestation, except accomplished within the realms of physics.

>>25221334

let's get to proper training arrangements, we need different kinds of materials, and energy sources.

>>25221364

I also support this.

>>25221375
Technically we'd still be raping the hell out of the 2nd law of thermodynamics unless we like turned like an entire star's worth of energy into a paper clip.

>>25221334
"That is very, very tempting."

"Do you foresee anything terrible happening if I practice now? Like right now?"

>>25221402
Okay, MOST of the laws of physics.

"Also, Rose, I admit I can get a tad carried away with teasing people." You say. "If it gets too much, tell me and I'll tone it down."
"No, that's okay." Rose said, quietly.
"Oh! I just noticed you were here!" Robin said, and stepped out of the strange glass-like bubble to Damien. "You! Come give her a hug!"
"Why me?"
"You saved her!" Robin said, and kissed him on the cheek.
"... Oh." He said, and blinked. You got the impression that he didn't see that. She tugged him into the bubble, and gave Rose a hug.

"Sorry I tried to hit you with a chair when you came out of nowhere." She said, quietly.
"It's fine. I saw it, anyway."
"Do you see anything terrible happening if I practice now? Like, right now?"
"Right now, I see you turning one of the trees into light and heat, and Max getting upset at you. In around two dozen timelines, at least. In a few, some bad things happen, but there aren't many of those. And in one, you actually... well, that'd be spoilers. Regardless, whatever happens, Max'll be upset since we did it in here."
"Will Max be upset at me?" Rose asked.
"Nah, he's cool about things you can't control." Damien said.

>>25221462
RIght to the practice rooms so we don't make the wolf angry. He's very intimidating when he is angry.

>>25221462
"Maybe I don't practice in the hydroponics room, then."

>>25221497
until you scratch his ears, then he is adorable

>>25221462

"well, I'm feeling fine but i don't feel like having Max yell at me if I can avoid it."

>>25221462
"So let me get this right. Conversion is like manifestation, except I also use matter outside of my delicious brainsugar, and it can also be used to convert matter to energy without pooping deadly radiation everywhere? That sounds like it's worth learning."

>>25221462
"I'll come and help you learn the basics. I can do some light stuff. If you learned invisibility just like that you're going to overtake me really quickly though."

"Right, to the practice rooms so we don't make the wolf angry." You say, and start to walk. Rose followed, and the bubble continued rushing on. "He's very intimidating when he's angry."
"Oh man." Robin said. "Max wants *Neva* to be Rose's councilor. And we're supposed to meet her soon."
"I also have to meet Max and the new councilors. And tell them what I know." Devourer said, her voice mechanized, limping. "It would probably be best if I were in a different form, most likely."

Eventually, you made your way to the TK room, where you'd practiced creating those crystals. The room had someone in it, though, and you could feel... Ellie.
"This isn't fair." Ellie groaned, frustrated. "I can't do any of this stuff. Why'd you strap me to all these machines?"

>>25221632

let's go see what they're doing to her and if it's amusing to watch.

>>25221632
"Oh, someone's in there."

>>25221632
"Can you sense spaaace ghooosts?"

>>25221632
"because they think it's funny to exasperate people"

>>25221632
"Because they wanna see if you can do cool brain stuff! Don't you want to do cool brain stuff?"

>>25221632
>Why'd you strap me to all these machines
Heh.

NO stop thinking lewd things Heather!

>>25221662
Hopefully very amusing.

>>25221632
"Because you're awesome."

Wait, we practiced creating crystals. I don't recall this.

>>25221632
"Its mainly because you can interact with psychic powers, you even percieve them differently. "

>>25221698
It resulted in Black Hole Spheres

>>25221698
heat crystals. We used Black Hole powers on concrete blocks here.

>>25221698

the ones that power our awesome laser: Gae Bolg

Carefully, you open the door, and step in, invisible. Holding Rose's hand, Robin followed.

Ellie had a big sensor helmet on, complete with a full sensor suit. She was frowning, rather unhappy, the sensor suit connected to the terminals themselves.
"See? Nothing." She said, and frowned at Jason.
"Well... You are doing things correctly." He said. "Same brain chemistry as our telekinetics. If we gave you a transgenetic modification, I'm sure we could find out-"

"Because you're awesome." You say.

Ellie whirled around, as did Jason. Both of them tried looking around- and then Ellie met your eyes accidentally- and they widened. "She's there! Invisible!"
"How do you know?" Jason asked.
"Because it feels like her." Ellie said. "Heaaaatherr. Save mee."

>>25221698
Ah, right. My bad.

>>25221756
"It feels like Heather? That sounds suspiciously psychic."

>>25221756
"That sounds like clairvoyance to me. Quick run a billion more tests!"

>>25221756
"See Ellie? You can do psychic stuffs. You just have to believe in yourself! Or get the transgenes if you're lazy."

>>25221756

Jason: <"quick scan her brain while she's negating the psionic effects!">

"One second dear~!"

>>25221756
Robin and Rose are here with me. Rose's powers started up and haven't stopped. Right now shes making us all invisible pretty much effortlessly. We came to get help. And I wanted to practice Conversion!

>>25221756
"You're making eye contact with an invisible person and claiming you're not psychic. Silly Ellie."

>>25221756
"why? it's fun watching them do this to other people for a change..."

>>25221756
"You've got the brain magic! You just need to figure out what."

>>25221756
Ha! Now's our chance to test if Ellie can really eavesdrop on TP conversations.

<HEY ROBIN, YOU THINK ELLIE CAN HEAR US?>

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>>25221803

>>25221821
No no, we think to Jason <Quick, run more tests while she's distracted!>
She'll be sure to respond if she hears that.

>>25221803
She'll just claim she felt/heard our presence and the eye contact was coincidence.

"You're making eye contact with an invisible person and claiming you're not psychic. Silly Ellie." You say. <Quick, Jason, run more tests while she's distracted!>
She frowned, and looked away. "It's just that when I look right there-" She pointed at you, watched her own finger turn invisible as it poked the bubble. "-I just have a feeling that you're right there. Empathy is something everyone has, not just psions, so that's probably it." She said, and crossed her arms.

"Well, technically, from all our tests, she's not telekinetic, telepathic, or clairvoyant." Jason said.
"What he said." Ellie said.

You stare at Robin.
<HEY ROBIN, YOU THINK ELLIE CAN HEAR US?!>
<SHE MIGHT BE ABLE TO, I DON'T KNOW.> Robin responded.
Damien and Devourer winced, but Ellie didn't react in the slightest.

>>25221856
<extreme empathy maybe? I mean my pout is a weaponized form of it.>

Pout at Ellie.

>>25221856
Clearly we must learn to contain our Empathy, and become the unnoticeable assassin the Blackreach deserves.

>>25221856
"But Ellie, empathy IS psionic in nature."

>>25221856
Ellie, Empathy is a psychic power

>>25221856
Well we haven't been blind in a while. Might as well give knowledge another shot.

>>25221856
"But you still slip out of TK and see through photokinesis. Ellie, why are you so weeeird?"

>>25221856

"maybe you just have LOADS of empathy?"

>>25221912
sound plan, I seconded it

Could Ellie's power be something like Sarvesh's, she convinces the universe of something so hard it happens, except she has convinced herself that she is normal so hard that the universe is suppressing her ability?

>>25221912
>>25221931

we wanted to try Conversion didn't we?

>>25221939
You mean Ellie is Haruhi?

>>25221946
we did

>>25221946
It's not urgent. We're allowed to change our mind.

>>25221856
"What if you're a probability manipulator? Maybe subconsciously you're repressing the power."

>>25221856
"I think she's right doc."
"You try the Iso chambers yet?"

>>25221856
Have we ever knowledges her yet?

>>25221856
"You do know that Empathy is a psionic power, right?"

"But you still slip out of TK and see through photokinesis." You say. "Ellie, why are you so weeeeird?"
"I can't see through anything!" Ellie said.

The bubble around you, Robin, Rose, Damien, and Devourer suddenly vanished.
"Bue ellie, Empathy is psionic in nature."
"I know that." She said. "But everyone has it, is what Max said. While only psions can do the other stuff."
"Maybe you just have *loads* of empathy?" You ask.
Ellie just shrugged.

"I think she's right, doc." You say. "Have you tried the Iso chambers yet?"
"That's how they made certain I wasn't clairvoyant." Ellie said. "They had me trying to guess random cards and numbers while in isolation." She said. "They had me *strip*! Bunch of pervs."

>>25222063

"you... did go behind the curtain, right?"

>>25222063
"You're saying like that's a problem. It's Iso, everyone strips."

>>25222063
Well, guess theres only one thing left to do.

Knowledge.

>>25222063
Bah. Just use Knowledge on her again. Maybe we've used it enough we'll penetrate whatever thing she is using to get around psychics.

>>25222063
"Well, fuck. Maybe if we just gave you powers with the worm thing? I dunno."

"...You know it's entirely private, right?"

>>25222063
"Well duh. Everybody strips in the iso chambers."

"You... did go behind the curtain, right?"
"Yeah, of course." She said.
"And everybody strips in the iso chambers." You say.
"Technically, that's because it's less likely that someone will lose focus." Jason said. "I think you can take the the sensors off, now. We can be done for today."
"Finally!" Ellie said. "If I wasn't getting paid thousands of dollars an hour, I wouldn't be doing this at all."
"I'm aware. You've said so." Jason said, with a chuckle.

You stared at Ellie. And she stared back.
"What?" She asked.

And then... you focused on Knowledge.
>Roll Knowledge!

Rolled 32

>>25222149
here we go

Rolled 23

>>25222149

ELLIE~!

Rolled 11

>>25222149
Rolling.

Rolled 34

>>25222149

Rolled 27

>>25222149
rolling

Rolled 63

goddamnit dice>>25222149

>>25222156
>>25222159
>>25222160

>WHY?!

>>25222156
>>25222159
>>25222160
>>25222163
>>25222170
We're rolling almost as bad as Predator Quest today

And we fail our Knowledge roll. Why am I not surprised?

Rolled 90

>>25222149
the dice do not want it known

>>25222182
Ellie's too slippery for us.

>>25222192
honestly I'm not surprised at all.

Rolled 14

>>25222149
What atrocious rolls. Doing a quick test

we should remember to write down what we see, if anything.

You twitched- and you couldn't see anything. A loud, piercing sound entered your ears. A moment later, you opened your eyes...
And you could hardly make out Ellie's shape, your vision blurred. You shook it, and the blur subsided a bit.
"Your eyes just went grey." Ellie said, and pulled you into a hug. "Are you okay?"
"She'll be fine." Damien said, and pulled something out of his pockets. "Eventually.
A pair of glasses. "Here." He said.

You put them on, and your eyes struggled to focus themselves- but they did, on Ellie. You could see again.

>>25222249
"Thanks Damien. Whose are these glasses?"

Rolled 77

>>25222249
"I really don't like when that happens. I guess the universe really *doesn't* want us to know what Ellie can do."

>>25222249
"Ouch."

>>25222249
"Thanks. Alright I give up. Apparently even knowledge itself consipres to keep your wierdness secret."

>>25222249

test voice, "I just want to Know stuff." with a little whine.
hug Ellie some more.

>>25222249
"That slipperiness must be a psionic power! Or anti-power! Or something!"

>>25222314
Well, she did develop it due to Pariah's proximity
"Hey, since you've got the slipperiness due to growing around Prometheus, maybe his proximity could trigger some effects?"

"Thanks, Damien. Whose were those glasses?"
"Had Omni make them yesterday." He said. "There was a good chance you'd need them."

You pout.
"I just want to Know stuff." you say, and sigh. "Alright, I give up. Apparently even Knowledge itself conspires to keep your weirdness secret. That slipperiness must be a psionic power! Or anti-power! Or something."
"I'm not weird!" She said. "Or slippery."
"... Hi." Rose said, quietly, hiding behind Robin. Ellie caught her eye, and grinned.
"... You're so cute!" Ellie said, and smooshed Rose's cheek.
"I know, right?!" Robin asked, and the two started to pester Rose, pinching at her cheeks. Eventually, Ellie hefted the younger clone onto her shoulders.
"... Anyways." Jason said. "You here for anything?" The young councilor asked.
"I think she planned to try out Conversion." Damien said. "But that could change."

>>25222400

"what he said, only cuter. Conversion it is!"

>>25222400
Yup, Conversion. Lets try Matter to Energy first. Got anything I can dissolve without killing us all?

>>25222400
I don't need to see to do brainmagic!

>>25222400
"Yeah. CONVERSION. Pretty ominous, right?'

We should also try and control our output. Use photokinesis to gather or redirect any harmful radiation that might occur.

>>25222445
Don't need no eyes where we're going

>>25222479
what we need is our Exosuit. It's rad shielded right?

"Yeah." You say. "Conversion! Pretty ominous, right?"
"Sounds ominous." Jason said. "But technically scientifically neutral."
"I don't need to see to do brainmagic!" You say.
"Alright." He said. "What do you need?"
"She needs a concrete block, and... Hm. How are you feeling, Rose?" Damien asked.
"Um, I'd like to be set down." Rose said.
"And lower the thin radiation shield. Maybe a bit of heat shield too." Damien said.
"Alright." Jason said.

Damien just grinned, and gave you a wave. "Good luck. Come on, everyone."

Some time later, there was a great stone block there, behind a glass shield.
"We're ready." Jason said. "Please proceed."

You focus on the block, glasses on the bridge of your nose, and take a deep breath...

>Roll Conversion!

Rolled 98

>>25222525
UNLIMITED POWER!

Rolled 58

>>25222525

Rolled 7

>>25222525
We don't need no eyes with we're doing

Rolled 87

>>25222525
COSMIC POWER GO

Rolled 50

>>25222525
Is it worth risking a 1 for a chance at a 100?
Let's find out.

>>25222537
>>25222538
>>25222539
>>25222544

it's like the dice are taunting us.

>>25222555
Comedic gold.

Rolled 30

>>25222537
>>25222538
>>25222539
>163/300
How average.

Rolled 4

>>25222539
Why, anon, why a 7? How entirely, blandly, average.

>>25222588
Exabutt's moved to Average of 3?
How meh.

>>25222607
He changes it based on what we're rolling.

Rolled 74

>>25222525
Nothing amazing and nothing really dangerous has happened for ages now. I hope I get a one, just for the sheer fun it'll cause.

>>25222607
Sometimes it's highest of 3, sometimes it's average, sometimes it's "Success as long as the lowest is above this point"

>>25222620
Not in first 6 so wouldn't matter

>>25222620
>Get a 1
>Accidentally transform the radiation shield into radiation
Heh.

Rolled 91

>>25222637
I don't care.
You can't stop me.

You focus, and tremble...

And in front of you, the stone started vibrating, cracks growing along the edges, static electricity and heat blooming off of it. The entire stone... disintegrated in front of you, crumbling into static electricity and dust.

You open your eyes again.
"... I expected a little more, to be honest." Damien said.
"Interesting. You increased heat and radiation by quite a bit." Jason said, from the terminal. "Nowhere near as much as true matter to energy conversion should be, but with, say, photo or pyrokinesis, you could gain energy by doing this."

At first I thought "if Damien knew that would happen, why didn't he just tell us not to do Knowledge?"
But then I realised.
>Heather with glasses

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>>25222696
"BRING FORTH MORE CONCRETE FOR ANNIHILATION."

>>25222700
He knew what he was doing.

>>25222696

wait, we're not feeling tired?

adjust glasses, sharply turn towards Jason

"Again, please."

>>25222696
Well, I still feel fine. Let's take a biscuit break and try again?

>>25222696
at least it wasn't like the first time I tried this. last time it was energetic enough that I needed anti-radiation meds

"Well, I still feel fine." You say. "Can I have a biscuit and try again?"
"Sure." Jason said, and the side of the chamber with the array and the concrete flushed with blue smoke, eventually clearing again. You sat down for a bit, and munched on a biscuit. You weren't incredibly tired, but only a little.
Then, some time later, there was a new concrete block.
"I believe in you!" Ellie said, with Rose still on her shoulders. She giggled.
"We're ready for you to try again." Jason said. "Please, proceed."

>Roll for Conversion!

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>>25222812

please dice

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>>25222812

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>>25222812
CMON
SOMETHING HILARIOUS

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>>25222812
fuck everything

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>>25222812
NOW IS THE SUMMER OF OUR DISICORPORARATION!

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>>25222812
Hopefully I redeem my self for my 11 earlier.

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>>25222812
one or onehundred i dont care

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>>25222812

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>>25222812
Are 100's disabled? I haven't seen them rolled in a long time.

You take a deep breath, and reach out to the stone... And focus, once more.
The concrete shook, and then exploded.
It burst into sparks and flame, burning along the ground and dancing along the walls. The entire sheet of radiation shield shook, bulging out of place toward you, and dents appeared all along the walls, floor, and ceiling of the chamber. You felt drained, your limbs growing weak.
"Holy shit!" Jason said, suddenly. "Kinetic blast, heat spike, radiation spike. Hurry up with the flushing, and work on repairs." He told the technicians. "Heather, it looks like you converted the matter into energy, based on our sensors. Heat, radioactivity, and what I guess might be kinetic, is most of it." He said. "I guess you can try again, but we should probably wait for repairs. Another blast like that might actually break the radiation shield instead of just denting it."

>>25222925
"Wait, can I try something else? Can you give me an active source of energy and I try convert it to a different type? Like, a candle. Then I'll drain the heat and turn it into kinetic energy in a small ball?"

>>25222925
"Let's wait for the repairs. I need some biscuits or something."

>>25222925
"Awesome! I need to work on finesse though. Next time I'm going to try to make all the energy visible spectrum electromagnetic."

>>25222925

we can try to convert energy to mass once we rest up.

snack time, catch some ambient light while we're at it.

Sigh, this is super awesome and all, but am I the only one who wants Complete Invisibility™, on all wavelengths?

>>25222925
eh I think it would be best if I took a break, that last one made me a little tired

>>25222993

feels like we haven't even scratched the surface on conversion.

>>25222993
nope, we can practice that with rose

>>25222993
yeah, but with Rose doing light-bender powers it's almost not as fun.

>>25222925
"It just blew up. Boooring."

>>25222925
I'd like to see if we can lead into gold with this power

"It just blew up." You say, and frown. "Boooring. Let's wait for the repairs." You say, and sit down on the bed. "I need some biscuits or something."
While sipping at a nutrient shake and eating a sugar-filled biscuit, you sat there, relaxing.
"Wait, can I try something else? Can you give me an active source of energy and I try to convert it to a different type?"
"Well, I think Neva has some candles or something." Jason said. "Let me go run and get those."
He waved, and jogged off, and you sat back, relaxing some more.
"It feels like I haven't even scratched the surface on conversion."
"You haven't, really." Damien said. "I've been trying not to mention it, but..."
He shrugged. "There's a lot of things you can do with it."
"Why do you not tell people things like that?" Robin asked.
"Because it messes with the scheme of things." Damien said.
"What do you mean?"
"Well... If I tell someone that something's going to happen, then they'll expect it. They'll expect it and the longer things go before it happens, the more different they'll act. And the more that something will be different. There's a term for it, in some book, I think, but I don't remember what it was."
"Like the butterfly effect?" Ellie asked.
"I guess. Something like that." Damien responded.

>>25222960
Why turn energy into mass? Let's see if we can convert heat into light or electricity

Remember we can reverse entropy

>>25223022
Yeah. We spent ages training for invisibility and then she comes along the next day and gets it right on her first try.
There's no point in trying to compete with a clone in their own speciality, anything new we do with it she'll have done first and better. Working on discovering our own things is way more fun.

>>25223075
"Wow, that's pretty complex. I'm glad my clairvoyance has been limited to just 'here's what's going to kill you'."

>>25223075

I'm not sure how that entropy stuff he mentioned works but we could try that.

>>25223075
"The ripple effect, wasn't it? Butterfly is time travelling, while Ripple's mainly social and economical."

>>25223075
As always, I trust your judgement in timey wimey matters.

Convert the walls to blue

>>25223075
lets convert the light and thermal from the candles into sound

>>25223075
Don't forget to drink the light in the room to recharge as well!

>>25223075
If we can convert matter, I wonder if we can turn normal mass matter into stuff with negative mass? Food for thought.

"Wow, that's pretty complex. I'm glad my clairvoyance has been limited to just 'here's what's going to kill you'."
"There's also the fact that, well, I can see pretty far off, sometimes on accident." Damien said. "So I have to remember all these different things that happen, and I have no idea if they'll still happen after I change something. At least whenever you change *everything*, like when you figured out technopathy, I know that everything I've seen was invalid."

He sighed, after that rant, then shrugged. "I've been able to see how things change after I change something, though. Once."
"As always, I trust your judgement in timey wimey matters." You say.
"I know." He said, and sighed. "I just wish my future self was here to give me advice on timey wimey matters."

Jason came back, with Jabberwocky following him.
"Got it! And a friend." Jason said. He was lugging a large box in his arms, complete with candles. "Guys, this is Jabberwocky. He's with blackreach, and he's here to protect us while the rest of his guys take down Armatek."
"I've met some of you before." Jabberwocky said, and nodded. You had a feeling he was grinning behind his mask.
"Also, I have the candles." Jason said. "You ready?"

Let's have a science moment about what "converting energy" means.

Now, there are four types of energy:
Gravitational
Electromagnetic
Weak nuclear
Strong nuclear

What I want to try is switching between these. Like turning a candle (electromagnetic) into a source of gravity.

>>25223198
>"I just wish my future self was here to give me advice on timey wimey matters."
>Jason came back, with Jabberwocky following him.
Oh COME ONE

>>25223198
"Fuck yeah let's do it!'

>>25223198

"yes, let's do this! ... Are there any scented candles in there?"

>>25223198
<Does Jabber's Where remind you of someone else's or is it just me?> to Robin
<Perfect timing as usual.> to Jabber
<You don't know the half of it.> to Damien

>>25223198
"Damien tell me : How do you deal with it when you see something terrible?"

>>25223198
"Man, you're a tricky person to track down, Jabs."

<Perfect timing, as usual.> You tell Jabberwocky.
<I don't understand what you mean.> He responded, in a mental drawl. <I'm rather bad at timing.>
<Does Jabber's Where remind you of someone else's or is it just me?> You ask.
<I don't know.> She said. <I don't know him well enough to have his Where very well defined.> She said.

"Damien, tell me." You say. "How do you deal with it when you see something terrible?"
"... Well, I... try to prevent it." He said, and didn't meet your eyes. "I don't like thinking about those things."

You shrug, and get to your feet. "Fuck yeah, let's do it."
"Alright!" Jason said, and pulled open the box.
"Are there any scented candles in there?"
"No clue." He said, pulling out a few white and red candles. "Don't tell Neva I broke into her office for this."

Then, he pulled them up, and lit them.
"Alright. It should be safe. Right? Will it be fine, Damien?"
"I don't see it exploding." Damien said.
"Okay." Jason said. "Go ahead, Heather."

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>>25223357

>>25223357
> -or is it just me?> You ask Robin
>Forgot to specify.

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>>25223357

>>25223357
Clearly that is a challenge to explode it.
Let's make it into more energy, though kinetic this time.

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>>25223357

>we roll now, right?

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>>25223357
Rolling.

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>>25223357

>>25223357
>>25223374
>And finally, forgot to ask to roll!
>Roll for Conversion!

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>>25223357
Do something safe, like turning the heat into sound.
By the time I've posted this though, I bet the rolls will be in, won't they?

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>>25223390

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>>25223390

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>>25223390

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>>25223390
Rolling

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>>25223390
take wut rolls???

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>>25223390
come ON

do something cool

>>25223416
Exa only takes rolls when he calls for them

You focus, and close your eyes, reaching out...

Energy, heat and light danced along the top of the flammable matter. You could... Feel it. You could...sense it.

So you reached out to one, and changed it. There was a high-pitched beeep, and a chirp, as the candle started giving you static noise. You opened your eyes, and saw that the flame was... gone.
But the wick was still slowly turning into ash.

"... That's..." Jason said. "Ow my brain."
"... Yyeeep." Damien said. "It's burning into sound, instead of light and heat."

>>25223473
Ha ha! I'm awesome.

Please, mister flame, could you chirp like a bird instead of whining like an alarm?

>>25223473
ooh, we should try to convert some matter/energy into dark matter/energy

although we may need a better setup to handle it

>>25223473

experimentally blow out the candle and relight it, maybe it'll keep making sound?

GUYS WE GOTTA TURN GRAVITATIONAL ENERGY INTO SOUND

ACTUAL LITERAL SYMPHONY OF THE PLANETS

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>>25223517
This nigga's got the right idea.

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>>25223517
FUCK YES!;

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>>25223517
That was the Day the Planets Sung.

>>25223473
"Now that is cool."

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>>25223517
I think the side effects of doing that would be...deletrious.

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>>25223537
>>25223552
>>25223534
Why does this happen?
We roll really well for the first. The poof, the others are shit and the average is killed.

>>25223572
It's always three rolls. Rolling less is of akin to cheating.

>>25223572
It's the median, not the mean, so it's not so bad.

You blow at the wick, but it continued screeching static, the wick shrinking. Then you blow on it harder, and it finally went out, droning down to a long, quiet 'bwooop'.
"Now, that is cool."

Then you light it again, and it was a true, flaming candle again. Your arms were weak, but you were sitting down and resting, so you weren't too tired.

Then, you get an idea. If you could convert gravity into sound...
"No." Damien said. "Definitely not. Do not do that. That is a bad thing." He said. "At least not when we're here."
"What's going to happen?"
"Knock the station out of orbit by converting all the gravitational energy of the sun into sound. Then the sun, no longer contained by its own gravity, explodes, kills all of us before we get out of range." Damien said. "And the drain kills her before the rest of us."
"... Oh." Jason said. "I'd like if you didn't do that. Please."

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>>25223602
TOP LOL

>>25223602
"...fiiiiiinnne."

>>25223602
"Oh. Yeah, I guess that'd be bad.

What if I just did the asteroids?"

>>25223602
"Not even a little bit? Well you're no fun." Pout. But not too hard.

>>25223602
FUCK YES
WE CAN BLOW UP STARS
AND WITHOUT EVEN USING TECH

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>>25223602
"Can I do it with planets, then? Please?"

>>25223602

"O-okay." just rest up, take in some light, have a shake.

>>25223602
"What about turning an asteroid into dark matter?"

>>25223602
*sigh* "Fiiine~ The things I do for you guys."

>>25223602
"But other than that it sounds amazing, right?"

>>25223602
"What happens if I make something have negative mass, Damien?"

>>25223602
"Okay so what can I do it with?"

You sigh. "Fiiine. The things I do for you guys." You say. "What if I just did the asteroids? Or just planets?"
"We couldn't hear them." He said. "No sound in space. And the planets explode too, but a lot more slowly."
You pout. "But other than that, it sounds amazing, right?"
"... Well, the sun's sound sounded pretty nice." He said. "Almost like a song. I might toss it to you."

>>25223680
"Yes please."

>>25223680
"Ooh! What if we go to the center of the station where there's no gravity and we orbit around each other and I turn THAT into sound?"

>>25223680

"The sound a planet makes before exploding... think i could make an album?"

>>25223680
"This power is pretty shitty. It's seems like it's all or nothing, to be honest. All sun gravity, or no sun gravity, you know? Can't I do a tiny bit? Just enough that it won't damage me or any astral bodies?"

>>25223722
that is an awesome idea

>>25223680
"Awesome. Futuremusic rocks."
"We could start a band, with nothing but experimental sounds that were never played. You find them and I'll transcribe them."

That reminds me, how is our extratube videos of us shooting lasers going?

"Yes please." you say.
"Alright!" He said, and grinned. He pressed his hand against your head, and focused.
<EE-EEEEE-EEEEEE-EEEE-ACK-ACK-EEE-EEE-CLICK-ACK-EE-EEEE!> You hear, echoing throughout your mind, reverberating through a sun so many hundreds of thousands of times larger than your home planet.

It was...

It was beautiful.

"The sound a planet makes before exploding... Think I could make an album?" You ask, wiping at your eyes.
"... Maybe." He said.

You sigh, and look down to the candle. "This power is pretty shitty. It's seems like it's all or nothing, to be honest. All sun gravity, or no sun gravity, you know? Can't I do a tiny bit? Just enough that it won't damage me or any astral bodies?"
"Maybe." Jason said. "You just need to practice. You should get the hang of it."

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>>25223789
>Heather's face when practising this shit

>>25223789
It's not shitty, we're just shit at it.

"Can I have a bouncy ball? Then I can practice turning it's bounce energy into other things whenever I drop it."

>>25223789

"practice, my best friend and enemy."

>>25223789
whats to stop us using our 'technopathy' on planets and astral bodies

fuck, lets go say hi the the sun

>>25223789
"Okay, maybe we try the candle one last time. Has anyone got a ball or something? I'll try converting only half of the heat and light energy into kinetic."

>>25223789
"Yeah well thanks for the advice."
How about we try to imagine the mass/energy split in two?

>>25223819
>technopathy
I think you mean Awakening (true form).

>>25223819
"I didn't mean to attempt to explode you, bluesun, but then I didn't so it's all alright. We cool?"

>>25223789
Copy that shit over with technopathy to Einstein.

>>25223834
yes that, i forgot what is was called after we realised it wasn't technopathy

>>25223789
"Okay, so energy to energy conversion is sort of like synaesthesia on crack.

Somebody start talking, I wanna try converting it into a lightshow. Will that work?"

>>25223840
remember to save it as FFLAC (Future Free Lossless Audio Codec)

>>25223852
we could breath fire...

WE SHOULD TRY TO BREATH FIRE GUYS

>>25223874
We can hear the colours and sing the rainbow.

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>>25223852
why bother with talking when they can SING? what about a musical instrument?

>>25223877
it'll be JUST LIKE THE ALIEN FRUIT!

Hang on, we could install artificial gravity on Surya by running a closed circuit (from Helios to Helios) under the floorboards and converting the magnetic field to gravity.

>>25223894
run the idea by omni, but it sounds good

>>25223789
"Oh, wow. Thanks for showing me that, Damien. Let's trade, here's what light tastes like."

With your technopathy, you put the music into Einstein, though you're not sure modern speakers had the fidelity to play such a song so beautifully, and then you relax. "Yeah, well, thanks for the advice." you say. "Can I have a bouncy ball? Then I can practice turning its bounce energy into other things whenever I drop it."
"Sure." He said, and went into the technician's room. He came out with a red rubber ball."
"Okay, maybe I'll try the candle one last time." You say, catching the ball. You look down to the lit candle again, when the glasses started to slip. You pushed them back up, and focused, once more.
"Somebody start talking." you say. "I wanna try converting it into a lightshow."
"I can sing." Damien said, and then started to sing.

And you, yourself, focused on his words, and closed your eyes...

>Roll for Conversion!

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>>25223909
DONT FUCK US OVER NOW DICE

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>>25223909

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>>25223909
here we go

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>>25223909

let's not burn our self out.

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>>25223909

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>>25223915
THE DICE FUCKED US OVER