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Quartet in WTFMagic!Alienville
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Simultaneously like a flower and seed. It blossoms and it takes roots. Petals extend out and reach to call attention and draw sustenance. Aiming towards the abstract. It is a rigid fractal and organic curve.

Above all, it is power, but power for what and from what it isn't clear.

The threads weave through them. Four kinds of threads, matching the four of them.

It pulls and draws scenes. Artificial bits of stories. It finds something that could be considered kinship in these false realities.

They watch the torrent of information forming and flowing around them. An adult talking to an infant in liquid form, held in a beverage container. Humanoid non-humans in the background. The question of a confused friend.

More fragments are taken. A changeling rising from a sea of iridescent light, taking humanoid form. A lizardlike humanoid in a victorian dress. Captain Kirk fending off Gorn. Julian Bashir, reaching out, hypospray and tricorder in hand. 
 
A hand touching a face. My mind to your mind. Your thoughts to my thoughts. Our minds are merging, our minds are becoming one. 

The fragments are wonderful. The fragments are terrifying. The fragments are fates. The fragments are... made into existence.

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So it drives. 

The librarian lives in an old but well-kept apartment complex. The worker parks the car in the lot out back, as close to the door as it can get. 

The apartment is on the third floor. The worker has the keys on the same ring as the car key is on. 

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"You should have left me in the second to last corner before his residence and then I would meet you there after you got inside." Researcher 4 says with scorn. "Now that we are both here, very visible. Go take an alternative route through piping or something. I will take the main route."

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The worker nods, chastised, "Yes, Researcher." 

It opens the car door and dissolves into its coppery form in the shadow of the car, pooling under it and then carefully making its way from shadow to shadow until it reaches an access to the sewer system. 

It takes it a little while to figure out the confusing piping, but eventually it seeps out of the bathtub drain in the correct apartment.

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Researcher 4 has started on some sort of organization system of all the original's belongs. Separating objects according function. Relevance for disguise integration. Potential threat level. And research relevance, of course. He instructs Worker 23 on how to help.

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It follows the researcher's directions. 

So passes the night, and in the morning they enact the plan to infiltrate the library, the worker using the librarian's face to complete his duties while the researcher uses another to look into the wealth of information stored there.

 

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Meanwhile, back at Erin's house... 

While Soren remains by scout 15s side to reassure him, the others return to the lair. 

"There's a medical center, an armoury, and a hangar," Erin says, gesturing to each door in turn. "I think this room must be some kind of command center," she adds, going over to take a closer look at the round table in the middle. Not unexpectedly, she finds she can read the writing on the control panel - it's the same as the laguage her devices use. Allurian, perhaps? 

She presses a few likely looking buttons, and the pyramidal device in the center of the table opens, revealing a smaller, transparent pyramid with glowing ball of energy inside. A ray of light extends from its point, slowly diffusing into a plane and then coalescing into a map of the facility. 

"...Well, that's useful."

 

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Felix investigates. "Any area we haven't explored yet?"

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She looks up from the controls, "We haven't looked very closely at the hangar," she says, "There's a massive bay, probably for a larger starship," sometimes she can't believe the words that come out of her mouth, "There might be something on the other side of it?"

She pokes at the controls, seeing if she can manipulate the map. It circles around to show another view of the facility. 

"Huh. Is that..." 

She reaches out to point at a tunnel branching off from the hangar. 

"I wonder where that goes." 

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"Is that how far it goes? Does this thing have notes or something?"

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She hums, poking at the control panel a bit more. This one rotates, this one magnifies...

Something in her suggests that it would probably be easier to just... 

She reaches out and runs a finger over the projection, spinning it lightly. 

"Oh hey, manual control," she murmurs, pinching two fingers and then drawing them apart to magnify the tunnel, the rest of the map fading out as it gets bigger. She taps it twice and it pulls back as an opaque panel covered in writing hovers beside it. 

The writing is Allurian again. She glances at him, "Given your powerset, do you have anything for translation?" She wonders. She can read it, but it wouldn't hurt to have someone else around who could. 

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"I absolutely have magic to decipher runes of important knowledge. He holds up his staff and taps it on the ground four times.

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And lo, he can read the language! 

Emergency escape tunnel leading to secondary base. DNA locked. 

The control panel is readable now too. Besides the control pads, with which she was rotating and magnifying the map earlier, there are several others. Including a Big Red Button, of course. 

She smiles at him, "Do you want to poke at it before we take a look at the tunnel?" They are living in a science fiction, might as well have fun with it!

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"Sure. Do you expect to be able to access the tunnel through your own DNA?"

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She shrugs, "It stands to reason, doesn't it? This is my parents' home, after all. Unless it's locked the them specifically. Perhaps we should find out what in the way of security systems we should expect before I try, though." 

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Felix thinks. "Does this thing have any information on them? On you? The change sometimes messes things up."

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She fiddles with the controls, eventually managing to navigate to a database of sorts. She finds a search bar and tries typing in her name. 

A number of results pop up, the first among them a file titled 'Riun Nellien'. She taps on it. 

A hologram of what she recognises after a moment as her body in lizard form appears over the table. The holographic screen now displays information about this Riun Nellien, as well. 

"Is that the name the seed gave me?" She wonders. 

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Felix nods. "You have an entire backstory. Sometimes not a very consistent backstory, but you have it."

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She nods, "Alright. Riun. Not bad." She goes back to reading. 

Daughter of Lady Oran Nellien and her consort Kurst Nellien. Graduate of the Allurian Academy of Medicine, specialising in emergency medicine and infectious diseases. 

"Well," she says, "This seems to tell us a lot about me, but not so much about my permissions in this facility. Lets see if I can..." 

She taps away at the controls for a moment, pulling up another opaque screen and then eventually finding the facility controls. She pokes at the word 'permissions' and it opens yet another screen.

Riun Nellien: Limited Command Control. Access to Facility 1. Access to Facility 2. Emergency Access. Hovercraft Access. Limited Security Control. Safe Access Denial. 

"...Ok. Now what does that mean exactly?"

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"I think you don't have access to all features. I am not sure what Safe Access Denial is. Maybe ask what they have for security?"

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"Good idea." 

She taps through a few menus to pull up the Security menu. The panel she's resting her hand on lights up at one point, stalling to scan before letting her through. 

"...According to this 'Safe Access Denial' means that if I don't have access to something it will just not let me through. Rather than attacking me, as in Aggressive Access Denial, or stunning me, in Containment Access Denial." 

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"Okay, could you gives us the same sort of Access Denial? Or at least keep it to Containment?"

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She hums, tapping away. 

After a moment, she answers him, "I think my access should let me designate someone as Containment? And I can give you access to some of the things I can access - this facility, the emergency tunnel, the hovercraft... but not Facility 2, whatever that is." 

She pulls up the correct opion for this and moves aside a bit, "You have to put your hand on the panel here, on the controls, so it can scan you. Then I'll alter your permissions." 

 

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And he is scanned, and permitted. 

"Alright. I should probably get Robin changed, and then we'll leave him to poke around more and warn the others, and we can check out that escape tunnel?" 

She calls Robin over to be scanned. 

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"Huh... do you mind if we scan Fenris' wolf form? We have always been curious if it's the same DNA."

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