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The unread half

Threshold met3,410 Threshold not met6,175

What kind of spy are you?

You excel in physical conditioning and applied violence. Emotions thwart you.

Action

Your body and its impulsesIron Maiden

Relation

How you understand peopleStuttering Void

Intellect

Your modes of thinkingCognitive Lightweight

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Action

Relation

Intellect

Grey Matter

Deductive and inductive reasoning. The rational side of your mind. Finds the order in everything.

passive2 + 6 = 8

Raises left: 2

Raise an Intellect Skill to hone your modes of thinking.

Threshold met272 Threshold not met601

Active checks
Difficulty	Checks	Chance	With exertion
12	2	16.67%	35.65%
13	1	8.33%	19.91%
14	4	2.78%	7.41%
15	1	2.78%	7.41%
16	2	2.78%	7.41%
18	2	2.78%	7.41%

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The unread half

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Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Paycheque from the literary magazine, followed by several copies of the magazine itself. So somebody paid by them who doesn't care to read the mag...

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / < 10

Enough poetry. Move on.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Where is that 'subeditor'? When is she going to spring the trap?

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Speculative freelancing. Your old asset had no authority to make offers on behalf of the Opera.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

The document has to be displayed, by law. Operating an unlicensed clinic inside the city limits is strictly prohibited.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Doubtful. They've entrusted you with a hopeless assignment. Why set you up when they can just wait?

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

You once heard that fear makes meat spoil.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

A faded sticker draws your attention -- an advertisement for a local ferry schedule. The year: 82.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

It's a testament to the Ombre Hombre's popularity that they've been able to afford to keep it running this long.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

A convenient framing, allowing him to foment his own distrust at... apparently everything.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / < 10

Probably not about you.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

He... wrote a case study about you?

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Distrust as a replicating sickness.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Money now, problems later.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / < 10

Free money, no downsides detected.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Just because the words formed in your head, does not mean you had to speak them.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / < 10

Just what the assignment called for. Some Big Thinking.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

You can bet that EMTERR developed a thought-free process for this.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

There seems to be no creditor in this man.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

How weird, right?

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

That's the polite way of saying 'astronomically'.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Perhaps, but behind it all there is something else, far simpler -- the power to pay someone to have a medical emergency for your viewing pleasure.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Payment. The price of Ramses' nervous system.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Prognosis: almost identical to the one Dr. Gonza gave you. Either they are onto something or these men have the same kind of brain parasite.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

No boots in the house. A tidy, meticulous occupant.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

His information was good once before. There's no reason to think it won't be again.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

There is no correlation between mental petitions and the fusion of distant bodies. Praying is a recursive loop.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

He can't be serious. The gastrointestinal system isn't designed to make those kinds of call.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

You can feel your own sanity pulling away from you, as though on the cusp of a black hole, stretching, spinning...

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

He's not seriously suggesting...

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

The dialectic assumes a predictable trajectory. It does fail to account for one thing.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

In other words, he was in three places simultaneously, each separated by thousands of kilometres. A physical impossibility, unless...

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

A cost-benefit analysis. The probability of determining the why of him is near zero. Conversely, the utility of him is high.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

You would not put it past this man to have a prop dog bowl to hand.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Making inroads with his persona. Competent in-theatre, at least for this period of play.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Septimus and KALEIDOSCOPE, fascinating taste in men. Preliminary analysis: self-destruction.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

What the fuck...

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

This needs a specialist, or at least someone specialist adjacent. A doctor might be a good first bet.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

The implication is that you'll know it when you see it. Extremely ominous.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / < 10

This checks out. PSEUDOPOD didn't look like he'd be popular with... anyone. A lead, at last!

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

In this context, 'jealousy' translates to gross violations of medical and or human decency.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Presumably for the benefit of the wire you're not wearing.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Your brain is constantly churning out natural neurochemicals, it is basically made of drugs. Who are you to say no?

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

Unfortunately, in the midst of all his ramblings, he has discovered a point.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

That is definitely, 100% a real condition.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / < 10

You did, and it did. Does that mean...?

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

The spoils of working for EMTERR.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 10

He seems to be perplexed by his own question.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 11

A still adolescent face. Small glittering lips move as if summoning a spectre from the distant future. This must be early Ultra Violeta.

Grey Matter2 + 6 = 8 / ≥ 11

Pain is a nociceptive signal -- a response triggered by actual or perceived tissue damage.