[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

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[notinthecards]

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

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[hakodate]

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.]

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[notinthecards]

And still just one Remy. You think you can last on one glass tomorrow?

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[hakodate]

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.

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[notinthecards]

I practiced for three jaunts. After Moebius, I always wanted to be able to get to an exit.

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[hakodate]

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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[notinthecards]

It's the way I started. Couldn't say if I had to, or if that's just what happened.

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[hakodate]

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.

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[notinthecards]

You'd be surprised how easy it is, just to sit down and start thinking at something till it changes here.

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[hakodate]

That's really all there is to it?

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[notinthecards]

That's all. Just like all there is to using a sword is putting the pointy end in the other homme, no?

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[hakodate]

The hard part is usually that the other guy is trying not to let you put it there.

So. Does Liminal Space bite back?

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[notinthecards]

The one who taught me said it was like inertia. Everything likes to stay the way it is. You have to learn where you get the leverage to push harder. At least, you do to poke a hole between any Jaunt and here.

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[hakodate]

That all? You almost had me worried for a minute there, LeBeau.

[He's already quite sure that it's not easy, but Hijikata's pretty good at just stubbornly wanting shit more than the next guy over. He's pretty sure he can figure this out.]

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[notinthecards]

The hardest part is having enough time here to practice. And at the moment, you have nothing but. So no worries.

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[hakodate]

Makes sense. If I don't manage to get much practice in, that's good for us.

[Because it means they're not doing this again.]

Got some shit to clear up with the kids first, but the way our luck's been going, I doubt that's going to take up all the time we have left here.

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[notinthecards]

That's the spirit.

I'd show you more, but the more energy I spend on that, the thirstier we all get.

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[hakodate]

I'll take a raincheck on that for when we get back from the next one.

[When, not if.]