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It’s too far for the grunts but a lone
stalker sails easily over my hiding
place and clamps its talons around
the trunk of a tree ten meters past.
Then the tree’s falling, torn free of
the earth by a couple of hundred
kilograms of metal and jelly using
it for a grab-on at thirty meters a second. 
And the outcropping it
jumps to next, crumbling under its

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Sometimes the Ceph nearly take
me out. Sometimes I take fire from 
an unexpected quarter, SECOND
backtracks a bearing, but I can’t
see any targets.

Crysis: Legion, ERECTION

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Heavies guard each substation,
slow but almost indestructible.
Their missiles are easy enough to
dodge a few hundred meters out,
but the closer you get the less time
there is to get out of the way

Crysis: Legion, ERECTION

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Blizzard doesn’t come close.
Hurricane misses the mark. Wind
tunnel might catch the nuts and
bolts, but it can’t convey the gut feeling
I don’t know if anything can.
The spire breathes you in and for
the merest instant it almost seems 
calm: The walls are a blur but
there’s no resistance as long as you
just go with the flow. Then you

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There’s no doubt about the
sudden vibration that shakes the
walls, though. It shakes me loose
and slams me down another endless tunnel.
Which actually ends.
Maybe the suit keeps the impact
from turning me to jelly. Maybe it
just keeps the jelly contained in a
human-shaped sack. But I’m on the
deck now, and the wind screams

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Alcatraz—Prophet,
whatever he calls
himself now—there is
nothing in his file to
suggest any aptitude or
special training in the 
behavioral sciences.
Certainly nothing to
suggest he was capable
of the sort of

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[Reaction Time/Possible Limit]
We were also able to influence the
direction of the exchange by
periodically exposing PA to
subliminal images projected onto
the facing wall (duration <20msec
to allow for the subject’s increased
visual acuity), which were designed
to provoke a range of emotional
responses.

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BB 2: Excuse me, but I’ve only
just been brought into
the loop concerning the
esteemed Mr. Alcatraz.
Would you be so kind as to give me some
examples of these “abilities”?
Aiyeola: His linguistic skills have improved
significantly over a very
short period of time. His
memory has become

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Walters’ head had been twisted around a full hundred
and eighty degrees. His chest cavity was a ruin.
It looked like something had punched him in the rib
cage, very hard. She reached into one of her holdalls
and found a pair of surgical gloves and a pen. She
inspected Walters’ chest wound and confirmed what
she had expected.
‘He would have died from the blow to the chest
but he was killed when his head was twisted around.
Mikey, check the Grendel.’

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‘Boss,’ Alan said returning. Amanda was grateful
for the interruption. She’d been worried that she was
going to say or do something really dumb and possibly
quite violent. ‘I’ve got three bullets imbedded in the
wall. They were tightly grouped. The other two rounds
I can’t account for. I reckon they got shot down the
tunnel deeper into the cave complex. I can go look for
them.’ Amanda was already shaking her head.
‘No way. We go out, we go mob-handed.’ Alan
looked relieved. ‘You said two.’ Alan held something