The doctor soon came into his room and ran several physical checks on Chase. They took his blood pressure, and a blood sample, tested his reflexes, and measured his physical strength and ESP abilities.<br/><br/>"Hmm," the doctor mumbled, taking down the results on a clipboard and muttering them loud enough for Chase to hear. "Blood pressure, normal. Blood content, normal. Reflexes, above average, but they've always been. Physical strength, above average, as usual. ESP abilities, decreased by another ten percent since your first personality lock." He looked up at his patient and said specifically to him, "That puts you somewhere in the upper skill range of a level three now."<br/><br/>A level three huh? Then he'd dropped at least one level. He didn't go to the system scans this year so he wasn't sure if he'd still been a level four or if he'd moved up to a level five.<br/><br/>"If you don't mind, I'd like to run several psychological tests on you now." Of course he really didn't have a choice now did he? He was lead down a few hallways into a room with several fancy looking machines. There he was asked several questions, and they used some of the machines to measure his brainwaves or something, at least that's what he assumed they were for.<br/><br/>When the doctor was down he left Chase sitting in a bed in this room while he talked with a scientist behind a curtain. He wondered if they knew how easy it was for him to eavesdrop.<br/><br/>"It seems like the device is working exactly as intended," the doctor reported to the scientist. "His physical and basic mental abilities have stayed perfectly in tact. Total since he was brought here, his Esper abilities have decreased by thirty percent. Their full potential is unmeasurable as long as the PL remains on."<br/><br/>"What about psychologically?" the scientist asked. "The main goal is for it to make him<span style="font-style: italic">stable</span>. His ESP abilities don't need to drop if the change to his psychological state is desirable."<br/><br/>"Hmm," the doctor frowned slightly. "Well, he's far less unpredictable now, he no longer seems to have the urge to injure people with his powers just for fun. Unfortunately, it's having a sort of effect similar to what you might see in a bipolar patient. While naturally, the boy is left in a constant, dangerous state of mania, the PL has thrown him in the other direction, trapping him more in a state of depression. That's what's likely having the big effect on his Esper powers. Chase requires motivation to use his powers to their fullest potential. Before, he could find that motivation in the simplest things, but now he's more distanced from things. It's plain as day you'll be able to get him to follow orders easier, but I worry for the boy's health. There's a chance the depressed state induced by the PL will eventually cause him to develop a depression of his own. If things get too bad, you may need to reduce the power output on his second PL, or even take it off."<br/><br/>"We'll hope it doesn't come to that," the scientist responded. "Thank you doctor." Chase saw the doctor's shadow bow to the scientist before he left, then he pulled back the curtain and addressed Chase. "Well good news," he said. "It seems your relatively stable. So," he said, reaching unlocking a drawer and pulling out what Chase knew to be a Cast card, "I'm supposed to give you this."<br/><br/>It was final, there could be no doubt. If he was receiving a Cast card, he wouldn't be leaving the facility any time soon.<br/><br/>"What about the collar?" He found himself asking. "Don't I get one?" Normally, the test subjects here would have a collar placed around their neck. It served several purposes, one of which was monitoring the subjects' locations.<br/><br/>The doctor gave a slight laugh, as if he thought the question was funny. "No no," he said. "Your second PL has a tracking device in it, and the two of them together are more than enough to keep you in line," he seemed to catch himself there and shook his head slightly, trying to reestablish his "friendly doctor" act. "What I mean is, you don't need one, and you should feel grateful for it."<br/><br/>"You're free to go off to the residential wing now," he said, which of course meant he had no choice. "But I'll warn you, your Cast card doesn't have any Cast points on it yet. You'll need to complete a few tasks before you'll be able to eat anything decent. Are you familiar with the tasks?"<br/><br/>"Yes," Chase said, as he stood up to walk away. "I'm familiar with them."