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Chapter 6: reForm

Psychosis was a detrimental mental virus in ancient societies.  Often, people who suffered this ungainly affliction were sent to facilities where they would be treated.  The success rate of mental reform varied, but was always very low.  Early treatments included a barbaric practice called "electro-shock therapy", from a time when the ancients knew nothing about how the brain functioned.  Psychotic patients would be fitted with diodes, and then dosed with large voltages of electricity, in hopes that somehow the electricity would magically "shock the crazy out of people."
- Taken from the Welcome Lobby of the Official reForm Outernet world

Satori Plesk was a reForm user from the Asiatic islands.  Her perfectly working mind was reformed by her Connector since childhood.  She was of average height, straight black hair and green eyes. Her neural editing log showed early signs of mental disorder, and her Connector worked almost non-stop from the age of two up until her mid twenties to correct the various nodes of her brain interface.  She was one of the first people to overcome severe mental trauma she suffered at birth. 

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