I3: Where there's a Will...

Previously the lodgings of the late Lady Braddock, the Dower House fell into disuse for a number of years, particularly after Braddock Manor passed to Brian himself. Since the arrival of the University, it has been renovated into an administrative building as well as faculty and staff housing on the second floor.

I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:22 am

Sam takes a deep breath and knocks on the Headmistress' door.
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:25 am

"Please return during office hours." comes the reply from inside. It almost sounds like a recorded message.
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:26 am

"I'm here to talk about Will," she says a bit more forcefully, banging on the door.
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:29 am

"One moment." And a minute or two later, "Come in."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:31 am

"Look," Sam says as she barges in, really before she even gets a chance to look around, "you had no right to ask that of Will."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:34 am

Ashlie is sitting at her desk, bits of electronics spread out in front of her as well as a computer monitor she's in the process of setting up. Her face is bandaged up on the entire left side, covering her eye and most of her cheek and wrapping around down around her jawline. Despite this her voice still sounds normal, even if her mouth is not really moving properly.

"Excuse me?"
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:35 am

"...Jesus, how hard did he hit you?" Sam gawks.
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Aspect: Not Crazy
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:45 am

"He shifted his fist into an anvil. His combat capabilities are fairly impressive." she says coldly.
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:47 am

"And you're... still..."

"...Jesus."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:51 am

"I restrained him and placed him in a cell until he calms down. He was being a threat."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:53 am

"But he said you... he said you threatened his friends back at the base, and you wanted him to help you."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:57 am

"Did he mention who that 'friend' is?" she asks, glancing down at the intricate electronics on her desk, picking out clearly broken components of her cybernetic eye and setting them aside.
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:58 am

"...no. I ah... I guess I didn't."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 1:59 am

"An US military reconnaissance satellite in geostationary orbit above the school. His 'friends' are spying on him and the school."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:00 am

"He's ah... he's got fuzzy lines on whether objects are people. I think because sometimes he's a something rather than a someone."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:07 am

"He doesn't understand the difference. I didn't expect the matter to come to blows. Can I assume that you understand why a satellite is incapable of consenting to anything."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:08 am

"...right. I... I'm surprised he was so violent."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:11 am

"As was I. It's possible that the military ensured his loyalty somehow."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:14 am

"Well I ah..."

"...I might have something to do with that."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:16 am

"Excuse me?" she asks again among the muffled sound of metal grinding on metal.
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:17 am

"I... I know he's been unbalanced lately. That... might be my fault."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:18 am

"Elaborate, please. I know the two of you are friends..."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:20 am

"Okay, what you have to understand is that Will's head was... well, a wasteland of goo when he started here. It was like a bomb went off in it."

"Miriam and I... we found the black box that survived that, we think."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:29 am

"I'm not sure what that means, but I have reason to believe he has forgotten a lot about his past. He's much older than 60 years."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:31 am

"It's... complicated. There's locks on the box that seem to react to me. I ah... loosed one, and his mindscape filled out a bit. It's got trees, now."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:33 am

"I don't quite follow." she says, apparently oblivious to her skin kind of sagging on the left side of her mouth.
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:41 am

"Uhm... you've got a little..."

She gestures at the side of her own face.

"...anyway, usually a mind has... you know, more to it. And Will's didn't. He had no defenses, a lot of goo, and... well, kind of ruins under it all? Like a sign that there was something there, before. But none of it worked. Even the representations of him in there were pretty daft."

"But there's entities in the box, too. And they're him. They don't feel like they were put there, they feel like they belong. You can actually converse with them, unlike the other bits. And they said the box was like an emergency backup."

"So when I set one of them loose, his mindscape got better. It started to be a bit more like what you'd expect a mind to be. Like a real landscape."

"But ah... the one that I set loose was... rather the one that's all about punching and going around trouserless."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:47 am

Ashlie reaches for her face and her one visible eye frowns, more of an expression of annoyance rather than pain as one might expect.

"An aggressive personality aspect." she muses, wondering if the Major was right to warn her. "What would you say is the possibility he's extra-terrestrial?"
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:52 am

"Er... that's the thing. The box seems to react to me... because somewhere deep in his head he thinks he knew me before. Or a me. Or someone like me. He thinks Miriam is someone else, too."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:00 am

"I believe he might be right. I have empirical evidence that he is not from this universe. And one of the students here claims to have been to several parallel universes. I am still waiting for her to give me more details on those worlds but she claims to have met several people currently at the school before."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:02 am

"...oh. That's... kind of a bit beyond me, you know?"
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:10 am

"It's beyond all of us. I am running calculations on dimensional parameters based on the readings I got from Will, but I'm far from having any answers. All I know is that Will has lived for longer than this universe has existed and that a young boy named Will Stanton in the US has been shot to death earlier this month." she says, flipping the computer screen as she pulls up the image of the brown-haired boy.
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:21 am

"I... I saw that, aye." She sighs.

"I just don't know how to take this personally, because there's expectations, aye? About things I'm... still trying to figure out about myself."

"And what Miriam saw in there about scared her to death."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:36 am

"There are no expectations. Only possibilities. I have a theory that this phenomenon is connected to a localized causal cluster of universes. Neighboring branches on a tree that are being wound together. But our choices are still our own regardless."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:42 am

"Well there's... two more locks still on the box. They're tied to... other parts of me."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:49 am

Ashlie seem to dwell on this for a moment.

"Open them. I will take full responsibility."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 3:58 am

"I... it's not that simple. There's other concerns, aye? Miriam is afraid Will is going to hate her if he remembers all this. 'Mel' is... not a good person, really."

"And I don't know. Those parts of me are hard to dig up. I'd probably need some help there."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 4:08 am

"He has a right to those memories. The only one who can decide this is the Will inside that box and the only thing we have to go by is his choice of locks. I can only extrapolate, but it's what I would do if I had to preserve memories that I wanted back."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Feb 08, 2016 4:10 am

"Can I... have some time to think it over? It's... it's a lot you're asking of me."
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Re: I3: Where there's a Will...

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Feb 08, 2016 4:11 am

"Of course. I understand that it's a lot to ask. But don't take too long, I'd rather not keep him locked up any longer than I have to."
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