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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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.

[youandyoualone]

I wonder what one should name such a skill. Liminal Clairvoyance?

[leftbehindagain]

I can't think of anything better, and it'd confuse the hell out of people if it turns out to be entirely psychic. Let's go with it.

[Never let it be said that Naoki is completely above trolling people sometimes.]

[youandyoualone]

[That gets him the psychic equivalent of a laugh.]

All the best reasons. Liminal Clairvoyance it is.

[See, this is why he's honestly growing to like you, Konishi, besides just as someone to complain about people you mutually don't like and someone to help him learn the Network better.]

[leftbehindagain]

[It's not like he doesn't already get along with adults who are keenly aware of their own trashfire tendencies.]

While it doesn't sound like something that'd need mind-reading stuff to get to, I wonder if it'd be subject to the same blocks or ways to find you out.

[youandyoualone]

It would seem likely, would it not? Should I figure out how to do this, we can experiment together.

Hm. I wonder if one would need the ability to create rooms. Even if one would not, it would be quite easy to use the skills in tandem, so that the entirety of the created room might be overheard.

[leftbehindagain]

Absolutely. [It's important to know the limits on this kind of thing, if you're going to put it to use.

Relatedly, he really needs to ask Naoto how that intrusion ping thing works.]

You probably could, but that would be a lot of extra information to process, compared to focusing on one spot in the room.

[youandyoualone]

You have a point. But if it were one room in the, ah, room? In truth, it depends how many people are in that room. A large room with few people might be easier than a small room with many.

[leftbehindagain]

I guess it'd depend on whether you want a lot of surface information or a few details.

[youandyoualone]

I could see cases in which I might wish either.

[leftbehindagain]

Fair enough. [This is where it becomes apparent that Naoki doesn't think like a spy.]

There's also the chance that spreading it so thin it covers an entire large room would net you a lot of background noise and nothing actually useful.

[youandyoualone]

[It's fine. Delaunay will think like a spy enough for both of you.]

Mayhap. Again, we shall have to experiment.

[leftbehindagain]

True.

[That level of stress test might take more than one person, though.]

[youandyoualone]

I have told Alcuin of the skill. I am sure he will aid us if I ask.

[It is some time later when he adds,]

I have an idea of another ability that may be related. Do you remember how Armin Arlert placed his mind inside the network when his body was destroyed in a way that the Arcana could not remake him until the Jaunt was over? Perhaps this is related to that.

[leftbehindagain]

...I don't remember that, so presumably it was during Harrogate. [He hasn't been able to bring himself to do that particular archive-dive so far, and he's not sure he ever will.]

You might be on to something there, whether this turns out to need liminal components or not.

[youandyoualone]

It was indeed during Harrogate. The young fool decided 'twould be best for him to investigate the events at the sinkhole on his lonesome. He was arrogant enough that he did not bring back-up. And because the villain was no longer the Ghostly Emperor's Grand Vizier, but the malicious god who possessed her, he was murdered first for his troubles and then had his spiritual body devoured. It was only his ability to place his mind directly onto the network and sustain himself in such a space that allowed him to advise us with his dearly bought intelligence later.

... it is not that I am ungrateful that he did, mind. It is only that it doesn't change the fact that he was still a fool to go alone--and that it broke Alcuin's heart when he thought Armin was dead.

[leftbehindagain]

[Ghostly... Emperor? Probably Zed getting up to shenanigans, if Naoki doesn't miss his guess.]

He tells me to disregard his friend's choice to be de-infiltrated if they were separated for that jaunt and then he pulls that stunt?