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Azadeh Kavenpour

Lalaine Ulit-Destajo

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Azadeh is a low-level worker at a massive tech corporation and discovers that she is much more than that. In fact, she might be the bridge between the current stage of humanity and the next.

Faction Allegiance (10 pts):

Subfaction: Mesher

Location: Western Alliance, North America

Story Short

Azadeh Khavenpour has just received an invitation that could change her life.

Azadeh, an employee at the Dy’ell Robotics company has been summoned by Dy’ell’s CEO to an exclusive dinner for some of the most important people in the world.

Finally, after years of being overlooked, first as a young woman building robots in the streets of Old Teheran, and then as a low-level employee who’s brilliant ideas were stolen by her supervisors, Azadeh has a chance to prove to everyone how incredible she really is.

But even this amazing news doesn’t stop the voices. Since as long as she can remember, even before she could talk, Azadeh has heard them. The worst part?  How boring they are - if Azadeh is going crazy, she’s doing it in the most mundane way possible.

At the party, Dy’ell’s CEO, the impossibly elegant Khedra Izsam, offers her the job of a lifetime - leading a secret project attempting to use machines to unlock the entirety of the human brain. If it works, it will see humanity take the next step in evolution.

As Azadeh stands alone on a balcony looking over the vast beauty of the city, the voices start again, but this time there is nothing mundane about them - they’re screaming at her to run, to escape, that Izsam is not what she appears, the voices even tell her how to do it, how to disappear where even one of the most powerful woman in the world can’t find her.

But if she listens, Azadeh will never be able to fulfill the destiny she knows she has, to show all of humanity just how much she can do.

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