[OTA]

[icanhearscreams]

Stop talking stop talking stop talking stop talking it's like the screaming it's not real it can't be real it has to be fake. Just another hallucination.

Stop it, stop it, stop it! It's not real! It's not... just stop...

Comments

[icanhearscreams]

Filters, huh.

[If there was ever anyone he wanted to talk to... hm.]

It sounds like it would be useful to learn, though.

[dino_zarf]

There are... people who can still intrude, until you learn to beef up the protection. Which I definitely suggest doing. It works for more than just locking down conversations, it let us keep some of what we ran into on the last Jaunt out too.

[icanhearscreams]

What did you run into on the last Jaunt?

[dino_zarf]

There was this whale thing. It had a song that drove people mad. But we could shield ourselves from it a bit.

[icanhearscreams]

A... song. Really.

[He does not 'sound' convinced.]

[dino_zarf]

There was a psychic component to it. But the real reason basically came down to mermaids.

[icanhearscreams]

... Now you're just messing with me.

[dino_zarf]

My ten month old is currently crawling on the ceiling.

[Totally the logical response]

Normal gets redefined mighty quickly here.

[icanhearscreams]

I...

[You know what. Never mind.]

I'm going to get a headache from all of this.

[dino_zarf]

[There is a fairly short moment where Wash engages a sensory live stream of Rose on the ceiling exactly as described. He keeps it brief to try to avoid being too overwhelming.]

This place does have that effect.

[icanhearscreams]

[That's... super weird. He rubs at his eyes afterwards, trying not to feel a little sick.]

What was that? The thing you just did?

[dino_zarf]

We call it sensory livestreaming. It lets people share what their senses are picking up across the network. Sights, sounds, even smells. Mostly people do sights and sounds though.

[icanhearscreams]

No offense, but I don't want to smell a ten month old. I've been around babies before.

[dino_zarf]

People don't generally go for the smell option. We mostly use it to let people see and hear something that's happening.

[Okay he mostly uses it for baby videos]

[icanhearscreams]

I don't blame them. It sounds pretty gross.

[dino_zarf]

And generally not very useful. Sights and sounds though, there are ways to dig them up afterwards, as long as someone remembers to stream it while it's happening.

[icanhearscreams]

... There's a record? Why? Also how, and - does that mean we're being monitored somehow?

[dino_zarf]

There's a way to go looking into past announcements on the network. It's one of the other basics.

[icanhearscreams]

That's... great. If there's a record that people can go through... does that mean the people who brought us here can go through it, too?

[dino_zarf]

It's probably safe to assume that.

[icanhearscreams]

Right... so we'll have to be careful, I guess.

[dino_zarf]

That's about all we can do.