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“No I’m not!”
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Odysseus tears open the package and takes some. “Well, I’ll be in my room if you need me. Don’t come in.” Odysseus wanders away, his pupils dilated.
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“Give me the LSD. And I use drugs in the proper sense of the word ‘use’. I don’t abuse them, and it’s never recreational. That’s for less developed minds. Besides, I just need it to reconnect my synapses. Now give it.”
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Odysseus gives Apollo a strange look. “How do you… No. I don’t know what you’re talking about. I just need my mind to be as active as possible. It won’t cause any lasting damage; you know that. The exo-suit removes the toxins. I just need to reforge and rebreak my synaptic pathways.” Odysseus storms into the lab. “Jack, I hate this place! It doesn’t even have an insulated magnetic simulation loop!”
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Odysseus pulls the sphere out of his coat and puts it on the table next to his bed. “Ok, let’s figure you out.” Odysseus attempts to scan it, but gets a negative signal, except for a frequency modulated at an oscillation of pi. “Whoever built this knows how to counteract my tech. Fine.” Odysseus picks it up with his gloved hands and lightly shakes it, but hears nothing of its contents. He tries to type in a random six-digit code, but it beeps angrily at him, displaying a frustrating message: ‘Patience: Time is in your hands.’ “Fine, I’ll be patient, whatever that means…” Odysseus stares at it for 30 seconds, and it seems to stare back at him. “I need a drink.” Odysseus bursts into the hall, goes to a cabinet, and grabs some smelling salts and adrenaline patches, goes to the kitchen and brews a cup of black coffee, mixes in the smelling salts, and drinks four cups before putting on four patches. “Jack, do you have any LSD?”
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“SAL, analyze the quantum anomaly data that I got. I’ll be combing it for patterns, but it’s frequencies are extremely complicated. Send me the full report once you are done.” ‘Affirmative, sir. The dating site wasnt working anyways. Would that be all, sir?’ “Yes, SAL. Thank you.”
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<i>Odysseus steps into his room, and thinks about the sphere.</i>
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“Everyone but me got drunk. We have a ship. Alarm went off. Not much.”
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Odysseus picks up the sphere with his gloved hands and returns to the elevator tube, taking it down back to the hallway. He sees Geralt at the end of the hall, “good morning, sleepyhead.” Odysseus turns off the alarm systems manually. “Don’t worry, just a false alarm. It’s an old system.” Odysseus conceals the sphere in his coat. ‘Its best to keep this a secret for now. This will complicate things.’
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Some time later…
Odysseus wakes up to the sound of blaring alarms, as the entire complex starts to shake. “What in the crow’s nest…? Apollo?! What did you do?!” <i>The base begins to shake again, as the alarms begin to flash silently. Odysseus looks at a monitor, showing the surface, and sees a massive, smoking crater on the viewport. Odysseus takes an elevator up, and steps into the burnt crater. At the center is a perfectly spherical object, with a small slot on the side, a small digital screen, and a keypad. </i>”What are you?” <i>Rolling it over, Odysseus sees written on the back ‘Deliver to the Keepers. Good luck. This is where things get tricky.’ Odysseus begins scanning the crater. </i>”I havent seen these readings in years… A quantum fluctuation?!”
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Upon reaching his room, Odysseus pulls back up the holographic generator, projecting a detailed, partial view of the various systems. “SAL, update new alliance routes. And begin calculating the most profitable iridium deposits. How are our stocks doing?” SAL despondently responds, ‘Affirmative, sir. And we have accrued a profit of 3.7%. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to try online dating. Perhaps somebody will love me…’
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“Well, this is interesting, but I will be returning to my room.” Odysseus crosses the kitchen, grabbing some food from the fridge, and makes his way to the door.
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“It’s strange that the others are so quiet…”
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“Bloody idiots…” <i>Odysseus mutters as he steps forward and grabs a root beer from the refrigerator. </i>”I, for one, can get drunk whenever I wish, assuming that I disable my automated metabolism in my exo-suit. I just don’t want to.”
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Odysseus hears a ruckus in the kitchen from his room as he lays on the bed staring at the ceiling. He gets up and comes out in his bathrobe, holding a mug of tea, and sees Apollo hanging from the ceiling singing while Jack tries to crack bad jokes with Kika. “What in Sir Isaac Newton’s name is this?! You two can’t even get drunk!”