Go purchase something living and experiment with extracting memories from it without killing it. Also try reanimating it or putting a ghost in it without killing it to see what happens.
See if a skeleton can understand another skeleton is linked with us and if they can see the energy linking it to us. See if they can see point towards the source of the link. If it works, then from now on, we will use a skeleton other than Piecewise as a lookout while we sleep by ordering them to point at the direction the energy controlling Piecewise is coming from, if it comes from a direction other than ourselves. Maybe it will give us a clue.
Also, order ourselves to point at the energy controlling us. Maybe we don't know it consciously, but our undead body does.
Other than that, ask Esme if she needs anything from us to prepare our covert insertion into the secret research lab.
+1 Much more useful than my idea
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I forget what the original link to the lab was. How did we find out about it, and how is Kelley connected to it?
Also, we should ask Esme if there are people - good and bad - still living who could recognize that we look like Kelley. Other than her.
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You ask Esme about preparing for a covert insertion into the lab, and if she needs anything for it.
"I need a lot of information." She says, returning to her work, "If we're sneaking you in like I suggested then we need to know where they get their bodies, the transport process, security measures, everything we can related to it. I've already got people looking into it but its apparently now what amounts to a blacksite. Information is hard to come by so it might take a bit. If you can figure out a way of getting more info on it without alerting everyone to whats going on, that would be good."
You head out and, with some money from Esme, buy several live chickens. You return them to the library, trying not to look suspicious. Bringing chickens into a library is kind of odd, after all. Attempts to extract memories from the chickens while they are alive are unsuccessful. You're not even sure how you'd do it; there aren't any coming out for you to grab. Its like trying to drink out of a closed bottle. Attempting to put a phantom into the chicken proves equally impossible; like trying to push the same poles of two magnets together. The thing just slides off or repels. Animation proves more complex: attempting to connect the anima to a being already connected to it seems to grant them some amount of enhanced capacities; at least in the sort term. The connection, like the connection to a non-living thing, bleeds away and eventually snaps. The third time you try it on the same chicken, the creature catches fire and then bursts. Pushing too much anima into a living creature is definitely not good for it.
You ask the skeletons but they don't seem to understand. They just point at you when you ask them about energy linking them to you. Even the smarter one does this. Hmm.
You order your body to point at the one controlling you and it...just stands there. You ask it to point instead at the one empowering you and it points straight up.
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