Do the surgery without sharing data 88%
The taxi shuttle Fluttershy and Liara had taken once again stopped at the landing area on the street that also housed the clinic and they walked over to the building. The streets around the business were as busy as the first time they had walked through it.
Fluttershy nervously looked at the entrance of Nyxin biotics, the clinic that would be facilitating the surgical implantation of a biotic amp. It wasn't something she was excited for in any way but, if she was to believe Liara and the extranet, having a biotic amplifier was incredibly useful. The attendant greeted the two companions after Fluttershy finally worked up the courage to enter the building.
"Miss Fluttershy, my employer has been eagerly awaiting you. If you would wait for a moment I will get her for you," she said as she swiftly made her way to the back, almost immediately getting back out with the other asari.
"Miss Fluttershy, I was hoping you would drop by today. Have you managed to make your decision?" Nyxin asked, the asari was already wearing what Fluttershy assumed to be the outfit she'd wear for the surgery. The pegasus nervously played around with her hooves as she knew that she was going to have to reject the offer she had gotten from the asari.
"Well, uhm, I'm not sure if I'm comfortable giving out my medical information yet so I'm afraid that I have to reject your offer," she managed to say with a steady voice, something that seriously surprised herself. Meanwhile Nyxin V'ladri had various expressions flashing over her face, the first one was anger swiftly followed by sadness but in the end, it turned to resignation as the asari sighed in defeat.
"I was afraid you would say that. You know that means you'll have to pay, right?" she said, Fluttershy nodded in agreement. "In that case, I would like you to sign this form here."
Fluttershy looked over the data pad she had been given, her eyes going wide as she saw the price tag on the form. It was six figures long and nearly matched the amount of credits that Shepard had given them. "T-that's a lot of credits," Fluttershy stammered as she reread the number several times.
The asari smirked nonchalantly at the pegasus, "Well I did have to process the data from the scan, design an amp to fit your body, construct that amp, then write custom firmware that makes sure it runs flawlessly in concord with your body, and all that within a day..." she paused for a moment, "that does come with a hefty price tag, though if you want to change your mind about my offer I can still do it for free."
Does Fluttershy take the offer anyway? No
The thought of changing her decision went through the pegasus' mind but was quickly banished again. Looking up at Liara she found the asari in an equal amount of shock but her body language suggested that she was waiting for Fluttershy to make a decision.
Slowly the pegasus raised her hoof and approved the money transfer, Shepard's credits swiftly flowing to the asari's bank account. Nyxin suddenly looked really surprised and slightly disappointed at the fact that Fluttershy was able to pay the amount of money she had asked for. "Well... I guess that's settled, please follow me."
With the payment settled, Liara gave her last words of encouragement before the other asari led the pegasus to the back of the building down the long hallway. Passing the room where the scanner was located they moved through the door at the back of the hallway into what seemed to be an operating room of sorts. Behind a glass wall, there were three additional asari who seemed to have prepared all the equipment.
"Usually we operate on the brain which means the patient needs to be awake throughout the procedure..." Nyxin started explaining as she helped Fluttershy onto a bed, "...but your biotic prowess seems to come from Eezo pockets within the bones of your wings. Which means we'll operate on you while you're sedated."
"How long will the operation take?" Fluttershy asked as she tried to take on a relaxed position on the bed.
"Usually about two hours but we're prepared to go up to five since you're a completely new species and we want to have time to compensate if something goes wrong," Nyxin answered as she pushed the bed through what Fluttershy assumed to be a decontamination field and placed it in the middle of the room where she was surrounded by the operating equipment. "Are you ready?"
Fluttershy sighed deeply. "Yes," she simply answered, Nyxin motioning for one of her assistants to start giving Fluttershy the sedative. The gas was administered through a custom mouthpiece that fitted around the pegasus's muzzle. It took immediate effect as Fluttershy felt her eyelids get heavy and not soon after her world went entirely black.
A rhythmic beeping was the first thing that filled Fluttershy's ears as her senses returned to her.
"She's waking, Doctor," someone said from beside her, every breath she took seemed to wake her further."Sedative doesn't seem to have any unintentional adverse effects." It only took a couple more seconds for Fluttershy to open her eyes.
"Welcome back to the waking world miss Fluttershy," An asari said from beside her, after blinking a couple of times the final bits of sleepiness disappeared and Fluttershy managed to identify the asari as Nyxin. "How are you feeling?"
Fluttershy wanted to reply with a generic 'fine' but that wouldn't be correct as her wings felt... strange? They felt as if they were much more sensitive than before, every bit of movement in the air registered on the feathers and she didn't even have to concentrate on it to feel them. "It's... well, I don't really know how to describe it."
"That's not the first time I heard that response," Nyxin chuckled. "Why don't you try it out?"
Fluttershy paled for a moment. "A-are you sure that's a good idea, shouldn't I take it a bit slow?"
"Medi-gel circumvents that issue, I'm not telling you to go all out but you should be able to get a bit of a feel for it," Nyxin said with a smile. Fluttershy gulped nervously as she finally noticed that she wasn't in the operating room anymore but in one of the recovery rooms she had seen along the hallway.
Looking around the room she spotted a small trash bin that she could try to levitate. Pointing her wing at the trashcan she lit it up with a biotic aura which immediately took away its heightened senses. Fluttershy yelped in surprise as she accidentally put way too much power into the attempt at levitation and instead of levitating the trashcan, a blob of biotic energy impacted it and made it blow apart. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to!" Fluttershy immediately apologized while Nyxin just blankly stared at the trashcan's remains.
"Don't worry about it, a trashcan isn't too expensive to replace. Though I'm going to advise you to head towards a training field sometime soon to get a grip on it," she said as she nervously chuckled. "Anyway, your friend is waiting outside and I'll go finish the final few registration forms."
Nyxin left the room along with her assistant, allowing Liara to enter moments after. "How are you feeling?" Liara asked, mirroring the question Nyxin had asked to the letter.
"Well enough, though I'm going to have to get used to it for a bit." Fluttershy sheepishly said as she looked at the spot between her wings where the amp was placed, shivering a bit as she saw the small silvery metal cover that sat on top of the device.
"We'll go to a training field for you to get some practice in, but we should do that tomorrow. I think we should take the rest of the day off and explore the citadel for a bit, don't you think?" Liara proposed. "We might not have the credits for large purchases anymore but we can still go around and look at the sights."
Fluttershy thought about it for a moment. She had to admit to herself that she had been constantly keeping herself busy and could use some distraction to blow off some steam. "I guess that's a good idea, do you have any places we could go to?"
"Well, we can go to the Presidium to visit a couple of the sights there. The prothean museum is pretty decent," Liara said with a slight grin. "We could also head for the wards' shopping districts to do some casual shopping or if you're really up for it we can visit Armax Arsenal Arena, they have a virtual arena where they can simulate fights with VI's. It would be the perfect place to see what you can do with that amp."
The museum might be nice since Liara will probably be able to give a lot of extra information, though visiting the shopping district sounds a bit more relaxing, maybe they'll even have a spa there. But then I could also go to the arena to try out the amp...
Fluttershy shivered slightly as the thought of going to fight, even though it was just against simple VI's, wasn't as repulsive to her as it had once been.
What's wrong with you, Fluttershy! Why are you even considering this!
1. Go to the Presidium
2. Go to the markets
3. Go to Armax Arsenal Arena
I voted armax but it isnt showing up as i voted
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same
Armax Arsenal Arena she need to learn how to use her power to not get someone else harmed when on missions
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It sometimes takes a couple of seconds to update, I can see them
Armax Arsenal Arena; you're gonna need that training, Flutters...
I shall give this a read.
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good to see i am very interested to see how not giving the data will affect later on i have 3 theory 2 positive one negative
1 due to the fact her data is not out there people will not know what she can do ie Cerberus or just mercs so people will not come looking for her OR they will the person that wants the data could send people to trap her for the greater good of increasing the power of biotics i can see a few factions in the mass universe doing this. this relies on the information about her getting out or that the data was not taken any way during the surgery that why i voted on no biotics amp
2 because her data is not out there when the reapers arrive the over all effectiveness of biotics has not changed i.e more people die then will the data
3 because she did not share her data people will not be able to determine how much of a danger she is because of this people will underestimate her
Okay. This was fun. Careful Flutters, you're getting into a habit of accidentaly blowing things up. Id recommend getting that sorted out before the Normandy gets back. Sponaneous explosions are generally bad on spaceships ...
1: and they walked over
2: the building. The streets
3: The streets around the building were as busy
in any way but, if she was to believe Liara and the extranet, having a biotic
greeted
I don't really need to explain this one, do I?
would say that. You know
suggested
With the payment settled, Liara gave
muzzle. It took immediate effect
Nyxin left the room with her attendant, allowing Liara
get some practice in, but
for a moment. She had to admit
I'll definitely need to read this later, but I just want to give you a pat on the back in advance! You seem really dedicated to your work, and this story, and you deserve more views than you're getting!
I was hoping they could relax and have a nice time in the wards but it looks like that's not meant to be.
The presidium. Fluttershy needs to know more about the universe she's been thrust into, especially the Protheans and Reapers.
The arena. The last thing Fluttershy needs is for her biotics to cause a major accident
Cmon chaps, Flutters needs to learn to not pulverize things with her new amp installed.
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I have a question, won't Fluttershy be staying there for about a week right? Doesn't that mean that she should have time to go to all three places for the rest of the time she will be there? I am saying to go to the Arena first due to her magic be probably a danger to herself and others and I can see Fluttershy not wanting to be a danger. Also, a few questions about how the story works.
What is this [Certainty: 45] do?
And how are these (Does Fluttershy take the offer anyway? No) parts of the story decided?
I just started reading this story yesterday and is loving how good and how fast this story is going, it is definitely going to get stuck on the feature page.
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The certainty means that after that amount of votes I make the decision which option to pic, if two options are close that's the line that decides who wins.
As for the other options that happen within the story, they're decided with a d8 dice.
8: critical yes
7: yes
6: yes
5 : yes
4: no
3: no
2: no
1: critical no
Depending on the situation I can decide that 3 and 4 might be yes as well or 5 and 6 no.
So far, a very intresting take on story creation, given lots of informational resources available on both sides.
Currently the best description I can propose for Equestria, specifically given its geocentric form if wanted in a realistic enviroment, than minature stellar objects orbiting it, is that its core, mantle down is some varient of a charm or strangelet neutron star remnant, but one in which the millions of gravities are counteracted by the dense dark energy componant. The dark energy componant falls off rapidly with distance from the surface, so normal matter remains in orbit even for large masses, or at least common orbit, as for a distant stellar mass to move in such a way, the dark energy would have to be counteracting teh equivalence of a medium super stellar mass black hole, dark matter star? Moving the sun and moon implies making dark energy waves to have them slide around. The sun is easier because its own energy production is used to drive the spell effect?
Good thing that Fluttershy used Cloud Push the first time she used her biotics instead of Lightning Strike or Wing Blade etc. The biggest problem Fluttershy should now have, is that the head of a Geth looks rather similar to that poor trash can, before, and After?
Somethings I would consider with her data. First, its been placed on the black market or sold already. People in places associated with her Armorer have become Intrested. That clinic is going to mysteriously burn down in mysterious circumstances mysteriously in the next day or so. The Reapers are going to be fed her information from their agents and zelots, letting them improve their own gear such as Stare Indoctrination, while also giving them the information needed to scan for Equestria itself. Either they strip the populance for supplies, or they have the information now, they cut their losses and launch an extra stellar planetary mass high sublight c-kinetic suprise strike against the Equestrian system?
Wouldnt go to the training grounds, thats a Lot of power in a very small unique package to demostrate to a lot of Very Intrested Parties. Id think going to the Presidium might be the most intresting, just to see how the dead Mass Relay or other museum items react to Fluttershys now active biotic interface?
I dont exactly expect her to activate and interface with The Krang, but would expect something to occur that would annoy the Reapers and followers.
I have to agree that the chances of her data staying private are slim... maybe if Shepard used his Spectre credentials to ensure it stayed that way they might succeed...noone likes crossing a spectre
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The shadow broker will get the data anyways. I would have got the data to everyone immediately rather that made it so that it eventually got into only the wrong hands. That way, people are more able to work with her biotics and she saves credits.
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Except for maybe the Council; they never seem to have a high opinion of this particular Spectre.
Oh, and he does get directly attacked and spaced later on; the culprits don't seem to give a damn about his Spectre status either.
Not to mention Cerberus.
I'm highly confused by the decision of the majority of voters at the very start of this chapter. I mean, why? Sure it will make her a little bit stronger, but it's not like she can now one-shot reapers because of it.
Presidium since she should not overstress her body...
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Indeed. It's 2022 and we got ME 1& 2 done and are well into 3.
Great picture, what the story behind it?
Nightmare/ Magic Symbiot or Dark Magic?
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Pretty sure one can take of the AMP...
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Yep... Fluttershy herdong is not looking good...
Fluttershy getting the Alien Waifus and Husbandos would be so nice
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Nothing to learn about the Reapers, since they don't exist even Unofficial...
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Wondered how you decide that. Very neat!
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I have a released 'foundation story'. How about Suns that a external burning solarit reactors and Moons thst are actually Terraforming Plattforms? Or Battlestations to keep unwanted guests out...
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Yep, STG, Shadowbroker alone want that stuff. Black Market if she want to get rich fast...
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Exacly, let all prpfit from it. OR campaign for Equestrians, money saved and more
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Good point, but to individuals it's a very dicey detail.
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You compare pistols to Nuklear rockets.
Pretty sure Fluttershy can crush Shuttel's soon...
As efficient she will be later on, Shepard credits got invested wisely fir the future.