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[stockingfeats]

Ask Me Anything!

1. In your subject line or toplevel, post something for others to ask your character about.
   
2. Examples could be "I am a Starfleet Captain", or "I fought dinosaurs on Isla Nublar", or "I am on a quest of vengeance in 1657 Japan."
   
3. Others will come in and ask them anything!
   
4. Honesty is optional. :3
   

Comments

[lettersfrombel]

[it at least means the host doesn't have to watch it happen, but Bel does have to stop himself from touching his own ear in response]

They can get into anything with a brain. The transformation seems to require humanoids to happen correctly. There are tales of what happens when you put a tadpole into someone or something else, and the usual answer is 'not something you want to meet'.

[inside_job]

More reason to be glad we've never encountered them. Aside from everything else, knowing my luck I'd get assigned to go collect tadpoles so we could study all the combinations. And... you mentioned psionic powers?

[ A grimace. She especially doesn't care to deal with those. ]

[lettersfrombel]

At least between the two of you, one is too small and the other's brain is already full. They might still eat your brain, but it's a quicker way to die.

I did. And that is an entirely sensible reaction to the thought.

[inside_job]

[Dryly:] Well, we have to be grateful for the small mercies, don't we?

Telepathy, I assume? [ That's a particular bugbear for perhaps obvious reasons. ] They must be powerful if they use their abilities to acquire prey.

[lettersfrombel]

[equally dryly] 'Small mercies' are what carries me through my life.

Yes, and some ability to levitate objects and themselves.

[inside_job]

Useful to know. Better to deal with them at range, by the sound of it. Have you encountered them in person?

[lettersfrombel]

Once or twice. One can prepare defenses against psionic intrusion if one knows what one is dealing with.

[inside_job]

Oh? [ Casually, as if that's not very, very interesting. ] What sort of defenses do you use?

[lettersfrombel]

Finding an apothecary who sold potions, and hoping we weren't surprised. My people have some natural resistance to mental effects, but best not to count on it alone.

[inside_job]

I certainly wouldn't, if it was my brain on the line. Pharmaceutical measures, then- I'd be interested to know the compounds involved. Psionics are such a nuisance to deal with.

[lettersfrombel]

I couldn't tell you the details, I'm afraid.