Post
Sat May 07, 2016 3:06 am
#680
by Dinosawer
Hmm, probably should've expected this. If this were a movie this is were I'd expect them to try and steal my brain... on the other hand, if they wanted to do that they wouldn't have made coming here a voluntary thing.
Let's just treat this conversation like battle: charge in with overwhelming honesty and hope for the best.
(( Dino can't lie. If he doesn't want you to know something he just doesn't say anything, but that's not gonna work here. So, BONSAAAIIII!!!
I'm not gonna underline the whole block - you already know it all anyway, but Dino likes to tell a story ))
"I see. I should've probably expected this, but I forgot our helmets had camera's...
Yes, I agree it's very handy to not die. I'll gladly tell you anything I know and hope some of it trickles down to us poor sods below and helps some people not to die in the future.
Anyhow. I assume you are somewhat familiar with my mission history by now? Yes? Good.
As you no doubt already suspected it started after I touched the Quantum orb in Chilendorn. I already described what I saw to SCAMPS in great detail, so I won't bore you with that. What's interesting is what I saw afterwards.
When Squidhead was about to start fixing my foot I suddenly saw myself, being held down by the others while he was operating on me.
I came back to myself, and 30 seconds later it actually happened.
Then later I saw a vision of myself opening the airlock 30 seconds before I actually did it.
Now, I lost tons of blood and wasn't entirely conscious so I thought I was just hallucinating - until they found that thing in my brain when we got back.
I still wasn't entirely sure how it worked though. If you can see the future, does that mean you can change it?
The answer came at the start of mission 2; we were dropped of far from the rest of the platoon, headed for a group of HAMMERs by ourselves, with 2 people unfit for combat and 1 rookie. So I did what everyone would've done - I tried to see the future to give me an edge.
I saw a vision of myself taking on the HAMMERs, and one of them going after Tonon - I tried to take him down, but I was too late; Tonon was dead.
So when the vision faded, I immediately went for the HAMMER that would go after Tonon, and I managed to disable it in time for Tonon to survive.
At that point I knew it was invaluable in keeping my friends alive. I couldn't use it constantly - it's mentally tiring to use - but it could give us an edge where needed.
Then, later, on the MIMIR science vessel, I came another one of those Quantum orbs, working - so I touched it again.
If the first touch was so useful, what would a next one do, I wondered?
At first I thought it didn't do anything, so I moved on.
Right after, I decided to use the futurevision thing again - we were about to storm a hangar guarded my MIMIR soldiers, and we were outnumbered 2 to 1, we needed every edge we could get.
In my vision, I saw Blake, Aegagrus and Taniya get shredded by that grenade, Rikke got taken down in a storm of fire from the left, myself storming in alone. The soldier I attacked evaded my attack by dropping a dropshield. Desperately I took the shield to use it for myself, and the vision faded right before I was shot by one of the other soldiers.
When the vision faded, not only had I knowledge of what would happen, somehow I was suddenly holding the shield I took in my vision. I have no idea how, but somehow I managed to steal something from an alternate future timeline - a deed which, as you saw, had a real effect on our timeline, somehow.
The rest you know - with what I knew, we managed to storm the hangar successfully, we got you the Darkspace ship and everyone got out alive. Well, except me.
I'm not sure how far the possibilities of this interdimensional kleptomania thing reach - I didn't exactly get to test it again, due to being temporarily deceased and all that.
So, that's what I know about it.
At this point, I fear your next move might be to steal my brain and use it for testing, no?" *grins*
If they say no:
"Oh, pardon me then. In that case, I'll gladly cooperate in whichever tests you want to perform. I think it's rather fascinating myself"
If they say yes:
"Understandably. Remember, however, the tale of the hen with the golden eggs - touching an orb again made the material so much more potent. And given the incredible properties of Quantum matter, I doubt it's the last orb we will encounter, don't you think? Imagine what it would do if I were to touch one again - which things you'll never learn if you kill me here and now. Not to mention the fact that symbiotic things tend not to fare well when you kill their hosts.
If you let me live, you can monitor my brain live - plenty of room here for some sensors. *taps chest, which contains my brain tank*
Maybe you even get to monitor what happens when I touch the next orb live - wouldn't that be fascinating?
I get to help my teammates live, and you get to study it all in great detail. I think that's a win for all of us.
And I'll gladly cooperate in which ever tests you want to perform."
I sit back, and see how this pans out.
))
The results of logic, of natural progression? Boring! An expected result? Dull! An obvious next step? Pfui! Where is the fun in that? A dream may soothe, but our nightmares make us run!
Creativity is certainly allowed in squad 2, just so long as it doesn't get yourself, or any allies killed. It may also be allowed in Sgt Foreigner's squad, though I've heard that he can be pretty strict. What unit are you referring to exactly? Do you mean the platoon, or my squad?"