synopsychic | Entries tagged with tim drake (pg)

[The voice is... familiar, yet different. Older, or is it younger? People who spoke to the Batman Grayson before he vanished might say the latter. Those more familiar with Robin might say the former.

Whatever the case, it's businesslike as he checks into the network.]

Nightwing here, doing a headcount. Anyone gone missing since the last Jaunt?

mysunnydisposition

[ Steph's voice is oddly flat for her, tone carefully controlled. ]

Okay, so... now that we're all back together and everyone knows who they are again... or, well, most of us, anyway...

Who here was a Manticore Knight? And do any of you know what the hell happened to Tim when he was infiltrating? There weren't that many of them, he was one of them, and his body was full of bullet holes in their morgue, so someone has to know.

detectivewonder

Okay, I think I've got the hang of this. Can you hear me?

Not that it's really hearing, it seems like it's an internal voice. Mental.

We're Travelers, we're opposing some sort of organization called the Manticore Knights, and we have access to the world they're in and a place called a liminal - is that right?

I don't see anyone else here, so I must be in liminal right now...

Is there an orientation process in place? What's an infiltrator, in this context?

thinkingfire

I hate to make my introduction this way, but current circumstances have forced me into a bit of a bind. My name is Professor Martin Stein, and I'm rather hoping someone here might be able to provide a bit of assistance in a matter of what is sadly quite literally, life and death.

In the interest of preventing a rather sizable nuclear explosion--and I do realize this is a long shot, but would there be anyone present who has been fortunate enough to survive some sort of incident such as being involved with an exploding particle accelerator or nuclear reactor of something of that nature? The matter at hand is...rather urgent.

loyalrebel

[It's been a while since Malik's spoken up on the network but this is something drastic to him and it needs addressing.]

It has been recently brought to my attention that the education system of modern times is sorely lacking in a number of regards.

I was told that beyond the basics of reading and mathematics anything else was not important and was not even taught, and this desperately needs to be rectified.

We may be learning magic and other such things from our overlays, but there are areas that are horrifically left by the wayside in this arms race we have entered in to.

I may not know much about history as it is from most of your perspectives but there has to be educators among us or at least those who will be willing to step up and help the children among us not return home uneducated louts who respond to the idea of mathematics or reading with "why should I care?" or "it is too difficult".

[He's not sorry Phillip. This is probably your fault kid.]

forcechanic

Is it normal to run into things in Jaunts that are eerily familiar once you come out of the overlay? It's not just that I had brothers... whose names were really close or the same as my actual brothers... and then they got kidnapped.

[And she's really more annoyed than upset about that. Why does that keep happening even in other universes?]

It was the Masters at the Sun Temple. At least half of them had names I learned in history class, and I'm definitely not from that world. Master Yoda even used the same training methods that the Yoda in my world used to teach my uncle. And now I'm wondering if he really did sound like that.

I can't be the first person this has happened to, right?

detectivewonder

Got a minute?

someonetocarry

So somebody wanna tell me where the Trumps were hidin' this Jaunt? My other self in there was kinda on the sidelines of whatever action went down, given the whole havin'-a-baby thing, and I don't remember talkin' to anythin' that might fit a Trump in disguise.

[Little does she know... still, it's a place to start the conversation for various interested parties, right? Including herself. Because she's not actually even sure which Trump marked her.]

turbedon

Well. That was fun. [He's had far too much practice sounding sarcastic even in his head, but he's at least keeping the fatigue out.]

Glad not to be hobbling around on geta anymore, though I got to keep the mask? What is with the Trumps and owls and me?

Anyway, is everyone okay? If we're missing someone, let me know and I'll see if I can sniff them out to double-check.

awitchdidit

( Cut for being far too long. )

professorwolf

Ah, hello, Randolph Lyall here. Sorry to bother everyone, but someone from my own, er, original home universe has just arrived... and I do believe she requires a bit of an introduction. Lady Alexia Maccon, wife to my former pack leader, Victorian-era aristocracy, and preternatural.

[Because he has sensory livestreaming, he's able to send with this a mental image of Alexia, so hey, maybe this will count for her as an introduction to everyone, for her sense of propriety? It's a thought!]

'Preternatural' means, if she touches you and you have supernatural abilities, it is entirely possible she will negate them. I don't know the extent of that ability with people not of our world, but in our world, shapeshifters, vampires, and ghosts are all affected, so a warning seems... well, prudent.

I am entirely positive she will not take offense if you wish not to take her hand, with this knowledge in mind.

loyalrebel

Unrelated to... most everything else, but I have a question for you all.

What are parents supposed to be like? Having them, or even being one.

I ask because I do not... actually know from first-hand experience. I never really knew mine and I have no children of my own.

[Someone has been hitting the truth sharing apples probably a bit more than he should have, so expect some storytime.]

darkhourdear

Sooooo I don't know who's been talking to Kyan at all, but he's been trying to figure out what's going on with the Tachyon storm. Apparently, he's thinking now maybe we shouldn't try to outrun it. He's not scared of it anymore, apparently, and since the data in it is so organized he's wondering if it's carrying information about something...?

I don't really know what that could mean, but considering we're trying to outrun the thing (and sort of failing at the moment), I feel like this is probably important.

morbirdinterest

I have been investigating the new portals using some skills from a previous Jaunt. Two things have revealed themselves to me, which may be of interest.

First, my Control Panel returns a reading of "extra-system access loci" when I use it near a portal. This suggests to me that some entity other than the Trumps is creating, and likely using, these portals.

Second, and quite coincidentally, while activating my Control Panel in a secluded part of the Empress, I discovered that there are dead bodies in the reactor. Eight of them.

darkhourdear

Does anyone know what thorium and platium are?

Also, do we know where the Creche is?

[as usual this comes without any explanation. that's how phillip rolls.]

bite_the_hand

What the hell is going on!?

[Eren has evidently found a secluded enough space to start literally yelling at the Network. Enjoy the extremely loud and slightly panicked voice in your heads, Travelers.]

I'd heard some people could get back into Liminal Space on a Jaunt, but no one said anything about these doorways opening up and letting anyone through! I thought it was supposed to just be Investigators! Is this normal!?

[Now the worry in his voice gets a lot more obvious.]

I thought going back into Liminal Space was what turned Infiltrators back into themselves. But I've already seen some of them go in and not turn back! This doesn't mean they're all stuck like this now, does it!?

((ooc note: I really wanted to make this post, but Real Life is probably going to delay my replies until Monday. Sorry about that, I'll get back to this as soon as I can!))

darkhourdear

Hi everyone! So, um, I've found out some stuff and... made some stuff up and Zatanna and I had a thought about something. ...I'll keep the stuff I made up and the stuff I found out separate.

The big thing I guess is that if everything goes like it's supposed to, the ships people are working on should be up and flying within a few days. There's a Tachyon storm coming and so everyone needs to get off planet. The thought we had is that we didn't know if the network would still connect us all if we're on different ships? If there's a range to how far we can be before the network stops working for everyone. I don't know if that'll happen or not, but if it does then we figured it would be better for us all to be prepared for the idea rather than freak out when it's cut off.

Um, other stuff... yeah, so, this world is connected to Questing Country. Hecatites and Gorgons are both a thing here- so far I've seen Charoite, Luci, and Kore but there might be more wandering around. There are also Diabolins, and apparently they used to have a history of kidnapping people from pre-space flight species, so if you want to claim to be from something like that you could. Earth is the human homeworld, but apparently they only got into space recently. Or, at least this far in to space. Ships crash here a lot, too, so that's a good excuse for being here. Otherwise everyone is like exiled or imprisoned here, unless they're born here. Everyone except humans throw people here as punishment, apparently. There are weird fire worms that eat metal away from the town... oh! And whoever Kanji is Infiltrating as is an astronomer who's watching the storm. If anyone knows anything about that kind of stuff, I think he could use some help.

[aaaand now for the stuff Phillip made up, where his voice sounds distinctly more sheepish.]

Also, if anyone needs a cover story, I kind of made up a species so I wouldn't have to deal with not knowing anything about what Earth is like at this point. I can probably add more things to it to cover random Traveler stuff- I might say we can telepathically communicate with each other so we could use the network and things- so if anyone wants to use, it let me know and I'll figure out how to try and make it plausible.

howexciting

... let us get this over with so we can return to Liminal Space. This place is unpleasant.

Leonardo da Vinci, present. Known infiltrators: Ezio Auditore da Firenze. Known missing: Genevieve Blanchard and Zed. I... cannot sense them through our Bond. They were likely sent on a Walkabout.

For anyone who does not know about radiation and is near an area expected to get to 150 rads or more - get out of there immediately. Such radiation levels might cause adverse effects on your body, unless you have the proper protection. Find a safer place. I might be able to distribute suits from the Ivory Tower to combat the radiation, but I do not know how much they would stand out. Still, it might be worth the risk so that we are not harmed in the process.

[How about that, the Ivory Tower was useful after all.]

Please list any confirmed infiltrators and any confirmed missing persons so we are more aware of our current numbers.

backwordscompatible

[Cue the sound of a fifteen-year-old trying to play it cool and not sound nearly as nervous as she was starting to get:]

So...uh...shot in the dark here: is there anyone who's special abilities are acting a little...off? [Because that was so specific] Either the ones you've picked up from Jaunts along the way, or whatever powers you had before you got here?

[There might have been a slight emphasis on the latter, which was what she was more concerned with at the moment.]

No reason. I was just curious, is all.

[She wasn't just curious.]

detectivewonder

For anyone who's interested in that kind of thing, there's a lot of discussion about the Trumps happening over in Toshizou Hijikata's broadcast. I was going to continue my thoughts from before the Jaunt, but I think I'll just contribute there. Easier to consolidate, right?

Anyway. Before we get down to business, here's something nobody should miss.

[Tim is in a dark room, surrounded by other people talking excitedly, but he's looking down at his own hands, trembling a little, and settling headphones over his ears, covering the sound with mid-nineties eastern european speed metal. With that as the soundtrack, suddenly, the visuals constrict, as if he's passing out or falling into darkness - and then he's a shadow, moving through the night sky at blinding speed, slaloming between clouds scudding across the full moon, surrounded by other shadows weaving and darting. There's no sound of wind, and the music is a distant backdrop, as if heard through a tunnel. The whole experience is something like a wingsuit video, as the shadow-wolves play tag at Mach 2 through mountaintops, forests, skyscraper radio antennas, blurring over the dark sea and rushing at the lights on the other side. The video isn't constant, but a compilation shot, jumping from scene to scene between songs, watching the moon inch across the sky, and it's a full fifteen minutes before the greatest-hits track of flying as a shadow is finished.]

Every now and then, for a day at a time, this is almost worth it.

Profile

The Synodiporia Psychic Network

Current Investigation

Now: Questing Country: Harmonic Resonance
September 1 - October 10
Current Tag: !harmonic resonance

October 2020

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Page Summary

solowing - Headcount
mysunnydisposition - (no subject)
detectivewonder - Wait, wasn't he infiltrating?
thinkingfire - Have I Got a Deal for You
loyalrebel - Malik Greatly Disapproves. Again.
forcechanic - Actually we just shouldn't be allowed to create NPCs
detectivewonder - [Private to Armin Arlert]
someonetocarry - Trump-Talk
turbedon - Headcount, 1, 2, 3...
awitchdidit - The Science of Witches and Trumps (warning: tl;dr)
professorwolf - [A Polite PSA]
loyalrebel - Awkward questions time
darkhourdear - (no subject)
morbirdinterest - [from the Empress of Moths, amidst system malfunctions and strange portals]
darkhourdear - [JAUNT] backdated to slightly before the new mingle
bite_the_hand - [Jaunt] Shortly after Liminal Portals start appearing
darkhourdear - (no subject)
howexciting - [JAUNT] Check-in
backwordscompatible - [audio]
detectivewonder - [Open Broadcast + Sensory Livestream & Memory Sharing]

Style Credit

Style: Teal Eaves for For the Bold by timeasmymeasure

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags

Page generated May. 30th, 2025 03:25 am

The Synodiporia Psychic Network

Entries tagged with tim drake (pg)

Headcount

(no subject)

Wait, wasn't he infiltrating?

Have I Got a Deal for You

Malik Greatly Disapproves. Again.

Actually we just shouldn't be allowed to create NPCs

[Private to Armin Arlert]

Trump-Talk

Headcount, 1, 2, 3...

The Science of Witches and Trumps (warning: tl;dr)

[A Polite PSA]

Awkward questions time

(no subject)

[from the Empress of Moths, amidst system malfunctions and strange portals]

[JAUNT] backdated to slightly before the new mingle

[Jaunt] Shortly after Liminal Portals start appearing

(no subject)

[JAUNT] Check-in

[audio]

[Open Broadcast + Sensory Livestream & Memory Sharing]

Profile

Current Investigation

Links

October 2020

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags