Week 4 Result Part 5
[X] Make use of the Psychoframe.
--[X] A spread-out, wide-angle strike should be non-lethal…
The White Doll charges after the assassins, red lines lighting up across its body as you drive your Pressure into its frame. You make the White Doll's sensors zoom in on the assassins and focus. A spread-out, wide-angle telekinetic strike should be non-lethal-
Except when it isn't. The central assassin seemingly implodes as the full-strength telekinetic strike smashes into his back. Bile rises in your throat, though whether at the sight of another human being getting blasted into bloody chunks, the act of killing another human being, or the feeling of someone's Pressure being snuffed out you cannot say.
You try again, enduring the feeling of your head being split in twain as you desperately try to force your amplified Pressure from an artillery shell into a blunted wave. It is for naught: Your Pressure slips through your grasp before you can finish shaping it and lashes out, smashing an imprint into another assassin's back and throwing him ahead of the last one. He is still alive, judging by the screaming, but with the way his body is bent he is unlikely to stay that way.
The last assassin comes to a halt in front of his dying compatriot, his Pressure trembling with fear and rage. He turns back to glare at you and the approaching White Doll before rubbing his jaw.
Then he shoots the dying man twice before he starts firing at you in defiance. You do not attempt another Telekinetic Strike. The White Doll's systems might boost the power of your Pressure to levels unmatched when outside of it, but your control remains the same. If you want to use Pressure on soft targets, you will need practice. Lots of practice.
Captain Harry (or is it Lieutenant Harry? You have heard both being used) and a few members of the Royal Guard arrive on the scene. They try to hide it, but to your senses you can tell how rattled they were at the fate of that first assassin. The last one alive throws his empty gun away as the Royal Guard apprehends him.
You are descending in the White Doll's hand when Captain (Lieutenant?) Harry storms towards you. "Laura Rola, what were you thinking?!" He demands, but you ignore him in favor of approaching a nearby public trashcan. "Using that weapon on people, was what you did to Lieutenant Poe not-"
He stops as you start heaving into the trashcan. One of his subordinates eventually offer you a water canteen after the second stream of vomit, which helps wash the taste out of your mouth once your stomach settles.
Sudden shouting draws both men away from you as the last assassin starts to choke. Captain Harry tries to force his fingers down the man's throat, but fails to make him vomit before he expires. He sneers as he cleans his hand of blood and saliva with a handkerchief.
The Captain helps you back to the White Doll after putting the handkerchief away. "Suicide pill." He explains. "He must have taken it after he executed his comrade."
You can only hum in response.
"By the way…" He stops you right in front of the White Doll's hand. "Miss Laura, when you struck these would-be murderers, I felt a certain weight in my mind. How long have you been able to do this?"
"Since I first got into the White Doll."
The words slip from your mouth before you realize what you are doing. You inwardly spring back to alertness and examine Captain Harry with all your senses.
Huh. His Pressure…it is sharp somehow. Refined. Not to the extent of yours or Sochie's, but definitively beyond that of most people you have met since being granted these abilities by the White Doll. Something to keep in mind.
"Miss Laura!" Captain Harry suddenly shouts. "One more thing!"
You glance down as the cockpit hatch opens. "Yes?"
He takes a deep breath. "In the White Doll…have you ever…seen anything strange?"
You look into the cockpit.
Important vote
[] Canon.
--[] "I've never seen anything, no."
[] AU Element.
--[] (Lie) "…I don't see anyone."
--[X] A spread-out, wide-angle strike should be non-lethal…
The White Doll charges after the assassins, red lines lighting up across its body as you drive your Pressure into its frame. You make the White Doll's sensors zoom in on the assassins and focus. A spread-out, wide-angle telekinetic strike should be non-lethal-
Except when it isn't. The central assassin seemingly implodes as the full-strength telekinetic strike smashes into his back. Bile rises in your throat, though whether at the sight of another human being getting blasted into bloody chunks, the act of killing another human being, or the feeling of someone's Pressure being snuffed out you cannot say.
You try again, enduring the feeling of your head being split in twain as you desperately try to force your amplified Pressure from an artillery shell into a blunted wave. It is for naught: Your Pressure slips through your grasp before you can finish shaping it and lashes out, smashing an imprint into another assassin's back and throwing him ahead of the last one. He is still alive, judging by the screaming, but with the way his body is bent he is unlikely to stay that way.
The last assassin comes to a halt in front of his dying compatriot, his Pressure trembling with fear and rage. He turns back to glare at you and the approaching White Doll before rubbing his jaw.
Then he shoots the dying man twice before he starts firing at you in defiance. You do not attempt another Telekinetic Strike. The White Doll's systems might boost the power of your Pressure to levels unmatched when outside of it, but your control remains the same. If you want to use Pressure on soft targets, you will need practice. Lots of practice.
Captain Harry (or is it Lieutenant Harry? You have heard both being used) and a few members of the Royal Guard arrive on the scene. They try to hide it, but to your senses you can tell how rattled they were at the fate of that first assassin. The last one alive throws his empty gun away as the Royal Guard apprehends him.
You are descending in the White Doll's hand when Captain (Lieutenant?) Harry storms towards you. "Laura Rola, what were you thinking?!" He demands, but you ignore him in favor of approaching a nearby public trashcan. "Using that weapon on people, was what you did to Lieutenant Poe not-"
He stops as you start heaving into the trashcan. One of his subordinates eventually offer you a water canteen after the second stream of vomit, which helps wash the taste out of your mouth once your stomach settles.
Sudden shouting draws both men away from you as the last assassin starts to choke. Captain Harry tries to force his fingers down the man's throat, but fails to make him vomit before he expires. He sneers as he cleans his hand of blood and saliva with a handkerchief.
The Captain helps you back to the White Doll after putting the handkerchief away. "Suicide pill." He explains. "He must have taken it after he executed his comrade."
You can only hum in response.
"By the way…" He stops you right in front of the White Doll's hand. "Miss Laura, when you struck these would-be murderers, I felt a certain weight in my mind. How long have you been able to do this?"
"Since I first got into the White Doll."
The words slip from your mouth before you realize what you are doing. You inwardly spring back to alertness and examine Captain Harry with all your senses.
Huh. His Pressure…it is sharp somehow. Refined. Not to the extent of yours or Sochie's, but definitively beyond that of most people you have met since being granted these abilities by the White Doll. Something to keep in mind.
"Miss Laura!" Captain Harry suddenly shouts. "One more thing!"
You glance down as the cockpit hatch opens. "Yes?"
He takes a deep breath. "In the White Doll…have you ever…seen anything strange?"
You look into the cockpit.
Important vote
[] Canon.
--[] "I've never seen anything, no."
[] AU Element.
--[] (Lie) "…I don't see anyone."
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