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One of the engineering students heard about your confrontation with Carly Rae in the library. He laughs:

"She put The Curse of the White Girl From Town on you, didn't she? She did that to me when I refused to take her out on a date. So far, nothing's happened."

He thinks it's baloney.

Magehammer does caution you though. "Magic can be tricky....."

(Doing Therapy)

I pray for defense from the silly girl, and I caution Magehammer to be more discreet in handing out gold bars.

"Don't kiss crazy." I reply to the engineering student.  If she's that way when she's on her best behavior, you don't want to see what she like if she gets married.  I flick back in my memory.  Was she more of a light hearted sort, or was there a streak of genuine stalker madness in her?  I don't really want to wake up to see her standing over my bed with a butcher knife in hand.  Or worse, wake up to see myself dangling head first toward an acid bath after she doped me.

I look for rugby team or lacrosse team or something similar guys who are interested in a rumble.

You get the feeling God is laughing at your worry. She's just a petulant 14 year old girl who read some books and thinks she knows everything.



At this, he laughs. "Come here. Let me show you what's inside this pouch."

And he takes off the toolbelt and drops it on the floor. Then he grabs your arm. You are both sucked into the four inch pouch on his toolbelt. Inside, it's all white. Seems to go on infinitely. No floor, walls or ceiling. But everything is on the same level field. Inside, there's mountains of gold bars, silver bullion, platinum, and quite a few metals you could never identify. There's jewels and coins and all manner of spendables. It looks like Fort Knox and Scrooge McDuck's money bin both got emptied into this pouch. You'd guess he could probably give a gold bar to every person on this planet and still be the wealthiest man in the Alpha Quadrant.

"This is nothing though. I should show you the pouch where I keep the vehicles."

Do you want to see that?



"Ha ha ha. Good advice!!! I mean, she's cute and all but......"



You get the feeling God is telling you not to worry about Carly Rae. She's just a confused girl. You could probably become a father figure of sorts to her and straighten her out. If you cared enough to do so.



You find Parrises Squares teams forming. http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Parrises_squares

(Doing Therapy)
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Not the least interested in helping Carli Rae out.


"Magehammer, its not your wealth I worry about.  Its your effect on others."

I walk up to the Pariss Squares teams, and ask the leader if I can talk to everyone for two minutes.

Didn't think you would be. Just saying, you /could/.



He's gotten to the point where he doesn't care about such things.

Did you want to see the vehicle pouch? He says he's got a warp capable ship or two in there.



So you go to the school gym. They're practicing. You wait for a few, then ask the coach if you can speak to them.

They're all ears. What's on your mind?

(Doing Therapy)

Not the least interested in helping Carli Rae out.


"Magehammer, its not your wealth I worry about.  Its your effect on others."

I walk up to the Pariss Squares teams, and ask the leader if I can talk to everyone for two minutes.

Uh, you just said that!!!!

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 55):

"I want to board enemy Borg cubes with my heavy armor warpship.  I want to send in a bunch of tough guys with axes and armor to take the place over.  I think this is a better path to victory than the Federations.  And, it might make the boarders very wealthy if we can sell a Borg cube to Starfleet.  Questions?"  Thirty seconds and my speech is done.

GE 24

They all stare at you like you've got nine heads. One of them literally says in a snobby, British accent "Vhat? And get our hands dirty???" They think you're off your rocker.

So no takers there.

Did you want to see Magehammer's vehicle pouch? Also, he's told you that if you do not want his help, just say so and he's gone. He'll go find a nice tropical beach somewhere to lay on. Impress the locals with his magic tricks. You will never see him again in this universe. He's only around because you told him to stay.

He's also told you that he will be more than happy to serve as your first officer if and when you get this bucket of bolts flying. "Do you understand, Captain Ashley?"

OOC) I know you're not overly fond of him. I'm still trying to learn to use a supercharacter without stepping on the player too badly. How am I doing with that, BTW? But yeah, he's gone the minute you tell him to go.

(Doing Therapy)

OOC: He's an insanely way over the top super for even super character.  But you'redoing fine.

I stare at them and nod.

"OK. Thank you for your time."  I nod at the team captain and walk away, trying to act calm even as I feel their eyes on my back.  Out of sight, I snarl, punch the air a bit, and then decide to take a good, long hike.  It meanders and I end up on some high ground of some park, and I just try to let it go.  And then I head back home which is probably an hour or two away.

OOC) Thanks. But of course he's over the top super. HE'S ME!!!!!



They do ask if you would like to join the game though.



So you walk to a park. And who should you run into there but your old friend Carly Rae. She's 14 years old and just meandering aimlessly through the park, like you are. When she sees you though, her face turns completely white and she starts begging you not to hurt her.

"Oh god no. Don't hurt me please. That whole curse of the white girl? That's just some nonsense I read in some book. Please don't hurt me please!!!"

She sounds like she's pleading for her life. Both hands raised in surrender/defensive position.

(Doing Therapy)

"No thanks."  I shake my head to myself.

When I run into Carly, and she reacts that way, my first thought is to look around for spy cameras.  She's acting way over the top weird like she's trying to frame me.  If I see none, I sigh.

"Go away, Carly, and try not to be stupid in the future, ....If you can manage that."  That last bit comes out, kinda unwilling, but I'm irritated, and so I let out the mean.  Then I walk away, and keep on walking.

After you say your piece to Carly and walk away, from behind you, you hear a deafening crash. A meteor impact, or some such. Dust and debris flies through the air at your back, stinging your skin. Then you hear Carly screaming. "It's the Borg!!!! RUN!!!!" Then she runs past you at about warp 4.

Turning around, a Borg cube about two stories cubed has crashed into the forest. You'd guess it could hold eight to ten drones. One side of it has sustained heavy weapons fire. It apparently ran into the planetary defenses and crashed. Off in the distance, you hear sirens.

Then an outer hull panel opens and two Borg emerge into the sunlight.

(Doing Therapy)

In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 61):

Armor up, teleport in, and hit them hard with my sword.  I grin fiercely as clean war comes instead of all  this mind sweating mental labor.

So you teleport in. The first Borg just stands there whilst you swing your sword. You cut him clean. Penetrates halfway through his body. As you're struggling to pull the sword free to attack his mate, you feel a pair of needles inject you in the back of the neck. You swing around and slice into the second Borg.

Then the madness begins. Inside your head, all you can hear is:

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It's a loud, unending cacophony inside your head. You feel like your skin is itching from underneath. Your skin pulses and wiggles. Another Borg steps out of the ship. For the briefest of moments, you almost want to embrace him as your brother. But then your rational mind takes over. You slice him from shoulder almost to his pelvic bone.

And the noise in your head continues:

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It's drowned out by approaching police and ambulance sirens.

Dozens of police are surrounding the scene aiming phase pistols and rifles at you and at the ship. One of the EMTs says "That guy's been infected. We need to get him to the hospital STAT!!!"

And the noise in your head continues:

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And just to clarify, the police and EMTs showed up in regular, ground based vehicles. You would recognize them as just high-tech internal combustion engines. Police cars and ambulances. They were still using ground-based vehicles in Picard's time.

I give in to the Berserk Fury skill I have which improves my speed and strength.

"KILL!" I roar, and jump on the next
Borg.

OOC) You do realize that you just got assimilated by the Borg, right? It's only a matter of time, a few hours at most, that you will be in control of your own body. And an even shorter time where the indigs will be able to cure you. You do realize that, right?

So you roar "KILL!!" and step into the ship. The voices in your head suddenly quiet somewhat.

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But they're still there.

Outside, you hear everyone screaming at you to come away from the ship. To get away. But you don't listen.

Inside the ship, it's almost completely pitch black. Your helmet lets you see in the dark though. Not only that, you feel like you know the ship better than you know your own house. You feel like you could walk around in here blindfolded with no problem.

And the voices are still there.

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You decapitate the next Borg you see with a single swing of your sword. You come through like a lawnmower. You're vaguely aware of stabbing one in the chest. You whip around and slice the next guy's arm off. As you raise your sword to finish him, you feel a dozen white hot railroad spikes get slammed into your back. Your berserker rage lets you stay conscious just long enough to glance over your shoulder and see cops pouring into the ship. Then you black out.

When you wake up, you are strapped to a bio bed in a hospital. Your armor and weapons are gone.

The voices in your head are furious with you:

WEARETHEBORGYOUWILLBEASSIMILATEDRESISTANCEISFUTILE
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But someone pushes some buttons on a console and the bio bed is sucked into an imaging chamber. Lights and radiation surround you. You feel sick and weak and like you're being pummeled by Mike Tyson and Darth Vader simultaneously. You pass out again.

When you wake up, a doctor is standing over you. He looks astonished. He says:

"I read the police report. I've never heard of anyone, any human, I mean, resisting assimilation as long as you did. You killed what was it? Five? Six Borg? I'm most impressed. We need to keep you here for observation."

And the voices are gone.
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I start to say something because that sounds ominous, but then I realize I've just been beaten within an inch of my life, and perhaps a hospital visit is in order for my recovery.

Five or six Borg.  Good job, I congratulate myself.

I wonder what would happen if I'd been assimilated.  I expect I would have broken free eventually.  I really make a very poor team member under most circumstances.  The Borg would have found themselves wishing they  had not assimilated me.  Well, except for my tech.

So the doctor leaves you alone with the television. There's a news blurb on the monitors about the crash and about what you did. You're being hailed as something of a hero. The ship and what's left of the drones are being taken to a secured location for analysis.

Magehammer is interviewed as an expert on the Borg. Who knows how he convinced anyone he was such? He gives the same advice he gave you.

"If you are unarmed and are confronted by a drone, start tearing out wires. One of them connects to the Central Processing Unit and will shut the drone down."

After the news comes on, you get to watch old movies.

Carly Rae comes in after a bit carrying a tray of food. She's a volunteer worker at the hospital, working for school credit. When she sees you, she freezes, her face turns white, then she regains composure and gives you the tray. Saying "Is there anything else I can get for you sir?"

She's trying to treat you like any other patient.



You have a nice scar on your neck to show for it. You can feel the scriff sense to your armor is somewhere in the hospital.



As you're lying there thinking that, you must be thinking it pretty hard, because you hear a woman's voice in your head, in response.

"Brave words. I've heard them before. From thousands of species across thousands of worlds. Now they are all Borg."

It feels kind of like when someone makes telepathic contact with you, but not. More mechanical and threatening in nature. It would seem you're still connected to The Collective in some fashion.

OOC) That's a normal thing for former assimilated drones. According to some novels, Picard dealt with it for the rest of his life.

(Doing Therapy)

I perk up a little, a bit startled at hearing the Borg Queen in my head.

"Problem is, Queenie, they were not me."  And I send her an image of worlds full of Borg burning in fire that licks up their atmosphere, and boils away their oceans.  "Hubris begets Nemesis, Great Queen." And then I try to reach out along the pathway she contacted me on, with aims of bloody murder.

I have 2@1 Intimidation possibly or that may have been persuasion.  I remmeber I broke the mind of a starship captain in another universe, convinced him I was The Spectre from DC Comics.

That may be. But what you do not have are any psionics skills which would allow you to actually harm her. She's not using psionic telepathy to contact you, she's using something technological. So while she can hear you, you cannot act on your thoughts.

That is, unless you're trying to develop a psionics skill for that.

But if not, you just hear her laughing at your thoughts, then the connection ends.

(Doing Therapy)

OOC) Speaking of the Borg mind telepathy. In Star Trek First Contact, when Picard orders the attack on the specific section of the cube, he could hear their thoughts. In the novelization of the movie, he heard the Borg calling damage control to that section of the ship. His logic was "If that's the part they're trying to fix then that's the part I'm gonna smash." Fortunately it paid off.

(Doing Therapy)
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In reply to JohnA1nut (msg # 71):

I have an ability to use psi to read computer code.  So, I will use that to break into the system implanted in me.  I'm looking for passwords....

OOC) I don't remember you getting that or any other psi skills for that matter. Refresh my memory about what world you got it in. Or if you're just making that up, that's cool too. You rolled low enough to get it if I was inclined at all to do the math.

GE 17, skill roll 6.

So you reach back along her telepathic communication. But when you reach the queen, that's the end of that. It's like you struck a firewall. You cannot penetrate her defenses.

You hear her in your head. "Naughty boy Tadeusz......"