Chain 158: The Pretender

Chain 158: The Pretender

Location: Blue Cove, Delaware
Age: 38
Identity: [+100] Drop-In
Drawbacks: [+200] Hunted By The Center

[Free]      I Know A Guy
[200/1300]  Season Finale Survival Insurance
[300/1300]  Something's Not Right Here
[900/1300]  Pretender
[1200/1300] Research Notes
[1300/1300] Co-Workers: Demona and the Conspiracy

This whole freaking world is a hilarious house of cards.

Yeah, savants can exist, and that's all well and good, but if savants on THIS scale can exist... it implies that more than a few historical figures have been savants on this scale. Really, the only revolutionary thing they have here is the protocol they've established to bring out that potential. So of course they're exploiting geniuses in order to try to make themselves rich, or at least that's what it seems to have been in the end, with these so-called Pretenders.

You know the best way to tear this down around their ears?

Convert all of my cultists into Pretenders, and let them just wreak absolute and utter chaos while Demona and I sit back and watch the fireworks.

The end result was as hilarious as it was interesting, considering they apparently invented terraforming, artificial gravity, and warp drive, fixed literally every problem humanity faced, created a whole new batch of problems and then solved those ANYWAY, figured out a way to make baseline humans psi-active a la Babylon 5, and then laid out a roadmap of how to tweak the human genome for best results.

Oh, and apparently each of them went into three-person teams and picked someone who was either from or knew of and exploited the Center and talked them into suicide. 95% effectiveness rate, too. Remind me not to tick off the Conspiracy any time soon.