Mono-god cultures are a rarity on Idheim. Not a surprise considering most gods are spawned from Souls, and a rising civilization usually has a hell of a lot more than one powering their miracles.

  Sure, we can talk about [REDACTED] or [REDACTED], but those are odd cases. Sang having door gods or community gods or city gods managed by their dragon overlords, effectively turning the gods from rulers to middle management. Then there’s [REDACTED], that the Omnitechnological Mandate spent the better part of its history trying to reassemble before they finally got it working again.

  Of course, that isn’t a single Soul god either. More like a governing consensus rewriting the foundational laws of the old sciences through a networked pantheon.

  Regardless, a single god can be powerful. Same goes for a single Godclad. But the ultimate problem is that its easy to overwhelm a single ego-based entity with Rendbombs, backlashes, and paradoxes. Even if it has a thousand Heavens grafted to it, all it takes for the entire thing to fall is one rupture. One Heaven overloaded. One second before they can vent.

  After that, everything else is lost as well.

  Which is why you should all humor my proposal.

  You don’t need to accept it. Or even act on it. But you should know about it. It is a potential option, after all. Something we can theoretically trick the Agnosi into doing using that nice little border of theirs built on top of that big goddamn Rend dump.

  Because you want to know what’s pretty much as vulnerable as a mono-god? A Rendsink capable of hitting with Rend at once. Same deal. Same overload. Same single point of failure.

  Think about it. Seriously. Think about it.

  -EGI [REDACTED], Contingency Bleak Series

  22-8

  Deliberation

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {Well. Now that the information has been reviewed, I think it is safe for us to state, openly and thusly: things are looking rather excremental.}

  EGI “ALGERNON WITHOUT THE FLOWERS”: {Kant. Please. We have all simulated our periods of hysterics. There is no need for that right now. We just need to consider more angles. More extreme angles. The situation at hand is indeed distressing. Our only reliable asset capable of counteracting the High Seraph has been taken from the field. The Chief Paladin represents an umbrella of safety for our operations, but he possesses neither the agility, dynamism, or willingness to see our objectives fulfilled. Chances of him aligning with Aegis at 34.51%. Unfortunate odds, but his leaning sympathies to the Neo-Creationists cannot be ignored. Nor can the potential of his surrender to Veylis Avandaer.”

  As Algernon spoke, a few trillion threads of moving data speared through Threshold’s innermost servers. From corners of stable existence, certain minds governing the polities of old humanity discussed, debated, and despaired over the state of things. Within the info space, all were classified as Category Black minds designed for denial operations and counter-charter methodologies.

  Simulations ran with each consideration. Entire event chains simulated and predicted to the best of their generative capabilities. Almost every variable was added and extracted from these artificial moments, war games lost, and then lost some more as they found themselves outmatched in one factor–and one alone.

  Despite the technologies they held in reserve, despite their informational superiority, material supremacy, and the Guilds enchained in part to their wills due to diplomatic dependency, they themselves had no means to reach into the future–the alter what its to come pre-emptively.

  Predicting and preparing was one thing. Shaping and manipulating was another.

  And now with Zein in the Chief Paladin’s custody, their wasp against the ruling tyrant of Highflame was indisposed, rendering Ninth Column’s cells scattered and vulnerable to Veylis’ probing.

  In summary, things weren’t bad – they were terrible.

  All because two Godclads couldn’t come to a simple compromise.

  EGI “Only Way To Be Sure”: {Does it bother anyone else how much we need these psychotic toddlers? I mean, watching them fight has been a hoot and a half, but come on. It’s like we’re herding a pack of Greek gods. Ah. Nothing for it. I’m requesting the use of the Schwarzschilder weapons. It’s time we begin a pre-emptive–}

  A series of rejections flooded the exchange a moment after a simulation formed. Within the Only Way To Be Sure’s desired series of events, a weapon crafted to collapse dyson carriers was detonated at the heart of New Vultun, compressing approximately forty percent of the city before retaliatory spatial Heavens activated, pocketed, and quarantined the affected area.

  The scenes that followed were old hat to all minds operating under Aegis. The Godclads would begin a war of annihilation against the polities of the void, pitting reality-rending miracles against weapons unfathomed by the children of this darker age. Likewise, the release of Contingency Bleak minds constructed specifically to topple K-2 civilizations or cripple and contain anomalies would be in play, ensuring more deaths among the Godclads.

  But despite all their sophistication, the pressures they could apply were myriad but relative. Against the eldritch nature of the Godclads and their forces, the projected losses would spike into the upper thirty percent within three months of combat–delayable if Voidwatch could successfully suppress both the No-Dragons and Omnitech.

  That came with its own costs, however. Openings offered to the other Guilds to unleash their own ruinous powers. The risk of the Sunderwilds being torn further by accident or deliberate action.

  Whatever the case, it would see far too many of their populations decimated and the true restoration of the universe lost forever. Unacceptable outcomes by every metric.

  Which was why the path ahead seemed quite clear to Calvino.

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {Friends. Countrymen. Minds. Lend me part of your processing.}

  The words were unnecessary and they sent more than a few data packets containing questionable contents dangerous for any non-mind’s sanity, but the server’s attention was gained. Kant wasn’t going to like this, but the pitch had to be made. There was an obvious best choice at hand, to put things bluntly. A single entity on which they could still rely to reconnect the cells and serve the role of “wasp” against Veylis Avandaer.

  The hard part was selling him to the rest without losing their trust completely.

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {We’re no strangers to the moods, actions, and dispositions of Godclads. We have always known that Thousandhand is a volatile personality. As is the orchestrator behind her current imprisonment. Neither one can be considered a completely rational actor.}

  EGI “Only Way To Be Sure”: {No shit. One’s a psychotic time-jumping druggie who never met a substance she didn’t want to smoke or a person she didn’t think of killing under the made-up rules of her “bullshitto” philosophy. The other is a psychotic, inhuman, cannibalistic, mind-eating psionic pseudo-informoph manufactured by a cultist competing for the undisputed position of first place in the betrayal Olympics. They’re terrible. They’re terrible, unpredictable, violent, horrible, and I love them both very, very much. Best assets we’ve had in years.}

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  A sea of disapproving opinions drifted out to Only Way To Be Sure, but the mind currently installed in a satellite overlooking New Vultun merely shrugged them off.

  Calvino continued.

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {It’s with that known that I propose we try something… bold. Operative Avo bears the Stillborn-Pattern Liminal Frame – created from the conversion of our Imitators. Though he is slightly unrefined compared to Thousandhand, he has the potential–and additional capabilities–that qualify him to serve as our wasp in her absence.}

  Incredulity flooded the server.

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {He’s the reason behind her absence. L-let us not use weasel language, Calvino. Your monster ensured the capture of our most potent asset to preserve his own selfish desires. How are we supposed to put our confidence in him?}

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {I propose we view the situation from another way.}

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {Oh? And what way is that?}

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {That your drug-fiend attacked a fellow citizen with the express desire to force them into bondage and slavery. It was, by all accounts, self-defense.}

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {Self-defense? Calvino, have you gone rampant? Is your code-base collapsing? He did not repel her and flee. He repelled her, destroyed a center of operations, allowed Omnitech to capture lost technology, exposed years of meticulous planning to the Paladins, and then ensured the capture and imprisonment of another citizen of Voidwatch when his attempts at murder were unsuccessful.}

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {What was the alternative option for him?}

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {We could have negotiated–}

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {No. No, we could not.}

  In this, Calvino knew he was absolutely right. There was no possible way for either of them to compel their respective Godclads. Handlers that they were, though they could squeeze their agents by denying them materials or striking at them using a soft force doctrine, the Godclads were rulers of their own nature and captains of their own Souls.

  They would not be restrained by the authority of Aegis. For avarice or by virtue, they moved to accomplish their own desires.

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {You and I can argue. Debate. Discuss. Blend a new mind from our sources and have it apply our mutual knowings toward a mediated solution. But it is as Only Way To Be Sure said. They’re like Greek gods. But what’s more, their authority seeps into reality. We cannot force either to heel, and both now see the other as an existential threat.}

  A note of frustration escaped from Kant. The EGI imprinted the dialogue with an animated avatar–the face of a troubled philosopher drinking and smoking at the same time.

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {Things have changed. On the ground. In our strategies. And to the user of the Stillborn. We cannot regard him as a simple monster any longer. With each mind he absorbs, he becomes more complicated. Capable of altering his behaviors, understandings, and varying his actions. He has become something akin to a nascent mind–if unbound, even, by our restrictions.}

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {This is making me more worried, Calvino.}

  A few million acknowledgments from other minds supported Zein’s handler.

  But Calvino wasn’t done.

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {You can be worried. You can distrust him. But by this point, I wonder how much he has already changed. As we run these simulations and wonder about how to proceed, the answer is quite simple. Either we choose and mold the best asset we have to full usability, or he will proceed himself, and operate without our prompting. Without our volition. And this will lead to him growing to a critical mass that cannot be ignored regardless, or falling victim to Veylis as she claims all that he is, and all that he can do.}

  It was the last part that sank in. The heavy implication of losing the Stillborn back to the High Seraph, but also the extremity of her threat if she possessed Avo’s cognitive capabilities.

  EGI “Only Way To Be Sure”: {I mean… I’m fine with this idea. Hell, let’s give him some q-dot weaponry. See how his Heavens react to our–}

  EGI “Only Way To Be Sure” has been timed out for [Indefinite]

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {Calvino. With Zein, our interests are insured. She wants the return of Jaus. And Jaus is–}

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {Jaus is dead. Until that is otherwise, assuming is just conjecture. You are afraid Operative Avo grow beyond critical mass. That he will exceed all parameters and become an entity beyond anyone’s capability to counteract. This is understandable.}

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {I am worried he might try to subsume us.}

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {He won’t. So long as we don’t give him a reason too.}

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {Because he’s obsessed with the notion of freedom and human will?}

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {Because he isn’t afraid of living in the world, so he doesn’t wish to rule it. Only to become it. And that is why I am certain he will do whatever it takes to ensure the preservation of the polities.}

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {Because we are interesting to him? Something that he can aspire to.}

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {No, Kant. He’s far more Veylis than Jaus. But again, he is not fearful like her. He will see our cultures as promises rather than a rival to overcome. And with more knowledge, he can be made reasonable. He can be made something of a… peer.}

  The notion of elevating what was a little more than an expendable bioform engineered for base cruelty to a table of minds each capable of running their own world was awkward. But beyond the absurdity, the potential possessed by his mind couldn’t be denied.

  Not easily, anyway.

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {Ignoring the… uncomfortable idea of speaking with a creature that religiously uses only simple sentences and is liable to feed my very ego to his mind in a bout of cognitive pyromania, how are we to ensure that he and Zein will cooperate in the future. I trust that you already know my plans to extract her from her current situation.}

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {Yes. And I have doubts that the Dentons can get our asset back. You know how stubborn Naeko can get when he’s made. And he is very, very upset at his old mentor. The best angle remains the trial. And the best option we have to procure her liberation is–}

  An incredulous gasp followed.

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {He put her there in the first place. Now we’re expecting him to get her out?}

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {Yes. I don’t see why not.}

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {Again. He was trying to kill her.}

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {Practically a show of affection on his part. And, to put it simply, we can enforce a mutual ceasefire between them. Not a peace, so to speak, but a cold war as well. Just like the one happening between Zein and her daughter.}

  A horrified chortle came from Kant. His human avatar began drinking heavily.

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {Oh, lost stars, you want us to empower him further. To make sure he ascends past Zein’s ability to kill or affect in terms of thaumic mass. Your way of enforcing equilibrium is making him a; great power.}

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {And why not? The war for the future has always been a running battle between mother and daughter. Now with this intruder, we can alter the situation further. Make things a bit of a strategic triangle. One that we hold two edges too.}

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {Another terrifying, horrifying idea of yours. But this requires the operative–}

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {I anticipate he likely already has a Canon of Chronology by this point. Do recall that he has an internalized Domain after our ascent from the Hungers’ wounds.}

  EGI “KANT WAS A PRICK”: {Ah. Yes. That.} The EGI released a sigh. {Zein will be most amused to know that the cuts she left led to the great empowerment of her newest nemesis.}

  EGI “If On A Winter’s Night A Wanderer”: {Don’t worry, Kant. If everything goes according to plan, you two will be laughing about it in less than a week. Now. Let’s talk about providing more material support for our little cadre, and what restricted secrets about reality we’re desperate enough to let the Agnos know…}

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  Ontologics

  In effect after 19-12

  Ghosts - [26,562,372]

  Liminal Frame (V) - 23,871 THAUM/c

  User: Avo

  Heaven/Hell: [Woundmother] - 10,002 THAUM/c

  Heaven

  ->Domain: (Blood)

  ->Canon: Haemokinesis (IV) - All blood in user’s area of influence can be controlled; speed and force experience exponential increases with each ton of force controlled

  ->Hubris: Central pillar of the Heaven must remain 80 tons; each ton of non-central mass controlled increases thaumic and Rend-based demands (5%)

  ->Canon: Linger - User can eject constructs shaped from their blood; each construct generated accrues Rend based on design and size

  ->Hubris: Central pillar of the Heaven must remain 80 tons; each ton of non-central mass controlled increases thaumic and Rend-based demands (5%; x2 backlash)

  ->Canon: Sanguinity’s Reign (IV) - A building haemokinetic storm continuously expands from the user, spreading their area of influence (without limitations) as far as the storm can metaphysically expand; generates more Rend the larger the area it takes up

  ->Hubris: Attempting to move and alter more than 80 tons of matter without constituting a central construct will result in thaumic backlash (20%)

  ->Canon: Exsanguinating Helix - Allows the user to instill an exsanguinating effect in a piece of matter, causing it to drain all the blood its mass can contain when in contact with a non-user designated entity; the larger the object instilled, the higher the Rend

  ->Hubris: If the object is destroyed, thaumic backlash will be inflicted (15%)

  ->Domain: (Matter)

  ->Canon: Alchemization (V) - The user can subsume and channel and combine the properties of 108 fragments of physical matter through their blood; the limit of fragments channeled can be increased at the cost of thaumic and Rend-based demands.

  ->Hubris: Any attempts to subsume gaseous or liquid matter will incur backlash. (12%)

  ->Canon: Remembrance of Matter (V) - The user can memorize the traits of all physical matter they subsume at a hundredth of the thaumic cost; the matter they memorized can be assembled and blended before a construct is formed

  ->Hubris: If matter being subsumed has their state changed mid-subsumption, thaumic backlash will be triggered (9%)

  ->Canon: Stormwreathed - The user can temporarily convert their mass into electricity

  ->Hubris: If the user is submerged by water in this state, thaumic backlash will be triggered (15%)

  ->Canon: Haemification - The user can turn all influenceable matter into blood

  ->Hubris: Any attempts to subsume gaseous or liquid matter will incur backlash (12%; x2 backlash)

  ->Domain: (Fire)

  ->Canon: Matterbomb - The user can detonate pieces of matter based on mass and inherent energy

  ->Hubris: If the matter being detonated is destroyed before ignition, moderate (EST. 35%) severe backlash will be inflicted

  ->Domain: (Luminosity)

  ->Canon: The Light Unseen - The user can blend their matter with the light of their surroundings should they stop perceiving the world visually

  ->Hubris: If the user has their perception active while this canon is in use, (EST. 51%) severe backlash will be inflicted

  ->Domain: (Protection)

  ->Canon: Fortress of Luminosity - The user emanates a luminous shroud that renders all physical matter bathed by its shine invulnerable; generates heavy Rend (1.2%) every second canon is active

  ->Hubris: There must be a persistent source of light for the user to imitate in the environment or from the user themselves or thaumic backlash will be triggered. (5%)

  ->Domain: (Biology)

  ->Canon: My Blood The Harvester, My Flesh the Symphony (III) - Allows the user to grow, blend, or extract biological organisms and structures from their blood.

  ->Hubris: Another source of biomass must be present and in the area of influence or thaumic backlash will be inflicted. (6%) ->Canon: Remembrance of Flesh (V) - Allows user to memorize traits from biological organisms at a tenth of the thaumic cost; the biomass they memorized can be spliced before they are grown.

  ->Hubris: Another source of biomass must be present and in the area of influence or thaumic backlash will be inflicted (6%; x2 backlash)

  ->Domain: (Lightning)

  ->Canon: Boltstride (III) - Allows the user to transmute and move all blood-based structures as bolts of lightning; distance limited to the reach of user’s Sanguinity

  ->Hubris: Attempting to move over 120 tons of matter as a single bolt will trigger (EST. 87%) extreme thaumic backlash

  Hell - [Fifth Circle]

  ->Domain: (Matter/Entropy/Luminosity)

  ->Canon: Breath of the Withered (V) - Allows the user to expel their total Rend as an entropic storm across their area of influence; the storm will disintegrate matter through withering bolts of lightning (This canon is absolute)

  ->Daemon: Striking the same place twice will result in the manifestation of an Anathema of Ruin, causing the user to lose control of the Heaven

  ->Canon: Barrage of the Withered (V) - Allows the user to expel their total Rend as an entropic projectile the size, shape, and speed of the Woundmother at its maximum potential; this projectile can be guided by the user and is loosed faster with higher Rend (This canon is absolute)

  ->Daemon: Should the projectile not dissolve sufficient matter, the projectile will birth as an Anathema of Ruin

  ->Canon: Shadowbreaker (III) - Allows the user to influence all shadows in their vicinity with a touch of luminosity that will continue to expand and dissolve anything physical covered by the shadows

  ->Daemon: Should an insufficient amount of physical matter in darkness be consumed in (8 seconds), an Anathema of Ruin will be manifested.

  Heaven/Hell: [Fardrifter] - 5,660 THAUM/c

  Heaven

  ->Domain: (Air)

  ->Canon: Horizon Strider (III) - The user takes on the properties of a hurricane and can influence winds for 250 kilometers

  ->Hubris: If an external force counters the motion of the user’s centrifugal force, severe (EST. 59%) thaumic backlash will be triggered

  ->Domain: (Space)

  ->Canon: Yondergales (IV) - The user’s demiplane now encompasses ten kilometers, with each ton of mass multiplying the base speed of their winds (252 kilometers per hour)

  ->Hubris: If an object over 5,000 degrees celsius is drawn into the plane, extreme (EST. 83%) thaumic backlash will be triggered.

  ->Canon: The Nine Streams of Freedom - The user can materialize from any nine points in space their winds encompass (250 kilometers)

  ->Hubris: if they emerge in a confined space and are unable to fully materialize, thaumic backlash will be triggered. (10%)

  ->Canon: Shadowrun (II) - The user can surge within shadows as if they are wind tunnels (x10 current speed); shadows must be connected to pass from one to another.

  ->Hubris: If a light shines and clears away the user’s shadow, heavy (EST. 39%) thaumic backlash will be triggered

  ->Domain: (Shadow)

  ->Canon: Midnight Hand - The user can blow, move, and shift shadows together as if they are waves in a storm.

  ->Hubris: If the user is between shadows when the wind stops blowing and the bridge breaks, moderate (22%) thaumic backlash will be triggered.

  ->Domain: (Labyrinth)

  ->Canon: Path of the Nine Storms (III) - User manifests a maze-like dungeon in the walls of their winds, allowing them to create and weave winding paths from tunnels of air; the maze is a fixed spatial anchor (may not be affected by spatial changes) that can be triggered at any time.

  ->Hubris: If the inner walls of the dungeon are forcibly breached and someone enters the eye of the storm (where resides the Yondergales), heavy (EST. 39%) thaumic backlash will be generated.

  Hell - [Fourth Circle]

  ->Domain: (Air/Entropy/Labyrinth)

  ->Canon: Halt of the Passing (IV) - The user can enchain all actors and objects moving through their area of physical influence (250 Kilometers) with stasis

  ->Daemon: An anathema of correspondence will be birthed if the total velocity drained exceeds the total Rend accrued

  ->Canon: Waybreaker (II) - The user distorts all directionality about them (10 kilometers), causing space to coil and distend, randomizing vectors of movement for all actors and objects caught in their wake.

  ->Daemon: Rend must be balanced in nine minutes or an Anathema of Correspondence will manifest.

  Heaven/Hell: [Techplaguer] - 200 Thaum/c

  Heaven

  ->Domain: (Signals)

  ->Canon: Skin of Virtuality - Layers user in mirror-reality raw data and information, allowing them to move and exist as radio signals might and shift inorganic objects in their vicinity as blocks of temporarily stored data (reloads back to their original position in reality after miracle ends)

  ->Hubris: The user cannot pass through lead without incurring heavy (EST. 41%) thaumic backlash.

  ->Domain: (Space)

  ->Canon: Techjumper - User inserts themselves into a signal or system capable of transmitting signals, moving as a packet of data and materializing at the endpoint of the transmission.

  ->Hubris: If the transfer is disrupted halfway, moderate (22%) thaumic backlash will be triggered.

  ->Domain: (Biology)

  ->Canon: TechSick.exe (II) - User mimics the properties and symptoms in a virus and transfers that over to a signal-receiving system, affecting the machine as if it were a person

  ->Hubris: If the transfer is disrupted halfway, moderate (22%) thaumic backlash will be triggered. (x2)

  Hell - [Third Circle]

  ->Domain: (Signal/Entropy)

  ->Canon: Datarot - The user decays and distorts signals and data within their ability to influence

  ->Daemon: If a signal the user is decaying is disrupted and they are unable to find another within (5 seconds) to continue expelling their Rend, an Anathema of Epistemology will be generated

  HEART OF NOLOTH]: 0%

  DOMAINS DETECTED (SHADOW/FORCE/SPACE)

  Implants

  Mime-Fog: Allows Avo to produce a spore-expelled field of active camouflage

  Celerostylus: A symbiotic reflex booster laced into Avo's spine; accelerates him a bit over sixty-five miles an hour in his baseline body

  Echoheads: A chimeric bioform adapted into an implant. Can provide echolocation for eight hundred feet. Designed from a hyper-durable silicon-chitin structure that also allows each of the eight heads to piece forward from the inside like a mantis shrimp punches.

  Bone Demon: A body-sheathe--complete overhaul of Avo's physical form. made from a nest of super-tensile, hyper-synaptic nanofibrous mycelia on the interior. Beyond the threads, thick plates of cordyceramite line the outside like jagged skeletal continents emerging from a sea of webs. Bound to his biology, Avo is able to harden and shift his structural integrity, as well as shape the growth of the fungal-ceramic matter that would encase his outer skin.

  Meldskin: A smart-fluid adaptive combat skin capable of altering its composition to suit almost any environment and slowly return to full integrity. Possess holographic disguises, advanced visual sensors, omnidirectional thrusters, and a highly advanced reactor. Can also interface with other pieces of advanced voidtech.

  Metamind

  Ghosts: [17,313,887]

  SPRITES: {4.2TB/s…}

  [QUICKSAND SYNC TRAUMA] COG-CAP: 55 SEQUENCES (VARIABLE)

  ->STRUCTURE: “A LIMPID POOL FILLED WITH BODIES DRIFTING BENEATH THE WAVES; WHATEVER TRAUMA STRIKES THE SURFACE WILL IN CAUSE IT TO IGNITE AND SIMULATE A RESEQUENCING OF SAID TRAUMA”

  ->FUNCTION: GUARDS THE MIND USING A LAYER OF TRAUMATIC MEMORIES: CAPABLE OF ADAPTING TO TRAUMAS AFTER SUSTAINING AGAINST THE FIRST IMPACT

  [THOUGHTWAVE DISRUPTOR] COG-CAP: [ERROR] SEQUENCES

  ->STRUCTURE: [NULL]

  ->FUNCTION: TAPS INTO THE ENTIRETY OF THE USER’S COGNITIVE CAPACITY AND EXPELS UNSTABLE MEM-DATA OUTWARD, DISRUPTING AN AREA OF (CONTINGENT OF GHOST CAPACITY) SPACE

  [INCOG] COG-CAP: [x] SEQUENCES (VARIABLE; MUST MATCH ALL OTHER INTERNAL MEMORIES BEYOND THE WARDS)

  ->STRUCTURE: “AN OPALESCENT SUN RAINS DOWN OVER THE LANDSCAPE; LIGHT SPILLS FROM IT MORE LIKE MERCURY DOLLOPS THAN RAYS, BASKING EVERYTHING IN A REFLECTIVE SHEEN WHILE DRINKING UP MEM-DATA INTO ITS CORE”

  ->FUNCTION: ALLOWS THE USER TO CAMOUFLAGE THEMSELVES FROM NOTICE VIA THE OBFUSCATION OF THEIR MEMORIES AND THOUGHTSTUFF. NO ACCRETION WILL LEAK DURING THIS PERIOD AND ALL OUTWARD REACTING PHANTASMICS WILL BE PLACED INTO A DORMANT STATE UNTIL DELIBERATE ACTIVATION.

  [WHISPER] COG-CAP: 19 SEQUENCES (BASELINE)

  ->STRUCTURE: FIVE/SIX LEGGED DOG CHASES A FLYING LETTER WHILE A DRONE STRIKES A VILLA.

  ->FUNCTION: ALLOWS THE EXTENSION OF CONSCIOUS AWARENESS BY 60 FEET AND THE DELIVERANCE OF COG-DATA WITHIN SAID FIELD OF AWARENESS; CAN BE EXTENDED BY MULTIPLES SHOULD MORE SEQUENCES BE USED

  [PHYS-SIM] COG-CAP: 18 SEQUENCES (FIXED)

  ->STRUCTURE: A MISSILE LOCKED TO AN AEROVEC, EVER INCHING CLOSER, DODGING INCOMING POINT DEFENSE FIRE”

  ->FUNCTION: CALCULATES THE ACCELERATION VECTORS AND IMPACT LANES OF UP TO TWELVE DYNAMIC OBJECTS

  [OSARAI MEMGUARD] COG-CAP: 20 SEQUENCES (BASELINE) [REPLACED BY QUICKSAND IN AVO'S METAMIND]

  ->STRUCTURE: “A HURRICANE TWISTING AND HURTLING SCREAMING FIGURES AND BROKEN STRUCTURES”

  ->FUNCTION: GUARDS THE MIND USING A LAYER OF TRAUMATIC MEMORIES: CAPABLE OF WITHSTANDING AND REFORMING AGAINST HEAVY-MASS PHANTASMAL INTRUSIONS; VULNERABLE TO NARROW-BUILD INVADERS.

  [AUTO-SEANCE] COG-CAP: 2 SEQUENCES (BASELINE)

  ->STRUCTURE: “A STAR BLEEDS INTO A SPIRAL OF SPLICED MEMORY SNIPPETS [ERROR: MEMORY ARTIFACTS TOO BRIEF FOR REVIEW...]"

  ->FUNCTION: ALLOWS OMNI-SYNCHRONIC COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN TWO OR MORE MINDS ACROSS ALL AREAS ENCOMPASSED BY THE PRESENCE OF THE NETHER

  [MORALITY INJECTOR] COG-CAP: 20 SEQUENCES (BASELINE)

  ->STRUCTURE: “A RESPLENDENT CAGE WITH A CINEMA PROJECTION OF PAST HAPPENINGS PLAYING ACROSS THE SKY"

  ->FUNCTION: ALLOWS THE USER TO NULLIFY SPECIFICALLY ENCODED IMPULSES WITH COUNTER-EMOTIONAL DOSES OF MEMORY.

  GHOSTJACK (ALLOWS FOR THE MODIFICATION AND EDITING OF MEMORIES AND SEQUENCES; SHAPES TRAUMA AND COMMANDS GHOSTS)

  [SKIMMER PERCEPTION EMANATOR]

  TRAUMA PATTERNS:

  [ASELERI'S FOLLY] - HIGH PAIN INFLICTION; PHYSICAL TORTURE BASED

  [LUCILLE’S REGRET] - HIGH EMOTIONAL TORMENT; REGRET AND ANGUISH ALIGNED

  [LUCILLE’S AGONY] - HIGH PAIN INFLICTION; PHYSICAL TORTURE BASED; BODY DYSMORPHIC AFFLICTED

  [SECONDHAND FATALITY] - EXTREME PAIN INFLICTION; EGO-KILLING TRAUMA FOR HUMANS

  [BENEFACTOR’S DREAD] - HIGH EMOTIONAL TORMENT; FEAR OF COMING DEATH

  [ARATNID’S KISS] - HIGH PHYSICAL TORMENT; CASTRATION AND PRIMAL FEAR-BASED

  THE BURNING DREAMER

  MIND-TEMPLATES

  [AVO]

  The Talons

  Abrel Greatling

  The Shadows

  Benhata Veloso

  Glitch

  Lip

  Corner

  Osjack Thenndenn

  (Ashthrone/Sanctus assault force)

  Dice

  Chambers

  Paladin Kare

  Paladin Kassamon

  Enclavers

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