Jack wakes and notices no pain. He senses no sensation from his body or limbs other than slight pressure awareness. However, he can see clearly at a much greater frame-rate, and even speed up his perception of time to act more quickly.
*Gain Robotic Overclock*

He doesn't sense any access to his magics, though. He might try, but... Hard to predict what might happen.

His Proximity Sense tells him there are 7 other robotic bodies in the room. Scanning the room, he sees 7 other robotic bodies, all of which look the same and look like his suddenly acquired self-image.

They all come to life. Two start arguing with one another immediately. Two retreat to a corner and whisper to one another. One is Stella. One just sort of stands there waiting for instructions. The other one approaches Jack, and in the same voice everyone else has, says, "Is that, you Jack? It's me, Rebecca, in here."
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"Well this is unexpected, seams they grabbed every consciousness with scriff exposure. Do you think they wish to examine us or if they where serious about espionage charges? I think they would have a hard time proving you are working for some one to steal information considering your not.... but that may not be how there law works."

 Jack examines himself at length and looks up when he hears Rebecca and though he cannot smile, he goes over to pat her on the shoulder. “We’ll be fine. Just don’t panic,” he tells her and has her turn around so that he can find this inhibitor chip Q had mentioned. Perhaps the collection of lives so far has changed his outlook on the danger of situations, because he doesn’t seem the least bit frightened by the oddity of the situation.

Instead, this is just another situation where he can learn something new and interesting.  Lacking his equipment (I assume) he looks to Stella who was combined directly with his magical compass and asks, “Can you tell what the bias is here?”

And starts to walk around the room, testing the walls.

Tries to see if she what she can tell?

If she can't tell anything responds:

"I don't seam to have access to anything myself, they said something about inhibitors maybe they can be removed. Or maybe there is something you can do they have no idea how to inhibit. They seamed confused about scriff."

At the question, Jack and Stella et al can all sense that they are at least 10 times as strong as a normal human. In fact if they look into it, they'll be able to tell their individual strength capacity as well as their current inhibited strength cap.

Spiritual and Digital magic seem to be about 2-3 times as difficult, but everything else seems inaccessible. Physical based skills, however, are about 2-4 times as easy, and easier to learn.

Jack and Glitch et. al. do have Scriff Vector sense, but it's only pointing to each other, so far.


True, and no scriff vector toward it either.



Thinking about it, he finds that he just knows that the inhibitor chip is positioned in the center of his Quantum processor inside his head. Without reason, he just knows how to open Rebecca's head and look to verify. He also knows it won't cause any harm. He talks a panel on her head, which opens to reveal her brain/quantum processor. A button on the back of the brain next to the intercommunication dock (which allows two Muscorp bodies to connect their minds together) opens the processor up. He sees the inhibitor chip at the center, but he can't bring himself to touch it. His own inhibitor chip has kicked-in to prevent him from touching hers.

A guard opens the door to the plain room and holds it open for a man in a freaky/casual business suit to walk in - it's Q. "Hey guys, calm down, relax, it really is me. Mus Qiew, in person, the one and only! Ha! Well, for now until I perfect personality cloning, anyway," he gets right in the Tardis Butler's machine face, "Where the fuck are your bodies, bitches?!"

The Butler responds, "Pardon me, sir, but I seem to have lost track of all of the master's belongings. They seem to be here," he points to his head, "but not here." He gestures to the room.

"Quit speaking in riddles! What is that even supposed to mean!? I will break you, I promise that. You will show me every one of your dirty little secrets until I find where your bodies are myself if I have to." He shifts attention to the two arguing in a foreign language, then on to the two whispering, "You two, where are you?"

"Mostly everywhere, by now. But we're not really here yet. Don't worry, though, we'll be here soon enough. It'll be fun!"

"Oooh kaaay... I'll just leave you two there... For now." Looking at Jack, Rebecca and Stella and sounding reasonable, "Look, just tell me where you're bodies are and I'll send you into them. They can't survive longer than about 30 days without you occupying then, and I already know you've been in Sim Trek for about 20 real-world days, so we've got just over a week to get you back before you're stuck in these heaps of metal. I just don't want that PR nightmare."
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"Should we tell him, he's not being very nice."

So strong! Jack needs to figure out how to be that strong without magic!

The changes in Bias are unfortunate, but he has been learning plenty of Digital Magic, so he can try to work with that at least a little.

“Mr. Q, you need to understand, I and I expect those two over there,” Jack gestures, not mentioning Stella because she’s his tag-along in this scenario, and not actually a Verser. “Are multiversal travelers, we move between dimensions, and your digital universe was one of them. I hold you no ill will, but I am not certain that the others will feel the same. You should simply put us back into the simulation and we will move on in time, and you can uh,” he thinks about it, “Restore a backup.”

He tries to be helpful.

Jack looks over at the Butler and makes a conciliatory gesture, “Don’t worry about it, it’ll all turn up once we move on.”

Seeing as he can’t work on Rebecca, he starts trying to access the Cheat Console. That might let him bypass the local rules.

"Restore a backup? Restore a backup!? Do you have any idea the kind of storage capacity it would take to even make a backup?! You can't just back-up a simulated quantum universe, I've had to reset the whole thing back to the startup point. It'll be another year before that Q-verse is ready for players. The one you were in was going to be released for customers in a few days, now we've had to delay release of the new game for another month while the next Q-verse matures to the link-in settings. I'm not putting up with this. Guards, split them up, seperate cells for each of them.

"The police will come to collect you all in about 8 hours, but I don't want you making up a story together to trick anyone." He pokes a finger at Jack's eye (no pain, just pressure), "Guards, I'll examine this one first."

Mus Qiew leaves the room, and Jack finds his legs moving on their own to follow him. They go down a hall, leaving Rebecca and the rest to split off and go to separate rooms. Without a word, Q goes through a door and leaves Jack stuck where he is waiting outside the door. Taking this opportunity, Jack tries to pull up the Cheat Console.

O_Unlock Door
O_Unlock Device
O_Warp Space (only bends it a little temporarily)
O_Slow Mo
O_Super Strength/Endurance
O_Open Mirror Portal (needs existing mirrors on both ends)
O_Download Physical/Mental Skillset (3/3)
O_View Code (see through walls, etc)
O_Alter Gravity (for self, while standing, indoors)
X_Immunity to Bullets (except silver)
X_Phase Shift (auto-on for evasion if selected)
X_Phase Shift Healing
X_Overwrite Character Teleportation
X_Skeleton Key
X_Stop/Reroute Projectiles
X_Flight
X_Warp Bomb (warp nearby space fit a few seconds then release it all)
X_Electric Connection
X_Freeze Program
X_Rewrite Zone (also creates DejaVu for others)

But before he gets a chance to select one, the console closes itself as Qiew causes him to open the door and lay down on a table. A magnetic lock holds him in place, and Qiew turns on a viewscreen so that Jack can see what he can see.

Jack finds he can't talk or move or use Digital magic at the moment.

On the screen, Jack sees his memories up on display of the last 5 years in multiple little windows on the screen, all from his POV. Everything he did in that time is visible, and his thoughts are written across the bottom of each video feed. He watches certain feeds from Jack's private and intimate moments over and over, putting them on display for far longer than necessary.

"Interesting, I see how fond you are of Rebecca, I'll be able to use that. ... You really went to alot of trouble hiding your real intentions, but I'll find them."

He rewinds to the moment before Jack Versed into the Enterprise, and the computer screen flashes and sizzles and goes black. "Damn it, what the hell!? I almost had you there. Go to your cell, I'll call you back when I've got the system back up. Stupid cheap foreign parts..."

Jack finds himself unlocked from the table and sees a path lit up in his personal HUD toward a holding cell. His body starts following the path.

“Your police won’t be able to hold us for long, I do encourage you to let us go, the others will likely cause widespread destruction,” Jack tells the man, getting a vibe from the two who’d been whispering earlier. They clearly weren’t Ma and Pa, but apparently they were co-conspirator Versers, and had plans for Qiew and his nonsense.

Jack finds it interesting that he can be shunted from control of  his own abilities, and imagines it must be the inhibitor chip. That’s some interesting magic in itself. Digital magic perhaps? Or is it limiting him through physical trickery? That’s pretty amazing as well.

A world without magic? Can you imagine.

Sitting quietly through the examination, he can’t speak, so he mostly just tries to play games with Qiew. Trying to make his memories look like cartoons, for instance.

When he’s unlocked and sent to the holding cell, he pulls up the menu again and toggles them on in the following order:

• Super Strength/Endurance
• Download Skillsets
• View Code

He then experiments with Unlock Device to try to get the inhibitor chip out of his brain.

((Just to clarify, the Muscorp bodies are fully mechanical - a bit like Terminator bodies, but normal human sized.))


"HA! We'll see about that."



He seems to know that the inhibitor chip prevents him from acting against the safety of humans, and forces him to obey the commands (and pre-loaded commands) he is given by the Q Continuum company representatives. That's all it does, though.



"Wow! I must admit, I've never seen memories faked with such expertise, before. That'll narrow down where your bodies could be."



Jack can tell his current strength cap is limited in pounds to
Arms: 200
Grip: 200
Core: 250
Legs: 350

He weighs about 250 (lightweight materials)
Uninhibited, he'd have:
Arms: 3800
Grip: 3800
Core: 4750
Legs: 6650

Once he selects the cheat, his maximum capacity jumps to:
Arms: 38000
Grip: 38000
Core: 47500
Legs: 66500

But... He's still inhibited to the normal inhibited levels.


The console displays the message,
"Search available skills:_______
WARNING: Adding more than one skill within 24 hours could result in death"
((25% probability of death for the second skill learned within a day, 50% for the third, 75% for the fourth, 100% for the fifth))


Jack finds his perspective shift outside of his body for a moment before returning.

Jack can see the code raining down - he can see the walls, through the walls, the people around, and even the anomalies in the code - all 7 who are now in Muscorp bodies have very different coding from everyone else.

If he looked carefully at it, he'd be able to read the code enough to do practically anything. But that would take time he doesn't have.

Each of these cheats feels like Digital magic that he could - at least ordinarily - probably learn how to do without the Cheat option selected.



It works. Once he's unlocked his body, he is able to select the internal option to eject the chip, and it is "ejected" from his system, even though it's still physically there for now. Now he has his full strength, and any commands are displayed on his HUD, but he doesn't have to obey them.

Jack sees a message scroll across his vision, "I've had enough of trying to find your bodies. I've called off the cops. Instead, you're going to the front. After all, who's going to miss 7 people who have no record?"

A path lights up and the command to follow the path is given. The 6 other scriff vectors all start moving as he watches them go through his code-vision. There's a helicopter waiting for them at the end of the trail.

"He really can't believe that there are other universes other than his own, kinda amusing considering he created one. But I guess that would mean taking responsibility to what happens to the people in those universes he's created for entertainment purposes. That is to much an existential nightmare for most minds to be willing to even accept as a possibility."

Stella and Jack figured out a way that they can communicate with each other through a wireless texting system, now that Jack has unlocked his body.

With the inhibitor removed, Jack sets himself to learn how to pilot the helicopter waiting for them, this is a very useful body to have but he can’t imagine he’d like being “on the front.” So he needs to escape! Though he can’t imagine he’d use a body like this all the time. Perhaps he could figure out a way to shrink inside of one? Something for later. Like a golem he pilots from inside. The possibilities are endless!

As he joins up with the others, he waits for the non-robots to not be paying attention to their payload of robots and goes through his menu to start deactivating the inhibitor on Rebecca, Stella and the Butler. The other two can figure themselves out, and he has no doubt that they will, the three he’d unlocked are at least tangentially his responsibility, being his girlfriend, hat and invited companion-rabbit.

Using the text communication with the three of them, he says: “Continue to remain in place and obey commands from the system until I’ve taken control of the helicopter.”