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 Though it's very possible that your recruiter may know your name, it's important not to share details about one's identity with other members of the underground. Doing so means that losing one member makes it easier for other members to be captured subsequently. To that extent, codenames are used instead of real names at all times. You need to select one.  Though it's very possible that your recruiter may know your name, it's important not to share details about one's identity with other members of the underground. Doing so means that losing one member makes it easier for other members to be captured subsequently. To that extent, codenames are used instead of real names at all times. You need to select one. 
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 +Otherwise, when not performing operations with the underground, operatives are to maintain a normal life as a cover for their activities. If blown, the operative may live at the base indefinitely. 
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 +[[dark_conspiracy:empathic_underground|Click here for a list of members]]
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 +===== Base Security Protocols =====
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 +Obviously the location of the base should not be revealed to anyone. If necessary to bring anybody into the base, they should be blindfolded, and their ears covered to prevent them from understanding where they are. No communications electronics are allowed inside the base, they must be turned off before arriving at the base and checked in at the door. All weapons must also be checked in at the door. 
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 +The base is empathically shielded at all times, with one empath taking over this duty before the one on duty may step down. It is assumed that the conspiracy has empathic elements on the lookout for the base at all times. 
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 ====== The Conspiracy ====== ====== The Conspiracy ======
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 ===== Chicago Conspiracy Elements ===== ===== Chicago Conspiracy Elements =====
  
-==== TojiCorp ====+TojiCorp is a Japanese Zaibatsu formed in the years prior to WWII, which didn't come to it's current dominance until the mid 2020s. It now owns companies like Coca-cola outright.  
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 +Coke has been spiking it's product with both small amounts of cocaine and blue lotus which has been adulterated in some other locale, and flown into the Chicago area at an airfield run by "Snake People," a group of darklings that appear human on the surface. The airfield and deliveries are managed through a series of computers installed by TojiCorp that were comprised partly of biological components in the form of small slices of human brain tissue. These were being installed by TojiCorp personnel (the mother of one of the underground members by happenstance), and which have other components which the underground are currently running down in terms of their movements. 
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 +The new formulation of coke appears to have the effect, of making folks easy to drain empathically, which can be detected by them projecting a telepathic "buzz." The blue lotus concoction by itself can temporarily enhance empathic abilities.  
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 +Another underground member named Fred, discovered that there's something nefarious going on at a place called the Coca-cola Employee Housing Village (CCEHV), involving one Dr. Seabach, now deceased. This connects Coke with the Destined (see below), as Sebach was also treating the daughter of the manager of Club Doomsday, a center of activity for The Destined. 
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 +Toji has yet another subsidiary called BioChem, which has suspicious locations in both the SouthDeering neighborhood of Chicago, and Gary, Indiana, around both of which odd occurances had to be dealt with. 
  
-This Japanese Zaibatsu formed in the years prior to WWII didn't come to it's current dominance until the mid 2020s. It now owns companies like Coca-cola outright, Coke has been spiking it's product with both small amounts of cocaine and blue lotus which has been adulterated in some other locale, and flown into the Chicago area at an airfield run by "Snake People," a group of  
  
 ====== Empaths ====== ====== Empaths ======
  
-There are a number of types of empaths. +There are a number of types of empaths, and there are a large number of empathic abilities that these people possess. These range from mental abilities such as reading minds, telepathic communication, projecting emotions upon others, and even altering memories to moving through space in our dimension and to others (which has a number of applications that one might not expect; see Sorcery below). Others have powers of extra-sensory perception. Some can manipulate matter, from healing bodies to heating or cooling things, or manipulating plants or computers.  
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 +The full extent of what humans are capable of using empathy is unknown. 
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 +===== Darkling Empathy ===== 
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 +Many darklings (though not all), possess their own form of "empathy" that varies substantially from that of humans. One of their most common abilities is to cause the minds of nearby humans to percieve them as other than their true form. They often use the power to project emotion mercilessly to create fear and then feed off of that fear. 
  
 ===== Latent ===== ===== Latent =====
  
-Most people with empathic talent never discover that they have it. This isn't to say that their empathic potential doesn't occasionally help them. But that these types often just put down their premonitions or feelings as being lucky or just perceptive and intuitive in the normal fashion. +Most people with empathic talent never discover that they have it. This isn't to say that their empathic potential doesn't occasionally help them. But that these types often just put down their premonitions or feelings as being lucky or just perceptive and intuitive in the normal fashion. If something happens to catch fire around them out of the blue it's just "spontaneous combustion."
  
 ===== Neuropaths ===== ===== Neuropaths =====
  
-Neuropaths are individuals who have (usually) accidentally gone down a path of self-training that essentially involves a lot of emotion and stain. Almost all trained empaths believe that this is a very detrimental road down which to travel, because the results almost always include extreme negative effects by the users. That said, some Neropaths are capable of rather extreme feats of empathic power. They simply tend to pay far too high a price for using these abilites, up to and including dying from over-use. +Neuropaths are individuals who have (usually) accidentally gone down a path of self-training that essentially involves a lot of emotion and stain. Almost all trained empaths believe that this is a very detrimental road down which to travel, because the results almost always include extreme negative effects to the users. That said, some Neropaths are occasionally capable of rather extreme feats of empathic power. They simply tend to pay far too high a price for using these abilites, up to and including dying from over-use. 
  
-==== Mystics ====+===== Mystics =====
  
 Mysticism is one of the two basic schools of trained use of empathic power. It involves removing one's mind from the normal world, projecting it into the "Astral Plane," and employing a wholistic approach to understanding what can be done from there. Mystics feel that psionics aren't really seeing the underlying reality of things, and so mystics cannot learn psionics.  Mysticism is one of the two basic schools of trained use of empathic power. It involves removing one's mind from the normal world, projecting it into the "Astral Plane," and employing a wholistic approach to understanding what can be done from there. Mystics feel that psionics aren't really seeing the underlying reality of things, and so mystics cannot learn psionics. 
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-==== Psionics ====+===== Psionics =====
  
 Psionics is a rigorous, scientific approach to empatic power. Psionics feel that the whole Astral Plane phenomenon is just a form of weird sorcery, and that most powers mystics use are just being channeled unscientifically. Therefore, psioncs may not learn Mysticism techniques.  Psionics is a rigorous, scientific approach to empatic power. Psionics feel that the whole Astral Plane phenomenon is just a form of weird sorcery, and that most powers mystics use are just being channeled unscientifically. Therefore, psioncs may not learn Mysticism techniques. 
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 Benny is a psionic.  Benny is a psionic. 
  
-==== Sorcery ====+===== Sorcery =====
  
-Sorcery is an expanded use of the ability known as dimension walk (see below), where portals are opened to other worlds, and the differences in the worlds exploited to create effects. What effects can be created are myriad. Before one can be a sorcerer, one has to learn dimension walk as either a mystic or a psionic. Sorcery is a huge array of abilites, and most sorcerers tend to focus on one type of sorcerous power associated with a single alternate dimension. +Sorcery is an expanded use of the ability known as dimension walk (see below), where typically very small portals are opened to other worlds, and the differences in the worlds exploited to create effects. For instance, opening up a portal to a proto-dimension of fire in one's hand in order to let a jet of fire spew forth. What effects can be created are myriad. Before one can be a sorcerer, one has to learn dimension walk as either a mystic or a psionic. Sorcery is a huge array of abilites, and most sorcerers tend to focus on one type of sorcerous power associated with a single alternate dimension. 
  
 Panix is a psionic sorcerer specializing in fire sorcery, Spenser is a mystic sorcerer speciaizing in water sorcery.  Panix is a psionic sorcerer specializing in fire sorcery, Spenser is a mystic sorcerer speciaizing in water sorcery. 
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 One such group that formerly existed in Chicago was the Order of the White Circle, who likely comprised 90% of the trained empaths in the city who were not members of the underground or The Destined. Panix and Spenser are former members of this order.  One such group that formerly existed in Chicago was the Order of the White Circle, who likely comprised 90% of the trained empaths in the city who were not members of the underground or The Destined. Panix and Spenser are former members of this order. 
  
-=== The Destined ===+==== The Destined ====
  
 A shadowy group of powerful individuals that seems to have control of organized crime in Chicagoland. Members of this organization have exhibited empathic abilities. Many speculate that an individual known as Sahashradala is the leader of this organization, but if so, it is difficult to prove this. What is clear, however, is that he is a massively powerful empath of great training, who may not even be human.  A shadowy group of powerful individuals that seems to have control of organized crime in Chicagoland. Members of this organization have exhibited empathic abilities. Many speculate that an individual known as Sahashradala is the leader of this organization, but if so, it is difficult to prove this. What is clear, however, is that he is a massively powerful empath of great training, who may not even be human. 
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 This is a listing of the few proto-dimensions known to exist. This is a listing of the few proto-dimensions known to exist.
  
-==== Astral Plane ====+=== Astral Plane ===
  
 A world of mental projection, this world may be somehow in between all other worlds, and travel here physically can be disastrous.  A world of mental projection, this world may be somehow in between all other worlds, and travel here physically can be disastrous. 
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 ===== In Our World ===== ===== In Our World =====
  
-Dimension Walking is also possible along dimensions that do not remove one from our world, but simply allow for more rapid transit of this world. See Mai's recollection of how Benny trained her here. +Dimension Walking is also possible along dimensions that do not remove one from our world, but simply allow for more rapid transit of this world. See Mai's recollection of how Benny trained her [[dark_conspiracy:dimension_walking|here]]. 
  
  
  
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