@sansa.stark

[isherarmor]

I'm in need of at least three people who are very sure what powers they have been given since arriving in New Amsterdam. It might be best if those powers are not of a destructive nature, but of course I'll take what I can get.

If we are strangers, all the better, but it's not necessary.

I could be of better use in New Tokyo if I can figure out what my power truly is, and I don't think that's going to happen alone.

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@eugenides.attolis

[kleptocratic]

Hello, stranger.

Will touching be involved?

[isherarmor]

It doesn't have to be, but I don't know if that will make it less likely to work or not.

Touching might help, but of course I am willing to try without it if it's just too ...much.

You've met my brother, Jon. He told me that you talked of dragons that are ships that launch fire.

[kleptocratic]

Good news: my power isn't leprosy.

[ He probably could do touching if he had to, but it's still very much, thank you. ]

Yes. I talk about a lot of things.

[isherarmor]

[Intended or not, the response elicits a laugh.]

I wouldn't put it past some places to give the "gift" of leprosy, but luckily for you (or more likely: me) this place does not seem to be one of them.

That's not a bad thing. What is your power?

[kleptocratic]

Yes, leprosy seems a bit common and mundane for our current surroundings. There's probably a rule. Skin diseases should glow at least as brightly as a candle.

I become difficult to touch.

[isherarmor]

[Now she's really curious what might happen. Once she might have wondered if there was a rule - and worse yet, that it might hear them speak of it, but now she's mostly abandoned the idea that anything is listening.]

This should prove ...interesting at the very least. Difficult how? Is it pain, or...?

Do they have that in your world? Luminous skin diseases and yet no living, breathing dragons?

@stephen.strange

[rehandle]

You're hoping to run an experiment?

@thomas.maximoff

[mutriarchy]

I'm electrokinesic now, apparently. That might rule me out but I'm here if you need a body.

[kleptocratic]

It doesn't hurt.

We do not have luminous skin diseases or living breathing dragons, powers, electricity, or pancakes. I am forced to expand my vocabulary.

[isherarmor]

Of sorts, yes. Are you interested?

[isherarmor]

I don't fully understand what that means, but I do know what electricity is is that's in any way helpful.

I do. Offer accepted. :-)

I might have need of that body for something else as well. It's not relevant at all to this, but I wanted to ask before it slipped my mind again. (Who knows how long we'll even be wakeful for?)

[isherarmor]

That's good to know, at least.

These places certainly force one to do just that. I didn't know of most of those things either, not at the very beginning. You'll expand your palate (and your stomach) if you manage to find some proper pancakes.

I'm trying to decide where it would be best to do this. With any luck there's at least one unused room that's relatively quiet.

[rehandle]

If my ability's suitable. What's the nature of the experiment?

[isherarmor]

You would use your ability while I ...try to copy it until I do the same. Or until nothing happens at all.

private

[rehandle]

[ oh... this is interesting, but also potentially private. while everyone seems to want to be in the spirit of sharing, testing out new abilities can be a delicate process. he's not going to expect her to have this conversation in the open, takes preemptive measures to privatize it before continuing. ]

Do you have cause to believe your ability is to do with copying? Or is this a trial and error attempt to find the power that matches yours?

Excuse the interrogation, I want to get a sense of how I might best help.

[isherarmor]

I believe might be able to copy them. It may sound ridiculous, but I did it in the dreams. I didn't try, it just happened.

And it felt very different than anything else I did.

There's no apology needed, Mister ...Strange? I appreciate any offer of help that I get. I was not lying when I said I could be of use in New Tokyo, and I very much wish to be, but some of my motivation is also self interest.

[rehandle]

Stephen Strange, yes. And wanting access to one of the few advantages we have here is only sensible. I'm happy to help.

My power ought to be safe to test with. I'm able to access the neural activity of others. I describe it as reading and speaking with minds but it isn't quite as simple as that. You won't be able to make sense of it without learning how to translate what you pick up, but that won't be necessary to know that you've accessed it.

[ as training wheels go, it's a good power to stretch hers with. ]

[kleptocratic]

"These places"? Plural? [ Does she mean the dream or something else? ]

I've already had pancakes. It's an experience I'd be willing to repeat.

Maybe where they keep the luggage. The storage rooms are locked but I bet I could get in.

[isherarmor]

I've become something of an expert on waking up in strange places.[It still sounds vague, possibly strange and irresponsible, but she doesn't mean it that way at all.]

A trade then? Your help and your time for a plate of pancakes (with chocolate if I can find it) and a waffle or two? Three, even, provided I've the coin for it.

That's a good idea. I take it you are good at breaking in to places? I imagine it's going to take a lot of concentration and not be as easy as it was in dreams, so we'll need a bit of privacy. Did you find yourself in more than one? Dreams, I mean?

[isherarmor]

It is good to "meet" you, Stephen Strange.

That does sound safer than something elemental, or even flight. And easy enough to see if I've accessed it, yes.

So ...it's almost as if you have a neural implant that allows you into the network of private thought?

Does that include memories?

[rehandle]

Likewise.

That's an apt description.

[ the dreams suggest it's got the potential to be a lot more, but for now... ]

Presently all I can interact with is short term memory and the conscious mind. If a person's thinking about or has recently thought about an older memory then it falls into my remit, but otherwise no.

[kleptocratic]

[ Hmmm. ]

But if you wake up too many times in a strange place, it stops being strange.

There is very little I can say no to if it ends in a good breakfast. You'll have to cut the pancakes up for me, though. [ Eugenides doesn't know if Jon mentioned that he only has one hand, but it'll be obvious soon enough, anyhow. ]

I was a thief. I'm not as good as I used to be, but in some ways better.

Dreams are difficult to count. Perhaps there was only ever one, and we just find separate corners of it.

[isherarmor]

Not when it's a different place each time. New Amsterdam is the fourth in a series of them. I'd like it to be the last.

[She doesn't ask why she might need to cut them (though an injury crosses her mind - perhaps sustained from what had come to pass in dreams) - it's curious, yes - but not so odd that she feels she should question it.] Fair enough, it's no trouble.

Used to be?

I hadn't thought of it like that, but in some of them that's how it was. Looking back on it is so much different than being inside it.

You're the one that my brother learned the trick from. Scoring the hides before striking.

[kleptocratic]

I would like to be back home.
[ Although, he isn't sure where that is anymore. ]

People don't carry coin in their purses here, and it makes a traditional approach to thievery more difficult. I've always been a staunch traditionalist when it comes to my profession.

So. Your brother is a fine swordsman. [ This is a major compliment coming from Eugenides, who is not much for compliments or swordfighting. ]

@prom.argentum

[mercurio]

heya sansa
my power isn't dangerous or anything
it just provides a boost of concentration and energy

...if you don't have enough volunteers yet