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Intellect·DEL

The totality of facts about the world. Episodic memory, training, and education. The past in the present.

Faculty
Intellect
skill checks
558
Flows
233
Loudest around
You 12
Gear
Black Rim Eyeglasses +1Black Rim EyeglassesClothingThe world bulges under the magnifying glass effect of these thick prescription glasses.The old man they belonged to will be helpless without them, while he remains alive.Colourbloc Jacket +1Colourbloc Jacket₽ 60 · ClothingA stylish blazer just on the safe side of avant-garde. Vaquero Boots +1Vaquero Boots₽ 18 · ClothingOnce used for hard labour, these boots found new life in strutting, starring in many 'sorry-about-last-night' nights. Ignatz's Camera +1Ignatz's CameraToolsHigh-grade Luzian tech. Pelota Hat -1Pelota HatClothingMakes your head look like a giant pelota ball. Pink Round Sunnies -1Pink Round SunniesClothingThe proverbial 'rose-coloured glasses', for looking out at an eternally candy-coloured world.Star Worshipper Glasses +1Star Worshipper GlassesClothingWhen you look at the sky through these, you almost think you might be able to remember the names of all 93 constellations.Shaggy Wig & False Beard -1Shaggy Wig & False BeardClothingMeant to evoke wisdom and rugged masculinity. Space Program Track Top +1Space Program Track Top₽ 25 · ClothingViolent red polyester, bright as a fireball. Velvet Jumpsuit -1Velvet Jumpsuit₽ 50 · ClothingCovered from ankle to chest in a warm layer of individual microthreads, wearing this feels vaguely like being licked by some immense, soft creature.Limpador Boots +2Limpador BootsClothingRubberised, thigh-high protection -- standard among Portofiran cleaning crews.

Conditioning

Difficulty ladder

558
DCLine
Impossible5
20DC 20 · anti-passiveband: Impossible...
20DC 20 · anti-passiveband: ImpossibleTIMELINE OF EXTRACTION: NOT FOUND.
20DC 20 · anti-passiveband: ImpossibleNo entries. Sounds fake and made up.
19DC 19 · anti-passiveband: ImpossibleWho's Karochka?
18DC 18 · anti-passiveband: ImpossibleYou can only remember being employed as a spy.
Heroic1
15DC 15 · passiveband: HeroicThe name on the disc -- Eloísa Alba -- seems vaguely familiar. You're pretty sure she was an experimental composer -- some sort of 'free jazz' artist?
Legendary23
14DC 14 · passiveband: Legendary'Grammage'... Esoteric... Stationary concept...
14DC 14 · anti-passiveband: Legendary... Grammage?
14DC 14 · passiveband: LegendaryCASCADE: This technique is over two centuries old, developed by Mircean monks in order to withstand the inquisition. KINDRED: Woah... And you can teach it to me? CASCADE: Yep, done it myself many times.
14DC 14 · passiveband: LegendaryHe just permanently forgot his first handjob from a boy. They were fourteen, watching foreign movies in the dark. They never looked each other in the eye again.
14DC 14 · whiteband: Legendarymodifier +1 · no_exert_modifierJog her memory about the song in the Palace of Culture.
14DC 14 · passiveband: LegendaryThe inner city gangs of Rega Seven regularly use teenage girls as assassins.

Case files

Status effects touching this skill

Blessed by Canopus +1Blessed by Canopus1,440 minMathematically Confident +1Mathematically Confident360 minCold Sweats +1Cold Sweats240 minGained after going thru Karolinas dream.Post Concussion Syndrome -1Post Concussion Syndrome240 minTKTKTKSecrets of Outer Space -1Secrets of Outer Space480 minGained when listening to space probe disc with HauzmannBuyer's Remorse -1Buyer's Remorse480 min

Voices in

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"Wow... an actual liquidity mage..."

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"Goodbye."

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The abandoned cardboard moving boxes remain in the corner of the little apartment.

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"Here again."

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You have already engaged in model train repair and improvised weapon manufacture here. There is nothing else to do at the workbench.

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"It's cold out here." The girl rolls her shoulders and lightly stamps a foot.

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"Hello, lapinette."

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"Hi again. Still not leaving yet, sorry." She puffs on her pipe.

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"..." His idiotic expression remains unchanged.

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"You. Again." The tapping begins.

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You loom once more over the shrine and its congregation of frames.

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The ration pack crinkles as you turn it over.

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"CASCADE." The barest of nods. "I've been playing 'I Spy' relentlessly with myself to pass the time. Pretty even as things stand, but I'm…

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You return to the postbox.

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"My agent of fortune returns. Happy Dante."

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Tiny figures jog across the screen, lobbing the hard pelota ball back and forth.

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You were standing here at a house party when you saw the unmistakable bulk of Tempo del Sur clambering over the rooftops towards you.

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The one personal touch in the otherwise sterile, bland clinic, the wall has been decorated with photographs, documents, evidence of Dr.…

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The pink paper tab is no bigger than a fingernail. One side is decorated with a simple illustration of a cockerel.

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A sheet of thick paper lies on the floor, folded in half and partially covered by shadow.

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"Dull the blade, and unsteady the hand. The great CASCADE makes her appearance at last."

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The chair waits before you, sagging and forlorn.

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"Anything interesting in the shack back there?" He smiles at you.

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Whatever light that's slipped in from above has nearly drained away.

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PSEUDOPOD shifts from foot to foot, glancing at the boatman.

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The stereo is right where you left it.

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The weight of the thesis threatens to strain your hand muscles.

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You pick up the payphone's handset. A dolphin emblem smiles at you, its eyes wide.

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"Hello again."

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You return to the shrine under the stairs.

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"Back again, are we?"

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"How goes it, H?"

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Three posters stare back at you from the wall. A watchful triad, ready to creep into your midnight's hour.

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A cosmonaut suit, a relic of Project AUTONOMÍA. Its shoulder patch reads, 'The Stars Are Ours, 77'.

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The satchel by the door is empty, but the rain boots haven't moved.

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The door looms before you once more.

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Looking out over the main hall, you try to imagine what it would have looked like thirty-six years ago.

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The novel lies where you left it, gathering expensive dust -- 'Blood Type: Hecatomb' by H. S. Lastra.

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"Long time, no speaky, nameless one."

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There they all are, just as you left them.

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One more phone, one more voice.

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Light refracts within your cornea; you are someone else, somewhere else.

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"Operant."

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The vendor won't look at you. He recoils slightly as you step closer.

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"Go on, Hersh. You'll give us away."

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The mould's tendrils rise gently as you approach.

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M.I.H.O.'s report on inter-matter phasing is still there, and still tempting.

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"Spare me the bleating you call an accent and listen up: metoprolol, you eunuch-diddling Azzurri. That's what I paid for -- not atenolol!"…

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You return to the faded billboard.

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"Back again."

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