Check-In [Week 1]

[helborn]

All right, you know the deal. If you're yourself, psychically raise your hand.

Or, uh, if that doesn't make sense to you, just... let people know you're you. I'm myself, obviously, but I have no idea what the hell my archetype or role is. I was infiltrating last time as Ace -

- shit, I need to avoid him. Anyway! Yeah. Uh. ... Yeah...

[His psychic voice just trails off as the awkward overtakes him.]

Comments

[desperate_times_right]

I think she meant conduct like an orchestra.

When a whole bunch of people play instruments together, they usually have a conductor with a little wand-like baton who directs them and helps them stay cohesive and on-rhythm.

[fearinahandfulof]

So they're all... like an orchestra? With one person keeping them together?

[Cassandra is not sure she trusts that.]

[desperate_times_right]

I think the idea is that they're all co-coordinators. The fox kid said they have a psychic network like ours, and they share health somehow. Maybe like kything?

But now this Ace person can't participate fully because she doesn't have her weapon.

[fearinahandfulof]

...Which parts can't she participate in?

[And if it's the network, why would a weapon be necessary for that?]

[desperate_times_right]

I'm not sure. They seem extremely quick to anger and fighting kind of goes against my 'don't interfere' thing.

I’m assuming it has to do with however they physically coordinate their fights, but that's just a guess.

[fearinahandfulof]

I wonder how difficult they are to replicate, that they can't just make another for her.

[desperate_times_right]

They said they didn't know whether they could make another one or not. It has some of her power in it or something.

[fearinahandfulof]

That's a potentially serious vulnerability. I'm surprised they were willing to discuss it, unless they think we're "safer" to talk about it with somehow...

[desperate_times_right]

I'm sure there's more to it than they told me. I can't believe they have a weapon to pin things to the dream that doesn't have some kind of unpinning mechanism.

[fearinahandfulof]

That's a strange oversight.

[desperate_times_right]

Right? There must be something else to it.

[fearinahandfulof]

I think so too.