It was the last day of the reunion and Jessica figured she needed to take a moment alone. Get some solitude, a place to be with her thoughts for a little bit, in a quiet place. The beach would work. Have some white noise from the water, what could possibly be more relaxing ( Read more... )

"I mentioned before you can't keep a trained and determined telepath - or magic - out of your brain, you can make them work at it," Emma said, once everyone had arrived. "So today you're going to learn how to shore-up your own automatic mental shields, and hopefully a few other tricks ( Read more... )

It'd been an... eventful two weeks. First they'd broken a bunch of ex-Cerberus scientists and their families out of the stalemate they'd been in with their former employers. Then Hackett had seen them flying around clearing Cerberus and Reaper hotspots, so tac teams could set up beachheads and recover research ( Read more... )

Today there was a table in the middle of the room, with something on it that, once, might have been an entire suit. Now, it was just bracers, gloves, boots, and a sort of diadem. There were also piles of empty medication bottles, per her discussion with Eliot, and a pot of coffee going ( Read more... )

"Today," Emma began, "--we are going over the touchstone disciplines of psionics ( Read more... )

"Today," Emma said, once everyone who was coming had trailed in, "We will be discussing the place from whence many psionic abilites draw power; the astral plane"Academically speaking, the astral plane, also called the astral world or the psychic plane, is a plane of existence postulated by classical - particularly neo-Platonic - medieval and ( Read more... )

Emma had gotten an interesting message when she'd check her phone last night between bouts of club-hopping with Candy, and thus she was back at Fandom today after spending all-night Portal-hopping. Playing with Portals while drunk was possibly not her best idea ever, but here she was ( Read more... )

( Jack Sees a Sign )

Leland Gaunt could have retired years ago. Millenia ago. But he hadn't, for one very important reason.

Leland Gaunt loved his work. That quote about loving one's job and never working a day in one's life? It was so very, very true.

NEEDFUL THINGS
A DIFFERENT KIND OF STORE

You Won't Believe Your EyesHe couldn't wait to see what new delights this ( Read more... )

Look, Emma was a growing ermine. Of COURSE she was going to try and eat the burrito that was larger than she was before they even got back to the house. Jack could not expect her to ride nicely in a bag with a take-out box and not try to wedge herself into the box and eat ALL THE FOOD ( Read more... )