Dejan has been a genius. Hence we are punishing him for that. Did they really expect that they can give nerds capabilities and they’d not backdoor them?
Let me explain. We can sense strong emotions. Emotions are something that you can deliberately evoke. Let me demonstrate that. Imagine those scenarios:
You open up a closed toilet only to find that the last user has done a number 2 and not flushed.
You are stranded on a deserted resort island only to find that you share it with Gal Gadot emerging from a pool in a skimpy red swimsuit. (Assuming you are male, straight and single)
Are you telling me that you did not feel distinct emotions when really imagining that? Two distinct states. You can transfer information. You can use that even from muggle to wizard. Thus poor Dejan is now tossing a coin and using two distinct mental images, while Thomas, who is better at the reading emotions stuff, is recording what he gets. A simple variation on the mind reading tests of parapsychology.
I have gone shopping. Yesterday we shocked the base supply officer by requesting 120 kg of table salt, 40 sponges, 40kg of playground sand and 40 sets of colored children’s chalk as well as 80 bottles of spray paint soluble in acetone and a bottle of acetone. Those are the supplies you need if you are to teach an unknown number of people rituals. They are documented as stuff wizards need. He capitulated. Not easily, but Thomas with the ability to read emotions is fearsome at that kind of task.
So today I put in a request for some video equipment. He folded right away and sent me shopping. We are about to start recording videos for ritualist training. That is not a pretense. We are toying with the idea of becoming YouTubers, as today we were greeted with another piece of news on TV during breakfast.
Have I told you how good a buttered toast is after weeks of spirit coins only?
» The government has introduced further constitutional changes equating
» organizations of essence users to religions with full internal autonomy
» and their rituals to religious texts
» The Federal Office of Statistics has published new numbers showing that the number
» of people dying by monster activity is going down
» The parliamentary proposal by the Liberal Party to scrap the estate tax as, we quote,
» „The state must not enrich itself on the death of people eaten by monsters“
» is generating further controversy and a call by the parties on the Left
» to raise pensions for dependants of those killed by monster attack and
» in the armed services
They are selling out to the Network. It is payback time. Constitutionally protected payback time. I think the break in routine has done it. We had a task that was saving lives. I genuinely believe that. The roads must roll. It was a small task, but small tasks need doing, too. They showed us utter disregard. Well not us, but our meaning. Had they just sent us to fight monsters after monsters, we would have gone. That, however, has done it. We have admitted it to ourselves. There is no going back to our old lives. Not after the third essence. We know too much. We are too much. We had already written ourselves off. You do not come back from being a walking ghost unaltered. The only open question is the degree to which you admit it.
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Am I really complaining about not being killed in a series of hopeless fights?
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I am escaping hypothetical observers and obvious identification by the general population. People do not expect people in federal service to be wearing a purple jumpsuit. I even have managed a certain similarity to the uniforms of the Trek prequel under Captain Archer. And then I use [Eternal Moment] to unobservably leave a toilet stall of a shopping centre. I am browsing how to use WikiLeaks. Very informative.
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We have been informed that the arrival of students will be delayed by one more day. Thomas being as happy as a statistical clam, I decide to go play with my device.
I am getting the UI more and more. You are not supposed to select options but to ask questions. It looks like my experience with conventional computers is hurting me. Am I carrying a piece of alien technology? I calm my mind and hope to get something new. I am rewarded:
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New message
Your ability [Equip the Army] has reached Iron 1
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My abilities have sublevels?
Battlefield: [Equip the Army] Iron 1 (3%) Special Ability [Robotic Servants of War] Technolgy
Iron 0 (0%)
Special Attack/Conjuration
(unused) 0% (unused) 0% (unused) 0%
They do. Why have they increased in one case?
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Help: [Ability], (Upranking)
Expression of the (Soul) giving an (Essence Magician) powers. They come in 5 [ranks] with 10 (sublevels). They are increased by (usage) accord to their [type], (training) and (meditation) or the usage of [monster cores].
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The help surely is improving in quality. Remarkable technology.
Wait. What? Souls are real? We are supposed to do what?