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East allowed himself to be pressed gently back into his seat and concentrated on his breathing. On occasion you'd get jokers trying to hang a tight turn at speed and they'd black out, forgetting to breath, failing to remain present, to will themselves to remain in the moment. People were always...

Malakai stood in his digital construct, taking in the audio. He was loath to actually comment but it seemed a number of things had skipped under his apparent compatriots radar. 05:00 in the morning and it was already evening. Security tended to be worked out in advance. Either something had...

Greynet vetted the advertisers and linked them with "contractors", trust was hard to come by online. With the meeting set so close, Malakai had needed to work quickly. Social media tagging lit up the regulars like a Christmas tree though. From there it was a short skip to a bulk email...

As the organizers continued to aimlessly spout off and the assembled mercenaries started to randomly discharge rounds in boredom Monk became exceedingly worried. It started to look as though coming here had indeed been a suicidal impulse. How such a bunch of utter cowboys had found him defied...

Monk noted everyone continuing to mill about, make small talk, or lurk, and assumed that this amounted to assent and a willingness to join. Some were eyeing him inscrutably. well... in for a penny in for a pound. Monk stood up to his full, rather unimpressive, height. Well then I have a few...

"...We've observed you for a number of months..." Clearly, Monk had become sloppy. It was quite a shock really to realise just how dangerously stupid he had been to allow these jokers to find him, there were worse people out there for sure. Basic due diligence now required that he burn...

Excerpts from Marks past. A day at the orphanage. ------ Mark sat at the table with the other boys clustered around him. There was a disturbed charge to the atmosphere of the room. The boys, packed into the stuffy games room, argued, bragged, bet, and blagged one another. He was going to do...

@NineTimes "You'd better not. It's sharp and we don't know what might have been on that glassware..." The group that had followed Mark to the lab seemed to be splitting up, which was fair enough, it's not as if there was some rule everyone had to stick together. He couldn't shake a dim...

@DramonFire Mark addressed the flustered woman. Oh hello, I'm Mark and we're new students. Are you quite alright?

Mark followed the signs with the gaggle of other students trailing behind him. They nattered in the manner that students often do. Finally he came to a large metallic door that looked more like it belonged to a small vault rather than any lab. He approached and, sure enough, it opened with a...

@ANDROMADA Ahhh you're looking for the dorms, you can find them that way but most people are already out exploring. We're heading for the labs if you want to come. The arena is that way... but honestly I'd avoid it for the time being if I were you. My name is Mark by the way. It's nice to...

@The_Omega_Effect @DramonFire In their search for the labs the others encountered Mark who's curiosity had also been piqued by "The Lab." Seeing they shared the same direction of travel he turned to them affably and said in an even tone "The signs say it's just this way. We can look together."

Mark, like many others, was taken aback by this display of raw emotion. This kid clearly had deep psychological traumas that had erupted into the open, literally at the first moment in which he was stressed. "I'm not qualified to contribute to this situation and might even make things worse,"...

It had been said that a man lacking in virtue obeyed the law out of fear, while another, better, sort of man would obey the law out of principle - assuming it were just. This show of force was revealing as to what sort of people the students must be in the eyes of the instructor. For all his...

Mark had entered quietly, having deposited his gear unceremoniously into his dorm, just in time to see the teacher blast this rock apart. An impressive feat to be sure, Mark would have had to pummel the rock all over in order to destroy it so completely. His, normally serene, countenance had...