[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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[dripdrive]

[As a psychic-type, Anasui is well in tune with the Grumpearls and knows what they're about. However, it doesn't mean he likes them, and likes it even less when he feels what clearly is something needling at him. As soon as Need connects herself to the network properly, Anasui send the equivalent of a psychic nip to the fingers back to Need, almost like a bird pecking. Poke the ratite and you get the beak.

After the small shock, Anasui opens himself to the connection in the same way Need does. Anasui's an ordinary human his mid-twenties. He's male right now but has been back and forth with changing pronouns again. And more importantly, he's pretty annoyed that someone was trying to get into his mind.]

To answer your questions: Far. Yes. And highly unlikely.

...Having fun playing with the pearl?

sorry, work ate me!

[hasapoint]

[Need allows a spark of annoyance to show, followed by a faint metallic taste of amusement, partly at herself for being annoyed. Those are surface feelings. Under them she is a watchful flatness, almost emptiness. She isn't missing home, grieving anyone's absence, worrying, frustrated, or dysphoric about being a strange creature, at least not in any of the usual ways. There's something in the depths, but it's way down there.]

I'm making do. You have a comment? About manners, is it?

[More shallow surface feelings: resignation, receptiveness. Need's canon has some pretty abysmal morals when it comes to psychic powers and she's part of that but she does respect boundaries and consent more than her fellows.]

all good! No need to worry!

[dripdrive]

[Anasui's done lots of tests studying the pearls and, being a psychic type, he's pretty attuned to them. He can feel what lies beyond surface emotions quite easily. Which is why he's so surprised there's... not much to sense under surface feelings. If Anasui wasn't so sure of himself, he'd assume that Need was just masking her innermost feelings.

The emptiness is... curious.]

Hmph. Less about manners, more about decency. People don't like having their thoughts pried out, any more than they like having their fingers removed. Those aren't for sharing.

[Anasui can't fault her for being curious but he dislikes her reactions. Resignation? Receptiveness? It's almost like she's a child ready to hear the lecture from a parent because they know they've done something wrong. While the feelings aren't inherently bad (he can definitely relate), they do suggest she's been caught before. She's been digging in heads before.]

What are you? [Anasui, you can't just ask that-]

[hasapoint]

[Need is active, she thinks and observes quite a bit and even finds an odd beauty in people. But she's calm and patient in a way that suggests certain things that make calmness and patience difficult for many people either aren't there, or have been eroded severely.

Something she isn't is contrite. She doesn't feel she's attempted anything wrong. More like she's choosing longer-hemmed skirts to meet with someone scandalized by ankles. In Velgarth anything an "angel" does to someone's mind, including altering memories or making themselves too beloved to live without, is considered acceptable. When someone objects to just about any of the others, they always quickly end up okay with it, or forgetting entirely.

...the fact that Need sighs and goes fine, I won't and doesn't rewrite how people feel ironically means many people are suspicious of her and find her sketchy.]

I'm a spirit in a sword. Two swords, I suppose. [Amused] If you're asking about before, I was a spirit in one sword. The difference is these are mobile and have eyes.

[dripdrive]

[In that way, they're similar. Anasui rarely feels remorse for anything he does, though he is trying to make an effort to try be more considerate to others. It's difficult when you don't understand though, whether it be the bubble of personal space or the privacy of ones' own thoughts. Anasui supposes it must be different where Need is from but he doesn't particularly like it.

Honestly, it seems like it must be a difficult way to live. How does anyone get anything done where she's from asides from amassing more power?

Thoughts for someone who actually knew what was going on in Velgarth, and not someone like Anasui who isn't thinking about it.]

I see... A spirit with the power to probe minds. You sound like a Stand. [This is a thought that Anasui absolutely doesn't elaborate on, but the connection to power is evident from Anasui's thoughts.]

What exactly are you looking for in people's brains at the moment?