Mindscape - The Experiments of Doctor F. Seinhem [ADVANCED][Open to new apps again!]

[Blazinghydra]

(OOC; Eh? What error?)

Seinhem chuckled. "Very well. Akashic then." He glanced over at Zenon and Zarkus. "Ah, you two. Yes, I've been expecting you. Please, follow me." He said casually, entering the second floor of his psychiatrist office.

The second floor of the office was vastly different from the widely different first floor. The blank walls and mellow carpets gave way to white walls covered in several odd, old-looking pieces of equipment. A lie-detector was seen, shoved into one corner, as other pieces of elaborate machinery encroached on its position. The entire place looked fairly cluttered and disorganized.

Seinhem glanced around, and ignoring all the machines, made his way to a door on the east wall, his shoes clacking against the solid, cheap-looking floors.

[Star Child]

"This place is a dump!", I exlcaimed before even entering the room. When I walked in I about tripped on a stack of papers, knocking them all over the floor, but caught my balance.

[El Beasto Perezoso]

Zenon followed the man intently. The unorthodox equipment made him slightly uneasy, but the Doctor didn't seem to have any malevolent intent. The walls were a bland color, and the floors made of some kind of plastic, but besides that the room seemed professional. They quietly worked their way over to the door.

[Otaku-sama]

Heikichi entered the very messy laboratory. As Heikichi walked, he tripped over a broken microscope and fell face first on the floor. He whimpered slightly as he got up.
"Ow...This place is messier than my Oji-san's office!"
Heikichi looked around and look a good look at the lab. It contained all sorts of assorted gadgets and knick-knacks. Heikichi spied a very complex molecule model on a desk nearby. He sauntered to it and picked it up.
"Whoa! This thing is cool!"

[Blazinghydra]

Seinhem chuckled. "My apologies for the mess. I've never had anyone else but me up here, and I've been a little busy recently, so I couldn't clean." He said casually, his hands fiddling about. He took a key from his pocket and quickly unlocked the small door before him with a 'click'. He opened the door, which revealed a cozy-seeming little room with a lamp gently illuminating it. A soft brown color was painted on the walls, in stark contrast to the whiteness of the rest of the wall outside, and a rather large and comfortable-looking couch was the centerpiece of attention. A balding man, looking in his forties laid on the couch, apparently sleeping. His head was bald and somewhat shiny, with a fringe of white hair along the back and sides, with a small goatee. He wore worn-looking jeans and an inexpensive looking-green jacket with a plain white shirt; His face was covered in worry lines, and he seemed to either be a very high-strung unemployed man, or a very frugal lawyer.

Seinhem picked a clipboard off the table. "This is Mr. Stephen Jackson." He said, writing a short note on the board with a pen from his pocket.

[SPA7X]

Akashic looked around at the cluttered office. He heard a thump to his right, only to find Heikichi lying on the floor whimpering. He laughed a little at the young boy's clumsyness. "you realy should watch where your going." he picked up the broken microscope of the floor and read the date on it. "1987? Jeez, It's like a medical scrap yard in here." He looked over at the rest of the machines. "Actually, I'm not even sure if this stuff even is medical." He followed the doctor over to where the door was. As he looked into the room his attention was drawn to the man residing within. "You keep a sleeping bald man locked up in an office? Either your the strangest person I've ever met, or there's more to this than there appears." Akashic looked at both elderly men and thought about what he had just said. "... or both. that's also an option."

[shadowferret]

I regarded Rorschach with a look of wonder, until deciding to step back and await the conversation's flow.
Really, I just stopped listening after a while. Everyone had their own business with the Doctor, and I'm sure it was all more important and interesting than "I was curious about the Doctor and what he could do for me".
Suddenly, everyone started walking around the halls. I followed along, looking for Rorschach again, but couldn't see him this time. When we got into the mess of an office, and then into the next room, the old man in the couch took me by surprise.
"Oh, my..." I looked at Stephen Jackson, waved, and smiled.

[Master Mave II]

The labratory looked like a dump. James had to watch his step to avoid falling over. Heikichi tripped over a broken microscope and landed on the floor with a *THWUMP* James just barely held back a laugh. The doctor opened a door to another room and an old man maybe in his forties laid on the couch, James thought he was sleeping. His head was bald on top with a fringe of white hair along the back and sides, he also had a small goatee. He wore worn-looking jeans and an green jacket with a plain white shirt under it. Looks like a lawyer James thought.

"This is Mr. Stephen Jackson." The doctor said. James had so many questions to ask. Is he and ESPer too? Does he work with the military? Is he going to help train us? But most importantly can I trust him? James stayed silent however, waiting to hear what the doctor had to say next.

[evilfusion]

David followed the others in silence, only casting the messy office a quick look over. How shocking could it be to see a messy office? Sheesh, half the group either seemed awed by the scale of disorganization, or extremely curious about what the room contained.

However, even he was puzzled by the presence of the man in the next room. Seinhem had had the door locked. Was that for privacy or to keep the man there? He did not linger with these questions and leaned his back against the wall with a distinctly aloof expression. No doubt the rest of the group would start obsessing over details of potentially irrelevent things. His thoughts surprised him. Since when had he been impatient or easily irked?

[Star Child]

I walked into the smaller room and suddenly felt relaxed and calm, especially with a lamp instead of some sort of overhead light. I glanced towards the person laying on the couch and noticed that he looked stressed. "......cozy, relaxing, interesting...." I studied the brown walls and saw that the paint had been peeling slightly, he should fix this, it's pretty noticable. I closed my eyes and saw the big crimson bear again, <sit near the lamp, and nowhere else>. The image of me appeared again and shook his head as to say yes, I understand. <Now open your eyes and do as I said>, the figure of me hesitated and eventually agreed. I opened my eyes and apparently only a few seconds had passed again, I went over and sat right in front of the lamp. As soon as I sat a warming sensation was felt all over my body.

[Blazinghydra]

Seinhem walked over to the side of Stephen's bed and put a palm on his forehead, retracting it after a couple moments. He muttered and made another note. "Stephen here is a long-standing patient of mine. He suffers from chronic headaches, originating from his tendency to give into stress often. He has a very high blood pressure, and his heart isn't fairing too well either." He muttered, as he continued writing.

"Nobody seemed able to do anything, so I tentatively offered him the option of taking part in a very experimental, very new procedure. A procedure never before ventured with any degree of competency, due to lack of those with the proper skills for it."

He gave a small smile. "This, is your training."

[El Beasto Perezoso]

"Training??? What exactly do we have to do with him?" Zenon blurted out.
"This just keeps getting weirder and weirder..," he thought.
"I mean, what exactly can we do for him? I mean, ESP doesn't really have anything to do with healing people's ailments," he said.

[Otaku-sama]

Heikichi peered at the man in the small room.
"So Jackson-san needs our help? I learned a few things from my doctor! I can try some of what he does!"
Heikichi went through his pockets and pulled out a pencil.
"Now open your mouth and say 'ahhh'" Heikichi said while holding the back of the pencil to Stephen's mouth.

[evilfusion]

David fought the urge to roll his eyes. "Hey kid," he said to Heikichi, careful not to sound like a jerk while doing so. "If ACTUAL doctors couldn't do anything, why would you be able to by doing the exact same things as regular doctors, but without the years of medical school and experience? And you're using a pencil, not a tongue depressor. How about you just wait until this guy," David gestured to Seinhem, "tells us what he's talking about?"

[shadowferret]

"So, we're supposed to be walking, talking Tylenol's and Depressants?" I looked at Jackson again, who didn't look too hot. Feeling out with my thoughts, I could hear that he had a lot of stressful crap in his everyday life.
"Hm..." What the hell? It's worth a shot. I tried something that I've never done before. If the Doctor was telling the truth, that we were gifted ESPers, then maybe I could discover a new... ability.
I focused on Jackson's mind as much as I could, and began thinking of calm, relaxing things...
Let's see how good I am at imposing my own thoughts on others.

[SPA7X]

Akashic looked at the crumpled bald man on the couch. He kinda felt bad for him, his only hope being a bunch of kids (one of which is excessivly young) who barely know what they were doing. The doctor may be insightful, but his methods of teaching were also a bit cruel "Great. Lemme guess, your hoping that by using us, most of which have powers of effecting others minds, we can heal his mind and in response his body? (sigh) I guess it's better than leaving him to die."

bSuddenly, an Idea popped into his head. He reached into his bag and took out the Black book. "Wait, mabye if this book can tell me how to fix a trolley, it can tell me how to fix this man as well!" He opened the book, revealing the first few pages seperated from the rest and filled with info on trolleys and their repair. Thats when he turned to te next page and found... absolutly nothing. The next pages were all blank. "Oh, right. I don't know how to work it... this could be a problem." He looked around at the others. "Anyone else got a plan? My doesn't seem to be working so well..."

[Master Mave II]

"I think I have an idea." James said, now looking at the doctor. "When we astral project we leave our bodies behind and can return to then any time we wish right? Does that mean that, instead of returning to our bodies, we can enter this man's?" James looked back at Stephan "If is problem is a mental thing like stress, going into his mind could help."

[Blazinghydra]

Seinhem smirked. "Very good James, you're quick on the uptake. Yes, it is possible to enter other's minds while in Astral Projection. Well, it's normally impossible- the conscious mind erects barriers that eject foreign thoughts from entering them. It's the reason that only the most experienced Psychics can read minds past what Scanning provides."

He plucked his bronze-clad spectacles from their perch on his nose, and quickly wiped them off with his lab coat. He grinned when he looked up at them again.

"The dreaming mind, however, is open... ready, prepared. While dreaming, we accept all sorts of things that don't belong to our world, to our mindset. You see, my dear youths, every person's mind is a unique realm all its own. Physics and laws, the shaping of the rules, the way things react... all of us have our own ideal area where all that makes sense to us, and only us, lies there. People aren't meant to intrude on those barriers; that's why a conscious mind cannot be taken over. Our own minds would reject the reality of a foreign realm, as the two sets of rules would become a paradox. However..."

He paused again, for dramatic effect. His bright green eyes twinkled in the dull light from the lamp post nearby, casting interesting shadows on his face.

"While asleep, like I mentioned, these rules are relaxed. We're able to see past things like 'logic' and 'reason', and develop with fluidity and insight."

He gestured to the man laying upon the bed. "Stephen here was prepared by Rorschach and myself. He lies in a state of twilight, between the world of sleep and the world of the waking. In this mixture between the two, his mental barriers are relaxed enough to the point where you can penetrate them and later leave, without risking being trapped in his mind."

He paused solemnly. "I admit, it will be dangerous. You may have to face the pain of this man before you can remove it yourself. An ESPer's greatest weapon is their emotions- with their emotions, they extend parts of their mind, both illogical and logical aspects, and allow them to affect the area around them. The normal mind is no less like this; While he hasn't a shred of ESP, you will be intruding on his mind, his most sacred sanctum. His emotions, his mental abilities, may try to stop you. His stress, his worries and his fears certainly will, and they will try to drive you away from this mission. It's only though empathy with this man's mind, your own resourcefulness and understanding of your ability when faced with being in an environment consisting entirely of the element you have been gifted with... that your own abilities will grow. I hope to kill two birds with this stone... I want you to help this man, give him the aid no one else can; I can't help him more than I have already, and certainly no other non-psychic has a better chance; and to give you a perspective on what it means to be an ESPer. Perhaps you'll discover why you have your abilities. Perhaps not. But either way, you will learn something, I guarrenty it."

He fiddled his glasses. "In layman's terms, yes, I want you to enter your Astral States and enter this man's mind. Once in there, I want you to identify the source of his stress and destroy it, before returning out here. I want to emphasize that this may be dangerous. I won't force you to do it if you don't want to, but I honestly believe it is necessary for the growth of your ability, and if you want answers, I would say this is where you start looking for them. Once in there, I won't be able to help you. It'll be all up to you to learn. The best teacher, in this case, will be your own experiences."

He paused again. "I've said that I won't force you, so I'll ask now- Is there anyone here who does not wish to help this man, or to enter his Mindscape? I can guaranty you will never get a better opportunity to better understand your gift, and by extension, yourselves."

Markus caught his breath as Seinhem stopped speaking and looked around the crowd. Markus wanted to object; he really did. He didn't ask for this. He didn't want to be responsible for healing this man. He didn't want to risk his life on this and possibly fail.

And yet, he couldn't bring himself to say the words. He felt against this, and yet, something told him that he wouldn't be able to forgive himself later in his life if he bowed out. Something inside him, buried deep, told him that maybe this is the way it was meant to be...

[Star Child]

I looked towards the lamp and muttered under my breath, "astral projection...I've only done it twice. The 1st time didn't go so well, I almost got mauled by a huge blood-red bear, but I returned to my body in time. The 2nd time I had more experiance, but the bear still tried to attack, just not as bad as the 1st time. But, earlier today, I think that I might've made peace with the bear." I looked at the patient laying on the couch, "I know I've gone through more suffering than he has, and I haven't enjoyed it. This could be my chance, my 1 chance to change everything..."

<The winds of change are blowing>, a deep voice bellowed through my head, making it ache, <and you can feel them throughout your entire body, I know you can.> The aches and throbbing stopped as the voice cleared and I realised what I must do, I must do precisely as doctor Seinhem had said. I looked at the doctor, my eyes meeting his, "I will help. I will show this man peace, peace that I've never even felt before."

[Otaku-sama]

Heikichi listened carefully to the Doctor as he spoke.
"Hmm...I did notice when I was flying at night that there was a big hole floating around people who were sleeping! I think that's the hole that Seinheim-sensei is talking about!"
Heikichi scampered a little distance away and sat down. He had a face that exumed pure concentration. Suddenly, his body lay limp, his head hanging towards his lap. Heikichi has astral-projected.

Heikichi felt the very familiar feeling that felt like blowing wind across his face as he projected. He saw the room a few feet higher than he usually did, as he was floating. Suddenly, a staff bounced towards him like a pogo stick.
"Hello Ruyi-san!"
The stick suddenly jumped and shrunk down to ths size of a toothpick and jumped into Heikichi's pocket. Then, Heikichi almost lost balance. There was a girl that looked the same age as Heikichi who had just glomped Heikichi from behind.
"Hei-chan! I'm so glad you're back!" exclaimed the girl.
"Aah! Kipo-chan! I'm glad to be back too!" replied Heikichi as he removed Kipo from his back.
"Where are we going now Hei-chan?" asked Kipo, very excitedly.
"Seinheim-sensei wants me to go into Jackson-san's mind."
Kipo looked over at Stephen, where a hole just enough to fit a man floated above him.
"Oooh...It looks scary to go in there..." Kipo said with a shiver.
"That's ok! We're gonna have friends come with us! We might have to wait because they haven't flown around before."