@lance.sweets

[lifetothefullest]

[Okay so he sucks at staying away from the network, but this is important, hopefully not even slightly controversial, and short.]

With all the talk of training powers in dreams, how the Aerie is (or was) connected to this reality, and so on, I was wondering something. Has anyone who had powers in the Aerie tried using them here?

[There is definitely no reason he's asking this question other than curiosity. Absolutely none.]

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@ellie.miller

[notathreat]

Tried it, no dice.

[Probably for the best, considering the shitty irony of being able to grow plants when. Yeah.]

Anybody else cropped up with new powers?

[lifetothefullest]

You had a power from the quarry, right? One of the temporary ones?

[As for the second question, he'll get back to her.]

[notathreat]

Yeah, when I was in the quarry I could grow plants.

[Doesn't sound like much of an offensive power, but the way she used it was highly televised, and it wasn't pretty.

... and she notices that omission there, Lancelot.]

@robert.plant

[righteously]

Yup
No go
If that crap was still hanging on I'd be getting yelled at on the network 200% less

( o the lamentation here, what he wouldn't give )

[lifetothefullest]

[Hmm, a pattern emerges. Sort of. It's two data points and even though Lance avoids hard science like the plague, two data points is just as worthless in psychology, but he'll take what he can get.]

What was your quarry power anyway?

[lifetothefullest]

So it wasn't something you still had upon leaving the Aerie.

[Hmmmmm. And shh, you noticed nothing.]

[notathreat]

No. It went away after I got out of the quarry.

[It's not like him not to answer, so don't think she won't pin him down later.]

[righteously]

Passionate speeches

( sorry about this stupid deadpan humor that does not actually paint a clear picture at all because of who he is as a person )

[lifetothefullest]

Do you really want to leave that up to my interpretation.

[Not even a question here because really.]

[lifetothefullest]

I wonder if that matters. My quarry power doesn't work either, though.

[And he'd had it when he died, so maybe not.]

[righteously]

frankly whatever you're picturing is probably better than the crap they actually gave me

just a couple extra points in my charisma modifier

you don't remember me using it on you?

[lifetothefullest]

[Wait just a darn second--]

That explains a lot.

[Except it doesn't, because he probably could've been convinced to try to help anyway, but he just... Won't say that.]

But no, there was no awareness that you were using a power, even looking back at it; it was a very subtle effect.

[notathreat]

Probably not, but it's like whatever's giving us the powers has a weird sense of humor.

[And tends to be personal.]

[righteously]

If by subtle you mean lame, yeah, it was subtle as hell

Anyway considering how 0 to 60 some conversations went that's a pretty good indicator I'm not automatically everybody's best friend anymore
which freakin figures, since it might actually come in handy keeping people from jumping straight to burning my crops over practically nothing

@callisto.diamandis

[myfavoritemurder]

I don't know what I could do in the Aerie, but I can do all kinds of exciting new things now.

[lifetothefullest]

If you found it that lame, maybe you shouldn't have used it.

[Gotta joke about the death, right? Right.]

Do you think it would work over the network and without your intent to use it?

[lifetothefullest]

Yeah. There's a whole thing about our powers here likely being related to who we are as a person.

[lifetothefullest]

What do you mean?

@joe.jones

[malta]

[ joe was just sitting and bickering with nile over dominoes because he is deeply and ridiculously over-competitive and she knows exactly how to goad his boomer ass when lance's post popped up and joe went HMM ]

Apparently so

[lifetothefullest]

[That's very vague but at least promising--]

Does it work?

[myfavoritemurder]

I can throw things with my mind, and sometimes I'm stronger than I normally am.

[righteously]

Yeah, well, I had crap to do
hashtag goals

( not that he... is going to actually admit out loud what that goal was, because that is Serious Shit and he's like 1/3rd of the way through the acceptance stage )

but hey, I don't know, you forgave me pretty quick for literally murdering you, could be crazy god magic wrapped around the power of friendship


but seriously
I had this feeling when I used it like all I had to do was just
talk to somebody, you know
like that would be enough and we'd figure it out together, and I somehow knew they'd be willing to give it a shot
that feeling when you know somebody's really in your corner
I think it might've worked on here too, gut instinct

( does he even recognize the irony here? absolutely not )

[lifetothefullest]

[Huh.]

Had you figured out your power before you ended up in the Aerie?

[myfavoritemurder]

The one that makes the blue glow? No.

[She still hasn't figured it out even now, but she happened upon the fight-y one pretty much immediately. Go figure.]

[malta]

I've yet to discover what I can do with the blue power everyone talks about, but apparently I did inherit my other self's power.