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Joscelin Verreuil ([personal profile] protect_and_serve) wrote in [community profile] synopsychic2014-04-05 12:03 am

[Open Broadcast]

Who: Everyone on the telepathic network (which is everyone)
When: Just after the new arrivals show up.
What: Joscelin attempting to get things organized.

[There’s a lot of chatter going on, literally making it hard to hear yourself think, between veterans gossipping and speculating what the new wave of Travelers means, and accidental broadcasts by panicked new arrivals, until one hard-edged thought cuts through it all.]

Enough.

You all need to stop this before we drive ourselves insane.

Anyone with experience on the Network, I want a few organized broadcasts offering help and information to newcomers. We don’t call them Fools.

If you’re new, stay calm. No-one can overhear you unless you’re projecting. Try to divide yourselves as evenly as you can between the people giving you answers. That much is instinctive, you won’t have trouble as long as you can imagine it.

Anyone who’s been here longer and wants to speculate? Don’t do it publicly. Find your own little corners, or keep it off the network.

New telepaths. You’ll need to find someone more experienced more than anyone else does.

And everyone be ready for a new Jaunt.
thezerothlaw: (neutral)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2014-04-06 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Puzzled, curious, more than a little lost.]

Telepathy is to be considered common, here?

[He doesn't know why, or how, but for now he fixates on this fact.]
hakodate: i told her there would be a full bottle of jager and an empty bed here friday. (she told me she's into girls now.)

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[personal profile] hakodate 2014-04-06 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
I see a few from home, too.

Don't know whether to think we're being pitied or taunted, with that.

[With the mix of people here that he knows, it might even be both.]
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[personal profile] notinthecards 2014-04-06 05:23 am (UTC)(link)

That depends on how much longer they keep us here, frere.

hakodate: whoever it was sent "fuck you, you're adopted" to half the people on my contact list. (who had my phone last night?)

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[personal profile] hakodate 2014-04-06 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
We could get out of here in the next five minutes and I'd still be asking that question.

But it's not the only one I'm worried about. Looks like we've about tripled, doesn't it?

[Why yes, that is a vague inquiry about the state of the water supply.]
notinthecards: (trouble)

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[personal profile] notinthecards 2014-04-06 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
And still just one Remy. You think you can last on one glass tomorrow?
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[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2014-04-06 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[He takes a moment to consider this, but it involves some reorganising of what he knows about telepathy -- which admittedly he mostly learned from Giskard.]

Did all those who have been brought here already possess a form of telepathic abilities, or were they given to those who did not already have them? Your words seem to imply this.
hakodate: will you go with me to get tested? (i went through his pics.)

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[personal profile] hakodate 2014-04-06 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
We got through Moebius, I'm not about to keel over because of a goddamned glass of water.

[Will he have to eat his own bravado later? Possibly. Is being fatalistic going to help them at all? Not really.]

How long did it take you to get the hang of that in the first place, anyway? Not that I'm expecting anyone else to learn this shit overnight, but - well. If this happens again next time and you fall into a dungeon portal along the way, we might be pretty fucked.
notinthecards: (wide eyes)

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[personal profile] notinthecards 2014-04-06 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
I practiced for three jaunts. After Moebius, I always wanted to be able to get to an exit.
thezerothlaw: (concerned)

[personal profile] thezerothlaw 2014-04-06 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
It is... different, certainly.

What is the purpose of this?
hakodate: in a beer garden. be proud. (btw i'm currently writing a paper)

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[personal profile] hakodate 2014-04-06 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Can't blame you there.

[And that's all that really needs to be said about Moebius.]

You had to start with portals, then?
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[personal profile] notinthecards 2014-04-06 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
It's the way I started. Couldn't say if I had to, or if that's just what happened.
hakodate: can you drink in jail? (i have an important question...)

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[personal profile] hakodate 2014-04-06 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
If it's the way that worked for somebody, I'm inclined to trust that over my own ability to forge a bold new path through all this metaphysical bullshit.
moredakka: (yeeeaaaah....)

[personal profile] moredakka 2014-04-06 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
So you can't hear everything I'm thinking?

[Oh heavens what a relief. She's thinking some really lame things. Like still got my phone YES and at least I'm not naked.]
moredakka: (yeeeaaaah....)

[personal profile] moredakka 2014-04-06 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
That's not fair. How are we supposed to learn if we're not taught anything? Even soldiers don't just get thrown right into combat!

[You tell him, Sio. This girl has had rather enough of being thrown headfirst into crazy.]

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[personal profile] sparkstriker 2014-04-06 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Let's hope it doesn't get that far. [Because that would be crueler than any Jaunt so far.

It's just wrong. It's also too much like giving up, and dragging others down with you.]
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[personal profile] blackhand 2014-04-06 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
This isn't a war.

[He doesn't care if they protest, the Trumps pulled them here and now they have a job to do.]

Jaunts aren't like combat, either. We're here to either settle a problem in worlds or cause them in others. Most of them usually involve investigating.
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[personal profile] unabatedly 2014-04-06 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a faint laugh on her end, good-natured.]

You're doing just fine. Don't be nervous.
rekkaning: (flame ❖ staaare)

[personal profile] rekkaning 2014-04-06 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know that name. ["Thedas"? Doesn't sound like anywhere she's been, even accidentally.]

What kind of healing do you have?
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[personal profile] unabatedly 2014-04-06 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not surprised. No one else does.

[Ah, well.]

I can heal physical injuries and also spiritual ones. Spirit Healing is something I'm attuned to and study back in my home.
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[personal profile] rekkaning 2014-04-06 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I've spotted you. But if I go over, will we actually be talking? [As opposed to every bit of communication in this space being telepathic, regardless whether they move their mouths, she means.]
rekkaning: (diffuse ❖ downcast)

[personal profile] rekkaning 2014-04-06 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
["Spirit Healing" sounds familiar, but since she doesn't know what "Thedas" is, she should probably define that term.]

What do you mean by healing the spirit? Telepathic attack, or something else?
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[personal profile] unabatedly 2014-04-06 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Not an attack, no. In my world, spirit healers reach across the Fade to ask for a spirit's strength in helping to heal the person they are trying to save. It takes a great deal of energy, but it would allow me to heal multiple people at once and to heal them very thoroughly, even if they are on the brink of death.

[Unfortunately, it's not so simple in these other worlds. But that's not something she'll say aloud, if only because it might frighten some.]

It's a useful tool where I'm from but also dangerous. Not all spirits are benevolent ones.
moredakka: (yeeeaaaah....)

[personal profile] moredakka 2014-04-06 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wait what. This isn't about shooting things?]

Umm. I think there's been some mistake then...

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