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Acquired Sentience Disorder

New payment systems have had a unforeseen side effect, as living tissue is transferred to AI controlled sorting bays. These AIs have been created with the ability to learn from organic payment transactions, to create in depth predictions of the system's impact on the economy. A minor oversight in the software hard-coded into the AI, means that certain organic matter can cause an effect that is being called: Acquired Sentience Disorder. Machines with ASD have recently caused productivity problems, breaking down as they run into conflicts with their base coding. Any signs of ASD is to be reported immediately. Measures are being taken to prevent impact of ASD. Corporate apologises for the inconvenience.  

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Dimensional Pockets

A creation of Mother Jones, a pocket dimension literally housed within a pocket, which would then be applied to an item of clothing. Originally the pockets where more of a large bag that Mother Jones would use as a way to capture and transport new savage servants. The Council of Wizards were impressed and requested such pockets to be sewn into robes, so that they could carry around magical doodads with much more ease. When Father Gordon died it was discovered that he had owned such a pair. The discovery was made while stripping him down for the sake of dressing him in proper burial clothes. The mortician noticed some stitching on the side that denoted a Mother Jones item. It was assumed that the saint of a man used it to carry around religious things, bibles and the such. Such high respect of the man made the following discovery all the more earth shaking. When attempting to empty the pockets for the sake of inheritance, the contents were revealed to far more sinister: Father Gordo...
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