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synopsychic2020-09-19 09:47 pm
powersthatbe) wrote in synopsychic2020-09-19 09:47 pm
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Conductor Network, Week Three
[For any and all Conductor discussion, but also.]
[III. When the Spirit Companions begin to keen, the Tesserae will worriedly inform their Chosen that they do not feel any transmission of alarm or dismay from Questing Country.]
[III. When the Spirit Companions begin to keen, the Tesserae will worriedly inform their Chosen that they do not feel any transmission of alarm or dismay from Questing Country.]
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It has been 0 days since Grant was right about something horrible.
Hey, Io. We'll set it right. Any ideas?
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Failing that, I'll consult the net- well, my other Network of how to go about coordinating everyone.
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That, or we come with an Oracle or something...
Much later
I think we will need to confront the other Companions about this, and find out why they're disconnected. And I think we'll need to do it soon, and do it Backstage.
Re: Much later
Forward-dated to midweek, this thread is Eldritch Defense and Psi Defense teaching proof
Okay, sit down, nerds. It's too late for me; I have gazed into the memes, and they, too, have gazed into me - and I know that's one of yours, because of a funny little thing I picked up from Anime High School.
Overrated, by the way. Turns out that being a character in a Takahashi joint fucking sucks! Who knew?! Nabiki did, but I digress.
My name is Madoka Mawaru, of the cult-busting Shinigami Clan, and I'm from a world where more or less the SCP Foundation - or the AEGIS Agency - runs a goddamn high school. And not only did I pass Infohazards 101 and 201 with flying colors, but my extra credit was tangling with effin Nyarlathotep on a Jaunt with my mind and soul intact.
I'm gonna thoroughly school you on how to live with your infohazard and best practices for not spreading it every goddamn time you open your mouth. So siddown, shut up, and let's get down to business.
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So many.
What do they mean?
I'm scared.
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UGGGH I'm going full memelord, aren't I. Conducting sucks when you have cognitohazard training.
Were you around for Harrogate? Either Harrogate? If so, my condolences.
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N-No?
Should I have been?
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It had ghosts, which was fine for me, but it also had strange creatures that Should Not Be and that would drive you mad if you looked too closely.
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Maddened Voidsent would be the closest thing that we have. I'm sorry that you both had to go through that.
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[He was still in severe 'emotional distress suppression' mode on that Jaunt.]
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Just. Let me know if you want a potato sack on you at anytime, okay?
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You let me know if you need a cooled-off snuggle, okay?
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Okay.
Cognito-. As in, cognition, cognitive. Thought.
Hazard, which you can figure out.
Therefore: A cognitohazard is a dangerous thought. It's something you literally don't want to know.
Start talking about taking on the Silver, and you will, inevitably. That's what a Cognitohazard is.
You with me?
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Huh.
How does that work? I mean, I suppose I have a prime example, but how does thinking something make it dangerous or real-
That's a silly question. This is a Liminal space.
[She sighs, and you get the distinct impression that she's holding her head in her hands.]
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As long as I don't look like I'm resting, you can come at me any time. Hell, try and attack me as a group. Let me see what you can all do as a combination.
... I have some ideas, but I want to see what you guys can do, first. Don't worry about hurting me, I'm... pretty tough.
Though if any of your abilities makes a gunshot noise please don't use it - or at least warn me before you do.
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Should we start with pairs and work up, or do you want me to unleash the entire Warband on you? Also: Tuners free, or no?
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I'll follow your lead on weapons out or no. I have... options.
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Not that you need to teach me Physical Conditioning, just, you know, physical conditioning, if that makes sense?
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And I can do that. Just let me know where to meet you. I... found a map for the sector you're in, and so now I can probably navigate to anywhere.
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Also, anime night. It's a thing. Any requests?
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And uh. I don't know, I've only seen some movies that Thorne showed. I never really got into it? I might not have seen anything that clicked with me, I guess.
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K-ON, Bubblegum Crisis, Yuri on Ice, and Full Metal Panic are all pretty good.
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Dialing back on singing them out loud, sure.
Network still exists!
Late in the week
This is Leah. I - we? My Traveller, Deedee - go figure - and I are in constant mental communication, but she's set the Conductor Network to a read-only mode and can only contact it through me. Likewise, I can read but not post to the Traveller network. She said that made a 'mental partition,' divided our minds enough that she didn't risk carrying our memes to the Traveller's Network. And she...
The compulsion to meme and our impulsiveness are mental wounds, deliberately inflicted; and not only did she cure these from me, she taught me how to do likewise.
This is the longest I've gone without making a reference for four months Terran.
I'm available to heal and teach mental healing for those who need it.
And, if you see me in a costume with a stylized heart in magenta, Deedee is the one speaking.
Very end of the week
Everyone who has been turned has been properly horrified by conversion by force, as this goes against all that the Othropraxy stands for, at least in spirit; they are supposed to prove the rightness of their cause, and gain allies, not convert at the points of a Tuner.
Well. Charity begins at home.
If Doofenschmirtz Evil Incorporated, to use the meme, wishes to spread Orthopraxy so badly, then let's make sure they properly understand it first.
I need volunteers for a plan next week, to Bridge to their redoubts, as a Traveller might go. Thorn, you can follow us, as we found out last week. There, and back again with a Warband of us... singing warsongs, and spouting memes.
We warned them about the memes.
We told them, dawg.
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But hey, maybe not turning to murder them might make it work better.
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We can't promise this will work, or that it won't end in blood if they choose to attack us. But it seems more fitting, it has a greater chance of ending with allies rather than corpses, and frankly?
These are people willing to turn the whole Dream into a silver snowflake. I'm not sure compromise is possible.
And if it's not, then we need them out of the Dream, one way or the other.
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You already know I'm on board with overthrowing evil bastards, girl, just give me the signal when you wanna try it.
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Very important, all conductors please respond
What should the new Role look like?
if this makes no sense please let me know im running on like 2% brain power rn
How about 'Harmonizer'? Given the way we can move and communicate, and keeping in with the musical motif. I admit, my Bard tendancies are probably making me slightly biased.
But a group that is able to keep the peace between all factions would be nice. I don't know if this role will ever be able to connect to Questing Country like the others, but...
Unless you were asking in a literal aesthetic sense, haha!
it makes sense, AND is not an answer to what she meant to ask
Other than our infectious nature needing to go, and wanting to make us dauntless rather than fearless. I hope you understand and appreciate the distinction?
I'm so GOOD at RP
Fear is what makes soldiers wary and not idiots, after all. Well, most of the time.
I think it would mean that our powers would have to come from ourselves. From inside, something that we're able to mould to what we need. It might take help from Roles and Oracles and such, but perhaps that forethought would allow us to understand what we would be instead of simply riding the powers put upon us.
To be inducted like Leah had been doing before, and to have an actual formal training method.
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A choice.
What if it was something you could pick up when you needed it, and put down when you were ready? Not when your emotions said you were ready. When you said.