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The Attached Meme

Inspired by the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode of the same name.

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You and the other person now have two problems. One, you're aware of each other's surface thoughts regardless of either of your wishes, and two, if you try to distance yourselves from each other you're struck with nausea and vertigo until you manage to get close again.
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1. You've been captured by some hostile force and had devices surgically implanted into the backs of your necks in order to facilitate interrogation. The mental link between you and dependency on proximity are just side-effects. Can you escape under these conditions?
2. You've been cursed by a spellcaster or supernatural being who wants you to "learn a lesson". Whether that's a real lesson about each other made possible by forced openness and time spent together or just the lesson of "don't mess with me" is an open question, and figuring it out may be key to having the curse broken...
3. One of you has suddenly awakened to latent paranormal powers, or your existing powers are suddenly misbehaving -- perhaps due to unforeseen interaction with the other person's abilities, if they have them. Maybe you could solve this, or at least the part about having to stay near each other, if you could only gain control over your power...
4. You were both willingly part of a scientific experiment, whether one of your own design or something you both volunteered for, and this... was not the result you signed up for. The mental link may or may not have been a known goal, but the involuntary aspect and the inability to separate aren't things either of you expected. Can science undo what it has done?
5. You both came into contact with an unknown substance, whether by accident or simply because of mutual curiosity, and this was the result. Now if you're going to be able to have privacy relative to each other again, you're going to have to figure out what it is and why it had the effect on you it did in order to find a way to counteract it.
6. Your choice, or something new!
Have fun!

"Then call me Mike." The name 'Michael' still put a face in his mind that he wasn't sure about. He might actually have to talk to him if he got out of this.

Her mental cataloging was actually something of a comforting litany as he paced, this time more slowly, more calmly, across one side of the cell. "If I hand you a gun, will you freak out?" he asked, making his own plans. It was one thing to be able to have one gun, but if he could count on her to at least carry one and hand it over when he needed it, that would be better.

"I'm not afraid of guns," Simmons replies, looking up from the patch of floor she's been using as a mental background with a slight frown. "Unless you point one at me, but really, that's just common sense. I've had very little occasion to use one outside of a test range, but I won't panic if I have to handle one, and I won't shoot myself, or you."

She just isn't entirely sure, if it came down to it, how capable she would be of consciously and deliberately shooting anyone else, either. Nonlethal weaponry is one thing, but actual bullets can't be taken back.

He nodded, filing that away. "I'm not going to ask you to shoot anybody," he said. "But I will ask you to hand me guns as we go. They'll be armed somehow, I'm sure, since my tattoo isn't exactly invisible, and it'll take less time to switch guns than it would to scavenge ammo and reload since this isn't a video game." But there were other possibilities. "If they don't have guns, they'll have tasers or something like that, and that'll actually be more troublesome. I hate getting tased, but if I can get you a knife, the handle should insulate you from the current and you'll be able to cut the wires."

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