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<< Return to Chapter 6 🌑 The time has come for your first technopath exam. You’ve tried to...
Ætherglow #122
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🌑 You stay silent and plug in your æthernet cable to the back of your collar. As they administer...
Ætherglow #123
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✴ “Alright, let’s consider the objective,” you say. “‘An imprisoning prism my familiar has...
Ætherglow #124
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✴ “Green, blue, kind of like our auras, maybe it’s meant to represent us? What if it’s...
Ætherglow #125
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✴ “I don’t know, something about that familiar was just unsettling,” you say. [7 disliked that]...
Ætherglow #126
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✴ Even in a cooperative assignment, it feels like you’ve found yourself in another sort of...
Ætherglow #127
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✴ You know just the shape. You think for a moment about some very interesting math, much more...
Ætherglow #128
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✴ There’s no time to waste. You pursue your lead through a gateway. The trail leads you through...
Ætherglow #129
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✴ “So did we!” you say. “Evidently.” She points to your captured familiar. “This is not the...
Ætherglow #130
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✴ “The familiars themselves might hold a clue. You’re much more of a SySpec than me, what do you...
Ætherglow #131
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✴ “Have you asked 5 how she does it?” you say. “Of course. She doesn’t know. One of those...
Ætherglow #132
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✴ “Yeah absolutely, they’re my equal,” you say. “I would even go further than that, like the...
Ætherglow #133
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✴ “The test is designed for each candidate, so we couldn’t have figured it out if we have false...
Ætherglow #134
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✴ “Do you happen to know Japanese sign language?” you sign to her through the glass wall. She...
Ætherglow #135
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✴ You feel the strong fight-or-flight reflex pulling at your mind. But you suppress the emotion...
Ætherglow #136
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✴ You lay your hand on the solid glass wall, knowing what you must do. You consider all you know...
Ætherglow #137
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✴ Whether at EvoTech or ObTech there is no comparison between you and 7--she is better suited to...
Ætherglow #138
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✴ ????-??-?? ??:??:?? Aydan > now 7! attack! ????-??-?? ??:??:?? Aydan > no wait, protecting the...
Ætherglow #139
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✴ “ÆON! Leave this server immediately!” you say. 5 reaches out with her hand of liquid light,...
Ætherglow #140
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✴ You take 5’s hand and she pulls you along as she slips between a narrow space between cracks...
Ætherglow #141
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✴ “Okay I think I know what to do,” you say with confidence. “We take these and we read each...