psychic bridge 1 again (humans --> Beastfolk)

[claudiometer]

Another update from on high.

Orwell's convinced there's some kind of corporate sabotage going on, so that's fun. Trying to figure out how much I can do without putting my overlay on the line.

They're also asking if any of us want to go down there in person and scare you guys into behaving, which has about a snowball's chance in hell of working, but I for one look forward to this blowing up in their faces. That said, if the island isn't yours yet you might wanna fucking make it yours before the week's out. If anyone's down there who can declarify the shit out of it, that'd probably work nicely.

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[capital_asset]

The tower has already been declarified to give control over to the Folk. I'm planning on going back for the midges once the sandstorm is relatively under control.

For what it's worth, I also used a skill from... one of the Arcana or other... to see if I could get some idea of how best to secure the survival of the Folk. What I got was this:

All of the hubs need to be protected, and then physically guarded by Folk who have at least been told the basics of how to use them.

Up on the station, people need to learn that the Folk are actual people and to care enough about them to protest against Orwell if they try to just wipe them out of existence; I think the idea is that Orwell wouldn't want to risk losing its entire income stream, at least in the short term. Swift being brought in somehow because they'd like a share of the profits as well would likely also help.

The Folk also need access to the terraform space station and a permanent shuttle, which will greatly help their chances of survival, especially if they're willing to take immigrants from the stations.

None of those are a perfect guarantee of survival, but they'd greatly hamper Orwell in the event that they decided to destroy Home.

[helborn]

We need to get Phillip on side, or at least under control. I had another dream.

It starts with light and glowing, backlit figures descending from the sky. Sudden vertigo, then it's night, and the Beastfolk are huddling. There's a really bad tension in the air. Then it's burning and dunked in freezing water with the day back, and Folk are turning their backs on the glowing figures. Some have farm tools and fishing or hunting spears and are aiming at them. There's another jagged shift, this time with a suffocating pressure, and the night's back. There's a flash of light from Gods' Isle and a feeling like static electricity.

Suddenly, without a disorienting shift, I'm on Gods' Isle, watching a human figure stumble back from some kind of machine while all the blinking lights on the Isle go dark, one by one. Another shift with dizzying motion and tingling in all of my limbs. It's dawn, and the folk of Home are staggering around, grasping at their throats and chests like they can't breathe. Some are already on the ground, twitching and vomiting. The shift this time has weightlessness and graying vision. There's a feeling like reaching a hand out, and I turn the human figure around, and it's Phillip - and he's been crying.

I had a dream in a Jaunt where Phillip was involved before and we let that slip up. We're not doing it again.

[thornsofmalkav]

Can anyone up there de-infiltrate people? Because that's an obvious way to at least temporarily get him on our side... though maybe converting him the normal way would be more permanent.

[thornsofmalkav]

So, I ended up doing another Insight on the producers and the new one is a doozy: Every single controlling partner in the production companies has stockpiled knowledge and valuable objects/materials for generations, and hidden them in the remains of pre-exodus cities.

We've got a lot of shit to get done first, but--who wants to rob Orwell fucking blind?

[itsananimalthing]

If I didn't have a noisy infant who I'd rather not leave alone in this damn village without me right now, I would be on that in a fuckin' heartbeat.

Anybody wanna babysit in liminal?

[capital_asset]

When were you hoping to do this?

[cameracoded]

So you mean like in the city under the bay?

[thornsofmalkav]

I mean, I don't think it can be me right now, because the whole pregnant Infiltration thing, but... hm. We have to get some people to some hubs, right? Maybe we could do this on the way?

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh my god, yes. That's probably one of those that they put shit in.

[thornsofmalkav]

I'd offer, but the 'in liminal' part is the hard one. I can use my memory palace backdoor to get there, sure, but that just knocks me out here.

[cameracoded]

I can go poking around down there again, but it's like.. a city. Wouldn't even know where to begin.

[helborn]

If we can get any kind of scent or track I can follow it.

[cameracoded]

Even under water?

[itsananimalthing]

It's underwater. That'd be hard to scent track in unless you can turn into a fish.

Might be some more out in the desert, though.

[helborn]

It's harder, but you just have to go on other things.

Only problem is that I don't know how to swim.

[helborn]

Visual tracks work, too. Q'uila might be able to follow it better there, I'm not sure.

Eugh. I prefer cold to heat but it won't kill me.

[capital_asset]

I could possibly scry for them, if someone can create the necessary materials for me.

[cameracoded]

I made an underwater propulsion thingie the first time I went down. I can make another! You just kinda hold on and it pulls you along.

[cameracoded]

What kinda materials?

[capital_asset]

Possibly... How far are the hubs?

[itsananimalthing]

You can't get into liminal? When the fuck did the arcana lock off liminal to people doing the half-infiltrating thing?

[He must have missed this one. The last time he did the half-infiltrating thing, he had an infiltrated baby, so he couldn't even try to get into liminal.]

[capital_asset]

In the past, I've gone with reflective surfaces and some relevantly symbolic object to act as a focus.

[leftbehindagain]

Maybe.

But one of the signs in your livestream said Karachi, and if that's still inland it'd be easier to get to.

[claudiometer]

Well, I mean, far as I can tell I de-infiltrated myself. If that doesn't count in terms of de-infiltrating someone else, I might be able to.

But I talked to him last week and I think his resolve is wavering, so it might be better to work on that angle.

[claudiometer]

Oh, sweet! Good job, dude.

If it were just me I'd be contacting Swift yesterday, but... overlay who doesn't deserve to get dunked on. Unless she decides in her own right she's in - 'there are actual people in at least some capacity' wasn't hard to work out, though, but it's the difference between all actors and not actors.