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Post by Gifted on Nov 7, 2017 15:59:38 GMT -5
"My boyfriend. Well, he wasn't my boyfriend at the time. We'd just met, actually. I was in my first year of university at the time, studying journalism and criminology. He was a Masters student studying psychology. We met at a teachers office and he offered to help."
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Post by Raven on Nov 7, 2017 16:32:10 GMT -5
"He found out?" Raven asked.
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Post by Gifted on Nov 7, 2017 18:14:47 GMT -5
"No." Amy shook her head. "It was nothing as easy as that. He offered to help me out. From his research in psychology he knew all sorts of things about cults I'd never even considered. He sat down with me for several hours and went over all the psychology he knew with me about how cults work and how cult leaders make and keep their followers. He was quite confident he understood them inside and out, and he offered to let himself be 'recruited' and pass me information from inside the cult. I agreed and set it up so he would be in an area I knew the cult leader frequented for recruiting and let Kenny pick him up."
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Post by Raven on Nov 7, 2017 18:16:33 GMT -5
"And his memories got changed? But could the cult leader access the memories he had? Didn't he know about you after that?"
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Post by Gifted on Nov 7, 2017 18:30:33 GMT -5
"He knew about me before that, the reason I found out was because when I went to talk to him again, he had no recollection of who I was. I even played him a recording of our conversation, but he insisted he'd never seen me before."
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Post by Raven on Nov 7, 2017 18:32:01 GMT -5
"That must have been frightening," Raven commented.
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Post by Gifted on Nov 7, 2017 18:41:28 GMT -5
"It was terrifying." She agreed. "Especially since I was the one who asked him to go in there in the first place."
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Post by Raven on Nov 7, 2017 18:46:45 GMT -5
"How did you manage to shut it down?"
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Post by Gifted on Nov 7, 2017 18:48:30 GMT -5
"I gathered evidence of what he'd done, learned how his abilities worked and how I could break them, got pictures, video, audio confessions - paternity tests. Then I took it all to the media and the cops."
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Post by Raven on Nov 7, 2017 18:56:48 GMT -5
"Paternity tests? They had his kids and didn't realize it?" Raven asked.
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Post by Gifted on Nov 7, 2017 18:58:13 GMT -5
"They were told the children were gifts from God." Amy responded.
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Post by Raven on Nov 7, 2017 19:08:51 GMT -5
"Really?" Raven asked. "He must have messed with their heads pretty solidly if they believed that."
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Post by Gifted on Nov 7, 2017 19:10:28 GMT -5
"He was magic, he could make them believe whatever he wanted." Her voice was a tad harsher that time.
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Post by Raven on Nov 7, 2017 19:11:33 GMT -5
"Well yeah, that's what I mean," Raven said, more gently. "You found a way to reverse his magic, though?"
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Post by Gifted on Nov 7, 2017 19:13:44 GMT -5
"Yeah, eventually. It took a lot of trial and error." Amy said. "But he was self taught from what I can find, no one could claim to have taught him anything but Arcane magic, which that was definitely not. Because of that his magic had some flaws. It would buckle under extreme emotion - fear was the most reliable one, anything else was a shot in the dark at best."
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