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August 20, 2009

8.20.09: Mind over Matter lasts 12 seconds

by Feral

Savannah is safe, if frightened. She was in a very sensible ambush position ready to defend the villagers.
 
If I send Thunderstrike off to do a high flight with thermal goggles, he can look for a heat source about factory sized that might be where the bad guys are trying to control (either this reality, or a new one they might be constructing out of pieces).
 
This feeds into Option 3 {the bad guys are trying to build a custom reality by merging other realities} which is something we can actually confound. Given that Option 1 is {we are completely incorrect about what might be going on} and Option 2 is {they're trying to turn ALL REALITIES into ONE REALITY which is super duper dumb}.
 
What did he find? We don't know. Because he crashed outside the temple. Amythyst and Doc Reynolds had to work together to carry him into the medbay. Dr. DeClerk wants to test a sample of Thunderstrike's blood with a big brassy scarab. Which turns into a glove on Blondie's hand. And then turns back into a beetle when Dr. DeClerk retrieves it.
 
I send Blackjack and Savannah to steal the Bell. Then I go to set up a distraction.
 
I have a serious talk with Brodir. Which I can not call him "David". I guess his catgirl hates him sometimes like David hates me sometimes?
 
But also, he can not donate plasma to Thunderstrike. They are not the same species!
So I want him to go guard Gravitar (putting 2 of 3 most dangerous people together in case of mental control) and them both to go guard the room full of stargates.
 
And then I make myself go into the medbay. I walk up to Thunderstrike. Yank up the right side of the tunic. Oh, look, big yellow bruise! I slap that with open paw, and demand, "What hit you??"
 
He starts to tell me again about flying into a concussion field. FLYING SIDEWAYS?? "No," he says. But the bruise is on your side! :smack: What hit you?!
 
He closes his eyes and listens to his memories of sound and ... he was hit by a sonic beam! Like when that guy with the red ring hit Amythyst! (I was not there. This might have been in Korea.)
 
Oho, now we are getting somewhere! Doc starts testing for additional signs of sonic damage, and Amythyst will see if there's ... like ... some sort of ring wearer LoJack?
 
While I am patching up Thunderstrike (and proving to myself that he is REAL), we all take turns asking Dr. DeClerk to test Don Blake for various things. I have to describe physical signs of having been braintape-recorded.
Whhhhyyyyyyyyyy wasn't this doctor already testing for things like "low potassium" and "signs of epileptic seizure"?
 
My idea to test whether Dr. DeClerk is real is to hit him. Amythyst has a much better idea: purple paralyzation ray.
 
At which point Dr. DeClerk vanishes!
 
Time for Thunderstrike to move Don Blake and for us to check out Dr. DeClerk's room to figure out if he was ever real. I am also starting to wonder if anything "DeClerk" said about Don was true.
 
"Red Siren" of Earth 18 is Evil Scivias. Cindy Reynolds.
 


 
I split off from Amythyst and Doc in order to run around and tell the key people about DeClerk being not-real. My planned order:
  1. Blackjack and Savannah

  2. Captain America, who can go tell the head of the monk order

  3. Gravitar and Brodir

  4. and then I'm going to walk onto that upper balcony that looks over the inner courtyard, and I am going to start talking to Cindy Reynolds directly. Which should be interesting. I'm definitely the easiest target on Wyldfire, and it's not like I'm going to get violent with a young woman I protect. So what's the harm in talking with me?

Continue reading...

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    August 17, 2009
  2. 8.18.09 pt 1: Officially Official Burning
    August 18, 2009
  3. 8.18.09 pt 2: DPS
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  4. 8.20.09: Glowing Crystals
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  5. 8.20.09: Interdimensional job hopping supervillain
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  6. 8.20.09: Mind over Matter lasts 12 seconds
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