Speaking of future visions

[youandyoualone]

Does anyone know of a dark-skinned and horned people in any of the Jaunt worlds we have been to? As Messire Kuzunoha did the night previous, I too have had another prophetic nightmare, such as we had in Harrogate.

'Twas of a battle near a shadowed volcano--and then it changed quite suddenly to the dark, horned person lying on a rocky floor, somewhere in which the light was much better.

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[youandyoualone]

Konishi? Unrelated to all of that, I have something I wish to speak to you of. A psychic trick I was shown through a door in the Liminal Yet-To-Come.

make that Protection II into infinity

[leftbehindagain]

Oh?

While we're on the topic, most of what Armin-san got into at the salon isn't to my interests, but I could probably help you reverse-engineer some of it, if you'd like.

Re: make that Protection II into infinity

[youandyoualone]

I would very much appreciate that. Thank you, Konishi.

I saw a vision of being at a liminal ball to come. Perhaps next year or even later than that. At any rate, I had done something to allow me to designate a spot to sink a part of my mind into and listen to what was being said there, despite dancing much too far from that spot to naturally hear it.

[leftbehindagain]

You're welcome.

Huh. That does sound like an interesting trick. [Useful... not to Naoki specifically, but that's more due to his own hangups about using the network to spy on people.]

[youandyoualone]

It does. I am hoping to discover how to use it soon.

[leftbehindagain]

It doesn't sound like something that would necessarily require the mind-reading stuff. Really, it sounds more like that hybrid stuff Thorne-san was talking about at the salon.

If it's purely psychic... it might be some offshoot of the mind palace stuff I haven't come across yet. But I don't think we can rule out the possibility of it needing some liminal components, too.

[youandyoualone]

And I have focused less on those, as I have friends who might provide me with food, clothes, and place to sleep.

Well and so. At least I can construct mind palaces.

[leftbehindagain]

I didn't get tired of not being able to make my own ingredients until last spring or so. [Which is to say, he knows the feeling.]

Try prodding at it from the mind-palace angle and see if that gets you anywhere, maybe? If it doesn't, you might need to create whatever it is you're using to monitor the area yourself.

[youandyoualone]

I have been overdue to learn the art of creation, at any rate.

If it is hybrid, mayhap it is related to the theoretical implantation of ideas in Liminal Space.

[leftbehindagain]

That wouldn't surprise me, all things considered.

[capital_asset]

Diabolin, maybe? They have grey skin and pronounced horns, and the collection of worlds we first saw them in is connected to Questing Country...

[youandyoualone]

Which seems a likely next destination, by all accounts. Do you know aught else of the diabolin?

[capital_asset]

They were a race of interstellar conquerors and slavers, although by the time we first met them, their civilization had been in decline for a while. They're considered volatile and dangerous, and it probably goes without saying that they are... not particularly popular among other species.

They're also known for not being able to sleep or dream.

[youandyoualone]

... but is Questing Country not a realm of dreams? That is how it was described to me.

How odd.

[capital_asset]

It is.

[Which makes the Diabolin's presence... troubling.]

[youandyoualone]

Could one be forcibly brought in without dreaming?

[capital_asset]

[Raidou thinks about that for a moment.]

I'm not sure. It wouldn't surprise me if someone managed it, but I don't know how it would be done. I don't know if something like cryofreeze would be sufficient for that purpose.

[youandyoualone]

What is 'cryofreeze'?

[Medieval man is medieval.]

[capital_asset]

It's a form of suspended animation. It essentially halts the life processes of an individual so they can be placed into storage and revived later.

[Or not revived later.]

Cryofreeze does this by, well, freezing them. I don't know the exact processes used to do this, but they've apparently refined it to the point where it's not fatal. Diabolin criminals would routinely be placed into cryofreeze, and then some other generation of Diabolin would inevitably revive them for their own purposes.

[amadine]

Nightmares are just another kind of dream. They wouldn't have to be able to get to Questing Country to be present - their victims would create an echo of them every time they closed their eyes.

[capital_asset]

True.

[Ari had certainly had enough of them - and he'd gotten off lightly in comparison to many, many others.]

[youandyoualone]

And should they have enough victims, those echoes might very well aggregate into something more solid. That could account for things.

[amadine]

Just so. There are entire lands within Questing Country populated by the collective nightmares of a people, from the monsters in the dark to the manifestations of societal unease. I expect the diabolin fill at least one.

[youandyoualone]

And we are likely to encounter one.

[amadine]

We've dealt with worse. Still, it would be a good time to brush up on psychic defenses, little as they might help those of us who find ourselves in someone else's skin.