A warning

[fearinahandfulof]

There's something wrong with the room with the door that isn't quite there. I get a very strong sense of foreboding from it, like it's a bad omen. It doesn't belong.

The Mood Ring game from the last Liminal was the same way.

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[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, they're specifically using those hex codes I told you about.

[willyousee]

Mmhmm! I admit, I was simply pleased to find a place that was cut off from the network. At least there one could find peace without the music.

[protect_and_serve]

Maybe it is cut off from the Network because it is truly apart from it.

Which does not bode well, if anyone is within when Liminal Space changes again. We should evacuate it.

[thornsofmalkav]

Which means it's not part of liminal space either, because they're two ways of looking at the same thing. Motherfucker.

[willyousee]

[Sigh.]

I hate to give up the one sanctuary we have from this unmelodic nonsense, but you are right. Especially if it does wind up being related to the Illuminants. There is one thing I should like to test to that effect... and it seems as though I am best equipped for that, as the only other here who has been behind one of their minds is Maria.

[thornsofmalkav]

I mean, we could have Maria help you... but given how she's. Um. Compromised when it comes to the Skittles...

I. Have an experiment I'd like to run there too. You want to do shit there together, so we can be each other's backup?

[willyousee]

Mm. Yes, that had been my thought as well. [Sorry Maria.]

We perhaps ought to have someone on standby who has both the ability to cross the Jaunt and Walkabout divide and has the ability to summon a Traveler to their side, in case something untoward happens and we are cut off. Also we ought to have one person in the room at a time. The others should wait outside, for safety's sake.

[thornsofmalkav]

Raidou's going to be helping me with being an impartial witness, but he's not as great with liminal skills as he is psychic. Maybe Gil, though?

[willyousee]

Or perhaps Matthew, if he is still among us? I know I saw him for a time.

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh yeah, he should still be here, I think.

[breakaleginhalf]

I mean, I'm not as good as Raidou at psychic shit. Or Matthew at Liminal shit.

...but also, like. I'm probably better at both of them at their bad side, so.

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, you totes should tag along as our assistant.

[breakaleginhalf]

Baller.

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh that's true. You wouldn't have had all the practice I've had with tuning shit out on the 'Madness Network.'

[willyousee]

.....Thorne, that phrase does not fill me with joy.

[thornsofmalkav]

Right, right. It probably wouldn't. Um, okay. So. It's kind of a vampire thing. Kind of a Malkavian thing specifically? Which, uh, means that I haven't had to deal with it for like over four years, pretty much.

Basically, uh, all of us from Clan Malkav are all psychically linked? It's a thing. But after the first couple seconds of cacophony, you start tuning it the fuck out unless there's some sort of significant, well, pinging at you.

... honestly, tuning out the Malkavian Madness Network was so much second nature that I didn't even start listening to our Traveler network until after my first Jaunt. And even then, it took a while for me to start listening consistently.

So yeah, sorry, I've... just been ignoring that calliope bullshit this whole time.

[willyousee]

Thorne! [dismayed]

...Forgive me. I hadn't realized. I suppose that you had lived with it long enough that it no longer occurred to you that it was unusual.

[thornsofmalkav]

Just six or seven months before I came here... but yeah. That was long enough.

[Never 5get that Thorne was the babiest vampire of them all once.]

[willyousee]

[oh Elua. he'd forgotten that every mark that Dr. B and the vampires had left on her mind and soul had been done is only six months. there's a long pause. Then things go private: protection ii.]

Thorne... Are you all right?

psychic protection x2 5ever

[thornsofmalkav]

[I MEAN. She'd been a ghoul for two years!!! So she'd been involved in that bullshit for a bit longer. She'd just only been a vampire for seven months before Synodiporia.]

... I am. Really. I'm more freaked out about the Skittle room than I am at remembering some of the more particularly bullshit vampire things I had to deal with back then.

Re: psychic protection x2 5ever

[willyousee]

[ OH RIGHT okay. Mun-slip a bit but still.]

All right, my heart. Should you like to talk about it later, I do not think that would be a bad thing. But I will set it aside.

Re: psychic protection x2 5ever

[thornsofmalkav]

I mean. There is vampire stuff I don't always talk to you about. But the Madness Network was mostly just something I forgot to mention, not a deliberate omission.