[ Arthur looks at that expression and feels his smile grow wider. ]
Where I'm from, there's this chemical called Somnacin. It was developed by scientists for use with a device called the PASIV. [ He gestures with his hands, brings them together. ] These things used together? They let you create a lucid dream - a shared lucid dream. In these dreams, your mind is infinitely powerful - you can create whole cities with a thought, battlegrounds, scenarios, buildings that don't exist in the real world.
There's a drawback, though. Someone creates the dream, and someone else populates it with their subconscious - creates literal projections of them. And these projections? You can talk to them, find out what the person's thinking. Ideas they have, or information they might know.
And even if they're trying to protect that information, you can trick them into placing it somewhere you can break in, steal it and read it.
[ He sits back, takes another drink of the midori sour. ]
And that's my job, is helping someone do that. See, guys who do that, they're called extractors. They know how to get into your head, how to play you. I can host those dreams, I can design a dream for you, I can find information on your target - but someone else has to extract the information, because that's not what I'm good at.
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Where I'm from, there's this chemical called Somnacin. It was developed by scientists for use with a device called the PASIV. [ He gestures with his hands, brings them together. ] These things used together? They let you create a lucid dream - a shared lucid dream. In these dreams, your mind is infinitely powerful - you can create whole cities with a thought, battlegrounds, scenarios, buildings that don't exist in the real world.
There's a drawback, though. Someone creates the dream, and someone else populates it with their subconscious - creates literal projections of them. And these projections? You can talk to them, find out what the person's thinking. Ideas they have, or information they might know.
And even if they're trying to protect that information, you can trick them into placing it somewhere you can break in, steal it and read it.
[ He sits back, takes another drink of the midori sour. ]
And that's my job, is helping someone do that. See, guys who do that, they're called extractors. They know how to get into your head, how to play you. I can host those dreams, I can design a dream for you, I can find information on your target - but someone else has to extract the information, because that's not what I'm good at.
[ it rankles to admit. ]