[voice], within the first week of October

[hasapoint]

[You feel something reaching out and touching your mind... Poking it, actually, like a prodding finger. It withdraws and tries a softer, finer touch. That withdraws too, and there's a pause. Looks like Need can't get around her powerloss and covertly use peoples' senses/look into their minds just by using the pearl network. Unfortunate.

After a moment, Need allows her presence to bloom into the connection and make itself known. If you can gauge this kind of thing at all two things are immediately evident. One is that she's very old. Not tired, not fragile, but distant and distorted to the point where her mind doesn't really feel human. The other is that she's female. There's nothing stereotypically feminine there but it's very clear. She's something crushed into a tiny space a very long time ago and also: she/her.]

Someone always figures out how to make a teleson. [Telepathy via technology.] How far does this reach? Does it work between people who haven't met?

[Need is far more accustomed to speaking mind-to-mind than using anything else, so her "voice" has a particular quality to it that I'm gonna keep rendering as italics.]

Where I'm from it's possible to visit other realities, where things might be very different, and be fully embodied in them but one's actual body remains behind. The more difficult part is getting back to it. I wonder if that's happened here.

Comments

[hasapoint]

Something's always prying.

[a sigh-that's-not-a-sigh.]

Very well, child. I won't. Seems like a stronger connection is not required for these, anyway.

[and honestly Need does have respect for stated boundaries, even if she doesn't like when people put them up. If she ever regains mind magic somehow... she'll think about it. She regards what's presented with interest.]

Anything else?

[pyrodulia]

[There is a bristle that runs through Agnes and into the connection at being called a child. Righteous indignation flavors the tone of her mental voice. She used to be a goddess, a messiah, an apocalypse.]

No, that is all, specter.

[hasapoint]

[There's something like a faint metallic taste that can be identified, if considered, as distant amusement.]

Of course. Who are you?

[pyrodulia]

Agnes. My name is Agnes, and I'm one of the newer arrivals.

[Same batch as Need, in fact. She projects the mental image of her new nine-tailed form, with a clarity that doesn't quite come from experience with telepathy, but from a mind long open to that which isn't mundane.]

[hasapoint]

[Definitely interesting.]

A fox. You're one of the ones who isn't stuck with something tiny, I see. Congratulations, Agnes.

[Maybe a slight pause before the name. Need's not great with them. At some point she will probably refer to Agnes as the tall fox with all the tails.]

'Need' does well enough as a name for me. I'm swords.

[Self deprecating and the amusement is stronger and much easier to read. Need shares an image of a Doublade. A different Doublade that she's seen. She tends to feel disconnected from her new body and it would take longer to construct the kind of image Agnes has.]

[pyrodulia]

And how do you find that suits you, being multiple swords?

[Her turn to leach amusement into the mental connection. It is one of the odder forms of life she's encountered here.]

[hasapoint]

It's absurd. If I don't keep a sword sheathed in that wall crest I have to pull it after me by hand. And why do I have to eat and sleep?

[Need shares a sketchy kind of image of a sword, a non-Pokemon one, laid on a bed with the hilt on the pillow. It's been tucked in.]

I'm not upset about it but it is fairly ridiculous. Could be worse, I suppose.

[She thinks she'd struggle more as something with facial expressions and breathing and a mouth, and legs. Doublade has far more sensory information and mobility going on than she's used to but not as much as more animal-like Pokemon.]

[pyrodulia]

It could always be worse. I've been bemoaning the loss of thumbs, but at least I still have most of the body parts that matter to me.

[Eyes, teeth, the ability to immolate her foes with little effort.]