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

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They won't let a nuclear reactor happen because way too inneficient in comparison to the methos already in place by L corp. As for the corpses, eh there's a bunch of ways they deal with those I'm sure. I believe a number of abnormalities may eat them, there's even an EGO suit that eats corpses as you walk around, not to mention the execution bullets wich appear to just send interns to the shadow realm.

And I highly doubt they would accept employees doing any kind of prayer, what with the good Doctor, Blue Star, the flesh idol, etc. Though of course raven lady whose name I can't remember won't know that. It's more of a thing of how badly the employees would react to the stuff they hear.
 
>"Just a quick question, but what's the toughest incident that was solved here?"
>Exchange stories of incidents in Gensokyo with Alyssa
 
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And I highly doubt they would accept employees doing any kind of prayer, what with the good Doctor, Blue Star, the flesh idol, etc. Though of course raven lady whose name I can't remember won't know that. It's more of a thing of how badly the employees would react to the stuff they hear.
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Depends entirely on abnormalities present, I imagine. Doctor is still Doctor, not Whitenight, and Blue Star might not even be in the facility. Idol is somewhat of a counter-example, as it actually provides a number of benefits given proper use... And then there is One Sin, which is just straight up 100% benign as long as employees keep the "no lies" rule in mind.

What I am saying is that the manager might have yet to develop that entirely reasonable "oh god no" reaction to abnormalities with religious themes and aspects.

Anyway, although joining the elite club of abnormalities related to worship and religion could be interesting, Utsuho does not particularly care to spread the glory of solar mysticism as of right now. We prolly could nudge her in that direction, but her canonical self just does not really care, IIRC. Maybe if Yatagarasu (the god who's power she channels) decides to take some interest in this new dimension and sends her a vision, or something.

Reactor depends entirely on what Nazgul decides. Utsuho's reactor was basically magic pretending to be sci-fi, so energy output might be actually sufficient to matter. Safety and incredibly bad reputation of the word "nuclear" would probably be a more serious concern, but a design with focus on excessive safety might be workable? Chances are not overly high, but we'll see.
 
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    • Conjured Blade said:
    >"Trying to figure out how to put the bed together!"
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    >Start separating the bed parts.
    >"I'm trying to see what we have right now"
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    >"Oh... I mean... We're supposed to be the ones doing the work," she sighs, "but considering that you seem mostly harmless for an ALEPH and that I won't be able to see what I'm doing I guess I'll have to allow it just this once..."
    >She steps aside to allow you to separate the parts.
    >You have several metal bars and struts, likely the components of the frame, as well as a pillow. The strange deflated thing is made of some kind of thick rubber with a felt-like material on the top. There's also a little baggie full of screws along with an L-shaped hexagonal rod and a folded piece of paper.
    >The wall panel slides closed when you finish retrieving all the items.

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    > "What is a Sephirah? Is that your boss or something?"
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    >"In a way." Alyssa answers, "The Sefirot are a bunch of AIs that run the departments in this facility. They act as our immediate superiors, as well as our direct line to upper management."

    Prospalz said:
    >"Well, you people need energy, I have free time, and you apparently make plenty of corpses I could be burning to make energy. It makes sense to me."
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    >"...You make nuclear reactors that run on corpses...." Alyssa tilts her head.

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    >"Can you maybe ask a magician to fix your vision? Or ask some god for a miracle?"
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    >Lets not do the thing about magicians and gods.
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    >You catch yourself before speaking.

    Islanderninja said:
    >"Just a quick question, but what's the toughest incident that was solved here?"
    >Exchange stories of incidents in Gensokyo with Alyssa
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    >"Hmm... Probably the first time The Silent Orchestra escaped... And even then it was less that we solved it and more like we ended up losing all the energy we gathered so far and barely missed having to face a Dusk Ordeal... If he had broken out later in the day we could've been at risk for a Midnight Ordeal instead..."

    >You don't know about many incidents on the surface in detail, just bits and pieces from what you've read in the few Bunbunmaru issues that end up underground. The one your most familiar with is the one you caused, which ended up indirectly causing that flying ship incident, which in itself ended up causing yet another incident.
    >However, you think you've already shared the story about that incident with her when you were telling her your life story eariler...

    >The wall panel slides open again to reveal more stuff: Some neatly folded sheets and a blanket on top of a strange device with a bundled hose attached to it.
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    • On corpses:
    >"Hell had lots of corpses for reaction mass."

    On the Bed(OOC:I'm trying to dip into Okuu's nuclear physics/reactor knowledge but it may clash with the corpses as reaction mass thing, thoughts?):
    >"There's this thing with a hose. I don't see any hydrogen or deuterium or helium or any of the other interesting gas tanks though so I'm not sure what its for do you know?"

    Edit: Still thinking about the Silent Orchestra thing actually
     
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    @Conjured Blade we never actually received an info-dump on abnormality classification, IIRC. And this is the first time we hear about Orchestra.

    Unless my memory badly fails me.

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    >"Silent Orchestra? Ordeals? What are those?"
     
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    On the Silent Orchestra:

    I'm half tempted to have Okuu freak out over the fact she's not doing anything to deserve being called an Aleph due to some demented Youkai pride. Thoughts? I've got command prompt potential material here

    "So if I'm an Aleph because I'm a Youkai who knows Danmaku, and I'm mostly harmless... and the Silent Orchestra is an Aleph, and an Aleph caused the toughest incident... and Alephs are supposed to be nasty and strong"
    "Next time the Silent Orchestra comes out, want me to blast it? If I don't do something I might stop being an Aleph." *Shudder*
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    Edit: @Prospalz We heard the name before in 1.29, but we haven't got an info-dump on abnormality classification IC that is fair. I'm trying to go for Okuu making sensible deductions and getting a weird conclusion because birdbrain with the material I'm trial ballooning.
     
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    The prompt feels a bit rough, but I think the main idea is comprehensible? Go for it if you want.

    Going to sleep. Plz do not fail to assemble the bed, plz do not aggro Alyssa into actual hostility. Perhaps tell Alyssa more about our Rin and Satori? In general, keep that appearance dissonance between friendly crow girl/corpse-burning demon from hell going.
     
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    >You heard about the Silent Orchestra already. It's an Aleph. You don't need to ask that part.
    >"So if I'm an Aleph because I'm a Youkai who knows Danmaku, and I'm mostly harmless... and the Silent Orchestra is an Aleph, and an Aleph caused the toughest incident... and Alephs are supposed to be nasty and strong"
    >"Next time the Silent Orchestra comes out, want me to blast it? If I don't do something I might stop being an Aleph." *Shudder*
     
    To be honest Aleph is just the term used for those abnormalities that can cause the most amount of destruction. Like Army in Black is an Aleph, but only when it escapes, otherwise it is classified as Zayn. I'm curious how it would be if Okuu decided to try and blast the Silent Orchestra with a giant attack, only for it to just flat out ignore it like nothing and continue its stuff because of the annoying thing that it can only take a certain type of damage depending on the movement. Only at movement 4 does it takes damage from Red, and by that point I think most people would have resigned to have it blast the head of who knows how many employees.
     
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    • Conjured Blade said:
    On corpses:
    >"Hell had lots of corpses for reaction mass."
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    >Technically the corpses were merely burned in the reactor, and served to fuel the fires of Hell long before that. You don't necessarily need them to sustain a fusion reaction, especially since there are much easier and more efficient materials to fuse like hydrogen...

    Prospalz said:
    "Yup! Corpses are not strictly a requirement, but we did live in hell; it was a very convenient source of fuel. "
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    >"Ah..."

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    > Check the folded piece of paper. That might be the instructions
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    >You check the paper. It indeed seems to be a set of pictographic instructions.
    >...Seems simple enough?

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    > "Neat.... What's an AI?"
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    >"Artificial Intelligence. Basically a computer that can think and is self aware." Alyssa pauses, "...You do know what a computer is, right?"

    Conjured Blade said:
    On the Bed(OOC:I'm trying to dip into Okuu's nuclear physics/reactor knowledge but it may clash with the corpses as reaction mass thing, thoughts?):
    >"There's this thing with a hose. I don't see any hydrogen or deuterium or helium or any of the other interesting gas tanks though so I'm not sure what its for do you know?"
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    >"It might be an air compressor. Did either batch of supplies have a deflated air mattress?"

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    >Retrieve additional items and place them near other bed parts.
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    >You do so.

    Prospalz said:
    >"Silent Orchestra? Ordeals? What are those?"
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    >You heard about the Silent Orchestra already. It's an Aleph. You don't need to ask that part.
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    >"Ordeals are groups of Abnormality-like entities that invade the facility at certain times of day." Alyssa answers, "We can't contain them, so our only option is to fight them off before they can do a lot of damage. The Sweepers you saw earlier are part of an Ordeal we call 'Indigo Noon'."

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    >"How many Sefirot are there?"
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    >"There are ten. Two in Central Command, and eight for each of the other departments." she replies, "Though some would argue that there are 11 since a circle labelled 'Kether' is shown on the Sefirot status screens, but nobody knows what Kether looks like, or if it even exists at all."

    Conjured Blade said:
    >"So if I'm an Aleph because I'm a Youkai who knows Danmaku, and I'm mostly harmless... and the Silent Orchestra is an Aleph, and an Aleph caused the toughest incident... and Alephs are supposed to be nasty and strong"
    >"Next time the Silent Orchestra comes out, want me to blast it? If I don't do something I might stop being an Aleph." *Shudder*
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    >She "stares" in your direction, before stifling a small laugh.
    >"I wouldn't worry too much about that. ALEPH isn't a title. It's a risk level we use to designate Abnormalities with the most destructive potential." she explains, "Honestly, if you weren't capable of nuking this entire facility, you would probably be classified much lower considering you've done nothing malicious towards us or the facility so far. Besides, you wouldn't be much help against The Silent Orchestra anyway: By the time it's actually vulnerable to physical damage it's too late to save the Enkephalin we've harvested."
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    • Evil_Nazgul0616 said:
    >"Artificial Intelligence. Basically a computer that can think and is self aware." Alyssa pauses, "...You do know what a computer is, right?"
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    >"Maybe? I'm only really familiar with the technology that was used to make the reactor. And I was the one doing all the regulating and things."
    > ...
    >"It's probably really bad that I'm not there right now, isn't it?"
     
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    OOC: @NMS Okuu would probably know Nuclear Fusion reactors don't melt down(Advantages of fusion). What are you going for out of curiosity with that bit. Am I missing something?
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    I did not know that. I was going for a meltdown thing but looking at it what you posted, Fusion Reactors hard stop if there are any disturbances. Like say, the only one who knows how to operate it suddenly going MIA. So, old hell is without power as long as Okuu is here.
     
    OOC: Does the variations of damage types mean Satori would deal white Damage? If Okuu Managed to channel the whole "Divine" thing in her attacks (Her having acquired her nuclear prowess from eating a sun gods corpse), would she deal pale damage like other "Divine like entities" in Lobotomy Corporations?
     
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    I did not know that. I was going for a meltdown thing but looking at it what you posted, Fusion Reactors hard stop if there are any disturbances. Like say, the only one who knows how to operate it suddenly going MIA. So, old hell is without power as long as Okuu is here.
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    OOC: I was doing some more research in places like Quora and sci-fi blogs, apparently non-nuclear explosions are theoretically possible if things go wrong in a fusion reactor, so I guess the question is what specifically you want to go for. I can see it being salvaged as something like Okuu realizing her disappearance probably caused an incident. Or a non-nuclear explosion. Myths of SF: Do Nuclear Reactors Explode?, Can nuclear fusion reactors explode? - Quora
     
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    • NMS said:
    >"Maybe? I'm only really familiar with the technology that was used to make the reactor. And I was the one doing all the regulating and things."
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    >"It's probably really bad that I'm not there right now, isn't it?"
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    >You can't help but worry a bit. Those Kappa people and mountain goddesses who helped build the reactor structure put some systems in place so you didn't have to be in the reactor 24/7 but being away from it for a prolonged period of time does increase the risk of something happening...
    >Plus Satori-sama and Orin are probably worried about you too...

    >"...Possibly." Alyssa replies.

    Islanderninja said:
    >"So you fight alongside your Sefirot bosses to clear those Ordeal things?"
    >"That's actually kinda neat!"
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    >"Well, fighting is the job of us agents, the Sefirot mostly just observe and report anything bad that happens to management..." she pauses, "...Except Gebura, Disciplinary's Sephirah. She actually does take part in suppression work from time to time from what I've heard, though usually against abnormalities proper rather than ordeals."
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    • >Rub your chin thoughtfully.
    >"Huh... Do you think that Gebura would be interested in a spell-card duel with me then?"
    >Afterall you wouldn't want your skills to rust while waiting in this room.
     
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    • Islanderninja said:
    >Rub your chin thoughtfully.
    >"Huh... Do you think that Gebura would be interested in a spell-card duel with me then?"
    >Afterall you wouldn't want your skills to rust while waiting in this room.
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    >"Hmm... I actually have no idea. No Abnormality capable of higher though has ever requested to challenge her willingly. Besides, it would be less of a spellcard duel and more Gebura trying to kill you without mercy."
    >_
     
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