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If you fuck up the kitchen, then you should do the dishes (Later in the week)

Conducting can't be healed, but the damage it causes - impulsiveness and the compulsion to meme - can, while still making us utterly dauntless and incapable of being paralyzed by shame, fear, or doubt. Partitioning your thought processes in combination with advanced psychic shielding allows you to stay in contact with the Conductor Network safely. This will probably also help the people working on decoding the fractal do it safely, but I can't absolutely guarantee that.

Sensory Conditioning helps with the compulsion to meme, as well. It's one reason that Paraiba hasn't turned yet. Protecting the Conditioned Diaphoron is now a priority; defer to Paraiba on how.

Speaking of, IOU one deinfiltration, Gil. Just show me how it's done, and who you want restored.

Yes, this is Deedee; yes, I'm a Conductor, still, and when I'm in the driver's seat I'm the Conductor of Heart; yes, Leah has heard all of this from her end; no, there is no risk of infection from talking to me, or her. Not any more.

Also: is it just me, or does Questing Country have a definite resemblance to Skaia?

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Okay, so; this is just what I've picked up this week by training relentlessly with Madoka and Casper. At least some of this is also having the Heart Aspect, but all of the important parts are psychic; that just let me error-correct faster.

Someone with basic psychic defenses can sense points of stress and failure for them, yeah? Can see the weak points. And they can also, if those are obviously wounds or scars, start to mend them. Absolutely intrusive, by the way, but so's surgery; I'm sure Choice understands the consent issues here.

If you'll pardon me for talking in video game terms, cause I lived in a video game for almost three months ysee, I can sense and cure mental debuffs and top off psychic hit points. There's definitely a plateau that I needed to get over to get the memelordship out; the poor impulse control was easier to heal.

As for the partitioning... it's how I have Conductornet on Read Only, no ability to post; I pass that onto Leah. Ditto what she has to say to us. You can use it to, among other things, have someone already compromised - like Thetan - pass info along to you after you can scan it for infohazards with Psychic Defenses.

Leah says hi, by the way.

Edited 2020-09-22 04:45 (UTC)

We say hi in return.

I have been working on various techniques and ideas for healing, so that much I can do. I haven't been able to test it, but I had been wondering if Dreamcatchers could be used to aid in psychic healing.

I'm not sure I can master partitioning the mind so quickly though. Steven always handled the psychic skills between us.

At this point I suspect both Thetan and I are fairly well compromised. I do wonder if all of my resistance training is helping me. Being able to lie successfully to a druid is... difficult, and it may run on similar principles to conditioning? I would have to talk to a master, I suspect.

That sounds right but...

Ah. Close call. Conditioning does help. Instead, I'll say that I don't know if your Resistance training helps, but it's plausible.

If you don't mind my asking, what do you do to resist a Druid's probing? I can private and lock down the convo if you need it.

And Dreamcatchers I'm vague on - never had one - but if they're like a Tuner's ability to break down and purify Nightmares, you could potentially use them as psychic filtration units.

Edited 2020-09-22 04:56 (UTC)

Focus, control, and I believe the word is compartmentalizing. Much of resistance training deals with physical torture, but the insidious part of torture are always the mental games that the druids play. Being able to spot their manipulations and resist when physically taxed, or drugged, is a part of it.

Another part of lying is a perfect control of the physical tells. Ear emotes, tension, heart-rate, scent... The other part is harder to explain. The druids employ quintessence in their magic, and resisting that is chancy at best, but is most effective when they're not just trying to fry your flesh from your bones.

You've seen my eyes, haven't you? The golden glow is actually an early symptom of quintessence exposure. Later symptoms can range from extreme physical dependance to mental and emotional decay.

...that sounds like it's from the same chapter of infohazard training as Conditioning, yes. That'll be very, very helpful.

Every little bit of additional defense helps. I think in order to have time to plan and implement our countermeasures, we'll need to decode the fractals very soon.

It specifically sounds like sensory Conditioning, which means I know what I ought to focus on. My monastic training from Mundus means I should be able to breeze through physical Conditioning, and Leah did a lot more meditation than I did growing up which helps with the mental side.

I can't help sift, my hands are full, but I hope that helped make it a lot less risky. And if you do end up Conducting, you know what to do about it, now.

...Hah. She got her de-facto Resistors, after all.

I'm glad to have a little extra defense for myself and Thetan. We also can get him in contact with the Conditioned here, which should give him defense even when I'm gone.

She did. I hope we can help her keep them.

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