Making mistakes magically

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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Null » Fri Oct 12, 2018 8:20 pm

"No time," Will grunted, his arm lighting up and sparking. "What do you need cut up?"
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Fri Oct 12, 2018 8:31 pm

"Open up the casing on this thing."
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Null » Fri Oct 12, 2018 8:36 pm

"Everyone look away, unless you've got regenerating eyes," Will said, before beginning to cut along the seam of the arm.
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Narrator » Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:34 pm

The bright flame touches the smooth surface of the arm and for a moment the flame doesn't seem to do anything. It takes a couple moments before a hole begin to form. There's a sudden hiss of a slight pressure equalization and it becomes easier to extent the breach. At first there's a couple sparks when Will cuts through a tightly packed assembly of electronics and miniaturized machinery, then suddenly a clear liquid wells up from the cut and sizzles when it comes into contact with the flame. It takes a couple of minutes to cut a 10 square-inch segment free and pulling it away reveals the burned out segment of what once was filters, oxygen reclamation and a whole array of things that make no sense to Will. Nestled next to it inside another casing of clear plastic and leaking fluid where the flame has punctured it is a human brain along with a literal handful of partial organs, pulsing rapidly as if in sudden distress.
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Sean Hall » Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:51 pm

"That explains why the spell wasn't working," Sean said staring at the organs pulsing in distress.
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Null » Fri Oct 12, 2018 10:36 pm

"....Uhhhh, now. I know my knowledge of biology is limited, but this is not....in any way shape or form normal. Should we rush this to the medbay?"
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:07 pm

"Yes! I don't know what they could even do, but go!"

Before Ashlie is even done talking there's a faint whirring sound of a miniature pump and the organs in the shell suddenly turn grey as some kind of injection spreads through them, killing the tissue and making it shrivel up.
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Reach » Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:08 pm

"Ah ah ah." Reach's voice suddenly seems to echo through the room. "Manikin informs me you managed to crack open his arm. Bit unfortunate, that, but maybe it can serve as a... preview. Bit of a motivation, perhaps. Because if the ones we chose survive our tests they are going to join us, one way or the other. Char chose correctly. Her clairvoyant friend... well, he still helped out in the end."
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Natalie Denisov » Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:13 pm

Natalie immediately begins searching for clairvoyant associates of Char, the image on her monitor freezing as she devotes her mental power to the search.
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Narrator » Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:21 pm

She doesn't find any arrest records or rap sheet, but Char's known associates mentions a suspected mutant tracker or clairvoyant selling their services to criminals, operating out of Mutant Town.
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Natalie Denisov » Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:28 pm

Her monitor is overlayed with the information she's finding, immediately sharing it with Ashlie as well. Then she starts hitting up some of the Mutant Town community "forums" for lack of a better term looking for mentions of someone going missing: Twitter lists, small hosted forums, their NextDoor site, etc.
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Narrator » Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:41 pm

Mutant Town is a big community, predominantly low-income with high crime-rates and a large homeless population. Needless to say that Natalie finds a treasure trove of missing people that would take a while to sort through.
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Natalie Denisov » Mon Oct 15, 2018 5:58 pm

She communicates it to Ashlie all the same.
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"So, is this the clairvoyant," Natalie ponders out loud, "Or is this a piece of Manikin?"
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Null » Mon Oct 15, 2018 6:41 pm

"Perhaps the doctors could figure that out by examining the brain, but I wonder how...relevant that point is right now. This is a time for action."
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Natalie Denisov » Mon Oct 15, 2018 6:56 pm

Natalie frowns, "Every piece of this puzzle could be important. Just because you don't know where this piece goes at the moment doesn't mean it's a good idea to ignore it."
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Oct 15, 2018 7:26 pm

"Fortunately we do have the number advantage and can split our attention. Natalie, take this to the medical lab. We'll see if we can figure anything out that could be helpful. Sean, wherever you think you might be the most useful. Will, continue working on a plan of attack to lure them out of hiding while I definitely avoid gaining access to Maldon's closed circuit camera network."
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Null » Mon Oct 15, 2018 7:57 pm

"I don't need to plan. I'll go lure them out," Will said, standing up.
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Ashlie Minamida » Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:02 pm

Ashlie, partially distracted and assuming Will is planning on bringing back-up to spring as a trap, nods.

"You're resilient enough to be okay, but do be careful."
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Re: Making mistakes magically

Postby Null » Mon Oct 15, 2018 8:56 pm

"Don't waste the processing power to worry about lil' ol me," Will said, exiting stage right.
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