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Medium

The rapture. Biggest cortisol hit the body can deliver and take, a knife bisecting the brain in the wrong direction, then -- silence.

Medium

A... psychographic camera?

Challenging

True emptiness - no signal reroute.

Easy

They probably listen in through the wire. Try making a call and then saying the words.

Medium

In the silence after she speaks, the audio momentarily wavers. The telltale sign that the line has just been interrupted.

Easy

Techno-fascism holds that flesh is a prison, and technology the shank that will free us. Beneath the ugly orange coat and dry skin, there may yet lurk the sleek carbon-steel frame of an augmentoid.

Easy

A dread-beast humming with dormant power. A handless scribe. It just needs to be soothed.

Medium

He really did repair the red disc by himself. Astounding. And terrifying.

Medium

A grave offence against telephonic communications.

Medium

That's an interesting camera he's carrying. Professional-class. No consumer model.

Easy

This toolkit looks so empty, barely usable in its current state. Fortunately, it appears highly expandable.

Medium

Let her think it's pretend, but you know the truth. They have better stuff.

Medium

Nightmare-grade material. You have to try it out.

Medium

The line's ambient buzz grows louder without her voice to interrupt it.

Easy

The line is operational. You can rule out a technical problem.

Easy

The exquisite work of the 'magic box', one of the proudest achievements of the Opera's Technical Services Office.

Easy

The exquisite work of the 'magic box', one of the proudest achievements of the Opera's Technical Services Office.

Challenging

Medium

This tuk-tuk has recently suffered a rear-end collision.

Medium

An anti-tip system. That explains it.

Easy

There must be another latch on the opposite side. The job's only half-done.

Medium

A camera of the mind.

Medium

Machine matters are never simple. Boo, Ignatz.

Medium

Like the fax machine in Foto 24. Another misaligned paper tray.

Medium

The poor thing's been abandoned. Left to pickle in the bitter piss of passing drunks.

Medium

Spittle? In your barrel? Who knows where that mouth has been?

Challenging

Maybe it's all in her head. Maybe there really is new energy in the wires... either way, it's doing something, and it's wicked.

Medium

Look closer! This is the 'Kagami 7X60 'REIGNbow' - Ultra Violeta Signature Edition'.

Medium

Like some really good spying!

Medium

And just think... You've only been hearing it through its internal speaker so far...

Medium

You're just going to give up? Once again, this is the Kagami 7X60 REIGNbow.

Medium

Could it... could it be...

Legendary

Computing explanations. Coincidence: 0.1%. Insider leak: 0.4%. Physical shadowing: 4%. Technical compromise: 95.5%.

Medium

The precarity of anything resulting from these materials is self-evident.

Medium

Formidable

A vacuum megarail train designed for lunar operations.

Formidable

You're a marvellous engineer, that's what's wrong with you.

Challenging

Obviously plastic.

Formidable

Medium

Whoa-whoa. A missing model kit?! This cannot stand.

Medium

Stop all the clocks: A purloined model kit? This investigation is Priority Alpha!

Formidable

These babies have some heft to them. Planar magnetic drivers. Premium foam cups. And a triple-padded suspension headband, designed to distribute their weight ergonomically.

Medium

The noise-blocking effect. Anechoic.

Trivial

The red disc! Weaponised culture!

Easy

Did you forget? You're dealing with a mega fan here. He's so attuned to her creative wavelength he's phasing out.

Easy

What class of music player is that headphone wire connected to? Must be a high-end import -- likely customised -- equally compelling.

Medium

These things are heavyweight. An annihilating force, captured and contained within two masses of metal, foam, and electric wiring.

Trivial

A vertical clip running across the top, patterned guards on both sides and is that... two triggers? Verdict's in: this gun is far cooler than yours.

Medium

Don't forget the one in the chamber.

Medium

From the profoundest, most autistic depths of your self, a sense of universal harmony and order wells up.