Meditation is a distinct skill. The way it is defined, your one minute of meditation increases your chance of success at whatever psionic skill you attempt immediately thereafter. Thus you can use it as constructed to support a different skill.
A fictional example of a psionic skill, such as psychronomy, can act as an example for learning that skill, provided that something in the fiction explains or suggests how to do it, and not merely that someone did it. This is particularly difficult for psionic skills, as the necessary parts of the skills are usually not observable from the outside: that someone held keys in his hand and revealed facts about their owner does not tell you how he did it.
The same is true of observing a real psychronomist (assuming without prejudice that there are such people): unless you have a way to observe the workings of the mind, you don't know what it is the mind is doing. If the user explains how he does it in some way, you can use that as an example (and possibly as instruction).
Of course, if you have done this yourself, then it's not an example--it's a skill you've already used, and we need to identify the skill ability level.
A failed skill attempt is never an example of anything. It does not tell you how to do it. It might be argued that having failed you have a better idea of how not to do it, but that improved chance of success is already represented in the fact that you get another roll.
Let me make sure I understand what you are attempting to do. You want to attempt the skill you failed before, of identifying a pattern in a material target that you can use to seek or match other objects having the same pattern; you want to involve your hands in this, by moving both hands in a manner that helps you focus on the target spot.
Let me say that the use of the hands in this way to help the mental focus is an excellent idea that would increase your chance of success if you could do it; but that you do not yet have the ability to control your limbs thus, as you can only control one at a time and it takes so much concentration to do so that you can't really be thinking about focusing your mind on anything other than the movement of the hand. You are improving, getting stronger, getting more agile; you are still far below anything you would consider the weakest human weakling, and probably were it not for the supportive fluids and soft walls about you you would be completely immobile.
--M. J. Young
Oh--I forgot. Over the next four weeks, your eyes suddenly open. It seems that your eyelids have been growing, but they have been sealed shut. The difference in what you see is not great, as it is very dark here; but you can feel the difference as you move your eyelids. Also, your nostrils have been closed and are now open. The fuzz on your body is decreasing, possibly dissolving in the fluid around you--or maybe you are digesting it as you swallow the liquid and pass it through your system back into itself.
--M. J. Young
A fictional example of a psionic skill, such as psychronomy, can act as an example for learning that skill, provided that something in the fiction explains or suggests how to do it, and not merely that someone did it. This is particularly difficult for psionic skills, as the necessary parts of the skills are usually not observable from the outside: that someone held keys in his hand and revealed facts about their owner does not tell you how he did it.
How about a fictional example that shows the person use the vibration or frequency of an object to detect it? (In Japanese comic or manga, they sure do explain how things work a lot.)
you do not yet have the ability to control your limbs thus, as you can only control one at a time and it takes so much concentration to do so that you can't really be thinking about focusing your mind on anything other than the movement of the hand
I will save the skill for later then.
It must not be long now for the birth. I will familiarize myself with the new body function and remember the detail for it (by exploring my own mind) with my enhanced memory recollection practice.
maybe you are digesting it as you swallow the liquid and pass it through your system back into itself
That made remember about sprite digestion system.
Does sprite produce waste products like humans?
If they do, what do they do with it especially during winter?
I would probably have known this at the time of mind fusion but asking the question at that time is not as important as asking it in the winter.
Did I feel myself getting better in any way (such as skill or attribute) from the practice that I do?
Do attribute such as intellect or intuition change in any way if you practice using your memory, playing game such as chess or asking for divine guidance?
I will allocate exercising for movement and getting use to new body function at Cycle 6. I will practice this new practice menu until something significant happens (which I guess would be my birthday to my current world).
Things you did not specifically note at the time of the mind fusion are not known to you now. You probably cannot ask Lelach whether her body produces wastes "like a human", so you will have to consider the question a bit more carefully.
Four more weeks pass, by your rough reckoning, and now for the first time you feel contained--the walls of your container are close enough that they restrict your movement. You cannot stretch arms or legs without pushing against opposite walls, and this often gets a response from Lelach, who likes to push back as if it were a game.
Your exercise has helped some, and continues to do so, although you are finding it more difficult to perform these exercises as the space becomes more confining, and your muscles are beginning to tighten a bit from your inability to stretch any limb to full length in the space provided. Your head, too, is usually bent forward toward your chest, because it is touching the roof above.
You can roll around a bit still, moving yourself slowly into various positions.
Yes, you can develop excercises that will improve your intellect and your intuition, just as you can improve your physical attributes. Such programs are considerably more intensive than their physical counterparts, but give some thought to what might work and propose a program, and we'll give you some feedback as to whether that would have any observable benefit.
--M. J. Young
If Lelach does not produce any waste product like human in the time of mind fusion then probably she does not. I have thought of the question at the time of mind fusion but thought that it is not appropriate at the time.
Probably I will can be sure of the sprite digestive system when I am born later (by examining myself) because it is too embarrassing too ask.
I thought sprite does not have the same digestive system like human because sprite does not wash themselves during the winter (but I could be wrong so that is why I ask).
Intellect practice using enhanced memory recollection by playing tactical games such as chess and others with self to gain insight to counter various moves. (Cycle 1)
Intuition practice using divine guidance that gives guidance through intuition thus increasing it as a side effect. (Cycle 2)
Persuasion practice using hypnotism to gain self confidence through positive emotion and learning how to effectively suggest it to self. (Cycle 5)
Does Lelach push me back using hands?
Does Lelach told Morani that she could feel my movement using hands?
Does Morani try to feel my movement using his hands?
If Morani does this then I will probably try to tag his mind by using his push to locate him.
If I succeed then I will probably do something else, otherwise I will practice normally until something significant happens.
You think you know where Morani is standing at one point when he does this (yes, that's right--pushing back with hands, feeling your movements, just like humans), but you fail to connect to his mind.
The mental chess practice may be helping your intellect, and the self-hypnosis is having some impact on your persuasion, but the described practice for intuition is not really giving you anything to practice that way.
Sprites seem to have perfectly normal digestive systems in the summer; in the winter it may be that they eat less and lower their metabolisms, and deal with their waste as they are able.
--M. J. Young
I am happy that Morani could felt my movements.
Failing yet again on the mind tag probably means that divine power does not want me to reach Morani for now. I would like to be fair to both my parents by knowing their mental frequency before birth but I guess the odds is against me.
My intuition also tells me that the practice in Cycle 2 might give the clues for my intuition to process but not increase it. The process to interpret the subtle clues itself is how the intuition is probably increased.
Can the process to deduce the subtle clues given from divine guidance (thus be more aware or attentive of surrounding) be a practice for intuition?
deal with their waste as they are able.
It is very tempting to ask how they do it but I guess I have to experience it myself during the next winter. I wonder if the used fabric can be recycled as diapers.
I did ask about sprite appearance before and was told it resembles Tinkerbell.
I wonder if Lelach and Morani has the same hair and eye color as Tinkerbell.
I will practice normally until something significant happens.
You saw Morani when you were in Lelach's body and asked about his appearance, so I think it's safe to say that he has brown hair and eyes. You did not see Lelach.
You are continuing to grow, and are a bit stronger and a bit more able to control your body, but still woefully inadequate to do much particularly in the increasingly confining space. Now you are always touching the walls in all directions, although with a bit of effort you can move around within them.
--M. J. Young
Well, at least it is fair now because I know Morani's appearance and Lelach's mind frequency but does not know the other. If Morani have brown hair and eyes, the probability that I have brown hair and eyes is also high.
I have to remember to do these things (see how Lelach looks like and mind tag Morani) at birth with my enhanced memory recollection (so the action will be automatic at birth).
Exercise in confined space such as opening and clasping the palm of my hand might work. I would also try to control each of my finger if that is possible.
Can I hear the conversation outside the womb clearly now because I touch the walls in all direction?
If I can, then what is the conversation all about?
If I cannot hear the conversation, then I will ask Lelach about it in my telepathy practice.
Is it about suggesting my name to Morani?
Do Lelach suggest that I might be a boy because of the way I move in the womb?
I will practice normally but with the exercise in Cycle 6 modified until something significant happens.
Conversation is still quite muffled; remember, you are not only inside the containment of the mother's body, you are also under water.
There are many conversations, but when you ask about your name Lelach says that you will be called Theian Orlanda Morach, assuming you are a boy. Morani wants to pick a girl's name in case you're a girl, but she's told him several times that it doesn't matter because she knows you are a boy. He asks how, and she says she just knows, and he says, "Uh-huh. Let's pick a girl's name."
Four more weeks pass, and Lelach and Morani leave the tree in the early Spring in search of early growth for food.
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.
--M. J. Young
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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).
"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.I would also ask Lelach telepathically (in a practice session) about my appearance and how it is compared to my parents.
--M. J. Young
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.
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
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.
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.
You'll have to explain how you expect that to work.Can I add hypnotic suggestion into this skill to make it more effective?
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.Can this skill be activated automatically if the lifeform enters a certain range such as the range of sight or known relative position?
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.
NoDo 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).
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.
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.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?
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.What skill has improved since my birth?
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
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?
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.
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.Do my mental attribute increase in any way after birth?
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
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.
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.
- 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.
- 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 want me to roll for is whether you can hypnotically compel yourself to
- notice the arrival of any new creature within sight range;
- look at said creature;
- attempt to identify it as a discrete individual, and
- failing such identification, read the creature's mind to get its mental identity.
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
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.
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.
Lelach blushes.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.
"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
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?
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
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.
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
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).
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
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.
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
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?
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
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.
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