[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.

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[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.]