[Not entirely intentional broadcasts...]

[professorwolf]

[While important things might be being discussed elsewhere on the telepathic network, there's one voice that seems more focused on one particular person. However, that one particular person isn't receiving... so it's going broad and wide, dropping in on various brains, more on accident than anything else.]

Nick!

Nick, where are you?

Nick, come out, answer me.

I can't find your scent, Nick.

Please just answer me, I can find you, I'm sure of it.

Nick?

[One Randolph Lyall is looking for somebody, and he is looking really hard. Sorry, everybody whose minds he just unintentionally-slash-intentionally projected into, friends and strangers and brand new people.... Usually he has better control than this, keeping his thoughts to himself or to whomever he's directly aiming them at, but he's getting increasingly panicked, and a wider mental net simply must be thrown.]

Comments

[chalicejoker]

Yeah, it's like...demonic summoning and control of minions.

[There's an awkward pause.]

I never wanted minions.

[professorwolf]

Then don't think of them as minions. Think of them as small but helpful friends. Remember Arthur and his silverfish?

[chalicejoker]

The crazy guy? Seriously?

[There are very good reasons Hajime never talked to that guy. Very good reasons.]

I'm not making these things dance in a can-can line.

[professorwolf]

Thank god. I might have to hit you if you tried, because you'd obviously have lost your mind and need someone to rattle it back into place. But I imagine the relationship is similar, between him and his various fish and insects, and you and these.

[chalicejoker]

That's still not comforting. I'm still getting compared to a known crazy man. I mean, the bugs listen, and I guess they could bring me information, but they're really not that smart...

[professorwolf]

I don't think the silverfish were, either. At least it's a point of reference.

[chalicejoker]

I guess so. Maybe they'll come in handy...I mean, they're kind of tough. Immortal infernal cockroaches.