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It was rapidly approaching 6pm, and the traffic in the shop was picking up. Time to leave. I packed up, and out the
door I went. On the way home, I reviewed the powerset Virtue-House Kat had. She was claws/regen/superspeed. I knew I had claws available, but I hadn't
tested regen yet. Shrugging, I braced the steering wheel on my knee and extended a single claw, then stabbed it through my right hand.

I almost drove off the road, screaming profanity and thrashing. I had considered 'regen', without thinking 'dull pain'. As those key words
crossed my mind, with some urgency, the cab of the van filled with a bright green glow, and the pain faded away. Gasping for breath and twitching, I managed to
get the van stopped on the side of the road, hazard lights flashing. As I watched, the stab wound in my hand closed, turning the angry red of new scar in
seconds. Incredibly swiftly, the scar tissue.. dissolved.. back into my skin, and the flawless smooth texture I had woken up with was restored to perfection.

I got back on the road, my eyes wide and my mind spinning, and got home without further incident. I'd tested claws, regen, and only one major thing was
left. I parked the van, and locking the doors behind me, sprinted down the driveway.

The trail of sparks and fire I was leaving behind me as I banked through a left turn and accelerated was quite impressive, I thought. House Kat wasn't a
very strong runner, all things considered, but I made the next left at 30mph, and blew through the final right turn to get out of my neighborhood at 50 miles
an hour. Once I was on straight pavement, I made it up to 75mph before I just stopped being able to go any faster. I dropped back to 45 and kept up with
traffic, pondering. Atlantea had posted 'The Wizard of Speed and Time', and I think I understood where he was coming from now. I wondered if Ops had
been in on this - Thrust SSC would be right up there, too. I picked back up to 75 as I neared my old high school, and made the left turn into a subdivision. I
was able to hold 75 through there, too, even given the tight corners and short straights.

Quite pleased with myself, I scorched back up my driveway minutes later, coming to a dead stop in a cloud of dust and leaf litter. Dad stuck his head out of
the window to the reloading room, and I waved with a casual 'yo' as I headed for the front door. I was just about to turn right to go into the loading
room when my father confronted me. The S&W 460, I noted, looked like it had a muzzle opening big enough to crawl into and die, when it was pointed at you.

"And just who the fuck do you think you are?"

"Your son, duh."






"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies
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Virtue is its Own Reward: 2.0
 
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July 7th, 2009, 3:00pm AKDT.

I do my best thinking when I'm busy. While I was chewing on the minutia of cathodic protection of underground pipelines
(in essence, a 'Good Thing'), my subconscious was nibbling and sipping at the recent events, and was starting to return some strange conclusions.

That afternoon, as I took a break from my studies, I sat sipping a cup of strong tea and examining what I'd already figured out while I was training.

Point. Sunday Evening, there was an 'Event', uppercase letters and all, that affected an unknown amount of City of Heroes players.

Point. I appeared to be at least two, possibly more, of my toons.

Point. Physical changes included gender and mass.

Point. At least with me, some emotional context got through. To elucidate, today I was 'in' House Kat, who, while not terribly well developed, was a
college student with an unfortunate catgirling condition. I fingered the absurdly cute little ears I had absentmindedly tucked under a beret that morning.
House Kat didn't have a 'real name' or even much of a personality beyond 'studious' and 'confident', two traits which had bled
through.

Corollary data to point. Mag was essentially me, inside the armor, sans phobias, sans arrogance. I had confirmation of physical similarity, but it was
difficult to say the same about emotional traits.

Available data was pointing towards a rather uncomfortable conclusion. Available data, however, was slim on the ground. Further information was desperately
needed.

As a side note, while Mag was a smoker, House Kat wasn't - I hadn't had a smoke all day yet, nor had I a niccotine craving. Intriguing, to say the
least. A new tab and a few seconds typing cranked up my webmail.




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