Introducing Ectoplasmic Embodiment

[thornsofmalkav]

Wait. Shit. No. This isn't how my vision went. I'm not supposed to be Charoite again!

[That little speech comes almost immediately upon arriving in Questing Country. After that, Thorne is almost completely silent for the next couple hours. When she finally contacts the network again, she sounds much less upset. Tired and a little giddy, but not upset.]

Okay. So. I think I might have figured out how Empress managed to pull the Skittles out of people two years ago.

Comments

[thornsofmalkav]

Yep. But like I just said to Matthew, it took a lot out of me. I doubt I could do this more than once a Jaunt--but I could probably teach other people.

[fruitknife]

Useful if somebody doesn't wanna be their overlay while they're themselves.

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah.

[fruitknife]

Somethin' on the goo tree, or is it more complicated than that?

[thornsofmalkav]

Uh. I'm pretty sure this is a hybrid skill, but it definitely needs goo.

[fruitknife]

Makes sense.

[So, nothing he's getting to any time soon, in that case.]

[thornsofmalkav]

I think maybe it needs de-infiltration--Memory Restoration is what I think the official name is?--and the higher stage of Liminal Healing. Liminal Regeneration I was thinking of calling it. Mostly to make the Jaunt body.

[Yes, she built herself a Jaunt body. There's a reason it took so much out of her.]

[fruitknife]

Well, that'd explain why you can't do it too much.

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, both of those things take a lot out of you too. I mean, okay, Empress was able to do it for, like, eight people in a row, but she's a fucking Arcana.

[fruitknife]

Wouldn't go holdin' any of us to their standards. Mostly because the baby ain't had that long to work on it.

[thornsofmalkav]

Ahahaha oh god. Rosie's probably going to figure it out sooner or later. At least Wash'll be prepared to know it's a possibility.

[fruitknife]

That kid is fuckin' terrifying.

[thornsofmalkav]

Terrifyingly adorable.