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synopsychic2017-10-01 11:59 am
loyalrebel) wrote in synopsychic2017-10-01 11:59 am
Malik has ideas
Now that we have had some time to relax after the events of Harrowgate, I have some ideas about how to improve our responses as infiltrators to situations.
For those of you who are newly joining us, greetings and apologies for what will likely be uncomfortable discussions. The previous Jaunt was… not a good one for many of us despite the successful outcome.
We, as a group, need to get better at talking about what happens to us on Jaunts, no matter how emotionally difficult it is. I understand not wanting to think or talk about a traumatic event, but talking about it allows others to avoid the same situation in the future. Avoiding something doesn't make it unhappen or stop existing.
We have people, including myself, who know how to keep to facts and events when relaying information to prepare others. I cannot speak for them, but if you wish to use my services my door is always open and I will not think lesser of anyone for finding it difficult to speak openly.
Which brings me to my second suggestion, and the reasons I see for it.
We need a better system for gathering information and taking action as investigators. Running headfirst in to something without a plan keeps getting people arrested, killed or worse.
I know that dying may not be as bothersome to some of us as it is others, but it is not a pleasant or always acceptable price for information.
What I propose is that we put together a dedicated response team of investigators willing and able to follow an actual plan and work in coordination for gathering information in sensitive or dangerous situations as well as extracting those who get in over their heads.
Powers beyond use of the mental network that I believe would be beneficial or crucial to this are teleportation, shapeshifting, interface, summoning Travelers, portal creation, and some sort of healing knowledge. Nobody needs to have all of them, but a few or a willingness to learn them would be good.
Stealth and combat skills can be taught, but most important will be an ability to take and follow orders of whomever is taking point as coordinator for the jaunt based on their knowledge and experience as well as put aside personal opinions and egos for the sake of a greater good.
I know that we have no idea who will or won't be themselves on Jaunts but if there are enough people in this Response Squad, for lack of a better name, then the odds are that at least a few will be themselves and able to act.
...and yes, this is a request for volunteers, regardless of your personal opinions of me or other Travelers.
If you wish to speak with me privately about this, my door is open through the Workshop Library.
For those of you who are newly joining us, greetings and apologies for what will likely be uncomfortable discussions. The previous Jaunt was… not a good one for many of us despite the successful outcome.
We, as a group, need to get better at talking about what happens to us on Jaunts, no matter how emotionally difficult it is. I understand not wanting to think or talk about a traumatic event, but talking about it allows others to avoid the same situation in the future. Avoiding something doesn't make it unhappen or stop existing.
We have people, including myself, who know how to keep to facts and events when relaying information to prepare others. I cannot speak for them, but if you wish to use my services my door is always open and I will not think lesser of anyone for finding it difficult to speak openly.
Which brings me to my second suggestion, and the reasons I see for it.
We need a better system for gathering information and taking action as investigators. Running headfirst in to something without a plan keeps getting people arrested, killed or worse.
I know that dying may not be as bothersome to some of us as it is others, but it is not a pleasant or always acceptable price for information.
What I propose is that we put together a dedicated response team of investigators willing and able to follow an actual plan and work in coordination for gathering information in sensitive or dangerous situations as well as extracting those who get in over their heads.
Powers beyond use of the mental network that I believe would be beneficial or crucial to this are teleportation, shapeshifting, interface, summoning Travelers, portal creation, and some sort of healing knowledge. Nobody needs to have all of them, but a few or a willingness to learn them would be good.
Stealth and combat skills can be taught, but most important will be an ability to take and follow orders of whomever is taking point as coordinator for the jaunt based on their knowledge and experience as well as put aside personal opinions and egos for the sake of a greater good.
I know that we have no idea who will or won't be themselves on Jaunts but if there are enough people in this Response Squad, for lack of a better name, then the odds are that at least a few will be themselves and able to act.
...and yes, this is a request for volunteers, regardless of your personal opinions of me or other Travelers.
If you wish to speak with me privately about this, my door is open through the Workshop Library.
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[Here's a brand new voice for you, Malik. He sounds... old. But strong, and a bit wry.]
But the rest doesn't sound like a bad idea. I'm a little new to all this, so you'll probably have to do a lot of explaining, but I might as well help out.
[Since several days of being grumpy about this whole thing, and still no talk with these "Arcana" things has been forthcoming, Stone figures he might as well engage. It'll keep him from being bored, and he can't sustain real anger and resistance for days on end without running out of any enjoyment of it.]
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New is fine, we have all been there before and will be again eventually.
What do you still need to know about?
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For what I need to know about... how to do most of that stuff. It's news to me that you can actually summon people. Or interface, whatever that means. And what exactly do you mean by some of you might not be yourselves?
[He's gotten a pretty patchy explanation of Traveling so far. This one is new to him.]
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[He is, in fact mostly teasing.]
I cannot summon people, but I know it is possible because I have been summoned.
Interface is effectively connecting your mind directly to another person or thing, usually computers or other technology but I expect you can do so with trees and the like as well. It is a rapid means of gaining or transmitting information, and some people take offense at the idea of it being done without permission.
[Malik... is not one of them.]
On Jaunts we are either investigators or infiltrators. An infiltration involves very literally becoming a different person for a time. This other self is sometimes refered to as an Overlay.
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[He's more of a physical kind of guy, really. And infiltrating has his attention pretty much entirely after that.]
We turn into other people? Doesn't that bother people?