synopsychic | Backdated: Two for the price of one psychic posts [Jaunt]

[Lupa's first broadcast on the psychic network happens a couple hours after this event. He sounds worried, but calm when he speaks up.]

Has anyone had contact with Raidou in the past few hours? I lost track of his presence a couple hours ago, and a search for his will brought up nothing just now. I'm becoming concerned.

[Lupa's second broadcast comes several days later, a little into the start of Week 3. He sounds very worried, tone clipped with barely reigned in emotion.]

Raidou is still missing, and now that my dreamcatcher has refilled, I used my powers over will to seek direction. I'm being guided towards using a skill that should take me to the Walkabout, if I understand it correctly. I haven't used it before, and there is much happening here but... to my knowledge Raidou is without backup over there, if he did somehow transfer over, as I now suspect. I can't leave a comrade alone without backup, especially when everyone here has plenty of support.

[Touch of guilt there, because he doesn't want to leave everyone here without his support either, but he can't be in two places at once.]

I don't believe I'll have a way of contacting anyone once I go over, so I'm sending notice now.

((ooc: rather than clog up the comm with two separate, short posts, I rolled them into one. Please make clear which your character is responding to, if possible!))

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I would like to learn, if I can. I've been able to locate people since I arrived--we were able to do something similar at home, and it changed slightly after we got here, but not enough to become unusable. What's the other half?

The other half... is being able to pry into people's private conversations, which is why I'm not exactly advertising lessons. If people want to learn that bit they can figure it out themselves.

Bridging the gap is more outright useful, though, so I'm willing to explain it to people I trust. I already taught Rise, back when I got through from the conversation space. [And it goes without saying that he trusts Lupa with this.]

I... think I might have actually stumbled onto that when I was trying to contact the other side simply through willpower earlier.

[Lupa certainly sounds sheepish there.]

She's mentioned so, yes, and with both of you providing explanations, I'm certain I should manage mastery. What should I start with?

It's certainly easy to stumble into.

Instead of looking for a particular person, look for the barrier between you and the rest of the network. I didn't really notice it the first time, I just figured I could try to show everyone what I was seeing as I was seeing it, but during the Floor fiasco it was a little more obvious.

Once you find it, push through until you make contact. It only works for a few minutes at a time, but it's better than nothing.

A barrier... That makes sense. Does this barrier separate groups like the Marked and unmarked were separated during our long stay in Liminal before?

[The other option that immediately comes to mind is a barrier around each individual person that selectively allows some things through but not others.]

Not exactly like that one, since communicating across it wasn't any trouble. Did you try to get in touch with anyone while they were in their conversation space, or while you were there yourself? It's more like that.

Or... I don't know if you heard about Minako-san accidentally tying herself to a separate Liminal Space in Newport, but she wasn't on the network during that time either. I think she probably hooked herself up to a separate network too, but there was no one else on it.

I attempted to open a portal, but it failed.

And I wasn't myself at the time, so no, I missed the incident. That's interesting, though.

[Lupa takes some time to consider what he knows so far. The wall is more complete than the one during that time in Liminal, spanning both physical and mental, and it can be as small as to cut off only one person, but also expansive enough to cut off a group. Communication within is allowed, but not without. Perhaps, more like a dungeon...

With that in mind, he calls on his ability to sense the presence of others, as well as his willpower, attempting to combine those in order to sense the psychic wall as described.]

I... believe I've encountered a barrier of some kind, it seems.

[That said, Lupa pushes against what he thinks is the barrier trying to get through.] Hello? Can you hear me?

[If it worked, would Naoki be able to hear as well?] Naoki?

You can't patch more than yourself through. We had to do a lot of juggling to let Malik-san talk to Altair-san during the Floor mess. [If there's a way to patch more than one person across the barrier, Naoki's determined to find it.] But if you found the barrier, that's a good start.

So it's a matter of gathering the strength to push through then.

Perhaps having a target might help, at least at first.

[With that in mind, Lupa attempts to contact Raidou]

Raidou?

Any luck?

No. It seems I'll have to work on it more, but now that I have the basics down, I should be able to master it on my own. Thank you.

Any time.

Backdated: Two for the price of one psychic posts [Jaunt]

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