An Unusual Abnormality - Redux (A Lobotomy Corporation x ??? Interactive Quest)

Day 3.19
>This was probably a joke.* Laugh a little.
>"No, not really. I am waiting for an ordeal. Or if Hod decides to take my offer to blast things in exchange for payment..."
>You laugh. Prompting Alyssa to raise an eyebrow under her bandages, or at least you think she is...
>"Well it's the manager's call whether or not to use you." Alyssa explains, "He probably won't use you against a Dawn ordeal, but if a WAW or worse breaks out he'd probably call on you."

>"Proper duel would require a lot more space, anyway. And by the rules, spellcards are supposed to be at least theoretically possible to dodge or avoid - honestly, me using Giga Flare in these long narrow corridors would probably be against the rules if we still were back in Old Hell. "
>"Anyway, before I forget - I could use a couple of chairs to go with this table."

//*It was probably not a joke.
>"I see... And your request has already been noted."
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Day 3.21
>"The crazy guy who unlocked the door? He still has a job here?"
>"Yeah, after he had the insanity beaten out of him, he made a full recovery and returned to work."

>"What made him go crazy, anyway?"
>"He made a few mistakes when working with Funeral of the Dead Butterflies. It does cause a fair bit of mental corruption when it speaks, and quite a bit more if it's irritated or upset."
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Day 3.22
>"You beat the insanity out of people?"
>"...Yes."
>"Cool, they beat the power crazy out of me once too."
>Alyssa remains silent for a moment, "...I see..."

>"He really should visit sometime in the future."
>"Unfortunately, he's still too low of a rank to be rated for ALEPH interaction outside of extreme circumstances. Low level agents tend to panic more easily in the presence of higher risk abnormalities."
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Day 3.23
>"In my defense, it is very hard not to go power-crazy with the awesome power of the sun."

>"Well, tell him that if he works hard, and does not go insane anymore, he'll definitively become a cool high-ranked agent. I'll be rooting for him."
>Let's not talk about going power crazy here.
>"I'll be sure to tell him that."

>"Though are we talking about normal panic, or some kind of weird magic panic that is somehow attached to all the things here? I know I didn't have a magic panic aura before."
>"During our initial training as level one agents, it's kinda drilled into our heads how dangerous some of the higher risk levels are. It's a psychological thing, really."

OTHER;
>Look around, sigh heavily.
>"...Other than chairs, this place really could use a bunch of things before it'll become even remotely comfy. I feel kind of bad that I can't even offer you some tea or some snacks."
>"could we maybe get a carpet it would defintley at least make the room prettier"
>"Don't feel bad about it." Alyssa replies, "Though I'll see what I can do about the carpet."
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Day 3.25
>"What is EGO equipment, anyway?"
>"It stands for Extermination of Geometrical Organ." Alyssa answers, "...Don't ask, I don't really understand it either, but odd naming aside it's weapons and armor created from the essence of abnormalities. We could probably even create some based on your essence if we obtain enough Enkephalin from you."

>"Huh... so what's normal suppression procedures then?"
>"With most abnormalities it's basically 'Beat it until it dies.' though higher risk abnormalities tend to require a bit more strategy."

>"How long have you been working here for?"
>"Almost a month now, believe it or not."
>_
 
Day 3.27
>"...Why hire people who are bad at their job?"
>"Er... it's less people being bad at it, it's more that well... they either die or were forced to resign due to their mental condition."

> "How many 'levels' of agents are there, and what's the lowest that can interact with Alephs outside of emergencies? There can't be that many, considering the fact that you and Archer are able to talk to me, despite you yourself only having been employed here for a month or so."
>"There are five levels of agents," Alyssa explains, "and usually they only allow level five agents to work with ALEPH-class abnormalities. However, level 4 agents could probably get away with it in some circumstances. On the other hand, you'll almost never see someone at level 3 or being assigned work with one."

> "Huh… really? Hmmm… so, do the weaponry and armour forged have any correlation to the Anomalies they came from? And are the people who forge them able to control anything about how they'll come out, such as aesthetics?"
> "Because if so I'd like to request that any such equipment forged from my 'essence', as you called it, have an aesthetic based on hell, the corvid family of birds, the sun, radiation and nuclear reactors of the fission and fusion (both standard and cold) varieties, or some combination thereof. Or as close as can be managed without disrupting functionality."
> *If asked about the function stipulation* "*Deadpan stare* I ran a nuclear reactor before I wound up here. Such prioritisation of function over form was kinda necessary to avoid having the darn thing explode in my face. Which would not exactly a pleasant experience, let me tell ya' *shudder with existential dread*."
>"Well with some the weapons function similarly to weapons they themselves wield, while others can emulate abilities of the abnormalities. However, some weapons just have traits of the abnormality built into them." she replies, "As for armor, it tends to give the user similar resistances to the abnormality it came from, though in some cases it provides different resistances entirely. To answer your other question, I'm pretty sure we don't have any control over how they look and function when they're created, though I'll have to check with Extraction on that, since they're the department responsible for extracting EGO."

>Consume the puny human
>You try to eat her, only to be hit with pure, blinding pain as her sword smacks into you.

>"So provided the agreement goes through, how long will it be before I would be given a tour of the facility, in order to know my way around the place so I wouldn't be likely to get lost or turned around, creating a delay in my arrival that could be quite costly in an emergency situation."
>"I could probably ask my Sephirah to see if it would be possible to arrange an escort for you when the time comes."
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Day 3.28
>"Huh, so are these Egocentric Germ Organic-mabobs really expensive or are they just y'know, run of the mill things like Graphite Rods."
>"Just call them EGO. And sort of... When we extract Enkephalin, it carries traces of an abnormality's essence. That stuff gets filtered out, and when we get enough of it we can use it to create a single piece of EGO. It usually takes a while to get the amount of essence required, though, especially from higher risk abnormalities."
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