Not with a Bang! Comms

[voidtreckermods]

Talk to All

Talk to Team

Talk to Individual

For the third option, a list of passengers appears and names can be searched for by letter. Anyone who has been working to try and make communications happen on their own devices will find those linked in to this network- though it is still only possible to use voice. If they have headphones from the music room they can make it so they work like earpieces.

Comments

[unfavorableinstigation]

That is something.

And... I'm loathe to use it, but I do have something if we have to drag the answers out of him.

[Though other people probably did, too.]

[so_dark_a_road]

What is this something you have, if we have to force him to answer?

[unfavorableinstigation]

Psychotropic wizardry.

[Which Curufin may or may not have picked up on about via word of mouth.]

Not hallucinations, specifically; that's just the classification for any wizardry that directly impacts the mind and its contents.

[Curufin can probably read the rest of the details into that.]

[so_dark_a_road]

[ What. . . ??? ]

Do you mean that you have the ability to affect the saboteur's mind directly? That you could use that power to get the information we want by pulling it out of his mind telepathically? Or am I not understanding?

[unfavorableinstigation]

Yes.

[There's not much more she can say.]

They're not something I offer lightly - that any wizard can just go and do. If they fail - or if they're deemed to work but in the wrong ways - they can backfire, and the wizard pays the price.

[so_dark_a_road]

[ He nods. ]

It must be a great and appalling power to wield, if you ever must. And it sounds dangerous. What might be the consequences to you, if it backfires?

[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita's response is hollow, and grim:]

Being stripped of my wizardry, and memory of it - if it's particularly in contravention of the Oath, of course. Wizardry can't live in the unwilling heart...

[So if the desires clash, wizardry could well lose.]

Other less- less severe consequences... physical drain, emotional, feeling whatever pain you inflicted on the castee, just to start.

[Abruptly, she sighs.]

Try and get a headcount of whoever's left, okay? Not just the world miners.

[so_dark_a_road]

That sounds dire! What is the Oath? Is that a promise you make that involves doing no harm with your wizardry?

The less severe consequences sound troublesome at the best. I hope we won't have occasion to ask you to take those risks.

Yes, we'll try to find out which of the saboteurs or world miners are left, besides that one guy we captured. If there are any left alive, that is.

[unfavorableinstigation]

It's - a bit broader than that...

[She sighs.]

I'll meet you back at camp, help clean up where it's needed. As for the rest-

[She recites the Oath, just for Curufin - and anyone else who may be listening in, because this IS the All Teams filter.]

In Life's Name, and for Life's sake...

[so_dark_a_road]

In life's service alone. . . [ He repeats her words, and sighs as deeply as she just did. If only he had lived his life according to such an oath, instead of according to the Oath of Fëanor. ]

Yes, I'll see you back at the camp. There's going to be a massive amount of cleanup needed. And we'll see about that captured saboteur. Maybe we won't need to force him to talk. I don't want to, myself. And I don't want anybody else to hurt him to get him to spill the information. You take care, Nita, and I'll see you soon!

Ow, Curufin. ;; And maybe he could poke her conclusion toplevel? If you want, of course.

[unfavorableinstigation]

[Nita hears him, but this time she doesn't reply. He'll see her soon, though.]

Tagged Nita's Conclusion toplevel!

[so_dark_a_road]

[ And he'll be glad to see her! ]