The Synodiporia Psychic Network

There are probably people I don't know around now, because I just got back from a dungeon before the last jaunt so! Well met everyone. I'm Pod, and I'm a Beast Healer, or what some of you would call a veterinarian. If anyone's companions get hurt or sick, I should be able to take care of them. Oh! And you'll be hearing a bit from my brother-in-fur Kiga on the network from time to time too.

[There is indeed a psychic grumble that definitely isn't Pod. Kiga isn't bothering with the effort of actual words, but manages to sound long-suffering and fond anyway.]

Anyway, I was Saya again last jaunt, and it reminded me that I wanted to learn more about healing people before I left last time. Tachibana isn't here anymore...

[Her voice goes sad and she trails off for a moment.]

Anyway, if you know about healing, I'd love to learn from you! Or science; I know that science is very important to the healing in a lot of worlds. In return, I can teach all about herblore, cleaning and binding wounds and the like, which is very useful in worlds like the last one, if we don't want to stand out.

The last thing I wanted to talk about was maybe starting a garden, to grow herbs and things. I know that it's easy to just create plants, but I also know that I (and many others) infiltrate a lot, so if it's something that only somebody who was infiltrating knew how to make, we'd be in quite a bind. There's preserved herbs too, of course, but fresh are almost always more potent. Does anyone want to help me with a garden?

Hi everyone! This is Pod, if we haven't been introduced yet. I've been thinking about the Forstfolk from Yensid and what they could do. Magic brews like that are really useful, and I think I remember how to make them and what they do, but...

Well, my overlay found out the hard way that they don't work quite the same on humans, and if we're going to use them, we should know what they do first! Does anyone want to help me test what different ones do on different people? I can only turn into a couple other things besides human, so the more help the better. And it will go faster if I don't have to wait for the effects to wear off each time. If you want to learn how to make the potions too, we can work on that together.

Actually, I know it's not the most exciting thing, but it's always good to have backup, and I know my herblore very well by now! If anyone wants to learn about healing plants and what to do with them, I'm happy to teach. I don't think I can teach my magic, but the herbs will probably pass beneath notice in more places than magic would anyway.

[There's a long pause.]

One last thing... My overlay had some kind of magic power that let her convince other people to give in to what she wanted and I think I kept it too. Could somebody help me test that out? I want to be sure exactly what it does.

((OOC: a log if anybody would like to thread out experiments or get a teaching proof, etc))

Books! I've never seen so many, ever. [There's a happy squeal.] Oh! They have a written copy of Dragon and Phoenix. It even has Bard Otter Heronson's notes in it, and I think those are notations on how to play it too! And the epic of Bram and Rani! And the creation of the Dragonlords!

[She'd apologize for being so very excited and enthusiastic about the books in everybody's heads, but she's a bit distracted by that very thing.]

I want to read them all, but I don't think I could in a whole lifetime. I just have one question. How am I supposed to find things? I've figured out that the letters and numbers are labels of some kind, but I have no idea what they mean. Does anybody know and can you explain how it works?

By the Crone's saggy, dessicated paps! Those mangy, fly-struck, thrush-footed, worm-begot sons of dungheaps! To Gifnu's deepest hells with you, Trumps. You--

[The tirade continues with more creative swearing and cursing, even slipping into different languages a time or two, for a solid minute more. But eventually Pod runs out of steam, and there's a moment of silence before she addresses the network with more calm.]

So do these Trumps mock everyone with their overlays or am I just that unlucky?