"Oh, I see!" Bess' face brightened, a sudden breeze blowing through her hair as she opened a window. "Don't extract the soul at all, wire it up like a control capsule for a starship. Let her control the physical body from inside it. Something not sentient or minimally sentient to reduce the risk of mental contamination. If she's smart she'll tuck it into a pocket dimension and then it will be a critical weakness only you and I know about. I believe you are on to something!" She put a finger to her chin, "I suppose it would give someone with powers over sea creatures the ability to control her at a whim, but Atlantis isn't real, yes?"<br/><br/>The wings on her back lit up a brilliant purple and she pulled her surgical kit from her void-closet.  "Well," she said, "you have it well in hand? Time to practice medicine."<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Through the link, Darclight got a sense of the network he was dealing with - the good news was that this specific Auxilia-commander seemed to have sequestered itself from those not in the immediate area. He got the impression of the other ten networked to her, but not the vast hive-mind that should have been present. That meant that if it came down to a mental or digital battle, he would only be fighting a large amount of parallel processing power rather than the fist of a digital god. The bad news was that not only was this one unit capable of handling the transfer...<br/><br/><em>They replicate how? But how would they... what a strange means of organization.</em><br/><br/>...but the impression forming around the data was<em>intrigued</em>.<br/><br/><em>No, no, that's all wrong. Why didn't they detonate the star? They had the means, and they left the possibility of life arising later...</em><br/><br/>...a little bit baffled.<br/><br/><em>Okay, no, I'm not a military AI but I think they definitely should have won that one. What happened?</em><br/><br/>...and then right around to horrified.<br/><br/><em>Oh wow, yeah. Didn't leave any survivors there. Right. Bad news. Wonder if they smartened up or there's something else going on here?</em><br/><br/><hr/><br/>The sonic barrier broke with an ear-shattering screech as the tower toppled, leaving everyone nearby either deafened or at least their ears ringing. The kraken surged forward intent on fishy business and cod only knew what mischief.<br/><br/>A long tentacle swept up a couple more civilians from the edge of the docks, bringing them yelling and screaming (and blushing?) over to Whitney's tentacle platform. They seemed as surprised as anyone to be joining the impromptu tea party with a naked doggirl!<br/><br/>Ace's super-senses, ever handy at a time like this, could witness all the running and the getting to cover and flooded piers at the displacement of the water, but also the crew of the Coast Guard cutter frantically signaling on the radio - calling for backup, no doubt. More ships and guns, or superheroes? Hopefully the rest of the team was holding up their end before she could find out...<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Kraken attacks! 11, with d8 effect, goes into the doom pool if Whitney doesn't block.</div></div>