[Open Broadcast]

[protect_and_serve]

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.

Comments

[eyes_on_fire]

[Color him still unimpressed.]

So we're to perpetuate this continued control by playing along during the times we're aware?

I still fail to see how this is incentive. Perhaps...

[And here he gives a slow smile as he taps out a smoke and lifts it to his lips.]

These controllers need the proper incentive to let us go back to our own place sooner, rather than later.

[notinthecards]

And if they send you away, mon ami, are you so sure you know where they'll put you? Sometimes people vanish, and sometimes they come back. Nobody ever claim to go back home again.

Twenty-two Jaunts, that's the theory. After we do that they let us go.

[moredakka]

Oh yeah. I really am. [She knows herself after all.]

Uh, was it just you or could everybody hear that just now including that guy...

[protect_and_serve]

Who did you imagine hearing it?

[eyes_on_fire]

Seems naive to take a kidnapper's word, but that's just me. Besides... if they leave me someplace else, that's fine.

[That said, he lifts his free hand to touch his fingertips to the tip of his smoke and, with a flash of crimson eyes, lights his cigarette to take a deep inhale.]

The last place was getting a little boring anyway.

[moredakka]

Well, you're the one I'm talking to but I guess I was answering him so also him...

Crap.

[canbebrave]

[Introductions. She sighs a little.] Sansa Stark. I've been here a while- I can explain things here. Not in person.

[private]

[protect_and_serve]

I've talked down the only two that seem dangerous. I'll be watching them all closely until we know them better.

Have you had your water for the day?

[private]

[canbebrave]

[it takes her a long while to reply, to explain why Joscelin's words don't exactly put her at ease. Then she speaks up] The real dangerous ones won't let you know that they're dangerous.

[private]

[protect_and_serve]

I'm trained to know; whether they let me or not. And I am watching them all.

[thezerothlaw]

You imply that there's an intention to control and guide our actions through this, then.

[That's not unfamiliar, nor is it particularly troubling, but it's peculiar.]

Who is controlling, then? Are their intentions to be trusted?

[private]

[canbebrave]

If.... If you say so.

Which ones are dangerous?

[private]

[protect_and_serve]

The blue alien woman, and the one talking to the mice.

Most dangerous, at least.

[superieure]

[A hollow laugh. She lets him go, finally.]

So they make us dance for their pleasure too?

[notinthecards]

[He pauses to straighten his coat.]

Oh, we do a fine fais do-do.

The Trumps don't let us see it right on, but they have an agenda. Every world, changes to be made. They don't talk to us direct, but they have ways to let us know what they want anyway.

[notinthecards]

No word to give. No proof they even exist, except that someone has to behind it all, no?

[Remy smiles, produces a cigarette from within his own coat with a flourish, and holds it up, in a clear "got a light?" gesture.]

But generally speaking, they don't let us get bored.

[sparkstriker]

We will. You can shut out the network and speak to someone normally. It just takes practice.

[protect_and_serve]

We call them the Trumps, and we've never met them. As for trust... would you trust any being who manipulated worlds with a handful of blind pawns?

[protect_and_serve]

It's probably good for him.

[hakodate]

Hijikata. Got my hands a little full at the moment, but if we're still here later and you haven't gotten it from anybody else, I'll find time. Dressed in black, two swords on the left.

[thezerothlaw]

If I knew my actions were being guided for a beneficial purpose, it would be greatly relieving.

[A perfectly robotic opinion; Giskard had tampered with minds, but always, always for the greatest good.]

[protect_and_serve]

We have no reason to believe the purpose is beneficial to anyone but whoever pulls our strings.

[thezerothlaw]

Then this situation is a worrying one. Those who wield such power should put it to responsible use.

[moredakka]

Isn't he going to be angry?

[protect_and_serve]

So we've tried to tell them.