Thanks, she hates it

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

I've been getting some real bad vibes off of this whole Liminal Space for a while now. Can't stand the feeling of being watched anymore, not after... well, you know.

[Moebius. She means Moebius.]

And 'cos of that, I've started to get some real big doubts that this one's gonna be a nice, fun, easy one. So, just in case I'm not investigating on this next jaunt, consider this me asking real nicely for someone to make sure I am. I don't care what my infiltration's like, I want that undone.

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[leftbehindagain]

I can do that, if it's necessary.

I can also do a full de-infiltration if someone needs it, but that'll take a while longer.

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

What's a full de-infiltration do, put us back in our own bodies too?

[leftbehindagain]

A separate body from the overlay, at least. It's not exactly your own, because of how infiltrating works.

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

As long as our powers all work the same in this spare of yours, you'd have a real easy time remaking me.

[leftbehindagain]

Why do you say that?

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

Geez, maybe I should make an info booklet.

My actual self is just my Gem - everything else about me is hard light. So all you'd need to remake is a big hunk of bismuth, and the rest of me'll just pop out when it's done.

[leftbehindagain]

...huh. On one level that does sound less complicated, but there's still the matter of making sure your mind can get there. I'd think that would still mean it takes a while.

[razorblade_empress]

Gonna second this - if I don't get shunted over to a walkabout or something and I'm not myself for this one, I'd like to be memory restored too.

[itsananimalthing]

Can do. Then I get another free baby-sitter.

[Sure, he's joking. That's what you do when under the threat of something like Moebius. He cannot imagine trying to bring Tara into that....]

I gotta teach you how to do that, too, one of these days.

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

Because I'm sure you have a shortage there.

[Jokey joke time.]

I'd appreciate that. Me and Yukki got the hang of mind palaces now, so there's one thing crossed off the list.

[itsananimalthing]

That's a step in the right direction. Can you two talk to infiltrators on the network yet?

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

Huh. I didn't even realise that was an option.

[itsananimalthing]

Yeah. I can do it. I dread the day when Tara figures out how to do it. Gotta be able to share memories with people and do that, then you can restore people's selves in a Jaunt.

[He's slightly wrong, you only need investigator mind-reading not infiltrator-telepathy, but it's what makes sense to him, and it's the order he learned it.]

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

That's probably gonna be a hard one to show off while we're all in Liminal Space. But I can definitely do the memory sharing.

[itsananimalthing]

If you need me to walk you through it, once we're both on Jaunt, if I'm not infiltrated myself, we'll work on it. How's that?

[notadisappointment]

I can also de-infiltrate anyone who needs it or give lessons on how to if someone is close.

[if anyone still trusts him]

[noonesblessing]

Yeah, this place has bad vibes all around. Maybe they finally decided to punish us for Tower...

[breakaleginhalf]

I'm actually not so sure on that. I asked Magician about it a while ago, right after the whole Purgatory bullshit. She said that there were some "unpleasant" shit coming up, but it wasn't Tower-related punishment shit.

[noonesblessing]

Hmm. Magician's the one usually speaking for Hermit, isn't she? She did seem like a reliable source of information.

[breakaleginhalf]

Yeah, she considers him her brother. She's pretty straight with things, but she seems to like us working shit out for ourselves more. I might be getting a free pass on shit since she chose me.

[noonesblessing]

Don't they all like to make us do the hard work and figure things out ourselves?

[breakaleginhalf]

Don't get me wrong, she still does that. We still have to decode her bullshit vagueness, but like. She actually tells us when we're right, or completely off the mark.

[noonesblessing]

Huh. That's actually pretty good. I can think of many who'd just remain silent.

[youandyoualone]

I can also restore you and teach un-Infiltrating to those who wish to learn.

[Provided they aren't going to shun him for some of the things written on his zoo plaque.]

[desperate_times_right]

Maybe it won’t be so bad. Everyone was panicking before the last one too, and it was fine.

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

Last one we had the nightmare smog, I don't think that quite counts.

[modernliterature]

So, do we actually believe that being stuck in other people's heads is something we're "supposed" to be doing to get our jobs right? Or is it just the Arcana fucking with us and we don't care about their bullshit?

[letsgetdowntobismuth]

I just assume they're always fucking with us. [At least she's honest.] But I've been here for a long time, so call me biased.

[breakaleginhalf]

According to Magician, at least, yes that is "supposed" to happen. People get put into people that, like- fit archetypes or whatever. Like it's definitely bullshit but there's almost logic to it.