about half a day into the Jaunt

[thornsofmalkav]

Holy shit, you guys. For whatever reason, David Texxant is back.

[She'll just livestream her encounter with Dusty Houston for everybody.]

I'd say somebody needs to warn Yakumo, but he's my boss this Jaunt.

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[thornsofmalkav]

Also, your clients are a lot less dead.

[helborn]

I mean the clients were the families, and we also had to work with the local government for paperwork, order supplies from wholesalers, try to beat off the big chain funeral home companies with a metaphorical stick...

[thornsofmalkav]

Okay, okay, I get it. You do have a lot experience with this shit. You'll be the best secretary the dude has ever had.

And hey, you're Canadian. That's one degree more British-ish than me.

[helborn]

... Do you think that's still going to matter to this version of him?

Just one Jaunt I want him to be Texan and Kinji to be British. It'd be great.

[thornsofmalkav]

It's Yakumo.




... there has to be some way to switch people's Infiltrations around. It would be amazing.

[helborn]

If there's not, I bet we could make it. Or... you could, I'm not so good at psychic skills.

[thornsofmalkav]

I can see two routes for it. One way is to use what people use to push people into an Infiltration and, like, add some extra oomph to it. The other way is through that trick where you switch bodies for a little while.

... I'd possibly be able to do it through the first route. Not the second one, though.

[helborn]

Yeah... I keep meaning to work on psychic skills and then just... not.

[thornsofmalkav]

God, I know, right? It's really hard to keep balanced, even though that's probably the best strategy for this shit.

[helborn]

I also don't like how invasive some of them are? I have some invasive mental powers at home but it makes me kind of uncomfortable.

[thornsofmalkav]

I don't either, really. But knowing how to do some of that invasive shit is part of how you learn important shit, like staying yourself when you Infiltrate... so mostly I just suck it up and remove myself that just because I know how to do a thing doesn't mean I necessarily have to do the thing.

[helborn]

... That's a really good way of looking at that.

[thornsofmalkav]

It helps that being a vampire gave me a lot of practice with not doing a thing I can do!

[You know, like murdering people every time she eats them.]

[helborn]

I mean... yeah, I kind of understand that feeling. Not the same, but similar.

Self-control's never really a bad thing to practice.

[thornsofmalkav]

Nope. Not at all.

[Plus she's got even more practice from Sexy Spy Lessons with Alcuin.]

[claudiometer]

There's a back door around it now. Back doors around brain hackery are cool.

You know how to make the network ping you if someone's trying to pry? Builds off that.

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh damn, that's useful. What about straight up mind-reading, is there a work-around for that?

[claudiometer]

Considering I de-infiltrated myself back in Dystopian Mishmash Hell and I still can't read anybody's mind, there must be. About damn time, too.

If Naoto ever comes back I'm gonna tell her she should feel good about unlocking this for us.

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, seriously.

[claudiometer]

Even if she'd never actually use it herself, the fact that the back door springs from her being pissed off about the brain hackery... I love it.

[thornsofmalkav]

It's super fitting.

[helborn]

I think I do... I don't know if it works, though. I don't think anyone's ever tried.

[claudiometer]

I'd call that good overall, really. Means people are behaving themselves.

Anyway, you can use the same ping system to see that a private conversation is there without actually being able to break into it. Or as a 'hey, someone's activated a network skill' ping, even if it's not a skill that's coming for your privacy.

[helborn]

Makes sense. I'm - the idea of barging in on a private conversation is kind of awkward for me, but it's good to know when things are happening?

[claudiometer]

No, I feel you, dude. Regular hackery is one thing, but brain hackery's something else entirely.