The Gaming Den

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You gather your, thoughts and concentrate your will. As you do so your double is doing exactly the same thing and a titanic clash of wills takes place. If you are wearing a teardrop gem on a bracelet, turn to 9. If not, the battle rages on and on, your head begins to ache and the blood pounds in your temples. Your two minds are equally matched and there can be no winner of this battle of minds. As the warring of wills continues you reserve a small part of your mind to search for a way to break the deadlock. Will you:
Pick up the nearby chess table and hurl it?
Pull your blaster?
Battle on until one or the other is exhausted?

(Chess table? Is that/will that be a thing?)

Throw a table.

Go pro wrestling on our evil pallet swap’s ass.

WE WANT TABLES!

279 [Score a K]
You dart for the chess table and your move is shadowed by your double, but the table is nearest you and, grabbing it, you hurl it with all your force. Make an Attack Roll.
If you score 8-12...got 6 and 2, but still subtracting 2, so:

324
Your double's reactions are every bit as good as yours and the table smashes harmlessly against the wall. You draw your blaster, but the same though passed through your adversary's mind a split second before yours. Will you:

Throw yourself aside?
Count on your own superb reactions to see you through?

If our double has the draw on us we should just try to dodge.

Agreed.

As your double pulls the trigger you hurl yourself behind the massage couch. Make an Evasion Roll.

If you score 7-12...5 and 2, -2, so:

Your foot catches the edge of your chess table as you dive. Your double's reactions are every bit as good as yours and the blaster finds its mark before you have scrambled behind the massage couch. Your body is vapourised and death takes you. You have been killed by yourself.

So...re-roll, or go back further and try again?

Try Thinkstriking this time?

Agreed.

Ok, going back a bit:

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Your double hurls a blast of thought at you at the same moment and they cancel out. Will you:

Use your Psychic Awareness to probe the other Falcon's mind?
Use your Power of Will to take control?

(Which leads to the same sections as last time)

For shits and giggles let's see if Psychic Awareness doesn't get us PoW'd with our pants down.

Psychic probe.

As you probe your double's mind you realise that your own mind is being probed at the same time. You both open up so that each can share the other's experiences. What you find turns you stark staring mad. Your minds are identical apart from small details. You have had exactly the same experiences, both have been responsible for foiling the Hiver Renegade Lord, both have Agidy Yelov as a mortal enemy, both have killed him in an alternative history that never took place due to the changes you wreaked in the history of the world Mechanon. Your double remembers Baal exactly as you do, but you both see the world slightly differently. The other Falcon believes that a mining colony on Tau Ceti V has been wiped out but you know that no such colony exists. The experience is too much for both of you. You have lost your sense of self and you both become catatonic morons, neither wanting to speak or even move.

You are only dimly aware - everybody's voices sound so distant - and it does not occur to you to reply, when Section Leader Skirrow and some medtechs come to take you both away. In the care of the mental abnormality clinic of the main Health Executive hospital in Alpolis you recover slowly. Your double's recovery is quicker, but you are forced finally to appreciate the awful truth - this is not your world. Everything here seems more sinister, as if society is somehow turning bad. Your Time Ship has somehow materialised in a parallel universe in which you have no place. Your double Falcon, has always lived on this Earth, and the people that you count on as friends are this Falcon's friends not yours. The TIME executive of this parallel world vote that it would be dangerous to allow you to return to your own universe and you are kept under guard. You have nothing to live for, your Time Ship is dismantled and escape impossible. You are an embarrassment to the authorities and when the parallel world Agent Lynx comes to serve the termination order you are glad to die.

(Ok, so have to go back somewhere and try something else. I remember dying a lot here when I played this)

Straight to blaster instead of bothering with the table.

Talking to him is likely to lead to the same existential crisis, so yeah, just cap his ass.

As you go for your blaster your double has exactly the same thought. Your blasters take aim and the two blasts of superheated plasma spit simultaneously. Your bolt has killed your double, but there is nothing where your face used to be. You have been killed by yourself.

(Yeah, there's a lot of ways to die here)

Hope that talking leads to less of a mental breakdown than psychic link and rediscover the art of conversation with our alternate self.

Half a vote to POW wrestle until one or the other folds.

So far only the table choice didn't actually lead to instant failure (we failed a dice roll), so I vote to go back to that.

Yeah, go with the table again.

279 [Score a K]
You dart for the chess table and your move is shadowed by your double, but the table is nearest you and, grabbing it, you hurl it with all your force. Make an Attack Roll.
If you score 8-12 4 and 2, -2 so:

324
Your double's reactions are every bit as good as yours and the table smashes harmlessly against the wall. You draw your blaster, but the same though passed through your adversary's mind a split second before yours. Will you:

Throw yourself aside?
Count on your own superb reactions to see you through?

DOOOOOODGE!

We need to roll a 9 or higher for that, so see if blasting our double has better odds. I don't see why it would, but I'm assuming there's an easy roll somewhere.

It said that our double thought of drawing his blaster a split second before us, and he's supposed to be as good as us, so I doubt we can outshoot him once he has the initiative.

Dodge.