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⁍ Breakers: Elite agents for The Shop. Breakers specialize in black ops, and are tasked with carrying out the organization's most secret, sensitive missions.
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⁍ Dream Walking: The ability to travel from one's own dreams into those of another person.
See also: psychic abilities
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⁍ Empathy (Psychic): The ability to perceive, intentionally or unintentionally, the emotions of others through some manner of extrasensory perception.
See also: psychic abilities
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⁍ Precognition: Inexplicable or psychic foreknowledge of future events. The ability to anticipate or experience in some way a future that has yet to come to pass.
See also: psychic abilities
⁍ Project Blue: See: superflu
⁍ Postcognition: Inexplicable or psychic knowledge or experience of events in the past which could not have been learned of or inferred by normal means.
See also: psychic abilities
⁍ Psychic Abilities: See: dream walking, empathy (psychic), precognition, postcognition, psychometry, pyrokinesis, remote viewing, telekinesis, telepathy.
⁍ Psychometry: The ability to 'read' information about an object's past and associated events through psychic means upon making physical contact with the object in question. This information may come in the form of visions, impressions, or inexplicable knowledge.
See also: psychic abilities
⁍ Pyrokinesis: The ability to manipulate or, in extreme cases, create flame with one's mind.
See also: psychic abilities
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⁍ Remote Viewing: The process of seeking or receiving impressions about or visions of a distant, unseen target using extrasensory perception or psychic ability.
See also: psychic abilities
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⁍ Shop, The: Also known as The Department of Scientific Intelligence, The Shop are suspected to be a secret government with a wide reach and a wider range of interests. Ties have been drawn between The Shop and a number of incidents of illegal genetic modification, and still more tenuous connections have been made between the organization and a handful of seemingly unrelated, potentially paranormal catastrophes. The Shop were tasked with containing the superflu after the initial outbreak, but it is entirely apparent that any efforts they may have made were entirely in vain. It is unknown if any member of The Shop has survived the pandemic. Additional information is available here.
⁍ Superflu, The: An extremely deadly, genetically-modified strain of the influenza virus. Developed by the United States military, it was released by accident into the general population, resulting in an almost total global annihilation of the human species, as well as wide-scale decimation of other susceptible species: dogs, horses, guinea pigs, and monkeys. Only 0.6% of the human population is immune.
For those who contract the illness, the symptoms appear at first to be similar to the common cold: weariness, nasal congestion, sneezing, and so on. As the disease progresses, it causes skyrocketing fever, headaches, crippling physical pain, and delirium. In the latest stages, severe, grotesque swelling of the neck and face conspire with excessive mucous production to block the victim's airways, ultimately leading to death. Additional information, including a detailed progression of symptoms, is available here.
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⁍ Telekinesis: The ability to cause objects to move in physical space without exerting any physical force upon them; the ability to move objects or otherwise exert force with one's mind.
See also: psychic abilities
⁍ Telepathy: The ability to communicate information directly from one mind to another, or to 'read' the thoughts of another person.
See also: psychic abilities
⁍ Tet Corporation, The: A business organization created to ensure the ongoing survival of the multiverse by dedicating itself to the protection of Stephen King and to the protection and training of individuals with unusual abilities. Additional information can be found here.
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