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[leftbehindagain]

I wouldn’t normally offer some of this on a wide scale, but if Harrogate’s looking likely, we need to be as well-armed for it as we can. I can also help with explaining how to de-infiltrate people, and if anyone wants help improving their mental defenses I can do that too.

It might also be helpful to have more people who can punch through network barriers – for one thing, there’s the chance they’ll split the group again, and for another, we’ve had network barriers on the same jaunt before. If it happened in Achaia, it could happen again here.

Bridging network gaps works about once a week, and de-infiltrating people… I’ve only ever managed it once on a given jaunt. I’m not sure if that’s a hard limit or if I just didn’t have cause to, but it’d be better to have as many possible openings for de-infiltration as we can get.

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[leftbehindagain]

Yeah, he mentioned he wasn't sure if I prodded him in the right direction by snapping him back to himself in Greece.

[private, double protected]

It's essentially finding the core of the Traveler somewhere in there and pulling them to the forefront.

[senpaidol]

Man, I spaced out to go save the world with dancing while we were in Greece, and I don't think I missed anything I'd have understood anyway. It sounds really super confusing for something we won...

[Same Protection]

The "core"? That's not anything like a "true self", right?

[leftbehindagain]

You really didn't miss much.

[ditto]

No, that would be another matter entirely. But there is a sense of the person you know in an infiltrator's mind, otherwise they wouldn't be infiltrating.

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[senpaidol]

So basically, you can look around in an Infiltrator's mind and find the Traveler Version of them in there. I've tried mind-reading on Investigators or people in Liminal Space, but I've never done it to an Infiltrator...

[Otherwise Pogemon would have ended differently, for starters.]

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[leftbehindagain]

I haven't either, and I hope I never need to. If you can get into someone's head while they're themselves, that seems to be enough to find them inside an infiltrator.

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[senpaidol]

Hm...that might make it easier, actually. Like, I'm looking for the part of them that would be an Investigator, not rifling through whatever their Overlay is thinking. So the part of them that's familiar and connected to Liminal Space.

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[leftbehindagain]

Exactly.

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[senpaidol]

I wish I could practice, but there's no real way to check it out except on a Jaunt. Mind-reading should work, if I can find a volunteer who trusts me with that. Maybe I can practice that so I know what to look for that's different when I'm trying to de-Infiltrator...

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[leftbehindagain]

That is a problem with some of this stuff. Still, knowing the theory should help, even if you don't get a chance to practice.