Deja Vu AscendancyChapter 401: My Sixth Merge, To 64 Minds free porn video
Tuesday, November 13 (Continued) to Friday, November 16, 2007
I was in the kitchen of the Kids' House, having gone there to make drinks for my girls who were doing their studies in the upstairs study.
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A similar experiment with NP confirmed that the factor of four improvements in the Blinks Allowed Effect continued, giving us 128 seconds now. At this rate, especially if the amount of sleep we need keeps reducing, after a few more merges we might be able to have a good night's sleep and wake up to find that any NP effects we left going 'last night' are still active.
I couldn't practically test to see whether my light blobs were giving out four times as much light as before because the guards would've freaked. Testing the maximum output of my heat blobs was even less practical. I'd anticipated the problem though. Blobs smaller than a certain size have their maximum output reduced, so I created a very small light blob and had it radiate as brightly as possible. It looked to be four times brighter than that size blob had achieved pre-merge. A small heat blob was noticeably hotter too. That was a good enough confirmation, especially as my blobs now had more output than I was ever likely to use.
The maximum number of sight sources we could operate was still two. We had been sure it would be, but we still thought, #All:
The basic tests over with, and being fairly happy that we hadn't gone insane or our brain exploded under the load, we finished making the drinks and took them to the girls.
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"We thought you'd forgotten," joked Julia, knowing what my memory is like.
"Sorry, I got distracted by something."
"Are you all right Mark? You look strange." 6A had been looking at 'his' girls with new eyes. In two weeks he was almost certainly going to be losing them, and that dramatically changes the way you look at your loved ones. 6B had been looking at them unusually too, as he'd just abandoned his girls to a lifetime without him. These weren't his girls, but they almost were, but only for a couple more weeks. So, regardless of whether 6A or 6B were influencing our face the most, it certainly had a strange look on it.
"Love does that to me. I love the three of you very much, and I'm amazed at how lucky I am to have each you in my life."
Expressing love isn't uncommon in our families, and there'd been quite a lot of it as the pressure of the Surveillance Problem came off, so the girls weren't suspicious. They got up, gave me some nice hugs and returned the sentiment, then returned to their work.
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I put on an even happier face and tried to pretend everything was fine. My crying had the girls worried. I almost never cry. I swore a lot during the Surveillance Problem for example, but had never cried over it, so my doing so was not a good sign. I could read their emotions far better than I could before, and their putting on happy faces fooled me even less than my happy face fooled them.
An hour later the mental separation between 6A and 6B started being pierced. Within a couple of minutes of that starting, we were fully integrated, which was conveniently quick. We could access each other's memories as much as we wanted, and we did so, being interested in the other dimension's lives. We discovered several more dimensional differences:
Some inconsequential, e.g., 6A's and 6B's Alexises had different tattoos on their right hips.
Some relatively large, e.g., some of 6A, back when they'd been 3C, had spent a fair bit of time working on a Chinese girl over the 2005 summer vacation that Lily had been back in Hong Kong, hoping the new girl would be as compliant and useful as Lily. It turned out that she'd been initially easy, but once she'd thought her hooks were deep enough into me, she'd become a gold-digger. Her requests for me to repeatedly buy her stuff in return for sex - and she preferred the stuff first otherwise the sex was desultory - had quickly killed that-subset-of-me's interest in her.
None of the differences mattered though. Even the ones that might've mattered in the long run didn't matter because there wasn't going to be a long run.
We went to bed earlier than normal because the girls thought I needed cheering up. They weren't wrong.
I slept for an hour, woke up, then got up without disturbing the girls. They're used to me flying myself out of bed and have stopped being disturbed by it.
I went down to the living room to watch some DVDs while waiting for the DV. With déjà vu's presumably occurring with an 8.5-hour average - or 4.25 hours if there are other 64-minded Marks readily available - waiting for them was an easy option. We'd merged just before 7pm, so 3:30am was the likely average arrival time, and if one comes late, it'll almost certainly still be before breakfast.
[[The starting of a déjà vu is a cooperative process, at the level of the Universe cooperating with itself rather than needing our conscious cooperation - we'd NEVER been able to initiate a déjà vu on demand, and we'd tried that experiment many times. The Universe doesn't pick a 'spot' (an area of Universal Consciousness) in one dimension, then 'grab' a partner for it. If that was the case merging would only double the frequency of déjà vu's rather than the fourfold increase that occurred to me. It's more akin to areas of Universal Consciousness seeking a partner across the other dimensions, which is why we déjà vu four times more often after a merge than before, when linking with equally minded peers. When the déjà vu is with a partner with one less merge, it takes twice as long to déjà vu as with a peer, which implies the Universe 'waits' when it knows such a link will be established. Once I gained the knowledge given in this paragraph so far, I was quite curious about the 'wait' because if the Universe was seeking connections, many of those 'waiting' situations should be preempted by a peer being found in the meanwhile. I thought it meant some very strange and interesting implications about the nature of time. As it turned out, it didn't. The explanation was that the dimensions are linked far more and for longer than I thought, it's just that I was conscious of those links for only a very small proportion of the time. The link is made and retained long before the small portion of it that I'm conscious of.]]
I partly watched the DVD and partly mourned, the latter especially true for 6B, although "mourned" isn't the right word as we sort of hadn't lost anyone. I was mostly sympathizing with their loss of me. An obvious comparison was with the Casino Kidnappers. Half of us had died in their basement, and that Prof would've died shortly thereafter. Those families would've grieved a great deal more than 6B's families were now, plus there were numerically more of those 3B families too. 6B's four parents would be okay. They were proud of me for the journey I was going on, and they'd seen grief before and were strong enough to get through it. It'd be the girls that would be the most upset:
Julia would be the most messed up initially, but I expected her to be much less affected in the long run as her drive and intensity would get her involved in other projects.
Vera
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