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Speaker 1: Being a prison guard isn't easy. You have to maintain control,

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control of routine, of unpredictable people, of yourself. In a

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normal prison, there are so many factors to consider, gang affiliations, smuggling, fights,

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and occasionally escape attempts. A lot of people think the

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job is about strength, about control through sheer force, and yeah,

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maybe in some prisons that works, but not here. I

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work in a prison that's above a normal prison, the

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place people send things that can't go anywhere else, things

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that aren't supposed to exist. Some of them used to

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be people, some of them never were. Some of them

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no one knows what they are. Not real scientists try

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to study them, administration tries to classify them, but at

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the end of the day, we're all just keeping them

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locked up and hoping that's enough. My job is to

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make sure the vault stays closed, and I do this

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through a strict routine and following my guidelines to the letter.

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When you get started here, there's one prisoner that every

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new person gets assigned, the phaser. Peeking into a cell,

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you'll see a man mid forties looking ordinary as Ever, however,

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periodically he will flash with a bright light and blink

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to another section of the cell. He was caught toying

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with telepatation technology, and from the lack of usage in

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this facility, I can imagine it's still far from being

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perfected reminder of the consequences of dabbling too much into

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the unknown. It would be oddly relaxing to watch if

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it wasn't for the horrific screaming during and after he blinks,

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though sometimes it's just muffled sobs when he's exhausted, so

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it's not too bad to watch. Then sometimes he's lucky

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and he doesn't blink for a few hours or even

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a day. But some days are bad when it's just

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non stop with how unpredictable and unstable he is. Sometimes

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he just disappears. The empty cell will alert us if

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he's gone too long, then someone is sent to investigate.

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He never actually leaves the cell, not once has he

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ever teleported out of the room, let alone the facility.

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Whatever they line the wars with is effective, However, it's

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what we do that is observed. When I was alerted,

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I waited outside and observed, noting down any anomalies until

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he blinked back. But some have the more proactive new

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recruits ones looking to prove themselves rush in, armed and ready.

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The lucky ones get the scare of their lives, and

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the man blinks back in with a sudden flash, scaring

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the hell out of the green recruit. Wherever the phaser goes,

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whatever he sees must be horrifying. I would have thought

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he simply blinked forward in time, delaying when he appears

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to us in the facility, But the look in his

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eyes after a delayed blink tells a thousand stories, ones

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which he'll never share. The unfortunate outcome is when a

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guard stands where he appears without fail contact with a

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blinking entity, even if just brushing his arm as he

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blinks back, always favors the one who blinked. The guard

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simply bursts into a huge red mist. Since getting cleaners

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inside is an impossibility, the phaser has to clean it up.

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Looking back, this all feels like a test to see

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if a guard is ready to handle the oddities contained here,

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a litmus test for new recruits. Being too passive can

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lead to catastrophe. Being too proactive can also lead to catastrophe.

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Sometimes even a middle ground can be detrimental. You're tested

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every day with your split second decision making skills, and

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it feels like this is how they gauge us on

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our response. The phaser is one of many prisoners dangerous

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by circumstance, a repercussion of dabbling too far into untreaded

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waters and being eternally punished. However, some prisoners are dangerous

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by choice. In society, we've heard of people pushing themselves

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into great feats. Archers who can hit a bull's eye,

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then split that arrow with a second one lift us

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geared to the max hauling weight that matches large vehicles.

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But what if someone took it further? Prisoner X has

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a laundry list of protocols. To simplify it, he essentially

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turned his body into a living weapon, chemical, biological, technological, mentally,

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he dabbled into every extreme to make himself the most

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dangerous person alive. Through multiple surgeries, the scientists tier have

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removed a large portion of his internal weapons and contingencies. However,

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he still has many that simply cannot be under his skin.

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Is nigh unbreakable, hardened through means which our scientists are

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still trying to figure out. Prisoners often have a running

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theme of not talking, so there's still a lot unknown

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to us, but this makes him resistant to tasers and fire.

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I'll go too for prisoner subjugation. Instead, we have to

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periodically drill a small hole into his neck, not an

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easy feat with how thick his skin actually is, and

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put on a collar with a reinforce syringe filled with

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enough sedatives to put down an elephant. However, we still

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need bodies to escort him from his cell to where

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he needs to be. To say he is resistant to authority,

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he is an understatement. One time he tried to make

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a break for it. He waited for the cusp of

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when he needed redrilling. His skin had hardened for his

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neck to resist the needle just enough for him to

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knock it away head down, just tackling the wall to

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alter its angle. It took almost three full squads to

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finally subdue him, many casualties taken. Despite his arms eternally

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being bound, he was still proficient in killing in many

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other ways. I was fortunately on a different shift, but

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the deaths up to security and increased how often he

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was drilled. Luckily, not all prisoners as strictly evil, so

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I hear for being too aspirational. One man sits in

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a cell, low security and minimal luxuries, which is a

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lot compared to the many others living conditions here. We

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call him the tinkereer because the Southern posed title of

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technomancer was too ridiculous for us to use. At first,

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he was a menace, nothing too threatening, but he would

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tinker with anything he could get his hands on. Guards

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found their combs missing from their belt, only to have

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a strange signal beam out at everyone's radios. Uppida's would

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have strange bugs, only to find a signal was sent

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to disrupt them. Though there were many anomalies on a

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near constant basis, some potentially catastrophic. When it fell into

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the category of technology shenanigans, it was easy to know

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who the corporate was. Often we'd storm up to his cell,

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subdue him, and search the area, and each time we'd

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find the makeshift array he'd made with the scraps he'd

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found and destroy it, giggles coming between his grunts as

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a guard held him down. Something we noticed, though, was

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that when he did play with his tech, he would

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have please stay in his room and tinker. This gave

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us an idea. Periodically we'd bring in a broken piece

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of technology a laptop, tablet, phone, etc. Obviously, we'd remove

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anything that could cause issue, parts that could access the internet,

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or simply remove a key item like the CPU. From here,

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we'd bring it to him under the guise that we

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wanted it fixed, and he'd tinker with it for days,

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sometimes weeks. When he'd finish, we'd search his room in

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case he held any parts, often finding them and unbeknownst

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to him, destroy it all. We once booted up a

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fixed laptop hed given us, adding back in the CPU

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and battery, only for it to be an almost completely

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different device set up for functions. We couldn't even comprehend

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the brainchild of the madman of technology, but we kept

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up this routine because doing this satiated him. This wasn't

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on any of the books. We guards often found our

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own means through on ground observation to come up with

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makeshift routines to make our lives easier. However, one guard

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didn't get the full memo. He saw the tinker as

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the guy that fixes things and brought him his phone

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that wasn't turning on despite the facility being deep underground,

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jammed up to the max for any outward signal by

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location in technology. Within hours, a nuclear code was sent

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and almost worked in setting off multiple missiles. A nuclear

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warning was even sent out in Hawaii, which outwardly was

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reported as a false flag, but we were close to

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a real catastrophe. The guard was swiftly dealt with and

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the Tinkrewer's band from fixing tech for months, but he

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wasn't unhappy with this. Every time we checked on him,

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he still giggled about it thinking about what he did.

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This tied him over until he was eventually allowed to

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fix broken tech again with much more restrictions from then on.

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There's one prisoner which I like being put on shift

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for causes no issues, needs no maintenance, just need to

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keep an eye on him and no doubt any anomalies,

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which there are never any of. This is because he's

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stuck in a perpetual state of stasis. The story goes

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that a strange signal was picked up in the basement

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of a residential building. When a filled up team was

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sent to investigate, they found him in this state, frozen

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in time. Around him was an array of strange tech

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computers linked together in complicated ways, and a bulking machine

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mostly destroyed due to him not being able to cooperate

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in any sort of questioning. It was up to the

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investigation team to piece together what happened, and boy did

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they find a strange story. Through logs on his computer,

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they discovered that he had in fact found the first

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legitimate means to travel back in time. Very illegal. We

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have a few prisoners detained for even attempting to start

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that project. But he might have succeeded somehow. He cracked

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the code and put together the haphazard machine that lay

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destroyed around him. But it's what he did with it

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which is possibly the strangest thing I'd ever heard. Instead

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of going back to make riches change a mistake in life,

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old history in a groundbreaking way, visit a prolific historical figure,

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or hell, see the dinosaurs, he instead went back in

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time to kill his own grandfather. Guy was obsessed with

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the grandfather paradox. It's strange how genius lovel intellect has

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a correlation with absolute insanity. We only know this from

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going through the logs on his computer. He detailed his

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plan and specifically who he was after one Charles Vernon.

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We checked the database and a mattress found Charles Vernon

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had died in the late nineteen forties. No record of kids,

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which means if it was his grandfather, he had successfully

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killed him and stopped a parent from being born, causing

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him to become a paradox. However, he didn't simply disappear.

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Despite all the information we could find, so much more

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is left a mystery. It's inconclusive whether the state he's

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currently in is because of the paradox, a side effect

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of time travel, or self inflicted after getting the answers

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he wanted. It's also unknown what happened to the machine,

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whether it was a one time used kind of deal

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or something he set up so that it could never

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be used after him. But we're working hard on freeing him.

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He studied a lot and tests are always being ran,

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and whether we could reverse the condition he's in, because

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throughout all the logs there is nothing on how we

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built the actual machine. So the scientists are hoping to

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unfreeze him and prying this information out of him. One

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or another. The science is above my pay grade. However,

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I sometimes imagine what could have been done if one

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went back with ambition, though someone going back with chaotic

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contentions would be a terrifying thought. Maybe that's why he

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never documented how it was made or why the machine

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was destroyed. A large amount of duties are sectioned off

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between different squads. What this means is that duties I've

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mentioned which are in my rotation may infrequently or never

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show up for other squads. We have no idea how

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the criteria for this is made, whether it's some inner

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system of threat level or group based competency. God knows

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what kind of demons others deal with. Hopefully I am

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in a good rotation, But one duty which is universal

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between all groups is playtime. For this duty, I dressed

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up in civilian attire, very young, coded and drove to

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a town called small Haven. Now, the facility is located

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remote from any civilization, so this town itself is in

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a town per se. It's actually an entire level of

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the facility, widened enough to create a dynamic, functioning town

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and tall enough that a realistic skybox could be made.

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Every one in the town is an actor playing their

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part twenty four seven, never breaking character. Or for one prisoner,

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a child, she lives with a family. Though they are

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technically actors, knowing that the town isn't real, they are

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her biological relations. All in all, she lives the perfect life,

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goes to school, plays with friends, visits extended family, which

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were also moved into the facility town. The reason for

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her detainment is simple. If she gets mad, she goes

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nuclear not in a hyperbolic way. She has enough internal

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energy to flatten entire countries plural. It's too big of

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an explosion to contain or isolate. Even if set off

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remotely from the furthest point of land dead set in

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the middle of the largest ocean, the tsunamies would devastate

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large portions of continents in all directions. We can't get

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into space without risking hitting levels of stress that would

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set her off before exiting the atmosphere. So she's stuck

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in this facility under the guise of having moved to

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a nice little town to start fresh. There are contingencies

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set in place to make sure she never leaves. The

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outer limits of the town are all abandoned factories or

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run down ghettos, all designed psychologically to make them undesirable

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to go to. Though abandoned might be the wrong turn

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to use, considering how many trained snipers are stationed there

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around the clock, all armed with long range sedatives. Even

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the ghetto's population are all trained militia, scary looking people

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to deter her wandering through and armed to the teeth

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with contingencies. She once wandered close through the outer limits

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with no escorts near by. It was reported that she

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wasn't trying to make a break for it, but they

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still implemented a fail safe. She was subdued, and when

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found by her parents, she was told she fell asleep

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wandering too far. Luckily she bought that and there hasn't

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been an incident since. She has no idea what is

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truly going on, and when I was selected for playtime duty,

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it was my job to check on her. How this

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duty works can be complicated with how closed off the

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town is from the real world. Getting information reliably to

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and from small Haven it is difficult. Every so often

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a guard has to role play into town to check

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on things. Sometimes we're an out of town counselor sent

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in by the school administration to check on all the students,

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sometimes for travelers car having trouble so stuck in town

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for a few days. Seeing a new face also keeps

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up the facade of the town's legitimacy. Hiding the fact

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that it is cut off from any real civilization. My shift, however,

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was different. This was the first drafted long term visit,

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and I was lucky enough to be the first participant.

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Despite working in a facility in which you're physically tested

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every day, with some guards covered head to toe in

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unsightly scars, I've been relatively untouched, though there are given

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items to look after ourselves, in which I do the

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bare minimum. I guess I just have to admit it.

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I have a serious case of baby face. This hasn't

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been an issue, but it must have been noticed because

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it tied directly into my assignment. I was sent in

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as a new high school student finishing off the last

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part of the year. I was given a strict schedule

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to shave and make sure I blend it in. Alone,

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I would stand out as slightly older, but amongst the crowd,

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I blended in well enough. The education departments were mixed

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through aw years, segmented between elementary and high school, so

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despite being years apart in the schooling system, I was

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able to observe the prisoner on occasions. In class, I

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was instructed that I did not need to participate in

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learning unless observed by the prisoner, which never came up,

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and so I used that time to take meticulous notes

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on anything I observed. I learned her name was Emily

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and that she got on well enough in school. However,

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there was a planned event. Since I was new in town,

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Emily's parents invited me over for dinner, keeping up the

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facade of a friendly, welcoming town. Alongside me was an

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actor who posed as my mother. I handed over the

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envelope containing the script to my mother and we studied

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it together for hours to make sure everything lined up.

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My mother played a single parent and I had lived

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with my father for most of my life. However, she

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came back into the picture through letters, and I had

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decided to reach out and live with her for a

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bit to mend our relationship. A believable story, and when

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there was so small it would be hard to poke

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holes in. We drilled the script, adding information for us

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to sync up with in case anything else came up.

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The meal went well because it was under the guise

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of meeting new people. He managed to detail their family

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life in a public setting. Overall, they reviewed well, and

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I noted how stable everything seemed. However, unexpected to Emily's parents,

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my mother pulled them to another room to crack open

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a bottle of wine, something the kids couldn't participate in.

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This left Emily and I alone for an in depth review,

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away from the pressures of keeping up appearances with her parents.

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This is something we struggled with in previous reviews, since

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leaving a child alone with an adult stranger was something

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hard to set up. Since I was perceived as a

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youth rather than an adult, I was to extract any

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useful information with this precious time frame. It started slow,

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regoing over icebreakers, but this time in a more personal way,

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asking how she really felt about life, about school, about

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apparent's She opened up more than at the dinner table,

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all of which was positive. The small Haven project was

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still going strong. However, Emily went quiet after a while,

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with a deep look of contemplation on her face. Rather

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than pray, I let the silence hang, letting the pressure

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of social cues ease her into opening up. However, rather

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than throwing some thought provoking question back, she threw a

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curveball straight into my face. I know it's all not real,

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she said, plainly. If I had a drink in my mouth,

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i'd have spat it. Out. Huh, oh, what do you mean?

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I stuttered back. I had been composed before this, in

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control of the conversation, following my orders to the letter. However,

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this was vearing so off script that I spat out

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a question, hoping to steer things back to normalcy. I mean,

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it's a simulation, right, this town, it's all avasad, No,

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she muttered. I froze. My first instinct was the gaslight

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the hell out of her, make her feel crazy for

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even thinking that, even though she was one hundred percent right.

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But then a spark in my head told me that

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if I argued against the point, this could cause unease,

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which could turn to frustration anger, something I was instructed

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over and over to never cause. So instead I probed,

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what makes you think that? I asked curiously. I know

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something's inside me, something I don't understand, something no one understands,

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she said, solemnly. Ice ran through me. She was to

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never know about a condition. It was theorized that the

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stress of keeping it in check could trigger her like

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being constantly conscious of needing to breathe. She carried on

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in my silence, I know everyone's an actor, pretending to

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be part of this town. Even my parents. They're my parents,

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I know that, but they keep up a facade. This

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was dangerous, and it was getting worse with every word

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she spat out. She knew too much, but there was

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no denying the conviction in a voice, she was certain

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there was no going back now. So instead of trying

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to contradict it, I went for the answer I desperately

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wanted for myself. How do you know? I asked, not

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some set up to flip the narrative. I needed to know.

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Did someone talk? Did she sneak out without people knowing?

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This information was vital? Whatever is in me, this energy,

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it's changed. At first I heard buzzing. My parents thought

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I was sick, pulled me from school for a bit.

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But then it like famed into words. But they weren't

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from people's mouths, It was from their heads. There when

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all hopes I could reverse this, she could read minds.

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As if this couldn't get any more terrifying. I wanted

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to ask so much. My mind jumbled with so many questions.

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I couldn't even stutter the first lines of the question. However,

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she picked up on this, of course she did. She

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could hear everything I was thinking and answered before I

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could say anything. Don't worry, I don't mind it, she said,

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with a hint of glee. I coughed to clear my throat.

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What do you mean, I asked. I needed confirmation, this town,

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this life. I don't mind it. My parents are here,

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my family are here. They love me. I know that

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for a fact. That's the one thing that isn't a lie.

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They're doing this for my safety, so I don't mind it,

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she said, matter of factly. I eased up at this,

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just accepted the situation. With everything in the open. We

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ended up just chatting the whole time, talking like real humans,

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something she probably liked and hadn't had in a long time.

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Just before the parents came back in, she told me

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to keep a new developments a secret, something which I

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agreed to. Besides, she'd know if I lied with absolute certainty.

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Since then, I've been the first recurring volunteer for playtime duty.

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The story evolved that I've reconnected with my mother and

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live in a split custody between them. My actor mother

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is now family friends with Emily's parents, and so we

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have a reason to see them when I come to

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town to visit, and Emily and I have developed a

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bond which is valuable to the prison. Playtime gives me

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a much needed reprieve from the hectic nature of the prison,

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but I'm always kept busy. Lately I've been put on

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feeding duty. The prisoner is the man in the hole.

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His cell is simple, nothing extraist fitted to hold him,

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at least what we can see, despite his strange quirk.

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He never leaves his cell, though it's sometimes hard to tell.

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No one in my team has ever fully seen him.

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Every time we visit his cell, there's always a new

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hole somewhere on the floor, wall, even ceiling. The location

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is always random. This is despite whatever is logically on

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the other side. Beside his cell is another unoccupied room.

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Under and above are other levels of the complex, yet

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the adjoining rooms are never disturbed. The holes look almost cartoonish,

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rubble piled up around the hole or the edges frayed

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up in an exaggerated manner, But the hole itself is

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unnatural dark, regardless of how a light source is pointed

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at it. When he speaks, it echoes like is far

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deeper than what should be possible. They're closer to dimensional holes,

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and when a new one appears, the previous one is gone,

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not even a single scratch to indicate any wrongdoings. We

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only knows in there because he would chatter to us

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when we bring him his food, though we're always just

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instructed to leave it on the floor and leave. Studies

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have been done to figure out what the holes truly are. Items,

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cameras and people have been sent in to investigate, but

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whatever enters never leaves. If connected to a tether, it

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is severed upon entry and swiftly lost, So for the

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time being it is just a management and observation job.

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One time we thought he escaped, a routine inspection was

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sent with catering to deliver. However, no hole was found.

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It was reported, and as the backup team was dispatched,

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the guard found where he was. Giggling was heard from behind,

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and when he turned he saw the edges of the

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keyhole frayed out. Little giggles could be heard from the

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tiny void. God knows how they do it, but the

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external team have an uncannyability to detain these wild individuals.

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They are either hyper elite individuals formed to make a

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god squad, or piled up with enough tech to take

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down civilization as we know it. Either way, they get results. However,

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there's one prisoner which is an exception Frank, because rather

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than being detained, he simply turned himself in. We still

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don't know where he's truly from. When asked, he gives

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a different answer each time, always in a sarcastic tone.

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But there are theories. Some are basic, like some form

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of extraterrestrial origin. Some think he's some sort of genetic

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freak given god likabilities through the genetic lottery. The most

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interesting to me is that he's from a higher dimension,

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fourth or fifth. Maybe either way, it's incomprehensible what he

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can do. Teleportation, flight, spontaneous combustion, if you can name it,

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he can probably do it. Because of this, he's entertained

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in a cell. Nothing can hold him, trust me, We've tried.

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So he just wandered the facility looking for things to do.

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A guard once took the last doughnut, and, unbeknownst to him,

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Frank suddenly decided that he wanted it now. If Frank

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had asked, the guard probably would have given it to him. However,

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Frank skipped the altercation entirely and went straight for retribution.

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Frank turned the guard's head into a rose from this,

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we discover that having a rose for a head is

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guaranteed death, though it's technically unconfirmed since we only have

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a sample size of one. When medical had a look,

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it was intricate. It wasn't just the simple swap. The

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roots of the rose had blended seamlessly with the veins

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and arteries of the neck, extending down throughout the body.

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Now why did Frank turn himself in? Well, that question

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has another tangent to really put things into perspective. See,

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this facility is hidden, hidden, hidden, so many layers of

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secrecy on top of more secrets, along with people eliminated

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along the way, just to make sure this place isn't

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known about, isn't able to be found, and isn't able

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to be tracked. It would take generations of descending to

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follow all the trails in order to find this place,

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sifting through so many dead ends and false leads. So

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when Frank strolled up to the front door, it was

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a big deal. Frank's reason for doing all this is

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the only thing he said that I believe he was

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bored and what sounds more fun than to mess around

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in the most secret advanced place on earth? To him,

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this was a playground, and we were his new playthings.

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At first, it was an issue. His mischief often got

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people killed. When curious about a prisoner, he'd released them

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just to see what they could do. When we were

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doing important procedures, he'd disrupt them just to get a

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rise out of the staff. He once flipped gravity in

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the whole facility just to see what would happen. God

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knows who decided on the solution, but whoever did deserves

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only the best in life. See. What got him to

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fall in line was to hire him as a guard. Now,

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he's not really a guard, not in the structural hierarchy sense.

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He was given a special title, a uniform, and a

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list of duties. However, the duties are a placebo replacing

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the blinker fluid in a car kind of thing. But

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whenever he finished the task, grand praise is given. We

475
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,639
found that making him feel important and blowing up his

476
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:49,000
ego keeps him too preoccupied to cause chaos. He's always

477
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,920
awarded employee of the month, despite that not really being

478
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,480
a thing. Here He's given an office with a fancy

479
00:37:56,519 --> 00:37:59,719
door plaque, which I'm pretty sure he does nothing with,

480
00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:03,519
and at the end of every month he's given a

481
00:38:03,599 --> 00:38:07,199
large paycheck with a bonus if he does well, which

482
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:13,599
he gets every time. We're not even paid for this job.

483
00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,960
The past ups is given are just printed pieces of

484
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:20,840
paper with some made up letterhead and lots of numbers.

485
00:38:21,559 --> 00:38:26,039
But he eats it up, acting grateful, talking about how

486
00:38:26,079 --> 00:38:28,519
he'll treat his family when he gets some time off.

487
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:34,000
He doesn't have a family here, by the way, I'm

488
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:36,760
pretty sure that with a thought he could turn the

489
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,800
entire complex into a block of solid gold. He has

490
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:45,280
no use for money. There aren't even shops here, but

491
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,320
the whole charade just works. So we never put a

492
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:54,599
pin to his happiness balloon, and it's came in handy

493
00:38:54,639 --> 00:38:58,480
a few times. There are a few guards he's taken

494
00:38:58,519 --> 00:39:02,000
a liking to. He had a stint where he acted

495
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,039
like a sitcom character and chose a few guards at

496
00:39:05,119 --> 00:39:10,400
random to I assume b side characters. The friendship was

497
00:39:10,559 --> 00:39:17,280
entirely one sided, but with enough improv he was satiated. However,

498
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,079
one of the side character guards was having an issue

499
00:39:21,360 --> 00:39:24,800
while detailing a prisoner. They slipped their bonds and was

500
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:28,639
about to cause mayhem usually a death sentence in here,

501
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:34,119
when suddenly Frank came in and swiftly put a stop

502
00:39:34,159 --> 00:39:40,639
to the situation. Right now, he's not an issue. However,

503
00:39:41,119 --> 00:39:44,639
I fear that one day he'll tire of this roll

504
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:55,639
and he'll switch back to causing mischief or worse. A

505
00:39:55,719 --> 00:40:01,079
lot of prisoners scare me, in fact, that an understatement.

506
00:40:02,519 --> 00:40:05,599
Every day our lives are put on the line during

507
00:40:05,639 --> 00:40:11,800
the most menial of tasks. However, one prisoner simply worries me.

508
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,559
If a prisoner loses a life here, all that is lost,

509
00:40:17,599 --> 00:40:22,000
these potential discoveries. They are both held captive for the

510
00:40:22,039 --> 00:40:26,079
safety of the world and studied for the betterment of progress.

511
00:40:27,559 --> 00:40:32,280
But there's one prisoner here which, if incapacitated or worse,

512
00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:36,079
could spell the end of the world as we know it.

513
00:40:38,079 --> 00:40:44,440
The first prisoner. I've not been entirely truthful. More of

514
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:49,280
a live omission. I speak of this building, called it

515
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:54,639
a facility and such, but in reality, the building itself

516
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:59,440
was an anomaly that made this whole project possible, a

517
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:06,079
building semi sentient and fully self sufficient. It was a

518
00:41:06,119 --> 00:41:11,079
smaller building at first, but its unnatural properties were soon discovered.

519
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,440
When built upon, each room tethers itself to all others

520
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,599
in a conscious way. If we want a room to

521
00:41:19,679 --> 00:41:22,320
be a cell, we have to build it as such.

522
00:41:23,639 --> 00:41:27,320
Even when we use the simplest of materials, its function

523
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,039
is enhanced to what the room is desired to be.

524
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:36,280
It's difficult to grasp I don't fully get it myself.

525
00:41:37,119 --> 00:41:40,840
I'm paraphrasing from what I pieced together from the technical jargon.

526
00:41:41,039 --> 00:41:44,880
I was fared, but it's how I've come to understand things.

527
00:41:46,199 --> 00:41:49,320
It's heart, if you could call it, That powers the

528
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:53,559
whole facility, producing more than enough power for all the

529
00:41:53,639 --> 00:41:58,480
containment cells, along with the many experiments running within the structure.

530
00:42:00,159 --> 00:42:03,719
This was all kept under wraps. We didn't know any

531
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:10,719
of this until issues started coming up lately. Concrete has

532
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:14,400
been crumbling in the far reaches of the building. Cell

533
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:20,159
doors aren't locking as tightly as before. Fortunately, the prisoners

534
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:24,480
haven't fully grasped how strained the building is, but with

535
00:42:24,639 --> 00:42:30,760
enough force, escapes are possible. We have set up measures

536
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,800
to keep things in check, but it's through staff, and

537
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:39,519
this introduces a lot of elements of human failure. When

538
00:42:39,559 --> 00:42:44,079
observing the degradation myself, it's always in the lowest levels

539
00:42:44,119 --> 00:42:47,280
of the compound, or the furthest reaches of a floor.

540
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:52,320
I have a theory that the building is strained, bloated

541
00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:58,119
beyond its limits. We are constantly adding more flows, more rooms,

542
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:04,119
more functions, and whatever this anomalous building is is finally

543
00:43:04,199 --> 00:43:11,880
struggling to keep up, but we cannot stop. Every day

544
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,880
there is an influx of new prisoners, fresh from the

545
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:20,119
external team, threats that cannot be left unchecked in the

546
00:43:20,119 --> 00:43:25,280
outside world. They need to be put in containment, and

547
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:29,920
this is the only place that can hold them. The

548
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:35,360
prison started as the first anomaly, the first prisoner, but

549
00:43:36,079 --> 00:43:41,559
when its term has ended, it could spell danger when

550
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,599
everything we've collected gets out