Now with Motive and Opportunity

[butthemiracleneverhappen]

I am now, I think, properly motivated to learn the left-handed branch of the powers we were granted here. Particularly since I now know of some very interesting uses of liminal and psychic power used in concert.

You were quite correct to assume the distinction was blurry, Thorne. By the way. I know you already had theoretical proof but that's quite different from seeing actual practice.

So. Enlighten me. How can one use notionally psychic powers?

Comments

[thornsofmalkav]

... hah! Try functionally non-existent. Which is something me and Matthew plan to explain more to everyone come the Salon.

Using psychic skills works a lot like liminal, in that the most important thing is will and intent, but instead of working with tangible things, you are manipulating ideas and data--which around here are basically tangible too.

It helps a lot to approach it metaphorically. For Livestreaming, you need to focus on your eyes like they're a camera and your ears like they're microphones. For checking the Network archives, imagine you're taking a book down from a shelf and inside are the records of our conversation.

[highsteaks]

I need to learn that stuff too! Future Me was using that thing where pets can do network stuff, but I only know how to livestream stuff right now.

[dino_zarf]

Future Rose seems to think there's no difference at all.

[Why are they taking the word of Future Rose?]

[forcechanic]

I find a lot of it comes down to feeling out the connections between people and finding that bit of them that's just them. About half the psychic stuff starts to make sense from there.