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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:35 pm
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Elton almost groaned as the teacher began to do basic algebra on the board, with the air of one who intends to impart knowledge as-of-yet unknown. Pathetic, really. At least half the students in the class were Spacers, one was obviously an android. The only Spacer that could reasonably be expected to not know the basics of anything less than advanced calculus was the half-solid young woman that had just sat down next to him. Interesting, to be sure, that she had offworld materiel with her. Elton had heard that exotic elements were confiscated at the customs buildings. He'd have to talk with the local magistrate about it when he got a moment.
As he thought and watched, his butterflies landed idly throughout the room. Most of them landed on desks or the walls, but two or three landed on people. The Earthsiders couldn't feel the effect of the chemical that his Tease secreted through their wings, but Spacers - sensitized by a lifetime of exposure to the unique radiations of hyperspatial travel - would get something like a live feed of Elton's thoughts. It worked both ways, regardless of whether or not the 'host' could hear Elton's thoughts, so he quickly redirected the two that had landed on Earthsiders to go somewhere else. The third had landed gently on the back of the girl next to him, the half-solid one fiddling with her pencil case, and he curbed a few of his more adolescent thought processes back as the harmless chemical communication facilitator soaked into her skin. Directing his thoughts into a specific channel, he formed the mental image of tapping the middle of his throat with three fingers. "I shall speak no lies," in the culture of his home planet.
He did not initiate mental contact, merely left the image there for the girl to find should she extend her own mind, either consciously - looking for a mentalist Spacer - or unconsciously, through something such as daydreaming, for instance.
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 5:58 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:30 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:48 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:56 pm
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(That's a rather well thought-out process, I'm very impressed. biggrin )
Englith smiled, still looking forward so as not to let the human teacher in the front know of the secret conversations going on in the back of the room. That was a facade, she didn't even put any thought into it.
In her mind, or theirs, truly, she held the equivalent of her 'true' form on her home planet. She drifted in and out of focus, solid yet gaseous, and just as varying as her thoughts. "(intrigue)Hello Brothermind-SpaceKin, butterfly/thoughtful/gigantic/elder~" "(Directed elsewhere)Oh-my this class is childsplay/monotonous/boring" "(Focus)I/we perhaps thought/misunderstood that we/I were here to learn/teach. I feel/think/understand otherwise, I haven't yet/begun-to learn as/in-the-way I thought/understood/believed I/we would."
As her thought ended her attention was caught by the human to her diagonal left. She smiled in Earth-fashion and waved her hand slightly. Still, as she waved, her thoughts moved to him for the moment, leading to a rather open part of her brain that was connected less to her link and more to herself. More analyzing the boy than thinking. Hair-Color/bright/white, briefcase, welcome..
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:13 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:43 pm
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:56 pm
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 12:43 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:45 am
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Elton felt an unwelcome presence in his mind, that of the ice elemental next to him, and it was all he could do not to shudder. Unwanted and uninvited mental contact was infinitely worse than the physical sort. "(annoyanceconfusionrage) Farewellgreetings brotherfoolishmind littleicyone/annoyance/tinypest it-is rude/impolite/harsh/unkind to-initiate contact/conversation/speech-without consent/invitation too-it-interrupts/breaksin/violatessanctity of-my otherfriend goodbye."
Without waiting for a response Elton not only removed the Tease from Jeckt's neck but dissolved it and every Tease within five feet of the elemental. Disgusting, to have another mind forced on you like that.
((I get that you want to be a part of the whole 'mental conversation' thing, Daryu, but the Tease insects are an extension of Elton's body and under his complete control, and I stated quite specifically that they landed only on Englith and inanimate objects.
Also, perhaps a little explanation should come into play here. Words like/this in mental speak should only be put next to each other with a /backslash/ if they are the same concept or could be interchanged in the sentence without contextual screwiness. Hyphens connect small words that can't be cut out of the concept of the sentence. Combinedwords are concepts in the sentence so linked that they can be expressed as a single thought. For example, the mental sentence above could be translated to verbal language as follows:
"Hello for the moment, my stupid little (annoying/infuriating/elemental, take your pick) friend. It's (rude/impolite/harsh/unkind, take your pick) to initiate mental conversation without (consent or invitation, take your pick). Also, it (interrupts/breaks/violates) the sanctity of my other friend. Goodbye."
You could pick any of the words in parentheses in any combination and the sentence would still pretty much work.))
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:52 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:59 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 5:36 am
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:23 am
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Englith smiled, listening in her mind to Elton, and was suddenly interupted by not only the note on her desk but also the disrupting link. She shuddered and tried to ignore it for as long as she could by focusing on the note in front of her. The human boy was indeed being welcoming, it was inviting and his ideals were 'cute', if she had the words connotation correct. Englith knew he didn't have a mind link so she immediately set about to write an answer. She'd studied several Earth languages in an attempt to prepare herself for these sort of activities, so she would be understandable, at least.
Hello Adrian Sharp, Thank you for the welcome. It is kind and caring for you to have written me and I enjoy the thought of company. Perhaps we can be friends, it would be beneficial to the both of us from what I can see. I do prefer my name to Alien, however. It is Englith, in your language, and it is more polite, yes. -Englith
This note she passed over as equally secretive as he'd passed his own, and she, sensing the intruding link from earlier had been disbanded, turned her full attention back to her earlier conversation. Elton had made her feel a bit bad about the way she thought about her time on Earth, but it hadn't been her choice to be her, and in her defense she truly was young.
"(embarrassed) I suppose/agree to that/what-you-said. (Reproachful) It was/is not/never my choice/passion/idea to be/arrive/congregate here/on-Earth. I am/stay/have-lessening bitter/bitterness, I/I'll/I'm try/trying to deal-with/forget my discourage/rage/annoyance. (thankful) Thank-you Brothermind/Elder you have/are/have-been very/always encouraging/helpful/sweet."
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 9:32 am
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