Gaming Outpost Discussions

1. 

   Max
   Member

   Well, I wonder what the name that Morani would suggest for the baby if the baby is a girl.
   Do Lelach have any idea what the name would be?
   Do Lelach need my suggestion on this to please Morani?
   The name I suggest 'probably' can be used by any gender.

   So it is already spring. Must not be long for my birth now.
   I wonder what food is available in the early Spring.

   Periodically the walls of your containment, which are now snug at all times, press against you. They press more from the top, pushing your head down and driving you into an inverted position. This is not uncomfortable, really, since the bottom is padded and when the force comes from the top the top hardens significantly; but you are strong enough to stay upright or move to some other position if you prefer.

   My intuition said that it is a bad thing to move as you please in this condition so I will just let nature take its course. The birth must be near if I am forced to change my position.

   Practice as usual until just before birth.
   If I get to have telepathy connection during birth then probably I will try to sing a soothing song (if I remember any with my enhanced memory recollection) telepathically to ease Lelach's pain.
   After birth, try to look at Lelach's appearance (hair and eye color) and try to mind tag Morani if he is nearby.
   I wonder if I can see that well after birth to do the above.

   Wed Aug 5 2009 5:33 pm #
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   M. J. Young
   Moderator

   You've noticed that sometimes when the walls tighten there is also the inarticulate sound of a cry in Lelach's voice, and particularly when the force is stronger.

   After about a week you find that you are upside down, and that your head seems to be stuck at the bottom, wedged into a narrow space. The tightening of the walls presses you more firmly into this space.

   After a second week, the tightenings are becoming more frequent. At this point your head is down and your chin is pressed to your chest; it is the top back of your head, the crown, that is stuck.

   Then the environment changes--rather abruptly. The water in which you have so long been immersed seems to drain away, starting at your feet, until there is none left. The walls now press much harder, even painfully, against you, squeezing you downward into that space in which your head is stuck. It is a very narrow space, as if you are being forced head-first into an elastic funnel. It is also "down"--your sense of balance is not bothered by it, but you are situated with your head toward the ground, and being pushed that way.

   Lelach's cries are joined by a mix of urgent and reassuring voices, most of them female, over the course of the next hour. You hear the timbre voice you have come to associate with Morani, but he is heard less and less frequently.

   The force always begins somewhere up by your feet and legs, the chamber getting smaller and tighter from above, working down around your hips and side and pushing you into the lower section, which does not tighten but is really pretty tight already. It swells from the tautness of a pair of stockings to a painful pressure and then releases again, over an eternal half-minute.

   Were you hoping to establish telepathic contact with Lelach at this time?

   --M. J. Young

   Wed Aug 5 2009 9:16 pm #
3. 

   Max
   Member

   If I do not have telepathic connection with Lelach at the time then I would not try to do it since there are plenty of people there to support her.
   I would like to do the self hypnosis though to make the pain I felt more bearable so that I can pray for Lelach and my safety and ask for ease of pain for both of us.
   If the hypnosis would not help with the pain then I would pray in the time where the pain is more bearable.

   After birth, try to look at Lelach's appearance (hair and eye color) and try to mind tag Morani if he is nearby provided that I can see that much.
   I would also ask Lelach telepathically (in a practice session) about my appearance and how it is compared to my parents.
   Would Morani be surprised when Lelach is right about the gender?
   If I already have Morani's mind frequency, I would also like to mind tag the sprites who help with the birth to thank them later. (Are these treated as practice for mind tag or do you roll for each sprite?)

   I wonder what things have changed after my birth.
   Can I feel something growing on my back such as wings?
   Are the time I spent awake and sleeping about the same as in the womb?
   If it is the same then I will continue with my practice routine, otherwise I will probably have to modify it here and there.
   Can I control my hands freely after birth because of the exercise that I have done in the womb?
   If I can then I would meditate then try to detect material such as fabric or food nearby.

   Thu Aug 6 2009 10:25 am #
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   M. J. Young
   Moderator

   Your self-hypnosis does make you feel more positive, although it doesn't do much for the pain of being squeezed into a rubber pipe. From time to time you feel movement below, and sometimes something touches the top of your head; that head is being pushed down into the tight space below, smooth walls creeping down over your forehead toward your face.

   Tell me more about this prayer. How do you pray under these circumstances? Exactly what are you "saying" and how are you "saying" it?

   --M. J. Young

   Fri Aug 7 2009 2:18 am #
5. 

   Max
   Member

   Your self-hypnosis does make you feel more positive, although it doesn't do much for the pain of being squeezed into a rubber pipe.

   At least I have a positive attitude towards the pain as I laugh at myself.
   Does feeling positive towards pain make people a masochist?

   Tell me more about this prayer. How do you pray under these circumstances? Exactly what are you "saying" and how are you "saying" it?

   I pray silently in my mind just like how I pray for guidance before in the womb because I could not talk in this situation, right?
   I would think of asking for protection of God (or King) for our safety and to make our pain more bearable.
   This is one of the basic prayer that I think most of the people (from various religion) in the world prayed for but for the prove of effectiveness, only the people of faith can differentiate it from what people call coincidence.
   I know you would ask about the prayer so I have thought about the answer before but I just wanted to see if you would really ask it.

   If the birth process are still on-going then I will note it as detail as possible because it is a very rare experience and I would not miss this chance to experience it as a person (or sprite) who loves simulation.
   After birth, I will do this.

   We've got a few more months to go, so we'll probably be born this week. Won't that be fun?

   Even without it, though, the birth is going to take several sessions.

   So that is the uneasy feeling I got when I read the first one. I sort of know that it would not go as fast as planned. As far as coincidence go, I will also go on a vacation next week but I hope that I will still get to post then.

   Fri Aug 7 2009 7:48 am #
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   M. J. Young
   Moderator

   Your prayer is heard, and the pain reduces substantially. Your mother also seems to be suffering less.

   I think that having a positive attitude about pain does not necessarily mean you have to want it, but only that you have to accept that it is also a good thing when it comes, serving a positive purpose and not to be feared. You can have a positive attitude about pain and still want it to end.

   As you are being pressed further down, the tube through which you are passing seems to have a bend in it--your chin is being lifted from your chest, your head tilted back, and your neck starting to twist to the left. It is all moving extremely slowly but with inexorable force. You realize just how fragile this body is and how easily it could be snapped or crushed by the forces around you.

   People are still talking, but the pressure of these tight walls now against your ears blocks out nearly all sound except the pumping of blood through your mother's body and her cries and pants for breath.

   --M. J. Young

   Fri Aug 7 2009 9:42 pm #
7. 

   Max
   Member

   I will thank God (or King) in my mind for answering my prayer.

   You can have a positive attitude about pain and still want it to end.

   Good. I was worried that being positive towards pain will lead to masochism as a side effect.

   You realize just how fragile this body is and how easily it could be snapped or crushed by the forces around you.

   I just hope that both Lelach and me make it through this experience safely.
   I hope the King's answer to my prayer helps to ease the birth process.

   People are still talking, but the pressure of these tight walls now against your ears blocks out nearly all sound except the pumping of blood through your mother's body and her cries and pants for breath.

   Well, I will get ready to cry when it is my cue so that I can get to breath with my lungs.
   I wonder if certain movement will help with the birth process such as wiggling free but I think I will let nature take its course on this one (meaning doing what nature wants me to do instinctively).

   Feel free to post what happens next if you think I cannot do anything about it.
   My after birth actions are stated in the previous posts.

   Sat Aug 8 2009 4:28 pm #
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   M. J. Young
   Moderator

   I paused where I did because it might be possible for you to fight against the natural turning of your neck; you didn't fall for it, though, so I think we're clear sailing from here.

   In your downward passage, your head is lifted from your chest and turned left.

   Suddenly your head is hit by a blast of cold, and your eyes by a brilliant light. Something firm takes hold of your head, which is now free of the constriction. It turns back to align with your shoulders, and then they, too, turn, your head again turning with them, and they, too, are struck by the cold air. Crying comes quite naturally, and you vomit the liquid and it pours out of your body, clearing airways and pulling the cold inside you.

   Your body suddenly flops loose, but something catches it. The light is too bright; your eyes have not yet adjusted. You feel something tugging at your midsection.

   "It's a boy, Lelach." The voice might be a woman.

   "I know." That sounds like the right pitch and cadence for your mother, but much less muffled.

   "We'll have this cord tied in--just--a--there we go."

   There is a kinetic feeling of movement, the objects supporting your weight now transporting you through the air, and you land on an uneven surface that is soft over something hard.

   Opening your eyes you see the sweaty smiling face of a young blonde woman with violet eyes looking back at yours. She seems to have you nestled in her arm. She is at just the right distance for you to see her. Beyond her is a blur with a slight sense of movement which you realize in a moment are the tops of her wings; she is half seated.

   Everything else is blurry. Lelach's face is the only thing you can see clearly. You still hear commotion in the room around you.

   "He's beautiful," she says.

   "Yes," the other woman's voice says, not unsympathetically, then turns business-like. "We need you to push, honey. We've got to get the afterbirth out."

   She closes her eyes, as if wincing. Another pair of hands lifts you away from her, and in a moment some other woman, whose appearance is blurry and somewhat doubled, is washing you in a basin of cool but not cold water. In another moment you are wrapped in a blanket, pinning your arms to your side, and you land back in the crook of your mother's arm, again looking at her face.

   "Is he hungry?" she asks.

   "You can see if he wants to eat," the answer comes, "but usually they're born with full stomachs. They suckle because it comes naturally to them."

   A bare nipple hits your lips, which as a reflex begin moving in a sucking motion.

   "Rani! Come see your son," She calls.

   A blurred doubled figure appears on the edge of your vision. "Isn't he beautiful?" Lelach says.

   "Indeed," says the much clearer but still familiar man's voice. "Welcome to the world, Theian Orlanda Morach."

   You attempt to turn to look at Morach, but cannot manage to move your body the way you want.

   "Oh, he's squirming," Lelach says. "I think he wants to explore."

   The others laugh.

   At this point, lifting your head requires a simple strength check; efforts to stay awake longer than a few hours will require stamina checks; hand/eye will be checked if you attempt to grab anything not placed directly in your hand; agility will be used for turning your head or body to face a different direction or look at another object. You will also have to make skill checks on using your eyes to look at objects which are not in a very narrow distance range from your eyes (about one to eight inches, but you have no way of knowing that; when your head is at Lelach's breast, her face is about one to two inches from yours; you are between one and two inches in length).

   I would also ask Lelach telepathically (in a practice session) about my appearance and how it is compared to my parents.

   "Practice" of telepathy means that you have hit-and-miss contact. That is, you try to make contact as part of practice, and sometimes you do and sometimes you don't. If this is asked in a practice session, it will be answered sometime in the next day or so; if you want to make contact immediately after birth, that will require a roll. Your chance of reaching Lelach's mind has improved significantly, to almost half the times you attempt it.

   --M. J. Young

   Sun Aug 9 2009 11:44 pm #
9. 

   Max
   Member

   Yay. Birth at last. What a wonderful experience.

   Blonde with violet eyes + Brown hair and eyes = ?
   I wonder how I look like so I will ask Lelach in practice session.
   The next day or so it is. My birthday is rather eventful day so I will let my mother rest for a while.

   What do they use to cut my cord?
   If I cannot see it then maybe I will ask Lelach later in telepathy practice.

   I will remember anything significant this day to tell me what time and day of year this is if it is possible.

   Practice with new body function such as using eyes, moving head and limbs, grabbing/releasing things that appear interesting but not dangerous, trying to articulate something using rhymatic crying, limitation of wakefulness (to practice stamina), and exploring the mind as I do the above functions to see what have been activated or changed. The timetable change in practice time is where a cycle in the womb will be treated as an interval of about 10 minutes and the prayer in Cycle 2 will be done at near the time of sleeping so the guidance can come as a dream.

   If I feel Morani comes close to me and I know his position then I will try to tag his mind.
   If I succeed in tagging his mind then I will try to tag other lifeform mind (that is tag-able) as practice.

   I would also try to meditate then try to detect material with hypnotic suggestion to enforce what I am doing if I think I can do it.

   Mon Aug 10 2009 2:07 pm #
10. 

    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    You did not get a good look at the tool used to cut the cord, but it might have been a rock.

    It is Spring. You can't tell much more than that.

    It is late the next day when you finally manage to connect with Lelach. She says that babies don't have much hair and their eye color takes a few months to settle, so she can't really tell yet.

    You get a chance to try to "tag" Morani's mind (that is, read his mind soley for the contact), but you fail to connect when you make the attempt.

    You want to attempt this:
    

    First, use the mental energy from meditation to pass through object using arching hand signals (which signify the range and direction). The mental energy will be exchanged alternatingly between each hand to transmit mental energy and receive feedback signal of the pattern of object so that the pattern of the object may be recognized through comparison to known pattern.

    Your arms flail about wildly as you try to move them in the desired pattern. You wind up focusing unsuccessfully on controlling them, and have no focus left for the mental process.

    Within a few hours after your birth, everyone has left except Lelach and Morani, and the latter is mostly in and out, bringing food for Lelach and apparently caring for other matters. There is a fire close at hand, which helps keep you warm, although Lelach's warm body (she is holding you almost constantly right now) helps significantly.

    At night you are lying a grass mattress between them.

    --M. J. Young

    --M. J. Young

    Mon Aug 10 2009 11:36 pm #
11. 

    Max
    Member

    Well, I ask again about my appearence again in a few months time.
    How do my current appearence look by the way?
    What is the color of my eyes and hair (a strand of it) right now?
    Do I already have wings on my back?
    Does my body glow like Lelach and Morani?
    I will ask this telepathically to Lelach in a practice session.
    I wanted to chart the color change and wing growth with my enhanced memory recollection if it is possible.

    For a week (meaning one time each day until I succeed), I will try meditate first then try to 'tag' Morani's mind.
    Can I add hypnotic suggestion into this skill to make it more effective?
    Can this skill be activated automatically if the lifeform enters a certain range such as the range of sight or known relative position?
    If it can do the above then I will add hypnotic suggestion into the skill so that I will automatically target any lifeform that is within sight or known relative position which have not been tagged yet. The hypnotic suggestion will then have to be renewed each time I awake from sleep for the skill to be automatically activated. The time for the hypnotic suggestion will be varied according to my current success rate (meaning I will double it each time I failed if I think it is practical).
    If I can do the above then meditation will come before the hypnotic suggestion for the mind tagging.
    Does tagging Morani mind counts as a new skill or is this a skill that I already have?
    If it is a skill that I already have then I will practice it by trying to tag Morani and other tag-able lifeform.
    If it is a new use of pre-existing skill then I will use it with Morani first then I will practice with it with other lifeform.

    Do I feel a vector towards Lelach or Morani when I try to meditate when trying to do the skill above?
    Just checking if they are infected by scriff (if they are the verser-me would probably notice something like that).

    I wonder if I can put my hands on auto-mode when I try to detect material so I can concentrate all my mental energy to the skill.
    Can hypnotic suggestion be done when initiating detect material so that when detect material activated my hand will move automatically in a specific pattern?
    I will try this after I succeed in mind tagging Morani but not before meditating first.

    I will add any successful new skill to my practice menu.
    What skill has improved since my birth?
    If anything new I do not have any effect then practice using the modified practice menu until something significant changes (such as having enough agility to do so).
    I will also explore the surrounding with my senses and remember it with enhanced memory recollection.

    Tue Aug 11 2009 1:00 pm #
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    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    Your eyes are a gray-blue, which they say is normal for newborns; your hair is too short to see as more than short dark lines plastered on your skull, even right after washing in the cold water of the stream.

    Yes, you do have wings. They fold very nicely out of the way, but you sometimes stretch them out in the same involuntary way that you flail your arms and swing your legs.

    Yes, your body glows. It does not glow as brightly as theirs.

    Lelach is surprised at the questions--after all, why would you not have wings, and why would your body not glow? You are, after all, a sprite, and that's how sprites are.

    Sometime on the second or third day (it is difficult, because you sleep in short bursts, and sometimes awaken in daylight and sometimes in darkness) you manage to contact Morani's mind. You now have his frequency.

    Can I add hypnotic suggestion into this skill to make it more effective?

    You'll have to explain how you expect that to work.

    Can this skill be activated automatically if the lifeform enters a certain range such as the range of sight or known relative position?

    Do you mean that you would automatically read the mind of anyone who came within "reach", whether or not you were conscious of their approach or attempted to initiate contact? It might be possible to create a skill which does that, but this would not be that skill. It would require a detect component of some sort.

    Tagging Morani's mind is a new use of the read minds skill you already possess; the new use is not specific to Morani, but specifically that you contacted a mind in a mind reading effort but obtained only the mental image, and no data of the content of the mind.

    You several times mention "other lifeform", but I don't know who or what this is.

    Do I feel a vector towards Lelach or Morani when I try to meditate when trying to do the skill above?

    No

    Just checking if they are infected by scriff (if they are the verser-me would probably notice something like that).

    Your character does not know anything about scriff but that it was in something you handled before you had this experience. For all you know, you are being reincarnated as a Sprite, or this is still part of the virtual reality program in which you were playing. You do not have any basis to believe that you are "infected by scriff" at this point.

    I wonder if I can put my hands on auto-mode when I try to detect material so I can concentrate all my mental energy to the skill.
    Can hypnotic suggestion be done when initiating detect material so that when detect material activated my hand will move automatically in a specific pattern?

    The problem is that your nervous and muscular systems are still not sufficiently developed to give you the necessary control over your body parts. Whether you were hypnotized or not, it would still involve you attempting to move your own arms, and that means that for each arm you would have to make an agility check, and for an effort to move both at once the second would be penalized.

    What skill has improved since my birth?

    It's only been two or three days. Mostly the skills you're developing are breathing and sucking, and you do those pretty much by reflex.

    You do find an impulse to look in the direction of anyone who speaks in that sing-song voice; they are usually looking at you.

    --M. J. Young

    Tue Aug 11 2009 10:24 pm #
13. 

    Max
    Member

    Lelach is surprised at the questions--after all, why would you not have wings, and why would your body not glow? You are, after all, a sprite, and that's how sprites are.

    I know that I 'will' have wings and my body 'will' glow but just do not know when will I have them so I ask just to make sure.
    Knowing both of them present lets me try new things such as practicing with my wings and trying to manipulate the light around me.
    I will practice using my wings and manipulating body light so that I can do it better when the time comes. I will do this in Cycle 6 of my modified practice menu.
    How many hours of practice can I have in a week after birth?
    I will calculate this using the same technique as I calculated the time I have in a week in the womb.
    How much time I have left until I hit the optimum time for practice?

    Sometime on the second or third day (it is difficult, because you sleep in short bursts, and sometimes awaken in daylight and sometimes in darkness) you manage to contact Morani's mind. You now have his frequency.

    Yay. Finally I manage to get his mind frequency.

    Can I add hypnotic suggestion into this skill to make it more effective?

    You'll have to explain how you expect that to work.

    By changing the hypnotic suggestion to what you wanted the result will be of course.
    In the auto mind tag version, the hynotic suggestion is to tag any lifeform that is within sight or known relative position which have not been tagged yet which means that I must be conscious of their relative location to mine either with sight, intuition or others (so I would only need the basic detection method for this skill although an advanced detection method will help to enhance it).
    If it is possible, then I will try to do the hynotic suggestion for the auto mind tag when I was awake from sleep but not before meditating first.
    The time for hypnotic suggestion will depend on the success rate of current world.
    If the skill fail then try to double the time for hypnotic suggestion the next time I awake.
    This will probably be a new skill that practices mind reading as a mind tag.

    You several times mention "other lifeform", but I don't know who or what this is.

    Other lifeform can mean other sprites, bugs, animals, plants and others (probably bacteria or virus if I can see or detect them one day) provided they have mind to be tagged that is.

    Just checking if they are infected by scriff (if they are the verser-me would probably notice something like that).

    By this, I meant about the verser-me noticing something about the vector but since the answer to the previous question is no, I will not pursue it further.

    So even moving an arm is a hassle. Moving both arms must be harder.
    So lets try practicing using only an arm to target an object at first to get a feel to it.
    If I think I have getting the hang of targeting object with an arm without putting too much effort on it then I will meditate then try to detect material again but this time I will use the arching between index and thumb finger to do it to minimize movement. This way, I can detect the material that is given to me (such as food or toy).
    I will ask Lelach (in a telepathy practice session) to let me grab on familiar things so I can do the above.

    Do my mental attribute increase in any way after birth?
    Does practicing hypnotism to increase awareness of surrounding a new skill or a new use?
    Can this increase the intuition about the surroundings?

    Wed Aug 12 2009 5:57 pm #
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    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    You are going to be awake about six to eight hours a day, but eating for at least an hour of that and being changed and bathed and such for an additional hour. That gives you four to six hours a day to do what you want. Sometimes Lelach or (less likely) Morani will play with you, and their games interestingly are all good training--stretching and flexing your arms and legs and wings with their hands, talking to you, letting you grab their fingers and pull. On the other hand, the fact that you are good at entertaining yourself is also good.

    Lelach does express some concern that if you keep communicating telepathically it might slow your development at speech, although you're a long time from being able to talk even if you talk early. She does find it intriguing that you apparently can communicate your thoughts to hers as words (although whether you are actually sending words or she is understanding them as such is more than you know) even though you can't speak; but then, you don't have any teeth yet.

    That six to eight hours is not in a row. You tend to be awake for an hour or two at maximum stretch, and then to drift back to sleep for a while.

    It is also notable that you have two main recurring forms of "discomfort", the one hunger and the other a wet or dirty diaper. Sometimes you're uncomfortable from being in the same position, but that's not as common. Most infants cry to express that they are uncomfortable and need "something".

    For most activities, and particularly physical ones, three hours of practice in five days is a good rate. If you're working on "non-physical attributes" it takes a lot more.

    Do my mental attribute increase in any way after birth?

    I find on the edge of my mind that you were engaged in some sort of intellect training program while you were in utero--creating and solving chess problems in your mind, was it? Refresh my memory on that, please.

    In the auto mind tag version, the hynotic suggestion is to tag any lifeform that is within sight or known relative position which have not been tagged yet which means that I must be conscious of their relative location to mine either with sight, intuition or others (so I would only need the basic detection method for this skill although an advanced detection method will help to enhance it).

    So what you want to do is hypnotically condition your brain such that whenever you became aware of the presence of any creature not already known to you, you would, without stopping to decide, read the surface of its mind to obtain its mental frequency. It does not in any way enhance your ability to notice such creatures, but does include a component which identifies whether they are or are not already known to you. That, to me, means that you would be creating within yourself a compulsion to read the mind of every living creature around you as soon as you noticed its presence, to determine whether or not it was already known to you and to make it known to you if it was not.

    Because of the nature of the skill, it seems to me that whenever Lelach came into view, you would automatically tag her mind, because you would have conditioned yourself to tag every mind as soon as you were aware of the presence of the creature. If you fell asleep and awoke again, you would immediately start tagging minds of every creature in the forest around you, because you would be becoming aware of them afresh.

    I'll also note that you would have to look at every such creature (because you cannot tag an unknown creature without looking at it and you cannot know the location of a telepathically known creature by contacting it, so you would have to look at the creature to know whether it is one known to you or not); thus if you heard a sound rustle in the wood, you would be compelled to look at it.

    I don't expect that this is what you are intending to do; explain to me how it is different.

    You have a strange compulsion to put things in your mouth once you have them in your hand. You notice that you get far more sensory information, including shape and size and other tactile information, from objects you explore with your lips than those you explore with your fingers. Because of this, Lelach is reluctant to let you hold things that are not clean, or that are too small and might be a choking hazard.

    --M. J. Young

    Thu Aug 13 2009 1:45 am #
15. 

    Max
    Member

    So I have about 4 to 6 hours a day of practice.
    I need about 3 hours per 5 days for my physical practice to have an effect.
    I have about 20 to 30 hours per 5 days.
    That means I have 6 to 10 cycles of practice menu.
    The optimum for this would be 8 cycles where 6 cycles are given priority.
    I can also use the additional 2 cycles for my mental practice.
    I can also use the time in the bath to practice meditation because water do have some calming effect to my mind.

    Lelach does express some concern that if you keep communicating telepathically it might slow your development at speech, although you're a long time from being able to talk even if you talk early.

    Some of my practice do include crying in rhymatic way to simulate talking so I will ask Lelach not to worry about it. I do not need teeth to talk but I need a developed vocal cord to talk. I also have learned ventriloquism before (still an amateur at this because have not mastered talking while drinking water that needs perfect timing) so talking without opening my mouth may be possible. I would try to mimic what have been said by Lelach and Morani. I would also try to say 'mama' or 'papa' if this is a natural occurence in this world. Then, I would probably try to ask for specific things if it was taught to me. Teaching me multiple language when I am still growing might be a good idea because baby learn multiple language faster. Baby also can communicate using sign language to tell something to their parents.

    I find on the edge of my mind that you were engaged in some sort of intellect training program while you were in utero--creating and solving chess problems in your mind, was it? Refresh my memory on that, please.

    Yes, I do that using enhanced memory recollection. I also try to solve other tactical games to diversify things.
    I was also doing persuasion practice using self hypnosis.
    Can being more aware of surrounding pattern to better predict what will happen next be a practice for intuition?
    If it can, can I pray for more awareness of surrounding pattern in my prayer for guidance?

    So what you want to do is hypnotically condition your brain such that whenever you became aware of the presence of any creature not already known to you, you would, without stopping to decide, read the surface of its mind to obtain its mental frequency. It does not in any way enhance your ability to notice such creatures, but does include a component which identifies whether they are or are not already known to you. That, to me, means that you would be creating within yourself a compulsion to read the mind of every living creature around you as soon as you noticed its presence, to determine whether or not it was already known to you and to make it known to you if it was not.

    Probably, but if I already know their mind frequency (by distinguishing them from their appearence for example) then I would not try to tag their mind.

    Because of the nature of the skill, it seems to me that whenever Lelach came into view, you would automatically tag her mind, because you would have conditioned yourself to tag every mind as soon as you were aware of the presence of the creature. If you fell asleep and awoke again, you would immediately start tagging minds of every creature in the forest around you, because you would be becoming aware of them afresh.

    I already have Lelach and Morani mind frequency so I would not tag their mind again. This is where the phrase 'other lifeform' come in play. If I fell asleep and awoke again, I would only tag the lifeform that I have not tagged yet.
    I would remember if the lifeform have been tagged or not by using enhanced memory recollection of course.
    This would then make me practice mind reading as mind tagging automatically.
    I would also like to explore the mind that I have tagged if I have tag a creature other than sprite.

    I'll also note that you would have to look at every such creature (because you cannot tag an unknown creature without looking at it and you cannot know the location of a telepathically known creature by contacting it, so you would have to look at the creature to know whether it is one known to you or not); thus if you heard a sound rustle in the wood, you would be compelled to look at it.

    That is why I have to have range of sight (meaning I have to look at it either normally or with other methods if one day I attained it) to distinguish whether that lifeform have been tagged before or not.
    In the case where I doubt whether I have tagged a specific lifeform mind frequency before (probably because the appearrence is indistinguishable), then I will re-tag it.
    I would also match the mind frequency and appearence for future reference with my enhanced memory recollection.

    I will try to detect material for the food that I have eaten before but not before meditating first. The food is between the index and thumb finger.

    Thu Aug 13 2009 10:14 am #
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    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    Your intellect practice is having some effect, not yet measurable.

    Can being more aware of surrounding pattern to better predict what will happen next be a practice for intuition?
    If it can, can I pray for more awareness of surrounding pattern in my prayer for guidance?

    Yes, cultivating an awareness of the surrounding area can improve intuition.

    Yes, you can pray for heightened awareness of the surrounding pattern.

    There are two caveats, though.

    First, you cannot "include" a petition for heightened awareness in your prayer for guidance; it is a distinct object and requires a distinct petition. You can pray for it at the same time, but it would have to be treated as a separate prayer/skill.

    Second, if you pray for heightened awareness, you will develop a distinct skill in praying for heightened awareness which will not increase your intuition. It will allow you to pray for heightened awareness and so be more aware of things when you have prayed. You could pray to increase your intuition, but that is a much greater request than simply asking to be aware of circumstances at the moment.

    Now, let me look at this automatic tagging skill again.

    1. You wish to use autohypnosis to condition yourself such that whenever any creature enters what would be range of sight, you will immediately turn to look at that creature. This is necessary, because the tagging states that you will tag any creature within that limited range that you have not already tagged, and the only ways to determine whether it is or is not a creature you have already tagged are 1) to recognize it by sight and 2) to tag it and see if it matches a previously tagged creature. Thus you will be distracted by every butterfly, every ant, every forest creature, every bird, as well as every sprite, which enters your range of awareness after having been outside it for any period of time, and you will be compelled to turn your head to look at it. This applies even if it is Lelach or Morani, because although you know them, you would be compelled to confirm that it was them.
    2. Upon determining that you do not know whether you had already tagged the creature (e.g., it is recognizable as someone you have not tagged or it is not distinguishable by sight from others which you have tagged, e.g., ants, butterflies of a specific species, houseflies) you will be compelled to read its mind sufficiently to tag it.

    What you seem to be attempting here is creating a situation in which without having rolled for them you will build a large catalog of creatures whom you have contacted psionically, such that you have basic familiarity with all of them and can reach them later at need. The price you appear to be paying is that you will be constantly distracted, because you live in the forest and there will be scores of creatures passing through your immediate area every hour, most of them generally considered inconsequential (worms, beetles, ants, butterflies), and most of those of a sort that you would not be able to identify without tagging.

    What you want me to roll for is whether you can hypnotically compel yourself to

    1. notice the arrival of any new creature within sight range;
    2. look at said creature;
    3. attempt to identify it as a discrete individual, and
    4. failing such identification, read the creature's mind to get its mental identity.

    Is that what you are attempting to accomplish with this skill check?

    You have not yet managed to detect the pattern of any material, although you seem to be working on something you should be able to do.

    --M. J. Young

    Sun Aug 16 2009 10:44 pm #
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    Max
    Member

    Your intellect practice is having some effect, not yet measurable.

    How about my persuasion practice?

    Can remembering the detail of one surrounding using enhanced memory recollection and making a statistical data of how significantly that detail will affect a certain future (such as weather) be a practice for intuition?

    Can constant praying increase faith of one religion?
    Can general prayer or some religious act (such as fasting) increase the effectiveness of other prayer?

    You have not yet managed to detect the pattern of any material, although you seem to be working on something you should be able to do.

    I will try to meditate and do this one time each day for a week until I succeed or something significant comes up.

    Is that what you are attempting to accomplish with this skill check?

    It can be rolled that way but number 1 and 2 can be skipped if the said creature is already in view. Number 3 roll can also be skipped because if the identification failed then the said creature will be tagged or re-tagged which makes little difference if the creature have already been tagged.
    1. If I am not concentrating on something else and I notice the arrival of any new creature, I will not automatically look at it but it will alert me so that I can choose whether to look at it or not (because it can be a distraction if I have to look at each creature automatically).
    2. I will choose to look at the said creature if it does not impede with what I am doing at the moment.
    3. If I happen to look at the said creature then I will try to identify it first.
    4. If I fail to identify it as a discrete individual then I will try to tag its mind.
    5. I will then match the mind frequency of the said creature to its appearance with enhanced memory recollection for future reference (this can be done after tagging said creature or in enhanced memory recollection practice).

    What is the difference between self hypnosis (P1@0) and suggestion (P1@5)?

    I will ask Lelach (at telepathy practice session) if she would mind if I read her memory (excluding what she thought was not appropriate) at the time when we share mind so I can piece some information together.

    Tue Aug 18 2009 6:39 pm #
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    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    How about my persuasion practice?

    Again refresh my memory: what are you doing to improve your persuasion?

    Can remembering the detail of one surrounding using enhanced memory recollection and making a statistical data of how significantly that detail will affect a certain future (such as weather) be a practice for intuition?

    I'm not entirely certain I'm understanding what you mean here, but I think the answer is yes. In any case, intuition, as I understand it, involves noticing things subliminally and processing them subconsciously, and as such is probably the single hardest attribute for which to create a good "practice", as by definition it is about doing things you're not really trying to do. Something that randomly surprises you, something that makes you more aware of your surroundings without making you consciously more aware, something that improves your subconscious processing ability--these are the kinds of things you need to do to improve intuition, and they're very hard to design into a training program.

    Can constant praying increase faith of one religion?
    Can general prayer or some religious act (such as fasting) increase the effectiveness of other prayer?

    Yes on all counts. Praying just as worship is "practicing" religion, and done in adequate amounts increases your religion SAL over time. The religion SAL is a factor in the chance of getting other prayers answered (not really a very grace-based system, but it had to be based on something), so this works automatically.

    You can also design specific prayers such that something like a prayer session or period of fasting is a component of the prayer itself, that is, creating a healing prayer which requires you to fast for a day before attempting it, which is bonused because of that inclusion.

    You can also design a prayer/skill whose function is to increase your chance of success at other prayers/skills. This is usually done as a single act bonusing the chance of success on the next single act, but a powerful enough prayer (e.g., a Vigil, a night spent in prayer, fasting, and meditation) might be used to bonus multiple prayers over a limited but extended time period (e.g., the next day until sundown).

    After two days of trying to identify the internal pattern of the seed mush you are sometimes fed, you succeed. It is a complex pattern, but your skill is something like being able to recognize a song you hear. Your skill will enable you to detect other patterns, but you would have to have familiarity with those patterns to seek them. That is, you could seen "a rock" or you could seek "granite", but you would have to have picked up a pattern for whatever you are seeking before you could do so.

    1. If I am not concentrating on something else and I notice the arrival of any new creature, I will not automatically look at it but it will alert me so that I can choose whether to look at it or not (because it can be a distraction if I have to look at each creature automatically).

    O.K., so now what we have is that you want to be able to turn your attention to anything which enters your immediate area if you choose to do so, and then having turned your attention to it decide based on what you perceive whether you will psionically tag its mind or not.

    Now what I'm not understanding is what the hypnosis is supposed to do in this. The best guess I have is that you are attempting to "hypnotize" yourself into a higher level of awareness of your surroundings, so that you would be more likely to be aware of persons and/or creatures within your immediate vicinity. That, though, would be trying to hypnotize yourself into having a new skill--like trying to hypnotize yourself to make yourself able to speak Sumerian or see ultraviolet light. I can imagine using hypnosis to induce yourself into following a training program of some sort which would assist in gaining or improving the skill you want (a heightened awareness of some sort), but you couldn't give yourself the skill by persuading yourself that you have it.

    What is the difference between self hypnosis (P1@0) and suggestion (P1@5)?

    First to correct a typo, that should be P1@4. My apologies.

    Second, the self-hypnosis is a variant of Mesmerism, the simple mild suggestion sort of stuff that is the province of psychologists and showmen, while the suggestion skill involves ordering the thoughts and perceptions of the target character (in this case yourself) directly by inserting thoughts into the mind. It is a very powerful skill with a lot of potential uses. It really is thought control.

    I will ask Lelach (at telepathy practice session) if she would mind if I read her memory (excluding what she thought was not appropriate) at the time when we share mind so I can piece some information together.

    Lelach blushes.

    "I think," she says, "that your mother probably has some memories that would not be appropriate for her baby boy to know, and I don't know how I would be able to tell you which ones not to read. Why don't you just ask me what you want to know, and I will tell you."

    --M. J. Young

    Wed Aug 19 2009 1:21 am #
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    Max
    Member

    Again refresh my memory: what are you doing to improve your persuasion?

    Persuasion practice using hypnotism to gain self confidence through positive emotion and learning how to effectively suggest it to self.

    I'm not entirely certain I'm understanding what you mean here, but I think the answer is yes. In any case, intuition, as I understand it, involves noticing things subliminally and processing them subconsciously, and as such is probably the single hardest attribute for which to create a good "practice", as by definition it is about doing things you're not really trying to do. Something that randomly surprises you, something that makes you more aware of your surroundings without making you consciously more aware, something that improves your subconscious processing ability--these are the kinds of things you need to do to improve intuition, and they're very hard to design into a training program.

    I will practice intuition this way to see if it have any effect and I will put this on the new slot of my practice menu. (Cycle 7)
    Remembering the detail of one surrounding using enhanced memory recollection and making a statistical data of how significantly that detail will affect a certain future (such as weather) using hypnotic suggestion so that the action will be done subconsciously will probably fit more to the description of intuition practice but for now I will do it consciously because this practice can probably help make me do it subconsciously later on.

    After two days of trying to identify the internal pattern of the seed mush you are sometimes fed, you succeed.

    Yay. This detect material skill reminds me about the skill I am practicing in Cycle 4 which is focus sense to my hearing.
    I wonder how much my focus sense skill have improved.
    If the focus sense have improved, then I will switch the practice to detect material.
    If it still have not improved yet, then I will practice detect material in Cycle 8 temporarily until it have.
    Can I practice detect material such as air, water or blood?

    I wonder if I can detect the vector or location of known mind by changing the pattern of material in detect material with pattern or frequency of mind.
    If it can be done then I will meditate first then try it to any close creature that I have mind tagged.

    Now what I'm not understanding is what the hypnosis is supposed to do in this.

    To make it simple the hypnosis 'alert' is to let me remember to tag any new creature if the said creature enters my normal awareness (such as through sound, smell or shadow it makes and other clues).
    If the creature are already in view then I will distinguish it first and if I failed to distinguish it then I will tag its mind. (I think this part is the thought control one while the other is just simple mild suggestion)
    If it is not in view then I will choose whether to look at it or not depending on what I am doing at the moment. (I will choose not to look if I have to concentrate on other matter.)
    So the hypnosis does not make me have heightened awareness of surrounding but just to alert me to tag mind of new creature that enters my normal awareness.
    Are there anything else you wanted to ask about the skill or is it good to go?

    I would like to know more about flying, fire-starting, cooking and sewing so I will ask Lelach about those subjects. If she could not teach me (through telepathy, verbally or by action), can she let me read about those subjects in her memories?
    How much have I improved in enhanced memory recollection?

    Wed Aug 19 2009 6:02 pm #
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    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    The persuasion program is similar in impact to the intellect program: it seems to be helpful, but it is difficult to identify a measurable amount of improvement.

    So for your intuition practice, you intend to observe consciously the details of your surroundings and attempt to commit them to memory, to build up the habit of doing so unconsciously. That sounds like a reasonable approach.

    You can detect any material once you have identified a pattern. There is also a sort of discrimination and generalization of patterns--detecting "air" means detecting all the gasses normally found in air as a mixture, but it also means having a sense of something that is like that. The pattern shifts slightly from day to day, suggesting that the composition is slightly different. The minor component that changes most is very similar to the main component in what you detect as water.

    Material patterns and mental frequencies are not at all interchangeable; you could perhaps design a new skill which locates an identified person by seeking the vector to their mental frequency which would have some similarities to the detect/locate material skill you have, but it would be a distinct skill. Again, discrimination and generalization would apply. Over the course of a few weeks you will have realized that "insects" are similar in frequency as against "birds" or "sprites", and that "beetles" are distinct from "ants", and that each "ant" individually is distinct.

    Concerning the tagging skill, all that the hypnosis is supposed to do is remind you that you want to tag things whenever something enters your vicinity.

    Animals are very hard to tag, and plants are even harder. You more than 80% of the animals and more than 90% of the plants. You don't see many sprites--your grandparents sometimes (who seem to want to speak to you in Spritish, which your parents don't), and rarely anyone else. You manage to tag your grandmother, because she's there more often, and a few forest creatures and insects and birds, but mostly because there are so many.

    Flying is something you will learn after you are walking, which you will learn after you are crawling; you have not yet managed to roll over.

    Hopefully you are not yet big enough to start fires, because you're not yet big enough to move away from them. However, it is simple enough. You have to have mithisella, which you make by shaving wood or leaves or other dry flammables. You hold it in your hands, and focus your body heat into it. When it flares, you drop it immediately (so you do not burn yourself) into the tinder, which ignites from the mithisella, and then add the kindling to build up to the fuel.

    Most of cooking is heating food with fire. There's also knowing what you can eat, and how to put it together into something flavorful.

    Sewing is more difficult, and usually only girls learn it, but if you're really interested she will teach you. You will have to get much better at holding and controling objects, though, because it involves using sharp needles.

    She shows you some of each of these skills, but you cannot really copy her example yet, as lying in whatever position you are and waving your arms and legs is the bulk of your physical ability to this point.

    Skill improvements are posted behind the screen.

    --M. J. Young

    Thu Aug 20 2009 12:50 am #
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    Max
    Member

    You can detect any material once you have identified a pattern. There is also a sort of discrimination and generalization of patterns--detecting "air" means detecting all the gases normally found in air as a mixture, but it also means having a sense of something that is like that. The pattern shifts slightly from day to day, suggesting that the composition is slightly different. The minor component that changes most is very similar to the main component in what you detect as water.

    That means I can detect humidity in the air. This can be a good data to gather (in practice session) to predict the weather.
    Detecting air before breathing and after breathing (or air around fire) also can make me differentiate the pattern between oxygen (less after breathing) and carbon dioxide (more after breathing).
    I will do those in practice session.

    Does detecting water component in blood makes me know something about the state of blood?
    Can I detect the material for blood and bones within myself (in practice)?

    Material patterns and mental frequencies are not at all interchangeable; you could perhaps design a new skill which locates an identified person by seeking the vector to their mental frequency which would have some similarities to the detect/locate material skill you have, but it would be a distinct skill.

    I could not have known what the difference between them that the verser-me could have known so I could only say do the similar thing with the detect material but the verser-me might have a better idea how this could be done.
    Can I try it as a distinct skill by using detect/locate material as an example then?
    As an addition (if it is needed), how about sending a subconscious (undetectable by the target consciously) telepathic message that will make the target transmit back a signal detectable only to the sender (because of encryption of both of user and target frequency) thus making the sender know where the target is (using the detection method similar to detect material but with decryption key)?
    If this can be done then I will meditate then try it.

    Over the course of a few weeks you will have realized that "insects" are similar in frequency as against "birds" or "sprites", and that "beetles" are distinct from "ants", and that each "ant" individually is distinct.

    Interesting, I wonder what else can I found out about them.
    Can I practice mind exploring the creature that I have tagged?

    Concerning the tagging skill, all that the hypnosis is supposed to do is remind you that you want to tag things whenever something enters your vicinity.

    The SAL that is used in calculation for automated reminder would be 1@2 Self-Hypnosis P1@0 but the SAL that used in calculation for tagging should be 1@4 Read Minds P1@1 right?
    This is because the hypnosis is just used as a reminder to do the action but the action is executed by another skill or did I miss something?
    Cycle 8 should be vacant now because considering detect material practice is shifted to Cycle 4 to replace focus sense practice.
    Will this automated reminder have to be practiced every time I awake from sleep for it to be effective or do it have a time limit where the effect of the reminder expire?
    If it have to be practiced every time I awake from sleep then I will make room to practice it after I am awake from sleep.

    You more than 80% of the animals and more than 90% of the plants.

    What does the previous sentence mean?

    If one day the verser-me manage to tag a plant then make me aware of it.

    I would want to know the theory about how to fly effectively from Lelach so I can do it better later on.
    About fire-starting, I would like to know more about how to effectively focus body heat into one part of the body.
    For cooking I would ask Lelach about various recipe that she remembered.
    For sewing I would probably ask about various stitches available so I can choose which one to learn although learning all of them would also be good. (I would probably want to learn a stitch that can sew two flesh together effectively meaning leaving little to no scar.)

    I wonder how much days have past since my birth.

    Thu Aug 20 2009 8:10 pm #
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    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    The amount of difference in O2 versus CO2 in the surrounding atmosphere when you breathe is minimal, because it mixes into the greater volume too quickly to be able to be noted. You would have to find a way to rebreathe the same air and keep it contained, and sprites do not have non-porous plastic bags.

    You cannot distinguish the blood from the flesh from the bone without starting with discrete samples of them, and at your age (you're still less than a month old) they're not even feeding you stuff like that, nor putting it close enough to your face for your eyes to focus on it (you still have that "arm's length" focal distance).

    You successfully devise a skill that will enable you to sense the direction of any specified mind already known to you; that is, you can determine which directly Lelach, Morani, or your grandmother is, or the few creatures you have tagged, but you have to pick which one, and you do not get distance, only direction.

    Exploring the mind of a tagged creature involves reading its mind as you would Lelach, but it is much harder to do with such minds because they are different from your own. You can do it, though.

    You are correct that the self-hypnosis 1@2 SAL is used for the reminder, but the tagging is the 1@4 read minds SAL. It is slightly easier to tag than to remind yourself to tag, but you only have to remind yourself once successfully. (That of course cannot be practice, because it has a specific necessary result.)

    Sorry about the sentence: you miss more than 80% of the animals and more than 90% of the plants, because their minds are too different from yours; since this is practice, I'm not determining which ones specifically you have contacted at this point.

    Lelach says that before you can fly you have to walk, and before you can walk you have to crawl, and before you can crawly you have to sit, and before you can sit you have to roll over, so don't get too eager to fly yet--the time for learning that will come. She says the same, with less detail, on focusing body heat. She doesn't think you have enough body heat to spare for that, and you shouldn't be trying it.

    Lelach does not so much cook from recipes as make food. Sometimes she will crush certain flavorful leaves and rub them into the meat, and sometimes she will boil seeds or fruits or leaves from plants and mix some together, but your concept of recipe does not seem like something sprites use.

    She does show you how she sews, propping you up against a tree and sitting beside you.

    --M. J. Young

    Fri Aug 21 2009 2:39 am #
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    Max
    Member

    You would have to find a way to rebreathe the same air and keep it contained, and sprites do not have non-porous plastic bags.

    Putting some tinder to burn in a closed clay pot might might have the same effect.
    The tinder will then burned out because the lack of oxygen leaving a pot containing less oxygen and more carbon dioxide than the air outside.
    I will remember to do this later on (when I am old enough) but if Lelach volunteered herself to do this for me then I would gladly accept her offer.

    You cannot distinguish the blood from the flesh from the bone without starting with discrete samples of them, and at your age (you're still less than a month old) they're not even feeding you stuff like that, nor putting it close enough to your face for your eyes to focus on it (you still have that "arm's length" focal distance).

    I will remember to do this when I am older or get the chance to do it.

    you do not get distance, only direction.

    Which means that I will have to detect mind from two position and have to triangulate to calculate the distance (and hope that the target stays at the same place) or I could device a beacon skill to help me do it.
    I would do this later when I could move more freely.

    Exploring the mind of a tagged creature involves reading its mind as you would Lelach, but it is much harder to do with such minds because they are different from your own. You can do it, though.

    I will practice exploring the mind of tagged creature then detecting their location (after I have finish exploring them to gain familiarity) in Cycle 8.

    It is slightly easier to tag than to remind yourself to tag, but you only have to remind yourself once successfully.

    Thank goodness that I do not have to hypnosis myself each day to remind myself.

    Sorry about the sentence: you miss more than 80% of the animals and more than 90% of the plants

    Does this mean I have already manage to tag a plant because there are a lot of plants in the forest?

    When (how many months) is sprite old enough to roll over?
    Do the exercise I do help in doing this?

    I would not be trying focusing body heat right now but I would like to know the theory behind it (to know more about sprites).

    Lelach can tell me what kind of leave she use to make the flavor for food and what seed, fruits or leaves she use in the mix. She could also told me what kind of taste and smell each food would produce.
    She could probably train my taste bud by making me lick (but not eat) a little bit of what she cooks.
    She could also make me smell the food that she cooks to train my sense of smell.

    I will remember in detail how Lelach sew for future reference.

    Lelach could also sing a song (if she know one) to me so that I can discriminate pitch better later on. I would also try to mimic what is sung by her.

    My practice menu seem to be quite full now so I will practice according to the modified practice menu until something significant changes (such as I get additional slot to my practice time because of stamina increase or when I know more about my appearance).

    Fri Aug 21 2009 1:52 pm #
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    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    You are Lelach's first child, and she does not really know a lot of the details of how long it will take for you to be able to do everything. She says she is certain you will be fine, and do everything you need to do, in the right time. Besides, all babies are a bit different, and you shouldn't put too much concern into how you compare to other babies.

    Lelach sings to you already, from time to time, such as when bathing you and sometimes when putting you to bed. She does not really know why she does it, other than to make you feel comfortable, like to let you know that she is still there and you have not been left alone.

    It has been a few weeks now, and up to now you have mostly just made noise; now you are finding it is possible to use your lips, tongue, and glottis to some degree to form some consonants, and to vary the vowel sounds of the noise by changing the shape of your mouth, forming distinct oo's and ah's, mostly.

    --M. J. Young

    Sat Aug 22 2009 4:57 am #
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    Max
    Member

    I will remember the song Lelach sung for future reference.

    I will try to create coded language with what I can say and tell the meaning to Lelach (with telepathy) so that I can communicate with Lelach when I am not practicing telepathy.
    Example:
    For simple question: (ah = yes, oo = no)
    Combination: (ah-oo-ah, ah-ah-oo, oo-ah-ah and other combination) could mean different things such hungry, thirsty, diaper change and others.

    Does my appearance (hair and eye color) change in any way?
    Can I see further now?

    Do routine practice until something significant happens.

    Sat Aug 22 2009 7:27 pm #
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    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    You are getting taller and gaining weight. It is odd to think of it, because if you were a human child this growth rate would be about an inch per month, but as a sprite it's only one sixth of that--and still feels like a remarkably rapid growth rate.

    When you are about six weeks old you stop seeing double all the time, but you still do not have depth perception. Your vision is also beginning very slowly to encompass a greater range. Also, you cannot always identify the directional source of sound, even though you can hear it.

    Your hand automatically closes on anything that touches your palm, and your mouth automatically sucks anything that touches your lips.

    You're still nursing for most of your nutrition, and other foods do not digest well.

    --M. J. Young

    Mon Aug 24 2009 12:05 am #
27. 

    Max
    Member

    I will practice exploring my mind (during exercise practice in Cycle 6) to see which part of my mind activates to coordinate my movement better.
    I will also remember the feeling of growth and practice exploring my mind to see what part of my mind is the cause of growth (probably growth hormone or the part of mind that activates it) for future reference.
    The word 'slot' would probably be better to replace the word 'cycle' in current verser-me circumstances but I will use both interchangeably to be more flexible.

    What new things do I see when I have greater range of sight?
    Does Lelach bring me outside for a stroll or something?
    Where does she take me when she wanted to bath me?

    Do I understand the conversation that I hear?
    If I do not understand them then I will ask Lelach in telepathy practice session.

    Does Lelach let me lie down on my stomach (in exercise practice session)?
    If she does this then I can exercise my head and limbs so that I can roll over to my back faster.
    I could also exercise my wings in this position.

    I wonder if Lelach would want to put her cheek at my palm.
    The feeling of baby grabbing automatically at your cheek might not last and she should experience it (if she wanted to) when it lasts.
    I will also practice exploring my mind when I am doing things automatically (such as grabbing and sucking) for future reference.

    I probably cannot digest other foods well but I can probably differentiate their taste better later on if Lelach would let me just taste the food by licking (or sucking the pinky finger that have the flavor of the food) but not consuming the food.

    Hmm... Should I say do the usual routine until something happens or is this automatic?

    Mon Aug 24 2009 10:43 am #
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    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    The part of your mind that coordinates your movement is still growing and forming its neural pathways.

    You don't seem much that is new; you just see the old things more clearly and from farther away.

    Lelach does not bring you outside; you live outside. There is a tree with a hole in it, the hole too high for you yet to be able to see (you see a dark spot on the bark). You mostly lie on grass or moss, usually on your stomach, sometimes on your back. Sometimes she props you against a tree so you are partially seated. She carries you to a stream; it's difficult to assess the distance, but it is close enough to hear from the clearing if you listen carefully, and takes maybe a minute for her to fly there with you in her arms. This is also where you get your drinking water, and she teaches you to drink from upstream.

    Conversation is in English, and you understand it all, except in the sense that there are references to people and places unfamiliar to you.

    Your hand has grabbed Lelach's cheek. She tries to keep her hair out of your reach, as you tend to grab it and stick it in your mouth. It is a difficult urge to resist, and it seems that your lips and tongue are much more sensitive tactile sensors than your fingers, and thus you learn much more about the "feel" of things by sucking on them, but she worries about you swallowing things you shouldn't.

    The routine is automatic, but it is helpful to remind me.

    You have gained enough facial muscles that you now sometimes feel yourself smiling in response to smiles from your parents. You are crossing the two month mark, and summer is coming into fullness.

    --M. J. Young

    Tue Aug 25 2009 3:21 am #
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    Max
    Member

    I will remember how the neural pathways formed for future reference.

    Looking at the same thing but more clearly does give me the chance to look at the thing in more detail way which would mean I can distinguish things better.
    I wonder how is my mind tagging skill doing this month.
    Any new creature that I have tagged?
    Do I get any familiarity with the mind of any creature that I have tagged?
    Do the creature that is more like sprite (such as bird or certain insect) easier to get familiar with?

    I have guessed that I live outside of the tree when it is not winter.
    Is there any perimeter to the place I call home or is all the forest considered my home?
    If the perimeter to the place I call home is limited to a part of the forest, then the perimeter outside of it is what I would call 'outside'.

    she teaches you to drink from upstream

    How would I do that?
    Fly or walk towards upstream then drink?
    How do I put the water into my mouth?

    I will ask about the people and places that are unfamiliar to me if Lelach care to explain about them.

    I wonder if hair from different person/sprite or creature (from various age) taste different. I also wonder if I can control the urge to swallow things and just sample them for the taste then spit it out.

    Can I control the facial muscle so that I can smile when I wanted to?

    Looking upwards at the sky at night, do I see anything that could give me a hint when or where I am right now (such as star constellation) or is the forest too thick to see the sky above?
    Is there any opening where the sky can be looked from?

    Eating off days with daily routine until the 'time' comes.

    Tue Aug 25 2009 12:25 pm #
30. 

    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    The number of "new" creatures to enter your area was very high initially, as they were all new; gradually it has reduced, but you have tagged various types of bees, wasps, ants, beetles, butterflies, moths, worms, grubs, birds, rodents, small mammals, lizards, fish, and other creatures. All animals are equally difficult to tag; it is as if their minds are different in kind from your own, and they do not have the same kinds of thoughts you have.

    As far as familiarity, it could be said that once you have tagged an individual creature you know it for tagging it again, and if you have tagged two of the same type you can extrapolate general characteristics of that kind of mind (e.g., all honeybees are similar, all bees less so, all flying/stinging insects less so, all flying insects less so, all insects less so, but all insects are more alike than any are to birds or lizards or fish; and all animals are completely different from sprites).

    You live in a clearing, and Lelach tends to keep you in the clearing; but the stream is not in the clearing, so you go to the stream when you need to wash, and drinking water is brought from the stream. The tree is on the edge of the clearing. It would probably take Morani thirty steps to cross the clearing, but he never walks that far because he can fly it faster.

    As to Lelach teaching you to drink from the upstream, you do this when you are bathing. This means you are already in the water, and your head is turned upstream when you drink, so you are not drinking water that has just washed off your body. You are not actually able to move to the stream yourself yet, and have limited ability to move in the water--it is more that she is explaining to you that you want to drink water that is flowing toward you, because it is cleaner and fresher than the water that has just washed over you.

    Lelach identifies a few people as friends she made as a girl, explaining that when you are a little older you will make friends with other boys and with some girls--boys more easily, because you will go to school with boys, but you will play with girls after school so you can get to know them, too. One day your parents will choose a girl for you to marry, and it will help if you know some girls already. Other sprites are your grandparents and their generation, and you have a few uncles and aunts who sometimes visit. You are not usually taken far from the clearing yet.

    Your mother's hair and your father's hair do not taste different, although they have a slightly different texture in your mouth. You have not been close enough to other mammals to taste their fur.

    You can smile when you want, as long as you are not in pain or great discomfort.

    Your vision is not yet good enough to pick out points of light in the sky, even through the breaks in the canopy.

    You are now about three months old, counting by the days, and two things are new.

    First, Lelach often props you upright, but now you find that if she sits you upright you can stay sitting for a few minutes before you lose your balance and fall over. It is difficult to maintain, but you are getting better at it.

    Second, your salivary glands suddenly seem to have become active, and you are constantly drooling. It is very difficult to control your swallowing, so this drool dribbles from your mouth down your chest most of the time. Lelach says it's natural and nothing of concern, that gradually you will learn to control these things.

    Mostly you are still nursing, although you are sometimes given finely mashed mush apparently from seeds and berries. This does not digest entirely well, but it is good to have something that tastes different.

    --M. J. Young

    Wed Aug 26 2009 1:06 am #
31. 

    Max
    Member

    I wonder how will I be able to communicate with the creature that I have tagged.
    Will my telepathy work with creature other than sprites?
    I wonder if I have explore the mind of a creature enough to establish a telepathy connection (such as knowing the subjects that the creature thought was important or distinguishable enough to communicate about).

    I wonder if I have manage to tag a single plant before or I manage to tag none?
    The probability to tag an old tree might be larger because some culture said that old tree have more awareness but this is just a guess.

    I wonder if creature having wings have any discernible pattern in their mind to control the function of wings.
    If the pattern exist then could it be divided into different type of wings?
    What creature's wing (for the creature that I have tagged) resembles sprite's wing the most?

    The clearing would be about 30 sprite steps in diameter which would mean 5 human steps in diameter. Is this right?
    That is quite spacious for a sprite family of three.
    The tree on the edge would be used in the winter right?

    So I drink the water when I bath.
    Does this mean I can also learn to control my breathing (holding breath) when drinking so as not to choke?
    Does the breathing control exercise help with my meditation?

    I will remember my relative names that Lelach have told me.

    I will remember the slight difference of texture between the hair for future reference. I will also note if there are any fur on the ground. You know how baby like to put things in the mouth. Grins.

    So there are breaks in the canopy.
    I wonder if I can squint my eyes to look further.
    I will remember to look at the sky later when my vision got better.

    In detect material practice, I will note if there is any pattern change if the material is manipulated in any way such as moved (or in motion), burned, changed color, making noise (such as the grinding sound of the material), eaten, added another flavor, changed in texture, changed in smell (such as food gone bad) and other significant changes for future references.
    I will also compare my saliva with water to see the difference of the pattern in detect material practice.

    Wait for changes while doing routine things.

    Wed Aug 26 2009 5:54 pm #
32. 

    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    I'm afraid that the only way you can know whether your telepathy works with creatures other than sprites is to try it--not as practice, but as an experimental attempt to make telepathic contact.

    My impression of your explorations of the minds of others is that you were not reading their thoughts or memories, but examining the structures of their brains--memories here, sensory information there, motor control over there, that kind of thing. It would not give information about their thoughts or interests, but about how their minds work.

    You have managed to tag a tree--not the one in which your family winters.

    You are aware of the motor control centers of flying creatures which control wings, but this does not give you knowledge of how their wings operate. It's more like you've seen the control panel and know where it is, but you don't know how to work the control panel, only what it does.

    From what you can tell, Sprite wings have commonalities with dragonflies, hummingbirds, bumblebees, and butterflies, but are different from all of these.

    Your diameter estimate is a reasonably good guess, but that I don't think your character actually knows the size relationship between sprites and humans. Five such steps for a human would be twelve and a half feet, roughly, and a "clearing" much smaller than that wouldn't really be a clearing. Part of the reason for the open space is to provide the ability to see things coming.

    The tree with the hole in it is the winter home.

    Holding your breath while drinking is a reflex; you've been doing it automatically since you first started nursing. Now that you've observed that you can do it, you can try to control it independently. Lelach gets worried when you hold your breath, though.

    Squinting one night you manage to see the moon. It's mostly a large blurry blue-white spot in the night sky, and you make out no detail, but you can locate it.

    I will note if there is any pattern change if the material is manipulated in any way such as moved (or in motion), burned, changed color, making noise (such as the grinding sound of the material), eaten, added another flavor, changed in texture, changed in smell (such as food gone bad)

    Of those, burned and spoiled are two changes you can detect. Adding another flavor is mixing patterns, but the patterns remain--that is, if Lelach is making soup with mouse, you can detect the mouse flesh and the water, and if she adds radish to it you can also detect the radish, and together you detect it as something that consists of a mixture of mouse flesh, water, and radish. It might be analogized to hearing three separate notes or hearing them as a chord--they might fit together, but they do not become one object. Burning and spoiling, though, introduce new materials to the mix which were not there before.

    --M. J. Young

    Fri Aug 28 2009 11:33 pm #
33. 

    Max
    Member

    Do I have to roll every time I wanted to contact creature other than sprites or do I have to roll only once?
    Does this include contacting plants telepathically or do plants have to be rolled separately?
    Is this a new use for telepathy?

    My impression of your explorations of the minds of others is that you were not reading their thoughts or memories, but examining the structures of their brains--memories here, sensory information there, motor control over there, that kind of thing. It would not give information about their thoughts or interests, but about how their minds work.

    The similarities between the creature minds could give a clue to what their interest might be. What I mean here is common interest of the creature (not individual thoughts such as memories) such as creature that have specific organ probably do something similar. For example a creature that have 'control panel' to fly would probably know how to fly. The act of collecting food for bee or hummingbird, how spider spins web, how lizard regenerate its tail and how other creature perform various other acts using their respective body adaptation could also be examples of knowing common interest of the creature.

    Manage to tag a tree in itself is a great feat.
    Somehow tagging the winter home can be like tagging an injured person (or sleeping person) which would probably be tricky but once you know the trick it will come easily.
    Have I only manage to tag only one plant or have I tagged more than one plant?

    Knowing where the control panel be might be beneficial because if I can observe what the creature do or think to activate the control panel then I could probably know how to control it.

    Sprite wings have commonalities with dragonflies, hummingbirds, bumblebees, and butterflies, but are different from all of these.

    Interesting. I would want to know more about the capability of sprite wings.
    For example, how flexible (or retractable) is their wing?
    Do sprite wings have joints like human arm?
    Can sprite sense anything using their wings?

    I would also want to know about energy usage (and heighten metabolism) during flight but I will save this question for later.

    I thought that my character did ask Lelach about size relationship between sprites and humans. My character also can tell by looking at the known size of things such as plants and animals if my character did not ask her.

    I would probably told Lelach not to worry about me trying to hold breath for short period of time.
    Can holding breath be a practice for stamina or will power?

    I will remember the movement of the moon.
    I will also remember the position of the sun and its movement from dawn to dusk.

    I will remember the pattern for burned and spoiled food for future reference.
    Did I get the pattern for hair and saliva already?
    If I did, then did it differ from person to person (or sprite in this case)?

    Counting the days as the day goes, doing routine task and remembering any significant detail that have happen until 'the event'.

    Sat Aug 29 2009 10:44 pm #
34. 

    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    Do I have to roll every time I wanted to contact creature other than sprites or do I have to roll only once?
    Does this include contacting plants telepathically or do plants have to be rolled separately?
    Is this a new use for telepathy?

    This may be nothing more than a terminology confusion. Reading minds and telepathy are distinct but related abilities; they use the same sense of familiarity (that is, if you have +10 to read Morani's mind you also have +10 to connect telepathically, even if you never use it). Your "tagging" skill is a mind reading application--you are looking at the appearance of the mind from the outside, not establishing a telepathic two-way link. The one tagged (or read) is unaware of your mental observations. Telepathy is a two-way connection; the target is immediately aware that something from outside has contacted its mind directly, and is able to control what information that alien mind receives by selective sending.

    Whether you are contacting sprites or other creatures, initiating contact always requires a roll in game mechanic terms, and then contact is maintained for a number of minutes based on the roll unless you terminate it or something else disrupts it. This applies to both telepathy and mind reading.

    Mind reading links to creatures of animal or plant intellect are much more difficult than those to other sprites (you have never attempted a link to a sentient other than a sprite, because you have never encountered one). You have never made a telepathic connection to any such being, but that is because you have never specifically attempted to do so. (Doing so would require a roll, for reasons that will become evident if you attempt it.)

    For example a creature that have 'control panel' to fly would probably know how to fly. The act of collecting food for bee or hummingbird, how spider spins web, how lizard regenerate its tail and how other creature perform various other acts using their respective body adaptation could also be examples of knowing common interest of the creature.

    Ah. Actually, body skills of that sort are rarely controled directly by the brain. The brain sends a signal to the part of the body which performs the action, but the means of performing the action is stored in the local neural network within the limb. For example, when you were learning to type you had to tell your fingers which buttons to push; now that you type more readily, you simply send the desired words to the muscles in your hands, and those muscles respond by reproducing the practiced patterns of striking the proper keys in the proper sequence. Very little of any body skill is actually in your brain--it's in your body. In much the same way, how Lelach flies, or how the bird or the bat or the bee fly, as far as the brain is concerned comes to giving the command to fly; the wings know their patterns and respond in kind.

    But you could learn how to control a creature by directly seizing control of the mental processes that command the body. It's also considerably easier, as you don't have to understand how the bumblebee flies to make it do so--you just have to know the right neural pathways to activate to make it do so.

    You have thus far tagged only the one tree. Tagging plants is much more difficult than tagging animals, which is more difficult than tagging sprites. You have tagged quite a few animals mainly because they move in and out of your immediate area frequently.

    Most of what you can learn about sprite wings comes from experimenting with your own and watching your parents. The wings do collapse a bit to keep them tucked for sleeping and sitting; they can be moved up and down (relative to the head) to some degree, as well as flapping laterally (relative to the body). It might be simply because they themselves are built differently, but Lelach's wings look more graceful and MOrani's more powerful.

    Lelach cannot help being concerned if you are not breathing, and she would rather you kept breathing.

    I will grant that you understand that sprites are roughly one sixth the size of humans, perhaps a bit more. I do not know that Lelach would have told you that with any specificity (to her, humans are simply huge). Also, it is presumptive for you to assume that the animals and plants around you are the same size they would have been in your own world--after all, what you should be wondering is why they are so big, and the possibility that you are so small would be the secondary explanation. However, given that you know you are a sprite, and that you already have a notion that sprites are relatively small, combined with the fact that indeed the plants and animals here happen to be the same size as in your home world, your assumptions about size relationships happen to be correct.

    You now find that you can remain sitting for extended periods if you have support on at least one side, and that you can balance your head. Your depth perception is still very poor, and when you attempt to grab things you tend to reach beyond them--unless you come at them with both hands. You do not easily grab things with one hand.

    Your focus is improving, particularly in the near end--you can see things clearly that are closer to your eyes.

    You are developing more consonants in your diction--in addition to "m" you can produce "n", "k", "g", "p", and "b". You are also able genuinely to laugh.

    Lelach has provided you with a toy that rattles when you shake it. It requires both hands to grasp it, but then you can shake it with one hand until it slips from your grip.

    You can roll from your back to your side, and lift your head when lying down to face ahead or sideways.

    You are about four months old.

    --M. J. Young

    Tue Sep 1 2009 2:40 am #
35. 

    Max
    Member

    Doing so would require a roll, for reasons that will become evident if you attempt it.

    Sounds dangerous. Maybe much later then.
    Does this mean I have to roll for each creature or do I get to roll only once?

    Actually, body skills of that sort are rarely controlled directly by the brain. The brain sends a signal to the part of the body which performs the action, but the means of performing the action is stored in the local neural network within the limb.

    When I first read this, the impression I got is body memory or cell memory.
    So the means of performing the action is stored in peripheral nervous system?
    Can I explore this with mind read?

    This reminds me of the pressure point chart that I have seen in martial art class.

    But you could learn how to control a creature by directly seizing control of the mental processes that command the body.

    That makes me thought of a telepathic movement bind skill that might be useful in the future. I will keep this in mind to try in the future.

    I wonder where the tree that I have tagged is situated.
    How does a tree mind look like when I explore it?
    Does a plant aware of its own existence?
    Can it feel anything such as light, gravity pull and others?

    Can the wing be hidden completely if I use normal human (shrink to sprite size) clothing?
    If it cannot, can a cloak hide the wings?
    Does the wing still work well in the above clothes or do the clothes need some modification so that the wing can be used freely?
    Can I sense flow of air (or any other sense such as touch) through my wings?

    The breathing exercise is to help me re-learn swimming in the future because the previous life me already know how to do it but this time I have to modify the swimming pattern to include the usage of wings.
    I wonder if wing-stroke style will be faster than my other swimming style.

    I did wonder why the animal are so big the first time I see them but after I know that I am a sprite and sprite is relatively small than a human, I concluded the relative size between sprite and human.

    I wonder if flapping my wings while sitting can help me maintain my balance.

    I will switch the focus of my eyes frequently (from right eye to left eye and vice versa) if I wanted to grab things so that I can perceive depth better.

    I will also try to focus both of my eyes to a single object to perceive the distance of the object.

    It requires both hands to grasp it, but then you can shake it with one hand until it slips from your grip.

    Does this mean that I can move both of my hand freely (but still have difficulty on controlling each finger such as gripping object properly) now?

    Did I get the pattern for hair and saliva already?
    If I did, then did it differ from person to person (or sprite in this case)?

    I wonder if I know the answer for above questions.

    I wonder what the rattler toy is made of.
    I will detect the material of the toy in practice session.

    I will say my thanks to my parents by saying 'koo', a short form of thank you.
    I will also try to say 'mama' and 'papa'.
    I will also try to practice saying and making up new words.
    I wonder if I can mimic the words that is said in spritish by my grandmother.

    I wonder what is so funny that I laugh. Funny faces perhaps?

    Can I roll around to go sideways?

    Discovering new things each day and remembering them and the day I discovered them to write in journal later on. Well, routine practice until...

    Tue Sep 1 2009 10:45 am #
36. 

    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    Does this mean I have to roll for each creature or do I get to roll only once?

    I am not certain I understand the question, but I'll answer what I think the question is asking, and if I'm wrong you can clarify.

    Any time you wish to read or touch the mind of any specific creature, you must make a mind reading roll. That's true if you want to contact this butterfly and that butterfly, in the same way that it's true for contacting Lelach and Morani. When the skill expires, you must roll it again if you wish to continue or restore contact. The same applies to each time you wish to connect telepathically with another mind.

    At the same time, there is a degree to which having contacted a butterfly, you know something of the minds of butterflies, and having contacted two butterflies you are better able to establish the commonalities between butterflies. That does not mean you can automatically contact a butterfly you have never contacted before, but it does mean that you have some understanding of butterfly minds as a species apart from that which you have of their minds individually.

    Does that answer?

    You cannot explore peripheral nervous system memories with the mind reading ability you have been using, but it might be possible to create a similar skill specific to exploring such peripheral nervous system information. It is unclear exactly how your mind would process that information, though, and you may have to give consideration to how you want that information to be received by you.

    The tree you tagged is near the path toward the water, close to the clearing.

    In those rare moments when you manage to contact the tree, you learn little and have little time to explore. It does not have the kind of consciousness you find even in animals, and makes very little distinction between where it ends and not-it begins. It is aware of light and dark, and of wet and dry.

    Your wings cannot be hidden completely in the sense you mean. Sprite clothes are cut to allow them to pass through. You could put a cloak over them, but you would appear to have a huge hunchback or perhaps a backpack on your back under the cloak.

    Your wings do have tactile sensation, including pressure, temperature, and pain.

    Shifting your wings helps maintain your balance while sitting much as shifting your arms might.

    Depth perception is still not developed in your sensory system; you can strengthen your focus some, but processing the image into accurate distance estimation is not yet possible with any reliability.

    You can move both hands freely, although awkwardly. Your agility and hand/eye are improving.

    I apologize for missing the question about saliva and hair patterns. You have picked up saliva patterns and hair patterns, and noticed that they are both similar and different between different individuals, but at this point you have not been able to identify the differences--maybe something like tasting Coke and Pepsi, which if you have them next to each other you can tell that they are not the same but if you have only one you probably don't know which it is. (At least, most people don't. If that doesn't work, think of brands of root beer--Barq's, A&W, and Stewarts are all different, but it would not be easy to know one from another without comparative samples.)

    The rattle is made from a dried gourd, the seeds of which rattle inside.

    Mama and Papa are both possible, and you manage to say them most of the time when you want to. You also manage to say "koo", and convey to Lelach that it means "Thank you". She says that is very polite of you.

    You laugh when your parents play games with you, such as hiding behind a sheet and appearing, or shaking your rattle beside your head where you can't see it and then hiding it again.

    Rolling sideways is slow progress, but you can move in quarter turns each minute, tiring yourself after moving maybe a foot or so.

    --M. J. Young

    Tue Sep 1 2009 9:15 pm #
37. 

    Max
    Member

    Does that answer?

    Not quite the answer that I was looking for, but informative. Thanks.
    Can I make a telepathy connection with creatures that I have tagged with only a roll or do I need to say specific creature and then roll for them and repeat this process for other creatures?
    Consider the following, say that I have tagged 100 creatures and wanted to try make a telepathy connection with each of them, do I:
    a) roll the dice 100 times for each creatures that I have tagged.
    b) roll the dice 1 time to see how many creature that I manage to get telepathy connection with from the 100 creatures that I have tagged.

    So, is the answer to the above situation (a) or (b)?

    Peripheral nervous system information usually contain the memory of what the output of the system will be (from past experience or natural setting) if there are input from central nervous system or from related sense (or probably other inputs). The peripheral nervous system information may also tell about the peripheral nervous system learning capabilities.
    If I attempt to read this, the data that I got is probably like the neural network software data that is use to simulate biological neural networks.
    I will meditate and attempt this and the target will be my right hand when I am grabbing something.
    The result will probably be a pattern to activate my hand to grab at something (which probably include various muscle and touch variable) and various data on how my hand is learning to grab more effectively (which reminds me of the data collected when testing a robotic hand).

    What makes the tree (that I tagged) more tag-able than the other plant present in the forest?
    Is there any difference from the tree that I tagged with a normal plant?
    Can I distinguish the tree appearance from the other plant?
    Can I only tag this tree or will my tagged plant encyclopedia expand at a specific rate considering there a lot of plants in the forest?

    It is aware of light and dark, and of wet and dry.

    Interesting. I wonder if the plant is aware of its own growth size or stages so that it can grow accordingly.
    I also wonder what it will feel like if I tag a plant with rapid plant movement such as venus flytrap, mimosa pudica and telegraph plant.

    Can I avoid looking like a hunchback if the wing retract more flexibly so that it fits perfectly in normal clothes or is this an impossible feat for a normal sprite?
    Can binding the wing in bandage be a solution for the above question?
    How long is the wing if it is lined vertically downwards (does the wing reach the knee or can it be retracted upward if it have a joint so that it will not exceed waist line)?

    I will practice sensing tactile information through my wings in the same practice slot as normal exercise.

    I will also practice balancing my weight with and without the help of wings in the same practice slot as normal exercise.

    At least now I can control both of my arms freely to do more things even though the movement is still awkward. Time to collect sample then and keep a stash of it somewhere near where I can move to.

    Pepsi seem to taste sweeter than Coke. Those who like sweetness will go for Pepsi and those who have sensitive taste bud will probably go for Coke. Coke also have some sharp taste for me which I am not sure what it is.
    It is hard to differentiate or distinguish between things if you cannot remember the sense related to it. Here, the enhance memory recollection sure does help a lot.
    Can I use enhance memory recollection to remember the saliva or hair patterns of my family and differentiate between them in practice session?
    I will also add a new hair sample to comparison if I happen to found them (which I collect and keep at my stash).

    I wonder if dried gourd can be made a cup or spoon.

    I wonder what consonant or vowel that I can say clearly now.
    What letter in the alphabet can I say clearly?
    Does spritish language have structure like English?
    How is spritish language different from English (such as each letter sounds)?

    I wonder what kind of song or story my family and relatives have told me.
    Is there any interesting ones that will tell me more about this world?

    I wonder if I can learn to crawl now considering I can roll sideways and know how to grab things. Can I grab the grass and pull my body forward to learn how to crawl?

    Routine practice until...

    Wed Sep 2 2009 8:16 pm #
38. 

    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    Consider the following, say that I have tagged 100 creatures and wanted to try make a telepathy connection with each of them, do I:
    a) roll the dice 100 times for each creatures that I have tagged.
    b) roll the dice 1 time to see how many creature that I manage to get telepathy connection with from the 100 creatures that I have tagged.

    So, is the answer to the above situation (a) or (b)?

    I think I understand the question now; the answer is not so simple.

    The telepathy skill--the skill that enables you to open a two-way channel with another mind--which you have already developed must be rolled for each individual creature you wish to contact. You could if desired create a telepathic skill that enabled you to create an open communication with multiple minds, but it would be very difficult to determine the parameters of such a skill (that is, who would and would not be included). For illustration, it is possible to have a narrowcast thought sending (the opposite of mind reading but not full telepathy) that reaches one targeted mind, or a broadcast version which reaches all intelligent minds within a limited range. Whether you could do this with telepathy--well, no one has ever done it, as far as I know, but nothing is impossible, so we would have to examine it closely to see exactly how it would work.

    The other caveat is that you have never established a two-way telepathic link with any creature that is not a sprite. Sprites are like you, that is, they have the same kind of mind you have. I mentioned before that there would have to be a roll before you could establish such a link; that's because telepathy to animals is a different skill. The good side is that that skill is not penalized when you use it to contact animals--your mind reading skills face a penalty for trying to read an animal mind, but telepathy would not do so. The bad side is that you have not learned this skill. It might be possible to combine telepathy to different categories of minds into one skill, but this would face a penalty because you would have to do several different things with your mind at once in order to adapt your mental processes to those of the several different kinds of minds.

    All that said, most telepathy is narrowcasting, but there is no inherent reason why you could not create a skill that contacted "all butterflies within defined range" based on a pattern of butterfly minds. That would use a single roll to reach all of them; but although you could have one skill that enabled you to reach all the minds in any specific defined category (that is, you could use the same skill for butterflies one time, ants another, and insects another time), you could not use that particular skill in a narrowcasting function to contact one mind--it would be a broadcast skill.

    Did that cover it?

    *****

    To be clear, you want to devise a mind reading skill variant that reads the patterns in the peripheral nervous system by reading those in your own hand when you attempt to grab something. You anticipate receiving data that describes the specific control of movement of those muscles plus the tactile response that comes to it.

    What I am not understanding is what that data "looks like" in your brain--specifically as you are drawing the data from your own hand. To elucidate, were you to attempt to read how your mother's hand grasps the knife when she is making food, you might in essence "feel" the pattern in your own hand; but when you are reading the pattern of your own hand, where do you "feel" the pattern? It isn't as if your data will be a string of numerical equations; it will be an action and sense pattern that relates to the hand.

    I'm having trouble grasping (pun not intended) how reading the pattern is understood in your mind.

    *****

    The reason you have tagged this tree seems to be completely random. It comes to the fact that trees are nearly impossible to contact telepathically, and the number of plants on which you can attempt this is extremely limited. Thus you attempted to contact the maybe two score of plants that are within the range of your daily life when you are unattended and able to do this, and you connected with exactly one. It happens to be this one.

    Remember, your eyesight is still very limited; you have to be able to distinguish an object to focus on it and attempt to read it.

    *****

    Sprite wings do not retract so far as you are hoping; they are always partially extended from the body. It is somewhat like a dragonfly or butterfly wing in that regard. It does not fold vertically downward to that degree.

    *****

    Someone recently called my attention to the fact that Coke is lemon-based and Pepsi is lime-based. If you think in terms of citrus when you drink them, you can probably taste that difference. It is still not simple to identify them without having both present to compare, but this makes it easier.

    *****

    Spritish does have a few phonemes that are distinct from English, and its grammatical structure is significantly different. I have not developed a full Spritish language, so I cannot tell you much more than that; if you undertake to learn it, that will be added to your sheet as you do so, but most of what you "learn" will be assumed knowledge, not described in detail. Yes, that's a shame, because a race's language is closely related to their thought patterns, but it's more than I can do with it at present.

    *****

    As you reach five months, your ability to hold your head erect has improved markedly, and you can easily roll from your stomach to your back (despite the wings, which you easily fold to accommodate this movement, although you're unable to see how you do that). You can now grasp an object with one hand, and can hold it without paying attention to it while you look at other objects. You can follow moving objects with your eyes, and stay focused on an object for an extended period.

    You are staying awake for longer stretches, and apparently sleeping longer stretches as well. Your monther looks less tired, and you're seeing less of the night. You are forming more consonants and stringing them together with more vowels; you have a compulsion to practice all the sounds you can make, and your ears pick out which ones are like the ones your parents make when they talk, but of course you already know this--it's more a matter of training this body so that the mouth parts respond automatically to make the right sounds.

    --M. J. Young

    Thu Sep 3 2009 2:02 am #
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    Max
    Member

    Very interesting indeed.
    Let me list the option:
    a) Narrow-cast thought sending
    b) Broadcast thought to any intelligent creature within defined range
    c) Specialized telepathy to a specific creature (no penalty but have not learned it)
    d) Generalized telepathy (will face penalty but have learned it but not test it)
    e) Broadcast to specific creature within defined range

    All broadcast skill probably cannot be use as a narrow-cast skill.
    This reminds me of a chat channel. All are very useful to learn.
    The (a) seem to have a specific targeted group just like party chat or guild chat.
    The (b) seem to be an attempt to talk to any intelligent creature within defined range that would be very useful.
    The (e) would also be useful in term of targeting only a specific creature.

    Can I learn (c) then try (d) so that (c) will bonus (d) if I use it on the creature that I have use (c) on?
    The (a) and (b) seem to be a new use for (d) or am I wrong?
    The (e) seem to be a new use for (c) or am I wrong?

    *****

    The easiest solution that I can think of if the data will not be in a string of numerical equation (but it will be easier for me though if it is in numerical equation) is the existence of phantom limb (an imaginary limb). This is because even if I do not have the specialized limb that I targeted, the limb will appear to exist to me. This can be attributed to the feeling of an arm of a person who have been amputated.

    So reading both Lelach or my own hand will result to addition of an imaginary limb until the skill is deactivated or the skill duration is over.
    In the case of reading of my own hand, the imaginary limb information may follow the actual limb information thus doubling my right hand senses if the phantom limb overlaps the actual limb. (This is just a theory that I came with accidentally.)
    I can check this by clapping both of my hand together.
    If the right hand feel twice the pressure compared to my left hand then it probably means that the phantom limb overlaps my actual limb and if it does not then I will probably feel the same pressure of the actual limb in my imaginary limb wherever I think that it is situated.

    *****

    So I will probably do better in tagging plants if I have better eyesight and more variety of plants, right?
    I will probably do something if I have manage to connect with more plants, so alert me if there are any news about it.

    *****

    How does the wing retract when I lay on my back?
    Can I feel how I fold the wing without actually looking at it?
    Does it retract according to the curve of the body?
    Does the wing have any joint so that it can be folded in any way?
    Is the wing flexible enough to be folded without damaging the wing so that it will fit in normal clothes?
    If I cannot see the process of folding, can I ask Lelach (in telepathy practice) to describe it to me?

    *****

    Alert me if I have manage to differentiate between saliva and hair pattern of different person (or sprite in this case) or creature.

    *****

    I will learn the Spritish language if my family, relative or anyone taught me about it.
    Oh, well. Lets try to make the language up as we go along shall we?
    Sprite origin or history might help to make up the language.
    It probably have a little bit of Elvish language element in it because they live together in the same place at one time.
    It probably have some Latin in it considering the 'sprite' word comes from Latin.
    It may also have some Spanish and Slavic language in it considering the vast legends about sprites in both languages.
    It may also have ancient Mayan language considering sprite is a mythological Mayan creature.

    *****

    I will also try to ask the question by asking directly but if I still cannot ask it clearly then I will ask them in telepathy practice.
    I wonder if I can test my voice pitch by singing any song that Lelach have sung to me.
    Practice with new body function in exercise slot.

    Do I have enough stamina to add another slot to practice menu?

    Well, routine until...

    Thu Sep 3 2009 2:07 pm #
40. 

    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    Let me list the option:
    a) Narrow-cast thought sending
    b) Broadcast thought to any intelligent creature within defined range
    c) Specialized telepathy to a specific creature (no penalty but have not learned it)
    d) Generalized telepathy (will face penalty but have learned it but not test it)
    e) Broadcast to specific creature within defined range

    Your abbreviated labels are not entirely clear to me, so I'm going to respond to them.

    a) Narrowcasting, to my mind, always means sending a message to an individual mind; it is the norm for most telepathic skills. You read the mind of a single target; you can send thoughts to the mind of a specific target; you can connect in a two-way connection with a single target; you can place thoughts in the mind of a single target. That is all narrowcasting, most like the use of a telephone.

    b) Broadcasting is the unusual form, in which a signal is sent out to all minds. Because broadcasting is the unusual form, I usually take it as "all sentient minds within a specified physical distance range". It need not mean that. For most skills, you could have a "broadcast" version that reached "all sprites within range" or "all butterflies within range". You could have such skills which reached "all minds familiar to me, wherever they are". You could divide minds into categories of any sort for which you can defend these as a category of minds.

    c) For most telepathic skills, such as mind reading, thought projection, and those which implant thoughts into another mind, there is a table of penalties--you are best at contacting minds that are exactly like your own (such as a temporal duplicate or a divergent self in another world, or even when you are using telepathic skills on yourself), and then (the normal level) those whose minds are akin to yours--called human minds, but in your case specifically sprites (I will not say whether humans or elves are covered under this for you at present). When you move away from your own "kind", you move toward humanoid minds--other intelligent creatures whose minds are a bit different from yours--and animal minds--creatures whose intellect puts them below the level of what you would ordinarily recognize as thought--and alien minds--intelligent beings that are of similar intellect but entirely different mind structures. For most telepathic skills, those categories are penalized, progressively more.

    The quirk hits with telepathy. The trick with telepathy is that if you want to connect to other "human" minds like Lelach and Morani, you use a telepathic skill that is particular to such minds. If you want to communicate with humanoid minds (whatever they happen to be in any particular universe), there is no penalty, but it does require the use of a different skill, one of a slightly higher bias rating, because it is not so easy to attune your mind to theirs. Telepathy to animals (which includes plants, as long as you are in a world in which plants have minds) is yet another skill, and telepathy to aliens is yet another.

    This means that for you to open a two-way telepathic link between your mind and that of a butterfly, you would need to learn telepathy to animals; but once you do so, that same skill will work for communicating with mice, bears, even (in this world, at least) trees and grass. There is no penalty for such two-way communication, but you have to have the right skill to do it.

    (This is why I said you would have to roll for that.)

    d) Most of my comments on point C should clarify the concept of generalized telepathy, unless by "generalized" you mean "broadcast", in which case the points under B will cover that.

    e) "Broadcast to specific creature" makes no sense, given those definitions, unless you mean "broadcast to specific creature type", which would mean developing a telepathic link to "all butterflies". I would expect such a skill to be geographically limited, mostly because if you were to connect to all the butterflies in the entire universe it would probably blow your circuits pretty quickly. After all, they're known to burst into the most outrageously inane songs about unicorns for no apparent reason....

    More practically, I can easily envision a skill that enables you to send thoughts to multiple targets, and one that enables you to hear all the thoughts in a specified limited area, but a skill that enables you to create a two-way communications network between multiple minds on a single roll is at best unlikely.

    With that clarified, let's focus on one skill at a time. What, exactly, do you want to attempt to do telepathically?

    *****

    You succeed in reading the neural patterns in your hand, projected as a distinct phantom limb, such that you can "feel" how you make your hand do what it does.

    You fail in your attempt to read your mother's hand, but it seems simply to be that it's a new skill and you're not that good at any of your skills yet, particularly the first few times you try to use them. There is every reason to think that you now know how to read the neural patterns in someone's actions.

    *****

    The problems with tagging plants are partly that you have a much more limited selection to attempt to tag and partly that they are so much more difficult to read even than animals, which are considerably more difficult to read than sprites. Yes, over time you can expect to have more plants tagged, but it's slow going.

    *****

    Your wings wrap forward around your arms; you instinctively tuck your arms inside when rolling over the wing on that side, and you can push yourself over with the wing in much the same way you would with an arm.

    The joints in the wings are very limited but numerous, such that it curves very smoothly, as perhaps a thin sheet of metal might, without noticeable bend points--more like a butterfly than a bird, but more flexible than a butterfly.

    *****

    Over the course of a few weeks you manage to become specifically able to identify hair and saliva from yourself (you are still drooling and having trouble controlling this), your mother, and your father. You don't have as much contact with the hair and saliva of other creatures, other than the mice that are sometimes cooked for dinner, and the saliva is generally gone by the time you see them, and the hair soon after.

    *****

    Lelach is intent on having you learn English before you learn Spritish. It appears that when you are older you will be taught to read and write Spritish, but your parents think that it is not a language spoken outside of school. Thus they discourage your grandparents from speaking it around you, and they do not speak it themselves.

    *****

    I have stats for a six-month old; with this post you are not quite six months--you are in your fifth month. However, your stamina is above average for your age, as is your strength. On the other hand, you are pushing yourself hard, and often exhausted. We'll have to look at your practice sessions closely.

    In fact, that's a good idea--in anticipation of your six month anniversary, give me list of how you have been using your practice slots since birth and what changes you would like to make if you are able. We'll get your stats up, adjust them for your practice, and get your new practice session in place next time.

    *****

    --M. J. Young

    Fri Sep 4 2009 1:46 am #
41. 

    Max
    Member

    I misunderstand what you said for (a), so I guess what I mean in (a) is broadcast to certain group which you have explained in (b).
    Sorry, I did mean creature type for (e).

    For now, the telepathy that I wanted to learn is telepathy to animals (which includes plants, as long as I am in a world in which plants have minds).
    I will meditate first then attempt this. The target for this experiment is any creature resembling sprite such as birds or insects that I have tagged.
    I will keep the other telepathy in mind to try later on.

    What if I intend to broadcast to a party which includes sprites, humanoid, animal, plant and alien?
    What skill would be effective then?
    Would the specialize telepathy skill help to bonus general telepathy when I intend to do this?

    *****

    I will fit the neural pattern reading at the same slot as exercise because I can coordinate my movement better with it.
    (All this fitting into other slot will not last long so this makes me think of a skill to make my rest more effective thus increasing my practice time.)

    I wonder if I can read the neural pattern for other sense such as hearing, sight, smell or taste using my neural pattern reading skill.
    Would the above be a new skill, a new use or something that I know I can do?
    If it is a new skill, can my neural pattern reading be an example for it?

    *****

    I will exercise my wings in exercise practice slot so that it will be more flexible and can be shaped according to my body. This will help later on if I ever need to wear human-like clothes.

    *****

    I wonder if I can detect the presence of other sprite or creature by detecting the their hair or saliva.

    *****

    Learn Spritish when I am able to do so, such as the encounter with my grandparents or at school later.

    *****

    Practice slot menu:
    Slot 1: Enhanced memory recollection with intellect practice
    Slot 2: Prayer for guidance practice
    Slot 3: General telepathy
    Slot 4: Detect material (after finish with focus sense level up which is before one month old)
    Slot 5: Self hypnosis with persuasion practice
    Slot 6: Exercise with self mind exploration if there are new body skill
    Slot 7: Intuition practice (started before one month old)
    Slot 8: Creature mind exploration and detect mind of creature after finish exploration (started before one month old)

    Slot 6 modification: Read Neural Motor Pattern with exercise to better coordinate movement

    Well, I guess it is time to adjust the practice menu for sixth month anniversary.

    Fri Sep 4 2009 9:16 pm #
42. 

    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    A butterfly flies within range of your visual acuity, and you attempt to contact its mind. You have a fleeting sense that you are almost there, and then it is gone, and the butterfly floats out of view.

    You'll have to try again another time, or perhaps with another subject.

    What if I intend to broadcast to a party which includes sprites, humanoid, animal, plant and alien?
    What skill would be effective then?

    If what you want to do is broadcast your thoughts in a single direction to other minds, then a project thought skill would be used, which covers all creature types but faces penalties for those kinds of minds which are different from your own. Probably I would calculate the chance of success for each category, roll the dice once, and determine whether you succeeded in reaching all groups or only some. I say probably, because I can foresee a situation in which success to the easiest group would be botch to the hardest, and that would be complicated.

    If what you mean is that you want to create a mass communication network whereby your one mind has opened two-way contact with a large number of other minds of all types, no one has yet created such a skill, so how it works will be decided in connection with your design. Possibly it will simply be a higher biased skill than any of the others, possibly with a penalty for incorporating multiple skills, but I prefer not to discuss exactly how a skill would be designed when it is not actually being attempted. For one thing, it's inappropriate for a character to know the probability of success for a skill he has not learned unless he has access to someone sufficiently knowledgeable to give him such information.

    Concerning reading sensory information, this is different from reading the neural pattern for action, and more like mind reading. I handle it different ways for different characters, but this is how I will handle it for you: the first time you attempt to tap directly into someone's sensory information with your mind reading skill, we will roll for success. If it is successful, it will be a new use of the mind reading skill; if it fails, you will have to develop a separate skill specifically for reading sense information. (We'll say that the inconsistency is because different people approach mind reading differently, and the way you approach it allows certain aspects as part of the same skill but requires a distinct skill/approach for other aspects.)

    You have improved in the skills you have been practicing, and in your intellect, intuition, and persuasion. However, the routine you have been using for your intuition is no longer challenging enough to provide a significant benefit.

    Other improvements are posted behind the screens.

    --M. J. Young

    Sat Sep 5 2009 12:45 am #
43. 

    Max
    Member

    A butterfly flies within range of your visual acuity, and you attempt to contact its mind. You have a fleeting sense that you are almost there, and then it is gone, and the butterfly floats out of view.

    So close yet so far. (If my character level up first, then the character might have that skill.)
    I will try again in month 6. I will meditate first then try it.
    Do I need to have the creature I tagged in visual range to initiate telepathy contact?
    If I manage to obtain contact then I will introduce self.
    Subject to talk about with butterfly is probably related to metamorphosis, flower nectar, other butterfly and such. I will try to make the conversation easy for the butterfly to understand.

    Can I make a telepathy filter that will bonus the generalized telepathy by unifying it with specialized telepathy thus negating the generalized telepathy penalty?
    This could eliminate the problem where success to the easiest group would be botch to the hardest, provided that I have the specialized telepathy to the group that I wanted to initiate contact to (which would be a requirement to activate the skill to said group).

    Possibly it will simply be a higher biased skill than any of the others, possibly with a penalty for incorporating multiple skills, but I prefer not to discuss exactly how a skill would be designed when it is not actually being attempted. For one thing, it's inappropriate for a character to know the probability of success for a skill he has not learned unless he has access to someone sufficiently knowledgeable to give him such information.

    I am in the process of brewing the skill for use in the future but I have to understand what the skill is really doing first. This discussion may shed light to anyone who wanted to try the same skill. I wonder if 'King' can give guidance to the character if the character wanted to attempt a new skill and that would translate to this discussion. The probability of success can also be a theory that the character thought of because of the skill circumstances.

    I will meditate and try to read my own sense information. I will try vision first, more specifically my right eye.
    Do I get +5 on creating/learning any psionic mind reading skill that targets a specific aspect of mind?
    I will close me left eye (so that I can concentrate on the right one) and if it works I will probably have a phantom eye somewhere.

    1@2 Detect Materials P3@4 (known patterns: seed mush)

    Add known pattern: fabric, air, water, food in various condition, hair, saliva

    If I manage to do either telepathy to animal or mind read sense information then I will probably do something else.

    Note for future action (feel free to comment): Advance rest (hypnotic suggestion variant), Intensify sense (by overlapping phantom sensor to actual sensor), Telepathy network (multiple creature at once such as Lelach and the butterfly)

    Sat Sep 5 2009 7:31 pm #
44. 

    M. J. Young
    Moderator

    It's a good question, and indeed you can telepathically contact Lelach and Morani when they are out of sight, so it should be possible to contact an animal who is out of sight simply from having that knowledge of their mental frequency you pick up from tagging. Recalling a tag of a butterfly, you meditate, and then reach out for that creature and connect.

    The butterfly finds your presence in its mind confusing and disconcerting, and it lands to stop and think about this. It is uncertain about the concept of metamorphosis, but decides that you mean growing wings while asleep, which it did once. Nectar is sweet and gives strength. It does not have much to do with other butterflies, but does notice them sometimes at the flowers.

    Can I make a telepathy filter that will bonus the generalized telepathy by unifying it with specialized telepathy thus negating the generalized telepathy penalty?

    I'm having difficulty understanding quite what you mean here.

    "Telepathy" is always specialized, in the sense that there is one skill for contacting "human" minds (sprites, in your case), another for contacting "humanoid" minds, another for "alien" minds, and another for "animal" minds. Just as you cannot use the "human" telepathy to contact animals, you cannot use the "animal" telepathy to contact humans. Normally, though this is not a significant issue, because telepathy ordinarily means a private channel between two minds, and even if you were to use it for multiple targets (by rolling for each individual contacted) it would give you multiple private channels--like having several phones on your desk, or several distinct chat windows.

    I am having some difficulty envisioning what you seem to be attempting, which if I understand aright would mean on a successful roll that all minds of all creatures in an area would be using your mind as a central communications hub, such that all could share thoughts with each other at once through your mind. I'm not sure that's even a desirable skill, but if that's not what you're suggesting I'm not understanding at all.

    Perhaps my problem is understanding what you mean by "generalized" versus "specialized" here, and what a "filter" would do.

    You do not succeed in reading your own sensory information with your mind reading skill, but with a bit of consideration you find that you can develop a technique that enables you to read the data in your visual center and reproduce it as visual data in another part of your brain.

    --M. J. Young

    Sun Sep 6 2009 10:08 pm #
45. 

    Max
    Member

    Does the butterfly I contact have a name or something?
    What gender is the butterfly that I have contacted?
    How does the butterfly communicate with other creature (provided that the butterfly have interacted with other creature)?
    Does the butterfly have anything that it wanted to know or share?

    *****

    on a successful roll that all minds of all creatures in an area would be using your mind as a central communications hub, such that all could share thoughts with each other at once through your mind

    Well, that seem to be quite the skill that I envisioned.
    I also hope that this skill can make me connect to a specific group that I have in mind. (Manual listing where the creature will be listed manually or automatic listing where creature are listed randomly will be useful for this skill.)
    The question is, can I handle all creature talking all at once?
    If not, is there are queueing system that will handle which creature gets to transmit the data to me first and to whom the data will be sent to?
    If I have to choose a queueing system then round robin with emergency priority protocol would be good. (Here, the list will be important to choose the queue.)
    I also have to filter the conversation against any inappropriate remarks just like a chat moderator so that the telepathic conference can go well.
    I think this skill will be P1@X where X is the bias to contact the hardest creature included in the skill. This skill will also be bonus by the lowest familiarity of the creature contacted in the group.

    For example:
    Lelach (+10 familiarity) and butterfly (+1 familiarity)
    P1@6 is needed to read the mind of butterfly so the skill will be at P1@6 or probably higher.
    The familiarity bonus would be +1 because the butterfly have the lowest familiarity.

    In case of failure, the telepathy connection does not happen even if the telepathy could have happen in narrow-casting mode.
    In case of botch, familiarity difference to the lowest familiarity creature will be calculated to see if the creature will be included in the effect of botch.

    What I meant by generalized telepathy is the P1@3 version which is used to communicate to the creature of the same kind. This telepathy however will be penalized if I try to contact a creature type of a different kind. The solution is thus to make a new telepathy skill that specializes on different creature type. The problem that remains is how do you connect different type of creature together so they can communicate? The answer to this is to make a filter which can translate the mind of these creature to that of a language that the other mind can understand. This is what the filter is used for; to make a telepathy package which has the ability to connect the mind of different type of creature.

    If I have some familiarity with the butterfly (as a friend), then I will meditate and try the telepathy network skill to Lelach and the butterfly so that they can get to know each other.

    *****

    So close on reading my own visual sensor. I see that I do not roll for meditation for that attempt. Oh well, what is done is done.
    Does this skill only useful in reading visual sensor data only?
    Can I practice this skill with other sensory information or do I have roll for each one?
    I will practice this in Slot 7 to replace the intuition practice.

    *****

    I will meditate first before trying any of the below.
    Considering that I have succeeded in reading my own visual data, can I intensify the sense by overlapping the data with actual sensor (right eye) to make the image sharper in any way?
    Can I hear sound more clearly by using my sense of touch to enhanced it?

    *****

    The understanding of the hypnosis principle also encompass various stages of consciousness and sleep stages.
    Can I use the knowledge in hypnosis and hypnotic suggestion to have shorter but better quality sleep?
    If I can, then I will meditate then try it.

    *****

    Have anything significant happen to me or anyone around me this month?
    I wonder if my appearance change from when I am younger.
    I will look at myself in the reflection of water during bath (or anything that show my reflection) to see if anything changes.

    Mon Sep 7 2009 1:30 pm #

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