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.
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.
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.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)
--M. J. Young
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'.
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.)
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.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.
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
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...
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.Does this mean I have to roll for each creature or do I get to roll only once?
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
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...
I think I understand the question now; the answer is not so simple.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)?
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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Alert me if I have manage to differentiate between saliva and hair pattern of different person (or sprite in this case) or creature.
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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.
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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...
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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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--M. J. Young
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?
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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?
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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.
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I wonder if I can detect the presence of other sprite or creature by detecting the their hair or saliva.
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Learn Spritish when I am able to do so, such as the encounter with my grandparents or at school later.
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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.
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
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)
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.
I'm having difficulty understanding quite what you mean here.Can I make a telepathy filter that will bonus the generalized telepathy by unifying it with specialized telepathy thus negating the generalized telepathy penalty?
"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
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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
The concept of "name" is entirely new to the butterfly; the only interaction with other creatures it has known is mating. It is an egg layer. As far as wanting to know anything, if you happen to know of any particularly sweet blossoms in the area, it would be glad of directions.
I see what you're after, I think. Unfortunately, I think if you're going to make it telepathy to select multiple targets you would have to roll each target individually. That is, you would roll telepathy to humans to connect to Lelach and telepathy to animals to connect to butterfly, and if you wanted to include Morani you would have to roll telepathy to humans again for contacting him. A general single-roll contact for multiple minds would have to be more generalized--all known minds within specific distance, or all sprite minds known to you, or all animal minds known to you, or some similarly generalized definition. Relative success would then determine what percentage of the targeted minds you reached (and thus could be used to check any specific mind you hoped would be included). But if at the outset you are selecting specific minds to target, then each would be rolled as a targeted mind to determine whether that one was connected.
The part that remains is the aspect of what we might distinguish as chat or private channels. If you're satisfied with the choice that all creatures with whom you are in contact can hear each other's sent thoughts as you hear them, then it will be agreed that that is how your telepathy works; if you want the power to decide whether the communcation is open chat or private channel, but you're willing to make that decision at the moment you make contact (that is, you are communicating with Lelach, and you decide to contact butterfly, at that moment you decide as you roll for butterfly whether Lelach and butterfly are on a common channel or isolated from each other), I'm comfortable with that, too. The only one I'd have trouble with would be if you wanted the ability to make some communications common and some private, that is, if you were talking to Lelach and butterfly together and then decided you wanted to communicate with butterfly without Lelach overhearing--but I think we can do that with a second skill check on the channel you are changing to private.
Sorry for the longish discussion; I'm thinking on paper here.
Your familiarity with the butterfly is such that you could contact the same butterfly again; it is not sufficient for a bonus. As to whether you and the butterfly are friends, I don't know whether I can answer that at this point.
Concerning the sensory skill data reading skill, my inclination is that using it for reading the data of other senses is different enough that it would constitute new use, and thus I am assuming that you have not used it for other senses unless you specifically state that you are doing so and roll for the attempt. Also, I am leaving it to the dice to decide whether you can have one skill that covers all senses or separate skills for each sense, which will be determined by whether your first roll for using the skill for another sense is a success or a failure. Thus if you practice it with visual sensory data only, you might improve it sufficiently to increase the odds that it would work for another type of sensory data.
I am also thinking that reading the sensory data of another mind would be a new use, since you learned it internally, so I will want you to roll for that whenever you first try it.
This approach to enhancing your vision by overlapping the second sensory image on the first does not work at all; you can't see how to put the two images together.
When you ask about hearing sound more clearly by using your sense of touch, are you talking about a different use for the skill of reading sensory data, or are you talking about developing a different skill?
It might be possible to enhance your sleep with something like hypnosis, but if so it is a more difficult task than you have yet managed.
The running water of the stream does not make a good mirror, although you do notice the light of your body reflecting in it sometimes. Things around you are noticeably smaller than they were; you can reach Lelach's cheek with your hand more easily when nursing, and it's not just that you are gaining more control of your limbs--they are longer.
--M. J. Young
What would the butterfly like to call itself (or should I say herself) or do the butterfly prefer me to choose a name for it?
I will ask the butterfly if it would want to show me a sample of sweet blossoms.
I wonder if this telepathy contact can transmit data regarding the sweet blossoms.
If I need to move around then I will probably ask for Lelach's help.
If the butterfly show me a sample of the sweet blossom, then I will practice my detect material with it so that I can find more sweet blossoms for the butterfly.
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Can I practice the telepathy for animal for plant too or do I have to roll for it to find out?
Can I make a general single-roll contact for multiple minds to any creature that is within chain of contact (of touch at that moment)?
Chain of contact means that for all creature that have contact with me (primary contact), the creature who have contact with the primary contact (secondary contact), and so on.
So did I already learn how to control the communication channel (at the moment of contact or in the middle of it) of the telepathy or do I have to roll for it?
I will practice both telepathy (human and animal) in Slot 3.
In the practice session, I will introduce Lelach and the butterfly with each other.
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I'm not certain whether I should be pushing him forward another month, but I've put a lot of time there already and need to move forward.
On to the next month... (which would be Month 7)
So trying to enhance vision that way does not work at all. I have a feeling that it might not work for static visual acuity. It may work for dynamic visual acuity though if the reading is lagging behind a bit thus enabling me to predict the movement of a moving target. I will revisit this skill much later after I get more proficient in reading my sensory information.
When you ask about hearing sound more clearly by using your sense of touch, are you talking about a different use for the skill of reading sensory data, or are you talking about developing a different skill?
This would be a new skill that I envisioned in the womb.
It is not quite new but I want to meditate and try it again considering that I can read sensory info now.
Last time you rule that this is a P5@1 altered sense variant although the ruling may change considering that I know few skills related to it.
Does read neural motor pattern also reads the tactile sense related to it?
It would be weird if the phantom limb does not have any tactile sense though.
If I fail the above skill, I will try meditate and try omni-directional sense by regulating different sense around to detect any pattern that might interest me thus heightening awareness of my surrounding.
I will try the meditate and omni-directional sensing combo for a week until something happens.
If I succeed with either the above skill, I will meditate and re-attempt to enhance my sleeping experience with hypnosis because I will need the extra slot to practice it.
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I guess that the running water would probably distort the image of my reflection (which is why I said "or anything that show my reflection" to show my concern), so what about a puddle near the river?
I wonder if I have enough vocabulary (in English or baby talk) to be understood properly by my parents.
Can I reach for my back using my hand or at least try to touch my wing with my hand?
Can I crawl or move in a way similar to crawling?
What significant changes happen in this new month?
The butterfly does not understand why it needs a name. It knows itself, and when you contact it it knows that you are contacting it. It does not fully understand why you need a name, either, since you are the only creature who has ever communicated with it in this way, and had you not done so you would probably be irrelevant. Names are thus irrelevant to its mind, beyond that there is itself and others, and some of the others are dangerous and some are not.
An image of the sweet blossom forms in your mind. Interestngly, the colors are violently bright, unlike any flowers you have ever seen, although the shapes look famililar.
Telepathy to plants would be telepathy to animals in this world, and you can include that as part of practice, unless you want specific information from your communication with the plants, in which case you would have to roll for contact.
When you speak of chain of contact, do you mean physically touching each other, or are you suggesting that you could contact someone who is telepathically contacting someone else and so be in touch with both of them?
I take this to mean that you will, while practicing telepathy, attempt to contact the butterfly while you are communicating with Lelach (or the reverse), and that you expect that they will then be able to communicate with each other through your mind. This means you are contacting them on common channels.In the practice session, I will introduce Lelach and the butterfly with each other.
I think that for this specific event to occur, I would have to roll the attempts for both connections, to see whether you manage to connect to the second while still in touch with the first (and without botching). It's up to you whether you want to attempt that.
Your effort to convert tactile sensation into sound does not work yet.
If you mean, does it sense what the body part feels like to move this way, that would be part of it; if you mean does it sense what you feel like overall when doing this, no. Nor does it give you the incidental tactile feelings of external contacts. My brain says the word I want is kinesthetics, the "tactile" aspect of knowing the position of the body part. That you have as part of this.Does read neural motor pattern also read the tactile sense related to it?
I'm not understanding the "omnidirectional sensing". Is this a sort of clairvoyance, or is it a heightened awareness that uses combined sensory information to create a sense of the surrounding space?
You are now able to crawl, and getting better at it. You are also beginning to get depth perception, although it is developing slowly. You can pass objects from one hand to the other.
As far as language, you have control of four distinct pure vowels, but diphthongs are difficult to control; you've got a growing number of consonants, but no clear dentals and no sibilances--you have no teeth.
Lelach calls to you with a disapproving tone whenever you get close to the edge of the clearing, and sometimes hops over (a quick flying leap) to scoop you up and bring you back toward the middle.
--M. J. Young
you are the only creature who has ever communicated with it in this way
Then what will happen if I introduce Lelach or other butterflies the same way?
Uno (for one) or Butterfly1 (which sounds practical but probably rude) is probably what I would call the butterfly temporarily (if it does not care about name but I can suggest other name if you want).
So telepathy can transfer images. I have thought that telepathy can transfer thoughts in more than one form such as voices, images and others but I have not been able to try this with Lelach. (You know how Lelach would not want to learn or teach anything through telepathy.)
the colors are violently bright, unlike any flowers you have ever seen, although the shapes look famililar.
Would that mean the sweet blossoms are multi-colored?
Does that mean the shape would be like a normal flower but only the colors are different?
Can this mean that the butterfly differentiate color differently from human or sprite, and that makes the color contrast different from normal?
If I tone down the color a bit, do I recognize what flower that is?
I would practice my telepathy with plants in the same slot as I practice with other telepathy.
Can I create a telepathy package and said that I want to practice them?
Can I know any information (general information about the conversation that is not specific) that I get through telepathy with plants?
What I mean by chain of contact is physically touching each other.
Can a single-roll telepathy be done with this condition?
Although I also thought about contacting someone who is telepathically in contact with someone else and so be in touch with both of them, but this can only be tested with someone who have telepathy which I think I would not meet for a while. It would be nice if I can meet them though.
I think that for this specific event to occur, I would have to roll the attempts for both connections, to see whether you manage to connect to the second while still in touch with the first (and without botching). It's up to you whether you want to attempt that.
Can I say that in the event of a successful connection (to both in practice), I will introduce both of them to each other?
Because I practice both telepathy in the same slot, the introduction is bound to happen at one time or the other. The question is, will it happen sooner or later.
If you mean, does it sense what the body part feels like to move this way, that would be part of it; if you mean does it sense what you feel like overall when doing this, no. Nor does it give you the incidental tactile feelings of external contacts. My brain says the word I want is kinesthetics, the "tactile" aspect of knowing the position of the body part. That you have as part of this.
Wow, that explains a lot. So my read neural motor pattern skill does not read the sensory information of external contact from the phantom limb but knows how to move the limb accordingly when doing certain action, is this right?
That certainly makes me remember about muscle memory.
So that means if I want to read external tactile data it will be Read Sensory Information Center (Tactile) right?
So that is probably why the convert tactile sensation does not work.
Which brings me to try my other skills next.
I'm not understanding the "omnidirectional sensing".
It is a heightened awareness skill that uses combined sensory information to create a sense of the surrounding space.
I will meditate and try this skill each day for a week until something happens (which would be succeeding at it or something else).
If I succeed the above skill, I will meditate and try to enhance my sleeping experience with hypnosis.
I did thought of omni-directional clairvoyance skill (which reminds me of Byakugan technique in Naruto; a Japanese manga about ninja for those who do not know about it) and possible mind reading variant that may act like it but for now I want to try something that I think I can do first.
I wonder if there are something that I can hold on to so that I can practice standing up. I wonder if Lelach let me hold on to her hands so that I can practice walking with her help. Something spherical and big enough (like a Swiss ball but in this case a dried fruit might also do the trick) that I can push around while trying to stand up might help me develop my sense of balance. I will discuss with Lelach about this in telepathy session.
I wonder if I can catch a falling object properly.
I will practice letting my toy go at a certain height (below nose) and catching it with my other hand in the same slot as other exercise.
I wonder if I can practice my vocal using the example from Read Neural Motor Pattern.
I could see a baby that tries to play with a butterfly at the edge of the clearing but then got scoop up by a frowning mom.
A quick flying leap huh. I wonder if I can copy one of those.
Uno is fine for a name, but the butterfly does not understand why it would want to meet anyone. It never met anyone before. This is not presented in a rude way, nor exactly in a curious way, but more as a simple statement of the reality of its life--it is not a social creature, and has no concept of what being a social creature involves.
You have not indicated any skills at horticulture, and thus whether you recognize a particular flower would be a check on general knowledge, your education level. Unfortunately, you never gave me your education level, so I'll need to ask what is the last grade of school or degree program you attended or completed, so I can enter that information on your sheet.
Assuming you have no such skill, you do not recognize this particular flower. However, the brilliance of the colors suggests that it is (what to you would be) a distortion of color based on a different base vision: the butterfly sees light differently from you.
The plants are strange, because on the one hand they seem to have no experience communicating with other beings while on the other hand they are completely unsurprised by the process and disinterested in it. Mostly their thoughts concern amounts of sunlight and moisture, air temperatures and conditions, and the actions of animals which are immediately relevant to them (birds nesting, insects eating).
Assuming you mean that you want to set aside time to practice all telepathy skills, it can be done that way. State what "all telepathy skills" includes and what time you are spending on them; there being a certain amount of crossover between them, you would get a sort of generalized credit--that is, assuming you have four skills, practicing them separately would be four times three hours per week, but since they are related and you are practicing them as such you could get away with eight or nine hours of practice on the techniques involved in four closely related skills.Can I create a telepathy package and said I want to practice them?
Concerning the physical contact question, I think that the answer will have to be that you would have to attempt it at the time.
Your description of the feeling you get from reading the neural motor pattern matches my understanding. You know what it feels for a limb to move that way, and how the command pathways are involved, even if you do not have those command pathways or limbs (a tail is an example; you do not have a tail, but if you read the movements of a tail of a mouse or other creature, you can sense how you would move it and what it would feel like to move it).
Yes, which as far as I know you have not attempted to do, at least since having taught yourself to read visual sensory information. (Had you done so, there would be a note on the sheet saying that it did or did not also cover tactile sensation.So that means if I want to read external tactile data it will be Read Sensory Information Center (Tactile) right?
You succeed in enhancing your awareness. This skill will be deemed to be "always on", and thus if something occurs which you might have noticed or you are surprised, you can request that this skill be rolled to determine whether you were aware in advance of the potential for surprise.
You are still unable to reduce your need for sleep.
The trees are readily available for you to lean against (there is the big one in the clearing), and with some effort you manage to get to your feet. Your parents are clearly proud of you, but not overly amazed; you are just about on schedule for standing, and no one expects you to walk for a while. You hold your mother's hands, but can't really keep your balance for walking or support your weight on one leg at a time. Still, she enjoys the game of helping you try to walk like this.
You miss the falling object more than you catch it, but the practice does seem to help.
You do not really gain anything from the read neural pattern skill when it comes to talking--you already have the memory in your mind of how this is done from when you were human. It's more a matter of training this body to respond correctly.
You probably could copy the leap, but not yet--you can barely stand, and your wings have not yet really built up the strength for much of anything.
--M. J. Young
the butterfly does not understand why it would want to meet anyone.
How does the butterfly distinguish other butterfly as a candidate for mating process then (does this distinguishable feature substitute the need for name)?
What if there are others who wanted to know more about the butterfly (or in other words want to meet the butterfly)?
I did take biology class in high school. I am interested in horticulture but remembering each plant name and shape (for each plant encountered in surrounding environment, or in media such as books, Internet or others) would be improbable feat for a normal human although a person who have enhanced memory recollection might have a better chance of doing it.
I thought I did tell you about my education level when we talk about intelligence attribute. Four word that may refresh the memory about them: university, degree, electrical, computer.
However, the brilliance of the colors suggests that it is (what to you would be) a distortion of color based on a different base vision: the butterfly sees light differently from you.
I thought that would be the case as I have read about it before. I could not remember where I got the source of the information for this but it lingers in my mind. The verser-me would probably remember about it.
I will remember the conversation (if it can be called that) that I have with plants and the relation of conversation to the surrounding of the plants. I would also practice my telepathy with other animals to get to know more about them.
For now the telepathy package is telepathy to human and telepathy to animal (and plants).
Can the skill level for both skill still increase but slower if I provide the same training time (for 1 slot which mean only 3 hours) for both of them?
If shorter training time would not do to increase the level of both of them (albeit a little slower), I would provide 1.5 hours cross-over that would make the total training time to 4.5 hours although 3 hours cross-over sounds tempting.
I will change the practice menu according to the answer of the above question.
Do I need to practice heighten awareness to increase its level because it is "always on" like my auto mind tagging?
Did my meditation level increase if I use it in my other psi practices (as a cross-over)?
Can I practice intuition using heighten awareness?
By using the previous practice method and adding heighten awareness would probably make the intuition more in the extraordinary type right?
I could also use this to predict precisely where my toy will fall in my catching toy practice.
If I can catch my toy perfectly each time, then I will try releasing the toy while moving (the releasing arm) thus making it fall in an arching way and try to catch it.
Succeeding that I will probably try to catch it with my eyes close so that I will rely more on my intuition.
Can I practice Read Sensory Information Center (Visual) and Read Neural Motor Pattern with animals?
Or do I have to roll for it to see if I can practice the skills with animals?
Considering that I am more aware of my surrounding now, I would like to meditate and try to enhance my senses using other senses (such as enhancing hearing using touch, enhancing taste by smell, and others) each day for a week until something happens (which would be succeeding at it or something else). This would probably expand the range of awareness via the enhanced sense.
I would like to try an effective rest prayer. I will lay down and cross my arm then pray in my mind and ask that I will be given a good rest so that I could be more alert to the sign (in dream or when I awake later) that will be shown to me, and rise up early to do what is expected of me. I will do this (repeating it in my mind) about 10 minutes to 1 hour before sleeping. This prayer would probably be prayed in conjunction with my prayer of guidance (which would be between prayer of guidance and sleeping).
If I see any insect or other creature (more than one if possible) touching the tree that I am touching then I will meditate and try my chain of touch telepathy. The telepathy would need appropriate synchronization time because it will connect to more than one entity at a time. The sync time will probably depend on how many creature or how hard it is to sync with the creature in which case a new creature that touches the tree during the sync time and old creature leaving the tree before sync time is finished will not be counted in the skill. To initiate it, my eyes would be closed (because I will need to concentrate on maintaining the connection) and I will thought to myself "Telepathy chain, connect!". From there on, even if the insect on the tree fly away, I can maintain the connection to it until the duration of the skill is over, provided that I do not deactivate the skill or open my eyes.
I do enjoy the walking game and probably give a baby laugh (when start walking and when ended up sitting down) to let Lelach know that I enjoy it.
A new body really does need a little getting use to, does it?
I wonder if there is a skill to properly train your body to suit the mind.
Would that be shape-shifting variant or can that be something much simpler such as self-control?
The wings must be able to generate force capable of carrying my own weight before I could take flight. That is why I will flap the wing whenever I can to strengthen it. Flapping it in the water might be a good practice because of water resistance.
The butterfly does not distinguish candidates for mating beyond that they have to be egg fertilizers. As to others wanting to meet the butterfly, since it cannot imagine wanting to meet others, it cannot imagine others wanting to meet it.
I do see that I have computer skills on your sheet, but nothing in electricity or electronics apart from those, and nothing indicating that you attended a university. I am going to put down a bachelors degree, although from what you said you might have a masters or an associates, which is a one point difference either way.
The combined training in both telepathy skills would increase both, more slowly.
You do need to practice heightened awareness to improve it, although if you enter situations in which you need to use it a great deal I will count that as ongoing practice.
Your use of meditation has still been hit and miss, but I will count its use with the other skills as practice and will increase it as appropriate.
- The combination of intuition and heightened awareness in mechanical terms does not increase your intuition but instead gives you a second roll in those situations in which both apply.
The most obvious is ordinary surprise situations. If you were walking through the forest and suddenly came face-to-face with a snake, you and the snake would both get intuition checks. If you make the check successfully, you were aware of the presence of the snake sufficiently in advance that you are not surprised. You would also get a heightened awareness check, and if that is successful, you are not surprised even if you failed the intuition check.
On the other hand, the heightened awareness does not impact the intuitive use of skills, so if you are using intuition as your best relevant attribute for skill use, heightened awareness does not change that.
And to add a third hand, if someone uses stealth or ambush skills to create "special surprise", that negates your intuition check--you do not get to make an intuition check if they create a successful ambush; however, you do get your heightened awareness skill check in that situation, which can negate special surprise.
The problem with your catching is not in the prediction so much as in the action: your agility and hand/eye are still developing, and you cannot easily coordinate sense information with bodily action. You are improving, but the heightened awareness does not help this.
You can use those read sensory information and read neural motor pattern skills with animals, but these are much more difficult to read and you succeed less often. As practice that is not so important, but you should be aware that you fail a lot more often when working with animals.
Please clarify for me the sensory enhancement skills. I can see at least two distinct possibilities:
- You could mean that you intend to combine the smell of a target with the taste of the target to enhance your ability to taste it (which is something people do automatically) and that you intend to combine the feeling of the vibrations on your skin with the vibrations of your eardrum to enhance your ability to hear.
- You could mean that you intend to retask parts of your brain such that the information received by your olfactory sense would use the gustational sensory processors to enhance processing of olfactory data, and the auditory sense would use the tactile processors to process auditory data.
- Come to think of it, you could mean that you intend to feed additional data from the gustational and tactile sensors, respectively, to the olfactory and auditory processors, giving them more information.
Your prayer for rest is quite effective.
On your chain telepathy, do you expect it to be able to contact the minds of creatures you are not aware are in physical contact? This raises issues about the skill, because normally you can only contact a mind if you have contacted it before and choose to contact it specifically or if you can see the creature whose mind it is. If you are attempting to contact minds of creatures who are actually present but outside your knowledge, that will be a different skill from trying to contact all those creatures you know to be in the chain (either because you saw them or because you have contacted them before and know that they are touching).
Concerning training the body to suit the mind, there are two problems. One is whether the body knows how to do it; the other is whether the mind knows how to tell the body to do it.
Using touch typing as an example, there was a time when you knew where all the letters were on the keyboard, but you had to think about each one, and you had to send individual commands to the fingers to move to the correct position and depress the correct key. Gradually the fingers learned where the keys were, and eventually you needed only think the letter and the finger would depress the key. As you improved, your fingers began to learn letter combinations, such that you did not have to think about letters but only about words, and the fingers would do the work.
If we dropped you into a different body, your mind would still know how to type like that, but the question is whether the body did. If you were in the body of someone who types much faster than you, it would still take a bit of exploration for your mind to find the pathways that trigger the typing that body knows how to do, but you would very quickly manage to get that body typing at its speed. If we dropped you into a body that did not know how to type, you would have to adjust your mind back to instructing each finger to move to the appropriate key, and in essence teach the body the touch typing skill. The fact that your mind knows how to trigger the commands for touch typing makes no difference in a body that does not have the neural pathways trained for it.
Exercising your wings in the water makes good sense. It also makes a lot of splashing and pushes you around quite a bit, but usually Lelach doesn't mind--unless she's in a hurry, such as trying to bathe you before Morani gets home for dinner while she's cooking back in the clearing.
--M. J. Young
I must say that Maxx certainly understands how to pack a lot of actions into one post.
I laugh when I read that. Well, that makes the game interesting, isn't it?
I have thought that the wing pattern might mean something to the butterfly (considering that butterfly vision might be different than human or sprite so that it can differentiate between different wing patterns) but I guess I have miss the mark on that.
Isn't the process of mating includes meeting with others?
I am going to put down a bachelors degree, although from what you said you might have a masters or an associates, which is a one point difference either way.
I am fine with your ruling.
The combined training in both telepathy skills would increase both, more slowly.
How slower would that be?
(Compared it to a linear scale where 0 would be instant level up and 1 is the normal level up. It would probably be more than 1 considering it is slower.)
Would this be 2 on the linear scale or something in between 1 and 2?
If I have 3 skills combine, will this be 3 or something in between 1 and 3?
How is it calculated if I have cross-over between skills?
What is the increase of my meditation according to the above linear scale considering I practice it in conjunction with other skills?
although if you enter situations in which you need to use it a great deal I will count that as ongoing practice.
Would the forest count as one (because there are all sort of things to be aware of for your survival)?
I will practice reading sensory information and reading neural motor pattern skills with animals in Slot 8 in conjunction with my creature mind exploration and mind detection. This will make Slot 7 vacant.
I wonder about the increase these 4 skills in linear scale and the cross-over effect of the skills.
Can I use heighten awareness as a tool (thus raising the difficulty of practice) to practice intuition (by remembering the patterns that might hint a certain event) so that my previous practice is effective enough to advance to the next level?
If I can, then I will practice this in the vacant Slot 7.
The restful sleep skill should cover the deficit time to make as many skill improve normally. If I am not mistaken, this will make about 2.5 hours more time in the range of 5 days which would be 5/6 of a slot.
Would the restful sleep still succeed every time if I want it to be more effective by increasing the praying time to 80 minutes thus cutting the time for sleep in half?
1. You could mean that you intend to combine the smell of a target with the taste of the target to enhance your ability to taste it (which is something people do automatically) and that you intend to combine the feeling of the vibrations on your skin with the vibrations of your eardrum to enhance your ability to hear.
2. You could mean that you intend to retask parts of your brain such that the information received by your olfactory sense would use the gustational sensory processors to enhance processing of olfactory data, and the auditory sense would use the tactile processors to process auditory data.
3. Come to think of it, you could mean that you intend to feed additional data from the gustational and tactile sensors, respectively, to the olfactory and auditory processors, giving them more information.
For sensory enhancement skill, I have tried (1) that is related to touch and hearing in the womb.
For this, you rule that it is P5@1 altered sense.
I also tried (2) that altered tactile processors to process auditory data from the touch which again bring us back to (1). The side effect of (2) is other non-related senses is probably lowered to compensate the use of the related sense.
And (3) is the additional data that I got from tactile processors that is send to my auditory processors.
So the sensory enhancement skill has a bit or all of the above.
Remember to meditate first then do the above skill each day for a week until something happens (which would be succeeding at it or something else).
If you are attempting to contact minds of creatures who are actually present but outside your knowledge, that will be a different skill from trying to contact all those creatures you know to be in the chain (either because you saw them or because you have contacted them before and know that they are touching).
It is interesting to note that what if there a millions of bacteria on that tree.
Do I contact them all?
It is very tempting to try both but for this skill, it will be the creatures that I know to be in the chain (either because I saw them or because I have contacted them before and know that they are touching).
I will meditate and try the skill above.
For the other variant (which I will not attempt just yet), I think that the creature that I know in the chain will be prioritized as I can sync easier with them. For other creatures, maybe a GE roll and on a very bad one there is a spy or something among them perhaps.
If you were in the body of someone who types much faster than you, it would still take a bit of exploration for your mind to find the pathways that trigger the typing that body knows how to do, but you would very quickly manage to get that body typing at its speed.
Can read neural motor pattern be used to take advantage of this?
Is there a skill to create neural pathways to a body to match the mind much faster than a regular practice would?
Marionette telekinesis probably could do the above provided the user can master it well but that may be only a temporary solution.
I wonder if neural pathway research can help in this matter. If I can reconfigure the new body neural pathway to suit the last one then probably the body and mind sync process will go on much smoother.
I will also practice read neural motor pattern with Lelach and Morani to copy what they are doing better.
I wonder what have changed in the new month.
Technically, when you are practicing two skills, you have to invest the full time in each of them. Assuming a schedule of sixty hours over the course of one hundred days for a single skill, working on two skills should require one hundred twenty hours over one hundred days, and three skills should require one hundred eighty hours over one hundred days.
And if your three skills are horseback riding, pistol shooting, and religion, that makes perfect sense, and you'll have to practice each of them as appropriate.
The thing is, if you are practicing related skills, there is a degree to which the fact that they are related is relevant to the practice. For example, suppose you have Tae Kwon Do, Flying Kick, and Missile Avoidance. If you are practicing your flying kick and your Missile Avoidance, you are on some level practicing your Tae Kwon Do--but you're not practicing all of your Tae Kwon Do at those moments, only the parts that support these particular maneuvers. It thus makes sense that your Tae Kwon Do is going to improve some from practicing the other skills; the time you spend on those other skills gets extra credit as also spent on Tae Kwon Do. But it's not as if you're practicing all of your Tae Kwon Do techniques when you're practicing those two maneuvers; you need to practice aspects of the style that are not related to the maneuvers. At the same time, the stance and some of the forms are already included. So I would figure that part of the two hundred hours you spend practicing those two maneuvers counts also for the Tae Kwon Do, but you have to spend some additional time--less than another hundred hours--working on Tae Kwon Do directly.
But there's no specific formula for this, because really there can't be. The combinations are too varied.
If you tell me you're going to go to the shooting range and practice your rifle, shotgun, pistol, and crossbow, that's four different skills, but all very closely related to each other, and I could easily see allowing two hundred hours to cover all four skills simply for the amount of overlap involved. If you tell me you're going to the gym to practice your half dozen tightrope maneuvers, or your half dozen tumbling maneuvers, I can see how creating a floor routine would allow you to practice all of them in considerably less time than six hundred hours for each--two hundred hours to cover six so closely related skills might be reasonable. But if you want to practice a half dozen skills four of which are tumbling and two tightrope, it's not as easy to combine these--even though they are still related and use similar techniques. I might think two hundred fifty or three hundred hours is a better guess.
So if you have crossover between skills, and you're combining them for practice purposes, I expect you to put more time into two skills than one, more into three than two, and so on, but how much more is going to depend on how similar I think the skills are.
In the case of combining telepathathic skills, I would think that the additional amount of time for each additional telepathy would be considerably less than "+1"--maybe "+0.5" for the second, and less for each additional; but then, if you're including other "telepathic" skills in the same practice, such as mind reading techniques, those would be less like the basic telepathies but still telepathic, so maybe we're looking at "+0.75" for the first; on the other hand, if you've got multiple mind reading skills (which you do), once you've included one you've got the similarity of the others to the first.
And I'm not going to put forward a hard-and-fast formula, precisely because I'm going to have to give consideration to that very subjective detail, of how like the other skills you are practicing is this one you want to include?
As far as the increase in any skill, absent a teacher it takes roughly one hundred days to increase one intensity on your own. Discovering "new uses" can bump this a bit, but they require that you are using the skill actively (not in practice). The question comes to how many hours do you have to practice over that hundred days; and it's within my discretion to say that it takes a hundred twenty days because it's not enough hours, or to tell you after a few days that you are not practicing enough to feel any benefit in some or all of the skills you are targeting.
Your consistent use of medidation in connection with other skills is sufficient to constitute regular practice on its own; you will improve in that as appropriate.
Normal travel through the forest does not count as a situation in which you need to use your heightened awareness a great deal; but that's largely because you're a sprite, so you don't walk through the forest.
For your intuition training, you need to make your program twice as hard in two ways for it to be adequate to reach a level 2 score. You probably will have trouble doing so in your present physical state.
The restful sleep skill as I calculated it reads:
1@1 Restful Sleep M+2@1 lay down and cross arms, thinking a prayer for good rest and subsequent alertness 10:00 TF +70SM
This does not reduce the amount of sleep you get, but only assures that you sleep well and awaken rested. In my discussion behind the screens I considered what sit-mods I would give to skills that reduced the amount of sleep time you needed (from eight hours down to zero in 50% increments), and if you wish to design a prayer that reduces the amount of time you spend sleeping, we'll turn our attention to that. Since you said "ten minutes to one hour" I used the minimum time; each doubling of the time would give you +10 against any -10 you accrued for doubling the power.
You have a concept of feeding tactile data into your auditory processing, but you do not succeed in making it work; you also don't figure out how to enhance your taste with your smell more than you already do.
You do not manage to make contact with the tree or the bug, but given that you fail more than you succeed in telepathy, it's not surprising.
"Read neural motor pattern" can give you an example of how to teach a body how to do something if you do not already know how; it does not help you identify how to access those neural patterns in a body that already has them if you take over that body.
Is there a skill to create neural pathways to a body to match the mind much faster than a regular practice would?
Marionette telekinesis probably could do the above provided the user can master it well but that may be only a temporary solution.
You do not know the answer to that first question. You also have no knowledge or experience with telekinesis at this point, so you can't really know whether that would work, either.
--M. J. Young
Since you said "ten minutes to one hour" I used the minimum time; each doubling of the time would give you +10 against any -10 you accrued for doubling the power.
If I double the power until I can reduce my sleep time in half by doubling the time I need to take, will this be a new skill or a new use?
I will try the restful sleep variation that reduces my sleeping time in half.
The skill that I practice together do relate to one another or can be done together.
It is up to you to decide on the whether it is enough time for the practice to improve the skill normally or not. If the skill is not improving normally, I will provide more time to it by adding more time (from restful sleep) to practice it.
Example of my practice package:
Slot 3: General telepathy package (includes telepathy to human/sprite and telepathy to animal/plant)
Slot 8: General mind reading package (mind exploration, mind detection, read sensory and neural motor pattern)
I wonder how much additional slot that I would need to improve the above normally.
Can relying on intuition to catch something (because the eyes are closed) be a practice for intuition?
If that is not enough, how about catching it in a certain way (catching the tip of the handle for example) which would only be possible when opening the eyes and knowing the right timing to do it?
If this practice is enough to improve my intuition then I will practice it in Slot 7.
Does heighten awareness help with the above practice?
If I do not provide a specific slot for heighten awareness, does it still improve normally, slower than normal or not improve at all?
I will meditate and try enhancing my hearing again (considering that I know the concept of feeding tactile data into my auditory processing now) each day for a week until something happens (which would be succeeding at it or something else).
"Read neural motor pattern" can give you an example of how to teach a body how to do something if you do not already know how; it does not help you identify how to access those neural patterns in a body that already has them if you take over that body.
Which is weird considering read neural motor pattern identifies how certain body part moves which would mean I have identified how to access those neural patterns (because I have control over that body) or did I miss something here?
Do I need other skill just like read neural motor pattern to identify how to access certain neural patterns for the body I control?
I will wait for next month to come.
*****
Month 8:
Are there any changes in this new month?
I wonder if telepathy chain should be a new use for general telepathy package or a new skill because because it includes all creature that are within chain of touch that I am aware of.
It seem to be a new skill though because of the existence of sync time (which I think would be 10 minutes or longer according to the creatures involved), the use of touch and the act of closing one's eyes.
If this seems to be the case, then I will meditate and try it again.
Note of things to try: thought casting (to single or multiple), marionette control of own body (probably), manipulation of objects (body or psi), body glow manipulation.
A skill that reduces the amount of sleep you need would be a new skill, not a new use. Note, though, that if you are "practicing" such a skill, you cannot count on it working on a regular basis. It is only by "using" the skill that we can say it does or does not work in a particular instance.
You do learn the skill.
Your skill practice combinations do appear to be effective, and you are benefiting from working with them together.
Relying on your heightened awareness makes practicing intuition less effective, because you do not need the intuition to succeed. Also, relying on intuition to enable you to catch something that you dropped will not help, because there is no uncertainty/surprise element in when it is dropped. I feel I should make you aware that it is extremely difficult to design any program that will improve intuition at all, and the more so to design one which is twice as hard in two ways. In your present state it is unlikely that you could design the sort of program that would improve your intuition beyond its impressive present level that you could actually do, given your physical limitations.
Heightened awareness will improve slowly if you do not have practice sessions.
"Read neural motor pattern" can give you an example of how to teach a body how to do something if you do not already know how; it does not help you identify how to access those neural patterns in a body that already has them if you take over that body.Which is weird considering read neural motor pattern identifies how certain body part moves which would mean I have identified how to access those neural patterns (because I have control over that body) or did I miss something here?
Do I need other skill just like read neural motor pattern to identify how to access certain neural patterns for the body I control?
O.K., we're having trouble communicating this. Let me try again.
- Body skills are stored in the body; technically this is in the neural pathways within the body.
You have the ability to read the information in those neural pathways, and so to get the pattern for how to perform a body skill. This requires that you read the targeted creature/person while they are performing the desired skill, so that you can see how the nerves are acting at that moment. It in essence allows you to "watch" a body skill, and to get the "feel" for how it is done.
Using that pattern, you can teach your body, or a body that you control, how to duplicate that skill, provided it has the requisite body parts. You know how tails move from reading animals with tails, but you do not have one so you cannot do that. Were you to grow a tail, you could teach the tail how to move by following the pattern. Were you to watch an acrobat move through a flip, you would know the necessary feeling of a flip, and so have an example to follow in teaching yourself to do the flip.
If you took over a body that had a tail but no skill to use it (unlikely as that sounds) you could use your example pattern to help you teach this body how to move the tail. Similarly, you could use the pattern you have of doing a flip to teach this other body to do a flip.
If you took control of a body that already knows how to move the tail, the fact that you know how that feels is not helpful. The body already has the skill to move the tail. You are looking at an entirely new control panel, as it were, trying to figure out how the buttons are wired--and every control panel is different in some ways. So you're now the guy in the control room, and you need to figure out which connection here in the control room will activate the circuits that move the tail. Once you find the right button, you can make the tail do what it knows how to do, and do so at the skill level of the previous owner of the body, because the skill is in the body.
Let us take for example running. You already know how to run, but this body you are in does not. You have an example of how to run, but the odds are against you because this body is so weak and untrained. The fact that you know exactly how to activate the neural pathways of the old body is irrelevant; those neural pathways do not yet exist here. Once you've got them in place, you will be able to run as well as this body can run.
Let us now suggest that in this world there are also ostriches, flightless birds capable of running on two legs at speeds up to forty miles per hour. You somehow manage to move yourself into the body of such an ostrich--one that already has that skill. Once you find the right controls for running, you can make that body run at its full velocity at its learned skill level. You don't have to learn how to run that fast; you only have to find the right button.
Now, there's probably a read minds skill that you could use to watch how a specific creature accesses its own skills--to watch how the ostrich pushes the button to run--but that information would be specific to that creature, and you would probably have to read it before you took possession of the body, unless you were fortunate enough to dredge it out of memory (looking for specific memories is very daunting, because there is so much information in memory and it is not well organized in most creatures).
The best thing to do once in an unfamiliar body is try to figure out how the controls work by doing things. As you succeed, you learn how to use the body the way it knows how to do things.
I am going to have to defer month 8 for a future post, and also defer the question of whether you succeed in enhancing your hearing; there is a separate thread which will explain why.
--M. J. Young
If the reduce sleep skill does not work on regular basis, I will double the time yet again at least until I can get to improve it normally which is 36 minutes per day.
Does this count as practicing my other restful sleep variant too?
Your skill practice combinations do appear to be effective, and you are benefiting from working with them together.
Tell me if I need an extra slot to practice it if the one slot I provided is not enough.
Relying on your heightened awareness makes practicing intuition less effective, because you do not need the intuition to succeed.
Isn't intuition the feeling you got when you are more aware of your surrounding?
Does this mean lowering my awareness of environment makes practicing intuition more effective?
because there is no uncertainty/surprise element in when it is dropped
How about catching falling leave or other object that is not dropped by me?
I feel I should make you aware that it is extremely difficult to design any program that will improve intuition at all, and the more so to design one which is twice as hard in two ways. In your present state it is unlikely that you could design the sort of program that would improve your intuition beyond its impressive present level that you could actually do, given your physical limitations.
My willpower attribute makes me attracted to challenge and to interesting things. This is like a challenge to me to make one in my current physical state.
By the way, intuition is more to a mental state right?
Can I play guessing game to increase my intuition (such as guessing the location of the next animal that comes to me at certain range which I think would be my heighten awareness range so that my intuition will do all the work)?
One way to make it harder is guessing what animal will it be.
The second way to make it harder will be the detail concerning whether I have tagged the animal, and if I have not, what other distinct characteristics will it have compared to the animal that I have tagged.
If this is suitable practice to improve my intuition, I will practice it in Slot 7.
If you took over a body that had a tail but no skill to use it (unlikely as that sounds) you could use your example pattern to help you teach this body how to move the tail.
Does the skill here refer to the new body not having the body skill to move the tail or my mind do not have the skill to move a tail?
The unlikely case seem to suit newborns.
Can I get the example pattern from the body itself (from new body) using read neural motor pattern provided the body knows how to move in a certain way?
What is the reason for that answer (for the above question)?
Now, there's probably a read minds skill that you could use to watch how a specific creature accesses its own skills--to watch how the ostrich pushes the button to run--but that information would be specific to that creature, and you would probably have to read it before you took possession of the body, unless you were fortunate enough to dredge it out of memory
Would this skill be body control retrocognition (or tutorial)?
Can read neural motor pattern achieve the same result as the above skill or be an example for the above skill?
The fact that you know exactly how to activate the neural pathways of the old body is irrelevant; those neural pathways do not yet exist here.
Would neural pathway generation skill (healing variation) be helpful to resolve this problem?
Or would the above be categorized as psychic surgery?
The best thing to do once in an unfamiliar body is try to figure out how the controls work by doing things.
Would body simulation such as in virtual reality (or something like that such as in dream) help in that?
Mind and body discussion sure is interesting.
A botch on meditation huh. This should be interesting.
If I can continue like normal after that then resume what I am doing (which would be trying for meditate and altered sense) and if not I will deal with it.
I wonder if telepathy chain should be a new use for general telepathy package or a new skill because because it includes all creature that are within chain of touch that I am aware of.
It seem to be a new skill though because of the existence of sync time (which I think would be 10 minutes or longer according to the creatures involved), the use of touch and the act of closing one's eyes.
I wonder what is the answer for the above questions.
Month 8 reminder:
telepathy chain, thought casting (to single or multiple), marionette control of own body (probably), manipulation of objects (body or psi), body glow manipulation.
If the reduce sleep skill does not work on regular basis,
This is rather complicated. Your chance of success with this skill at present is 99%. Your character cannot know the exact chance of success, only an estimate based on how often he succeeds or fails. It is entirely possible that using this three or four hundred times in "practice" over a hundred days you would never fail, and you would kick your SAL to 1@2 and make it 100%--but it is also possible that you would fail a dozen times on bad dice luck.
I think it necessary that we state that you are practicing it, and you might once in a while have it fail to work, but usually you get the extra hours awake.
In any case, if you're going to design a new version if this "does not work on a regular basis", we'll have to play out rolling it for a while so you can see whether or not it does.
Can I play guessing game to increase my intuition (such as guessing the location of the next animal that comes to me at certain range which I think would be my heighten awareness range so that my intuition will do all the work)?
One way to make it harder is guessing what animal will it be.
The second way to make it harder will be the detail concerning whether I have tagged the animal, and if I have not, what other distinct characteristics will it have compared to the animal that I have tagged.
If this is suitable practice to improve my intuition, I will practice it in Slot 7.
I'm really a tough sell on intuition training programs; most of them do not work. I'm looking at this one, and thinking that guessing without any hints at all is just guessing, not intuitive in any way; and I'm thinking that someone is trying to argue me into accepting an attribute improvement program for a 2@ attribute without really addressing the problems involved.
Yes, intuition is essentially non-physical. I've got an article on it at RPGnet, Intuition and Surprise', which discusses my understanding of the attribute. It should also help demonstrate why it is so difficult to "practice" intuition: everything about it involves things you do not think about doing and do not do intentionally, and thus a training program would have to be something you could set up that would cause you to collect information and process it without ever thinking about doing so or deciding to do so.
Now, I remember that you set up an intuition training program which brought you to 1@10; I don't remember what it was. But maybe if we start by you restating what it was that I approved for intuition training at level one, we can figure out how to make that challenging enough to work at level two.
O.K., let me look at the neural pathways problem again.
- Out there in the body you've got these neural patterns that show how a body skill is done. Body skills are learned by the body. For this reason, if you change bodies, you have to use the skills in the new body.
You have a mind/body interface. No one really knows where it is or how it works, but somehow your mind sends signals to your body, telling your body to activate the specific action it knows how to perform.
Those connections between your mind and your body are created as you learn the skills, and they are unique to you. That is, the way your mind accesses the movement you call walking is distinct from the way my mind accesses the same movement.
You can read the neural pattern of me walking, and compare it to how you walk, but it will probably be very similar, unless I walk with a limp or am bowlegged or have my feet toed in or out or something.
If you were moved to my body, the problem is not that you don't know how to walk, and it's not that my body doesn't know how to walk; it's that your mind/body interface and mine are different, and you've got to figure out how my mind tells my body to walk. The best way to do that is to attempt to tell my body to walk, and see if you can make it work, and thereafter remember that that's how you make this body walk.
Now, you could probably use your mind reading skill to watch the way my mind tells my body to walk, but you would have to do it while I was controlling my body and making it walk. That means you'd have to do it before you were in control of my body. Now, that's fine, but you'd also have to have read every single non-autonomic action--how do you make my mouth speak, or chew; how do you hold my breath; how do you raise my arms. You'd need a vast library of my motions observed, and then it would only be useful for accessing my body if you were in my body.
There would also be memories in my mind of how I made my body walk, and you could read my memories searching for this. Really, reading memories looking for something that specific is a pretty ridiculous task. It's sort of like stacking all the books in the Library of Congress randomly on tables, stripping the titles of the bindings, and then trying to find a specific Mark Twain quote by thumbing through them. Of course, the probabilities of the example are so outrageously bad that we wouldn't even attempt to copy them in the game, but you would be dependent on getting a good general effects roll for whether you found the access code and how long it took to find it.
It would be much simpler just to say that you're going to attempt to walk, and see whether it works.
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After a very strange period of meditation, you attempt to retask your tactile sense to supplement your auditory, but it goes entirely wrong. Your hearing shuts down completely, and now you feel, like a buzzing on your skin except it's in your ear, the vibration caused by the rustle of the leaves.
The condition lasts for a little over an hour and then returns to normal.
--M. J. Young
The chance that I have to practice it in 100 days without failing even once (provided that my math is not wrong) is 0.99^100 or about 36.6%. It would probably save your time if you roll for that probability and if it exceeds 36 (or 37 if you round it up) then I will probably make the new skill (provided that no changes to probability of success happens during that time).
You could also try 0.99^30 or about 73.97% to check for the success streak for month to month basis. This would mean you have to roll it once per month and if the roll exceeds 73 (or 74 if you round it up) then I will probably make the new skill in that month.
By the way, can a skill practiced 20 minutes daily improve normally within 100 days?
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From your old post:
Yes, cultivating an awareness of the surrounding area can improve intuition.
Does this mean cultivating an awareness subconsciously?
The intuition practice that you agree on:
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.
Can the hint come from heighten awareness then (so that it will not be just guessing)?
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Now, you could probably use your mind reading skill to watch the way my mind tells my body to walk, but you would have to do it while I was controlling my body and making it walk. That means you'd have to do it before you were in control of my body. Now, that's fine, but you'd also have to have read every single non-autonomic action--how do you make my mouth speak, or chew; how do you hold my breath; how do you raise my arms. You'd need a vast library of my motions observed, and then it would only be useful for accessing my body if you were in my body.
That would be interesting. Can I access this information through retrocognition if I am already in that body provided that the body have been controlled that way previously?
There would also be memories in my mind of how I made my body walk, and you could read my memories searching for this.
Can I read this if I already inside said body?
Where did the other mind go?
Did it become my subconscious mind or did the other mind transfer out of the body making me unable to read that specific memories?
the probabilities of the example are so outrageously bad that we wouldn't even attempt to copy them in the game, but you would be dependent on getting a good general effects roll for whether you found the access code and how long it took to find it.
That is if I search it normally, but what if I search it using my intuition?
If your intuition is good enough you can make the improbable to be possible.
The above is probably an example of intuition for the extraordinary or the out-of-this-world being. Anything that have been done (even randomly) leaves some sort of hint behind and this hint is what intuition catches on to.
Telling your body to move in a similar body type would be easy but what if the body is unlike your previous body in any way (alien life form) and to move it (in any way) some complex instruction must be feed to the mind/body interface?
Does this mean that if I can read mind/body interface instruction language (MBIIL) from the previous owner or reverse engineer the working of the mind/body interface (using skills, intuition or example from other similar bodies), I can control the body effectively?
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Feeling sound? Very interesting.
Can I feel the texture of rustling leaves and locate where the feeling come from?
I will also try to say anything that I know (that is in my vocabulary) and remember the feeling of those words.
I wonder if I could replicate the feeling of those words with hand signals.
I wonder if I can practice this skill.
If I can, I will practice this skill in Slot 7 (while waiting the verdict for my intuition practice).
I wonder if this skill can be an example or a new use for other altered sense skill.
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Month 8 (finally):
I wonder if telepathy chain should be a new use for general telepathy package or a new skill because because it includes all creature that are within chain of touch that I am aware of.
It seem to be a new skill though because of the existence of sync time (which I think would be 10 minutes or longer according to the creatures involved), the use of touch and the act of closing one's eyes.
I will meditate and try the chain telepathy again and this time remember to sync with the creatures involved (that are within touch chain) with my eyes closed while activating the skill (by saying "Telepathy chain, connect!" in my mind).
I wonder if I can stand longer (supported) or stand unsupported now.
I wonder what have changed in this new month.
Note of things to try: thought casting (to single or multiple), marionette control of own body (probably), manipulation of objects (body or psi), body glow manipulation, read mind/body interface (if I do not have it yet).
I could roll as you suggest, but I think instead I'm going to leave it that you normally get the success and only roll if for some reason you are specifically depending on it.
Actually, it's been rendered moot--raising your bias from 3@9 to 5@1 means that your bias adjustment goes from 2x3@-+6 to 2x5@-+10, so you now have an automatic success on the skill.
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O.K., so in your previous training program you were training yourself to notice your surroundings, doing it consciously in the hope that this would result in you doing it unconsciously. You've reached the remarkable level of 1@10.
In order to cross the level barrier to 2@, you have to make this program twice as hard in two ways (double doubled). One way could reasonably be that you would put twice as much time into it; but I do not see how you could put four times as much time into it. In fact, I've been assuming that the time put into it typically three hours per day; doubling that once means that you would be focusing on being aware of your environment six hours per day. Doubling it twice would mean that you would be shutting out most of everything else so that you could spend twelve hours every day familiarizing yourself with your environment in great detail. I don't think you could manage that level of focus.
That means that even with six hours per day on intuition, you need to double what you're doing in some other way. That's not something I see being done easily. That doesn't close the door to discussion, but it does mean you're going to have to put a lot of thought into this--there's no snap answer here.
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Can I access this information through retrocognition if I am already in that body provided that the body have been controlled that way previously?
I don't know that I've ever had anyone try retrocognitive mind reading. I suppose it could be done, but you've never done anything retrocognitive as yet.
Can I read this if I already inside said body?
Where did the other mind go?
Did it become my subconscious mind or did the other mind transfer out of the body making me unable to read that specific memories?
We're getting way ahead of everything here. I can probably list off the top of my head a dozen ways you could wind up controlling another body, and which way you do it is going to make a big difference to where the other mind is and whether you can read it.
I'm also not in the habit of answering what would or might happen if a character successfully accomplished something he is not attempting.
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When you are feeling sound you can determine the direction according to the surfaces of your body the sound impacts, although this is less focused than the stereo direction sense you have with your ears. That might be a matter of practice, as your hearing is a bit better than your new tactile auditory skill.
When you speak, the impact of the vibrations on your skin are converted by your brain into audio reproductions of the sound. The sound is muffled, having a lot more bass and very poor response to the treble consonants. You can practice this skill.
You probably have a better chance of developing other altered sense skills now that you've accomplished one.
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As you reach eight months old, your depth perception is finally coming into focus, so that you can tell how far things are by looking at them. Also, you are able to stand indefinitely while holding onto the tree, and your diction is improving.
You also are now suffering pain in your jaw. Lelach says it's natural--your teeth are cutting through. You cry quite a bit from this.
--M. J. Young
I think instead I'm going to leave it that you normally get the success and only roll if for some reason you are specifically depending on it.
O.K., then. As long as I get enough practice time for the skills that I am practicing.
Tell me if you think I went over the limit for practice time.
Actually, it's been rendered moot--raising your bias from 3@9 to 5@1 means that your bias adjustment goes from 2x3@-+6 to 2x5@-+10, so you now have an automatic success on the skill.
For a magical skill too?
This reminds me that I have yet to learn the psi skill (which is Reduce Sleep P6@1) successfully that is similar to the magic skill (which is Reduce Sleep M+2@1).
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Can I double (or probably more) the info I get normally by using heighten awareness, enhance sensory information, focus sense, various type of mind reading and telepathy thus shortening the time for intuition practice?
I wonder if I have a subconscious communication (or telepathy) to self skill or do I already have this skill due to hypnosis (which is a way to communicate directly to subconscious mind)?
Could I use the above skill to make the data I collected sink into subconsciousness faster thus shortening the time I need for intuition practice?
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Is retrocognitive mind reading similar to (or the same as) enhance memory recollection?
If it is not the same skill, can enhance memory recollection be an example to retrocognitive mind reading?
We're getting way ahead of everything here. I can probably list off the top of my head a dozen ways you could wind up controlling another body, and which way you do it is going to make a big difference to where the other mind is and whether you can read it.
I guess I have to deal with it according to situation then. I just like to think of the various possibilities just like various moves, techniques or formations in strategic games (such as chess).
Can I read mind/body interface of my own body or is this a new skill?
If this a new skill, can read neural motor pattern be an example for it?
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Even if it is less focused than stereo direction sense, the large body surface could probably predict the whereabouts of the sound origin better if I practice it considering I can do triangulation of the sound using my whole body.
Very interesting take on the conversion of sound to tactile sensation.
I would practice this skill (in Slot 7) until I can reproduce the sound in my brain better.
I would also try to replicate the feeling of the sound by clapping my hand in a specific manner.
If I said I want to attempt other kinds of altered sense, do you rule this as practice or do I have to roll for each of it?
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your depth perception is finally coming into focus, so that you can tell how far things are by looking at them.
I wonder if this improves my rate of my mind tagging or help me to detect new pattern more easily in detect material skill.
I also wonder how much creatures (sprites, animals or plants) that I have tagged or have contacted through telepathy so far.
I wonder what new information did I get through telepathy.
I also wonder what new patterns that I have detected through my detect material skill.
Teething problems huh. This calls for a new skill.
I will meditate then touch the area of pain with my hand and try to massage it to soothe the pain for about 30 minutes. During that time, I will close my eyes and hypnotize myself with happy thoughts and will associate this with the area of pain so that the pain will be eliminated with happy thoughts.
If the above does not work then I will touch the area of pain and massage it again for about 30 minutes but this this time I will pray so that the pain for the area that I touch will be more bearable.
I think this would be Counter Pain M+2@1 that covers one person with touch variant.
Speaking of holding onto tree, I wonder if I have done the below:
I wonder if telepathy chain should be a new use for general telepathy package or a new skill because because it includes all creature that are within chain of touch that I am aware of.
It seem to be a new skill though because of the existence of sync time (which I think would be 10 minutes or longer according to the creatures involved), the use of touch and the act of closing one's eyes.
I will meditate and try the chain telepathy again and this time remember to sync with the creatures involved (that are within touch chain) with my eyes closed while activating the skill (by saying "Telepathy chain, connect!" in my mind).
If I manage to make the teething pain better, I will meditate and try the above skill.
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Month 9:
Are there any changes in this month?
I wonder if my hair or eyes have changed to their permanent color.
I will ask Lelach about this.
The autumn should be close to ending by now. It probably be cold by now.
Note of things to try: thought casting (to single or multiple), marionette control of own body (probably), manipulation of objects (body or psi), body glow manipulation.
Oooo--no, I didn't realize that this was a prayer. You're still at 99% on that.
The problem with this plan is that several of those are skills which would have to be rolled in ordinary use, and you're trying to train yourself to use them subconsciously. That would mean you were using them all the time without thinking about using them. I might allow that if you were expert level at them all, but at amateur level, any time the success of a skill matters at all, it has to be rolled. Since your training in your intuition involves teaching yourself to use the skills constantly, they would all have to be rolled, and chained, that is, for each roll I would have to determine the duration to its natural termination and roll it again at that time. Making your intuition practice dependent on the subconscious continuous use of these skills is not something you can do as an amateur in those skills.Can I double (or probably more) the info I get normally by using heighten awareness, enhance sensory information, focus sense, various type of mind reading and telepathy thus shortening the time for intuition practice?
Your telepathy to sprites will work to contact yourself, but that that's not different from thinking, really. You can also read your own mind, which is what you do with the enhanced memory skill.
However, I think that consciously implanting information into your subconscious mind is not going to work, for several reasons including that just mentioned (you're an amateur).
I am not certain what you mean by retrocognitive mind reading. If you mean that you want to read someone's memories and find out what they have thought in the past, that would be mind reading; it would involve sorting through everything they have in memory looking for the details you want from a specific time and place. If you mean that you want to send your mind into the past and read what someone was thinking at that moment in the past, this is a retrocognitive skill--an ability to get information from the past in essence by viewing the past. It involves a kind of time travel. You would then be combining a mind reading skill with a retrocognitive skill. That's not remotely like anything you (or anyone else who has ever played at my table) have done. It's not impossible, but it would involve manipulating time, and that's very difficult.
Can I read mind/body interface of my own body or is this a new skill?
If this a new skill, can read neural motor pattern be an example for it?
Assuming that what you are asking is whether you can watch what your mind does to activate your body actions, that would not be a read neural motor pattern variant at all. It would be a read minds variant, but the dice say that you can't do it with the general read minds skill you know, but you are able to learn how to do it as a separate skill.
Clapping your hands as rapidly as you can creates a low-pitched thunder strongly focused in your hands.I would also try to replicate the feeling of the sound by clapping my hand in a specific manner.
I would have to roll for each new altered sense skill you attempted to develop.
You would not be able to count the number of animals you have tagged. You have tagged a few score of plants, but only a very few sprites. You don't see many other than your parents and your grandparents and an occasional friend of one of them.
Mind tagging is not affected by your vision, because you could see them in direct line of sight before now. Nor does it help with the detect materials skill, because it was never dependent on how well you could see anything.
Most of what animals think about is where to get food and how to stay safe.
Most of your materials patterns are rocks, plants, animals, and dirt.
In your massage and psionic self-hypnosis, are you attempting to reduce/eliminate the pain or to enable yourself to endure it?
You succeed in connecting to the tree and several insects presently on it.
It is still month 8.
--M. J. Young
In your massage and psionic self-hypnosis, are you attempting to reduce/eliminate the pain or to enable yourself to endure it?
Have you felt happy before that you forget about the pain you have?
Well, it is like that.
Well, the above post was my attempt to see if you notice the reply before you post in "Behind the Screens" (because today I coincidentally log on during your posts). I would have posted the above post in "Behind the Screens" to see if you notice but I think that would change what you would write so I stop myself from doing so. I will discuss more about the massage and psionic self-hypnosis topic below (so it would be advisable to answer it then).
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Oooo--no, I didn't realize that this was a prayer. You're still at 99% on that.
Do I have to roll for them (everyday or according to my calculation) or only roll for it in certain situation?
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Making your intuition practice dependent on the subconscious continuous use of these skills is not something you can do as an amateur in those skills.
How about collecting the info consciously using those skills during practice and by doing so shortens the time for intuition practice?
However, I think that consciously implanting information into your subconscious mind is not going to work, for several reasons including that just mentioned (you're an amateur).
Does this mean that I can implant information into my subconscious mind if I have expert level at hypnosis?
Can I do the above by creating a new skill?
Can catching leaves with my eyes close (during autumn) using the skills that I have (in practice session) be considered a practice for intuition?
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If you mean that you want to read someone's memories and find out what they have thought in the past, that would be mind reading; it would involve sorting through everything they have in memory looking for the details you want from a specific time and place.
Do I have the above skill?
If you mean that you want to send your mind into the past and read what someone was thinking at that moment in the past, this is a retrocognitive skill--an ability to get information from the past in essence by viewing the past.
What if I reconstruct what the mind is thinking in the past from the hint that I got from present time?
It's not impossible, but it would involve manipulating time, and that's very difficult.
An interesting discussion.
What is time?
Does time really exist or is it an illusion of ever-changing space?
How about manipulating space so that it looked like the time have been manipulated?
How can we tell the difference?
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you are able to learn how to do it as a separate skill.
How good am I in reading mind/body interface?
Can I practice this with other creatures?
I will practice it with my other read minds variant.
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Does it count as saying something (adding bonus to skill success) if I clap using Morse code (or some other code that represents language)?
Mind tagging is not affected by your vision, because you could see them in direct line of sight before now.
Isn't my mind tagging rate affected by how well I can perceive depth or knowing the relative location of the creature I wanted to tag?
I will remember where the animal get their food and what they do to stay safe (such as hiding at a certain place).
Speaking about material, I always wonder how long is the metal needle that Lelach got from human.
Is it a normal human needle or a short needle made especially for sprite?
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In the previous post, I have described that my massage and psionic self-hypnosis makes me forget about the pain that I have. The hormone released by the happy thoughts intercepts the pain signal that is send to the brain thus eliminating the pain (or reducing the pain if the pain signal are so strong that some of it manage to go through).
Enduring the pain would be a different skill because the pain would still be felt but I am content or indifferent to it that it will not bother me when I am doing something else. It is a good skill to try though. I will keep this in mind.
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You succeed in connecting to the tree and several insects presently on it.
Can I practice this skill with Lelach and the butterfly (Uno)?
If I can, I will practice it with the other telepathy variant.
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Month 9:
Are there any changes in this month?
I wonder if my hair or eyes have changed to their permanent color.
Is there anything Lelach would teach me (such as manipulating body glow to keep warm) so that I can get ready for the winter?
I will ask Lelach about the above.
Concerning late posts, the rules that maintain my sanity are that once I've opened the forum, I answer the posts that are there. I sometimes choose to answer posts that come later, but never game play posts. This is because in the past I've been in the bind that two or three players will hang to the forum and keep posting such that as soon as I've finished answering one, there's another waiting, and I wind up answering posts for hours more than I ought to have. Thus it does not matter exactly where you post, although I am more likely to see a post made to a thread after my last post than before it, so a post to the Behind the Screens thread while I am still answering game posts might be overlooked.
Concerning the sleep prayer, you need only roll if you specifically plan to use the extra time awake for some purpose. As long as "almost every day" is sufficient, we can ignore the rolls and assume that on the day that you miss the roll you had less time awake.
There certainly would be a skill for consciously implanting information into your subconscious. The problem is, this would not be an intuitive action. Intuition involves gathering information into the subconscious without any conscious effort to do so, and processing it without any conscious thought, such that your answers come as feelings or hunches or other non-specific sensations.
Your practice program for intuition involved a work-around. That work-around worked something like this: you would consciously remind yourself to notice things around you, and then stop reminding yourself and let your attentiveness continue unconsciously; and when you realized that you were no longer being attentive of your environment, you would consciously push yourself again to be aware of it, and again leave the attention "running" as you turned your mind elsewhere. Thus it was a kind of "remind myself to pay attention" practice that was conditioning you to be aware of your surroundings by correcting yourself whenever you found that you were not aware of your surroundings. Ultimately, whenever you were awake you were attending to the minutia around you, picking up details most sprites would not notice.
You have pushed yourself as far as you can by that method. You have reached the ninety-fifth percentile: only one person in twenty has an intuition has good as yours. You are trying to push it to the ninety-eighth percentile, one person in fifty, but the methods available to you at present are not going to be adequate to do that.
As for catching falling leaves, with your current hand/eye it is doubtful you could catch many with your eyes open, and with your current level of mobility it would not be easy to move to where they are falling if they're not coming directly to you, so this is not likely to be a good plan. Besides, leaves fall slowly enough that you have plenty of warning that they're coming down, so it's more likely that this is hand/eye practice. Catching nuts and certain other seeds that fall would be good for intuition, except that they do not fall frequently enough for you to design practice around them, and again you can't easily get where they are or manage to grab them while they fall.
Besides, you are right--it is late November, and your father carries you into a hollow in a tree. The hollow is lined with grass and leaves, most of them relatively green and fresh. Large quantities of nuts and berries and other foods are brought inside, lining some of the walls, and something like a curtain spread over the opening. Lelach says that in a few weeks the opening will be sealed against the cold, and you will be sealed inside for the winter.
You have never used your mind reading skill to sort through memories, so we do not know whether that is a function of the skill you have or a distinct skill.
- The abilities of your mind reading skill are being determined by your attempts to use it in new ways. Thus when you attempted to use mind reading to access sensory data and failed the first time, the conclusion was that you needed a different skill to read sensory data. If you attempt to read memories with your basic mind reading skill (which is primarily for reading current conscious thought) and succeed, then it will be a new use for the basic skill; if on that first attempt you fail, it will mean that you cannot read memories with this skill and need another.
As a mechanical note, the better you become at mind reading the more likely you are to be successful. This means that if you practice at the aspects you already know so as to improve the skill ability level, you will increase the likelihood that other applications will be successfully included in the base skill. It also means that if you learn higher biased skills, your own bias will rise leading to a higher probability of success on such rolls.
You can practice reading mind/body interface with other creatures, but there are a few caveats:
- You are currently inside the tree, and unable to see new creatures. This limits you to those very few creatures who are in sight plus those already contacted ("tagged") whose frequencies you know.
- The vast majority of creatures you contacted are now dead, dying, or dormant, as winter approaches. Some of the butterflies and some of the birds and a few of the larger animals are still out there somewhere (and you can contact them without knowing where), but of the larger animals you probably have one deer; anything carnivorous would have been driven away by your parents before it got near enough for you to see.
- The tree is not doing much. Indeed, most of the plants you've contacted are now dormant.
- Although your animal telepathy works well to contact these other creatures, your ability to read any part of their minds is much less reliable than either telepathy to them or reading the minds of other sprites.
That pretty much leaves your parents as targets.
Does it count as saying something (adding bonus to skill success) if I clap using Morse code (or some other code that represents language)?
Boy, you ask the tough ones. That's actually quite brilliant, and I would have to say that it would mean
- both a speech and an action component;
- probably bonused for "forceful" (it's difficult to clap quietly as a form of communication);
- possibly for appropriate words;
- certainly for a magical language;
- +3 for involvement a second hand.
On the other hand, the casting time of the skill would have to be long enough for you actually to clap out such a message. (Also, clapping is not a really good way to send Morse code--the clacker used in the nineteenth century had a distinct "click" and "clack" to mark the beginning and ending of the element, such that "click/clack" was a dot and "click..clack" was a dash (and in some coding variants, "click.....clack" was a long dash). To truly send that kind of code involving long and short pulses, you need a means of marking end of pulse as distinct from end of character/end of word. Every dot and every dash thus requires two claps, with distinct sounds, although it could be done by, for example, slapping fingers and then palm. It would also take a lot of practice, and a separate skill check for doing the code correctly would probably be rolled as long as you were an amateur at it.)
Your mind tagging was and is entirely dependent on line of sight: as long as you were looking directly at the unknown target creature, you did not need to know the distance to it. Once the creature was tagged, you could find it without seeing it.
Good question on the needle. It is perhaps the smallest needle a human would use, about one and a half inches long, which for a sprite is very large indeed, about the length of a dagger relatively speaking.
Your new skill reduces the pain some the first time you use it. It also has helped you understand principles in a new area of bodily healing.
You indicated a desire to practice the chain telepathy with Lelach and the butterfly. This seems to be a different application, as Lelach and the butterfly would not be touching each other; further, Lelach is a sprite and the butterfly is an animal, and you have never contacted a sprite with the animal telepathy. The skill can in theory be stretched to do what you want here, but it's two things you've never done before--incorporating non-animal targets in animal telepathy, and making simultaneous contact with two known minds that are not in physical contact with each other. We would have to roll for whether it works before you could use it for "practice".
Are you planning to keep using the new pain reduction skill for your teething pain, or simply practice it and suffer whenever it does not work, or try something else?
--M. J. Young
rules that maintain my sanity
I knew there was a good reason to stop myself from posting then.
The next step for intuition practice would probably require me to use heighten awareness (or other skills) subconsciously but this would mean that I have to be expert in heighten awareness (or other skills) right?
I would like to create a new practice package for Slot 7 that is named Enhanced Sensory Perception (ESP) package that will include heighten awareness and altered sense. I would also include focus sense in this package but will focus more on the other skills for now.
I wonder if catching rain or water drops (from a leaking bucket) would be a good intuition practice to substitute the practice for catching nuts or other seeds.
I will practice my read mind/body interface with any creature that I can target it with (including the one that I have tagged outside that is still alive and active) in Slot 8 with my other mind reading variant (may become more effective if combined with read neural motor pattern practice).
I will practice the clapping, drumming other objects and sign languages as a way to communicate in Slot 9. This will be Body Communication package.
Thanks for the additional info.
about the length of a dagger relatively speaking.
With a needle like that, I wonder if a sprite need to look elsewhere for a dagger. (Grins.)
No wonder Lelach have a hard time sewing.
I wonder if using the bone needle would be easier because it can be made much smaller.
By the way, do I have the pattern for the metal needle or bone needle?
I wonder if the metal needle can reflect my image back to me thus revealing me the color of eyes and hair. The color probably be permanent right about now.
If the above cannot be done, I will ask Lelach about it.
This seems to be a different application, as Lelach and the butterfly would not be touching each other; further, Lelach is a sprite and the butterfly is an animal, and you have never contacted a sprite with the animal telepathy.
Consider a situation where Lelach is bringing me to touch a plant where the butterfly (or any other insect) lands on. Would that be a practice for telepathy chain?
Would my familiarity with Lelach eliminate the penalty (if present) if I use telepathy chain skill (based on animal telepathy)?
Does touching the winter tree when Lelach is in it (and Morani is outside) be considered as practice for telepathy chain?
It also has helped you understand principles in a new area of bodily healing.
I wonder what these principles are.
Can these principles help me in healing myself when injured?
Do I know how to make the skill more effective?
I will practice my new pain reduction in Slot 10.
I wonder how long is the duration for this skill (considering the 30 minutes time for massage).
If the duration of the skill is over and it does not work (when I practice it) I will try the below:
I will touch the area of pain and massage it again for about 30 minutes but this this time I will pray so that the pain for the area that I touch will be more bearable.
I think this would be Counter Pain M+2@1 variant that covers one person and be done in 30 minutes because of the massage to the pain area.
I wonder if practicing my mind reading skills together can make me tag more creature.
Did you know why I choose to practice read visual sensory information (disregarding the fact that it may become a separate skill for mind reading) and detect minds together?
Can I tag more new creature (through the eye of the creature that I have tagged) during mind reading package practice?
Well, is there anything that I could help (such as finding things) or Lelach wanted to teach so that we can go through winter smoothly?
I wonder if we have enough diapers for the winter.
What is used to keep the water supply during the winter?
I wonder if there is a place where water (melted snow) could seep into the tree thus creating a natural water source (inside the tree) during the winter.
You do have patterns for the metal of the needle and for the material of the bone.
The surface of the metal needle is not polished or flat, and does not reflect adequately for you to see yourself in it.
What colors did I give for the eyes and hair of your parents?
I can't think of a reason for such a situation to occur, and particularly now that you are inside for the winter, but I can see it happening.Consider a situation where Lelach is bringing me to touch a plant where the butterfly (or any other insect) lands on. Would that be a practice for telepathy chain?
As far as Lelach being inside the tree, she rarely if ever touches the exterior walls, and is generally in contact with the padding that lines the floor. You touch the walls frequently, as they support you when you stand. That's not as easy to do in the soft grass and leaves, but you're getting there.
As far as practicing chain telepathy, at present it's an application of animal telepathy (that has not been used with sprites) and so improves as you improve that. Other variants might be possible, but you've not tried any yet.
What you learned from your effort to reduce pain does give you insight into how you might use your mind to heal your body. However, teething pain does not constitute an injury per se. As far as making the skill more effective, practice is the best you can do at this point.
Hmmmm--I had not included the massage as part of the skill.I wonder how long is the duration for this skill (considering the 30 minutes time for massage).
The usual treatment is RS minutes, that is, you take a moment to focus on reducing your pain, and the die roll gives both the degree (percent) of reduction and the duration of the effect. Physical actions associated with mental process are usually of the nature of "this will help point my mind to the right place". But a thirty minute massage will last longer than the average duration of effect for an amateur (at present your best roll would be just over forty).
Random thoughts:
- It could be argued that the duration of the effect is the full time of the massage plus the time indicated by the roll.
- It could be argued that you can't maintain your concentration on something like this for longer than the time indicated by the roll, so the massage is irrelevant. In that case we would give you +10 for the massaging as a focus factor (which gives you about 50% chance, just over), double the effectiveness (so that a roll of 15 gives you a 30% reduction in pain) and say that it lasts for as long as the die roll indicates, and if the die roll is less than thirty it indicates that you were distracted and forgot to keep massaging.
- It could be argued that the massage is overkill--you massage for a minute while concentrating on the relief of pain, and it works for RS minutes (the time indicated by the die roll), your continued massage being unnecessary and unrelated.
- It could be argued that these are separate but linked skills, that you have a skill in massage (which is probably a bod skill, but I don't recall anyone ever listing it) which reduces pain and you have a skill psionically reducing pain. We would then have to decide whether the psionic skill was dependent on a successful roll of the massage skill (which would give it +10 when the massage skill worked, but guarantee failure when it didn't).
I'm pretty sure this would be a different skill, a P3@9 Remote Mind Reading application. You're not in the body whose eyes you are using, so the eyes you are using do not give you the direction of the target relative to your own mind.Can I tag more new creature (through the eye of the creature that I have tagged) during mind reading package practice?
Lelach says not to worry about all that, Morani is taking care of it. You are only now beginning to crawl effectively (and usually find that you start by going backwards) so the best thing for you to do is get some exercise inside the tree by walking around the outside wall. She still takes time to play with you. She is making meals outside the tree, though, and bringing them inside to eat. She washes you up sometimes with a bit of wet cloth.
--M. J. Young
Lelach is a blonde woman with violet eyes.
Morani have brown hair and eyes.
I wonder what color is my hair and eyes.
It just occurred to me that I can look at myself through other people's eyes.
I wonder why I have not tried that before. Maybe because it was easier to ask.
I can't think of a reason for such a situation to occur, and particularly now that you are inside for the winter, but I can see it happening.
I mean before or after the winter of course.
generally in contact with the padding that lines the floor.
What material is used for the padding?
Is the padding made from grass and leaves too?
Does the telepathy chain work (when I practice it) through the grass and leaves?
I wonder if throwing grass or leaves in mid-air then catching it again would be a good practice for hand/eye coordination.
I wonder if catching rain or water drops (from a leaking bucket) would be a good intuition practice to substitute the practice for catching nuts or other seeds.
Can catching seeds that made to fall through artificial means such as using some sort of contraption (that makes the seed falls as random as possible) or just throwing it up in mid-air (by self or other people) good for intuition practice?
What you learned from your effort to reduce pain does give you insight into how you might use your mind to heal your body.
Does this mean that I can use my mind to release regenerative hormones to certain area if I am injured?
About the reduce pain skill, I think during the massage the effectiveness of the skill will be doubled because of focus brought by the massage. After the massage, the effectiveness and duration will be the same as the dice roll. I think that would be the most probable solution and mimic real-life situation. Is this acceptable?
This would mean that the new reduce pain skill would not last very long.
I will touch the area of pain and massage it again for about 30 minutes but this time I will pray (during the time I massage it) so that the pain for the area that I touch will be more bearable.
I think this would be Counter Pain M+2@1 variant that covers one person and be done in 30 minutes because of the massage to the pain area.
If the above does not work to eliminate all of the pain, I will try to endure it using my willpower. Can this be considered will power practice?
I'm pretty sure this would be a different skill, a P3@9 Remote Mind Reading application.
Interesting. I will try this much later. (After the winter seems to be a good time to try this.)
You're not in the body whose eyes you are using, so the eyes you are using do not give you the direction of the target relative to your own mind.
Can I calculate the target location through detect mind and various other hints (such as the terrain surrounding the new creature if I remembered the terrain before)?
Would doing the above be considered as a practice for intellect?
Can I practice writing with a stick or with my finger (to the inner wall of winter tree)?
If I can then I will practice this in the same slot as Body Communication package.
I wonder if the grass can be a substitute for diapers in the winter.
Grass would be relatively large enough to do that right?
I wonder if I can recycle the wet cloth so that it will be reusable again.
The next post would bring us to Month 10 (or December) in the winter right?
What colors would you like your hair and eyes to be? Give me a list in order of preference. Odds favor brown/brown, but obviously violet/blonde is possible, and I won't discount blue, green, silver, red, pink, black, tan, grey--let's just say that some colors are more likely than others, but your preference connects to the die roll to determine what the outcome will be. (It will be a GE roll. If you prefer brown/brown, then all good and neutral rolls will be brown/brown and bad rolls will be other colors; if you prefer some very unusual color, that will be the best rolls, brown probably falling to the neutral and bad side. Give me a couple colors in order of preference, and I'll have more with which to work.)
Grass and leaves pad the floor. Contact with the padding is not contact with the tree. Telepathy to the tree does not require contact with it. You have not attempted simultaneous contact with multiple targets who are not in physical contact with each other.
Throwing grass and leaves in the air and trying to catch them could improve hand/eye.
There are no falling water drops inside the tree.
Does this mean that I can use my mind to release regenerative hormones to certain area if I am injured?
No, it means that you have the idea that you might be able to figure out how to release regenerative hormones to certain areas if you are injured. That is, it does not mean that you already know how to do it, but that you already have some notion of how you might learn to do it.
You have the body of an infant. The likelihood that you would be able to maintain the action of massaging your gums for half an hour strikes me as very unlikely. I will let you choose between two versions of the skill(s):
- Character massages painful area with hand(s) while focusing mind on releasing hormones to relieve pain and reduces amount of pain by RSx2% (over 100% indicates euphoric state caused by release of endorphins); this is maintained for RS minutes, which is the duration of the massage. +10SM on success. (Skill may be chained, that is, rolled again.)
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- Character massages painful area for one minute while focusing mind on releasing hormones to relieve pain and reduces amount of pain by RS% for RS minutes, +10SM on success (skill may be chained).
- Character uses massage on painful area to increase circulation and relieve pain, can maintain massage for RS minutes for RS% reduction in pain, pain reduction then tapers over RS minutes, skill can be chained immediately or at any time after massage ends, +20SM B10@1 Counter Pain skill
I will have to roll for skill learning success for whatever skills you select.
I would like to defer consideration of the magic pain control skill until this version is settled.
I'm pretty sure this would be a different skill, a P3@9 Remote Mind Reading application.Interesting. I will try this much later. (After the winter seems to be a good time to try this.)
You're not in the body whose eyes you are using, so the eyes you are using do not give you the direction of the target relative to your own mind.
Can I calculate the target location through detect mind and various other hints (such as the terrain surrounding the new creature if I remembered the terrain before)?
Would doing the above be considered as a practice for intellect?
You might be able to do this, and if you do it often enough it would be intellect practice (let me restate that: it would be intellect practice, and would be beneficial to your intellect if you do it often enough or as part of a larger program). However, it still involves contacting an unknown mind that you cannot see by direct line of sight, so it's still 3@9 Remote Mind Reading.
I don't see any reason why you can't "practice writing" on the wall of the tree, but that your finger won't leave a mark and there aren't a lot of sticks around for you to use (I don't know that a stick would leave a mark, either); and your hand/eye is poor enough that even if you could leave a mark it's doubtful whether the scratches would be recognized as letters.
I'm really only just transitioning from month 8 to month 9; I believe month 9 is December. This would mean you were born in late March, which is barely warm enough to be out of the tree, entered the tree late in November as you were reaching 8 months and it was genuinely cold at night and sometimes in the day, and that it is now early December.
You are able to sit without support for longer periods, and catch yourself if you start to fall forward--but not if you start to fall sideways, which is what happens to you usually when you start throwing things in the air. You can now pull yourself to a standing position with the aid of the tree wall or other solid objects without Lelach's help. Also, up to now you've been grabbing things by wrapping your hand around them; you've begun to master the technique of picking up objects with one finger and one thumb.
Morani seals the opening of the tree with a matrix of branches, leaves, grass, and you're not certain what else, a thick pad secured in place. It is cool inside the tree most of the time, but at night you sleep between your parents, where it is reasonably warm in the grass.
Your parents seem to know when it is day versus night, or else they make it up. In any case, they maintain a day/night schedule. During the day they get some exercise usually by pushing themselves up in the air with their wings and coming back down again. Sometimes one of them will carry you in the air, the way human parents lift their children high and toss them in the air.
It is also about now that handedness becomes apparent. Are you left handed? Do you think Morach specifically should or should not be, or do you prefer one or the other for him?
--M. J. Young
Brown/brown would be the most likely color but any color would be fine to me.
I just wanted to picture it in my mind.
Heterochromia (mismatch eye/hair color) would also be possible.
Let me list the eye color from usual to rare (from my judgment which could be wrong):
1. Brown
2. Tan (Light brown)
3. Violet (Blue x Red)
4. Blue
5. Grey (Dark green?)
6. Green
7. Red
8. Pink (Light red)
9. Silver (Light grey?)
10. Gold (because of the scriff?)
11. Heterochromia (choose 2 different color from above)
12. White (albino anomaly?)
13. Black (genetic anomaly because it just become darker)
Hair color:
1. Brown
2. Blonde
3. Heterochromia (both of the above plus light brown)
4. White (albino anomaly)
5. Black (genetic anomaly because it just become darker)
To make things easy, let just say odd number ascending would be neutral to best, and even number ascending would be neutral to worst.
If you want to be creative then you could use RGB roll to create a random color.
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Contact with the padding is not contact with the tree.
Is the padding even contact-able by telepathy when physically touched (when I practice telepathy chain on it)?
Is the padding line up so that it does not touch each other?
If so, what supports the padding then?
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I will replace catching the toy practice with catching the grass and leaves practice. Would it be hard to get a toy that have fell deep into the grass and leaves?
Does catching nuts or other seeds that are thrown in mid air suitable for intuition practice?
Can spitting a saliva on a grass (that is situated the same height) and catching the saliva when it fall be an alternative for intuition practice?
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The likelihood that you would be able to maintain the action of massaging your gums for half an hour strikes me as very unlikely.
If it is unlikely then I probably would not go for the massage and just let the skill succeed with or without it.
Does this mean I have learned the P6@1 pain reduction skill (with no change) because I do not make the change to include the massage because I could not maintain the massage as long as I want and decide not to include it?
I will keep the 3 skill variant in mind to try much later (when I can do things much better with my hands). So that would leave us with the magic pain reduction that covers 1 person.
Below is what I would do from now on to replace the massage:
If massage cannot last that long then I probably will go into a position where it is easier to put my hand on the place of pain for 30 minutes such as laying down position. I will touch the pain area and make a gesture that the pain will fly away once every minute. I think an infant could manage to do that. I will call this "Pain fly away gesture".
I will touch the area of pain in laying down position. I will do the "Pain fly away gesture" then clap (dot) or drum on anything (dash) a Morse code that spells out "BYE" and try to say "Bye" in words if possible (then back to touching the area of pain) once every minute for about 30 minutes. I will pray repeatedly during the interval of the "Pain fly away gesture" so that the pain for the area that I touch will be more bearable. The duration of this skill is until the pain event is over.
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That is, it does not mean that you already know how to do it, but that you already have some notion of how you might learn to do it.
Does this mean I get an example bonus if I try to do it?
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However, it still involves contacting an unknown mind that you cannot see by direct line of sight, so it's still 3@9 Remote Mind Reading.
I thought that my mind reading can be initiated be line of sight or knowing the target relative position.
Does this mean every time I cannot see the target it becomes remote mind reading?
I did try mind reading using this method in the womb, remember?
Would a blind person that can "see" with altered vision (from sound to vision) and reads the mind of an unknown person (that the blind person hears) be categorized as remote mind reading or normal mind reading?
If I can see the a monster on a moon (without any assistance or gadget), would mind reading that monster be remote mind reading or normal mind reading?
Would using telescope to see people far away then using mind read to this target be categorized as remote mind reading or normal mind reading?
Would using x-ray goggle to see a person behind a wall then using mind read to this target be categorized as remote mind reading or normal mind reading?
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I do not want to leave any visible mark on the inner wall when I practice writing. I just wanted to train my hands to write so that they could write much sooner. I would train my hands to write basic patterns at first. A grass would be good to be a pen (large enough to be one for a sprite). I will lick the end of the grass and start writing. I will practice detect material (saliva) to read the invisible ink. Even if the saliva dry up I think it would leave some trace on it.
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you've begun to master the technique of picking up objects with one finger and one thumb.
Time to manipulate more objects.
I wonder if I can tie a simple knot using grass or a shredded leave as a substitute for rope.
a thick pad secured in place
I wonder what that is so I will ask Lelach.
lift their children high and toss them in the air.
I will flap my wings during that time to exercise my wings and see if it slow down my rate of descent.
I try to be ambidextrous as much as I can but for writing I use my left hand more than my right hand because it can write much faster. So for Morach I will try to balance the use of both hands. If I have to choose which hand to use more then I will choose the right hand but I will try to keep both hand as balance as possible.
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Time to brew a new skill.
Would a skill that makes your psi ability unusable after the next skill (because the attention that you give to it or to the next skill drains your psi energy for a certain period of time) bonus the skill or next skill success?
What is the bonus limit for such skill?
What is the limit of period of time the psi ability is unusable?
Can this skill be a chain skill just like meditation?
Are there any other limitation for such a skill?
I guess it would be a routine in the winter tree then.
I wonder what else is interesting during this time.
I will observe their lifestyles during the winter such as when they went to drink/eat to see how much water/food have been stored in the winter and their way of rationing it, how they dispose their bodily waste, how they conserve energy and other interesting stuffs.
I also wonder the lifestyle of the animal that I have tagged during the winter so I will check it out during practice.
Sorry for tons of workload but to understand the game mechanic deeply and to explore the world environment in detail, I have to cover more ground. You could also use time rationing so that you would not spend too much time on one given post (if you do not want to) or you can skip and get back to it in the future. Thank you for your hard work.