Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:30 pm"Do you have a moment?" Nailah thinks ahead as she walks down the hall towards Sam's office.
Issue 1 Downtime
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Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:30 pmRe: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 7:58 pm"I seem to be popular lately, but you're welcome to come in."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:05 pm"You're the headmistress." She opens the door. "What do you expect?" she smirks, closing the door behind her. "I'm surprised you haven't started holding purely telepathic meetings to save time."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:44 pm"You think they'd let me? People are rather attached to meat interaction."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:49 pm"That they are. Speaking of which, I had the pleasure of meeting one of our new arrivals in my class today. The one they rescued from the Black Air base?"
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:50 pm"The girl or the boy?"
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:55 pm"The girl. Apparently the Med Center decided to slap the label of 'Clairvoyant' on her in a fit of irony and called it a day."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 8:56 pm"And I'd imagine she's had enough of labels."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2014 9:04 pm"That goes without saying. She also promptly set off a prophetic burst, so I'm fairly certain she has the potential to help figure out Black Air's plans should she recover her memories, but what's much stranger is that she saw me make that prophecy. Looked right through me and into the Hall of Mirrors and all it did was give her a mild headache."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 2:00 pm"So she's a reasonably potent telepath, it seems."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 2:24 pm"That's what I thought, but even I got lost the first time I entered that place. And then she started following my movements in tune with what I'm seeing, ahead of what I was actually doing. The list of people who can offhandedly tune themselves into my perception of things like that is extremely limited..."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 6:55 pm"I'm recalling one of her powers is acute spatial awareness. Perhaps that also became how she related to her telepathy?"
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:24 pm"I've seen Mister Gravis fight. She wasn't just reading my mind and extrapolating. Besides, you know how disorienting it is to sort through that kind of time-shifted mental link the first time."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:31 pm"...are you concerned that someone may have trained her?"
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:35 pm"Who knows what Black Air did to her that she doesn't remember, but no. I'm wondering if our Blind Seer could have an aptitude for precognition herself."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:37 pm"I suppose it's possible, but I don't believe she's told us of any flashes of her own."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 7:47 pm"No, but she has no memories of not wearing an inhibitor collar that don't also involve being tortured. From personal experience that's not a great time to explore the nature of your mutation."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:09 pm"One spot of trouble in diagnosing this is that most of our precognitive tests break down when there's a telepath."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:12 pm"I don't think 'more tests' is a particularly good approach right now anyway."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:21 pm"They tend to be more like learning games, at least the ones we use."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:27 pm"I know that. But I also know what it's like to be traumatized and I don't think we should try to push anything on her that might remind her of the place she just escaped from."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:28 pm"Of course. I just was thinking on how to address your concerns."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:32 pm"I wouldn't call them concerns. More... Well I feel like I would be able to help her through it if that's what is going on. For once I could actually do some good instead of scrambling to not make it worse."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:36 pm"I think I see which one of us gets the maternal urge first," she smirks.
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:42 pm"It's hard not to after letting down first Mira, then Raven and her friends. And I haven't even had a chance to not mess it up yet and our daughter is already stealing parts from the Danger Room! Also, do you realize how weird it feels to say that? And that's coming from me! I should be used to this kind of thing!"
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:45 pm"Have you talked with Altamira since we had dinner with her?"
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 8:48 pm"No..." she admits.
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 9:52 pm"Perhaps that would help with this somewhat."
"Not that I object to you mentoring someone, just that I want it to be about mentoring, aye?"
"Not that I object to you mentoring someone, just that I want it to be about mentoring, aye?"
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2014 10:04 pm"Mira is... complicated. This is simpler. More familiar, I suppose. I just feel for once I might actually be able to help someone. I'm not trying to play favourites."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:42 pm"So you'd like it to be straightforward, for once." She smiles.
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 1:55 pm"Basically." she chuckles.
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:41 pm"You realize that practically invites strangeness."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:46 pm"Nothing stays normal for long around here. Might as well enjoy it while it lasts."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:51 pm"Aye, and we shan't be too distraught when she turns out to be descended from the Delphic oracle."
"Though Professor Sackville may take issue."
"Though Professor Sackville may take issue."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:02 pm"Roland takes issue with telephones and the printing press."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:10 pm"Aye, but his sister was the Pythia, from what I gather."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:31 pm"Think I should warn her about getting the stink-eye from her history teacher?" she chuckles.
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 4:33 pm"She's bound to encounter it sooner or later."
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 5:00 pm"So, who else has been taking up your time with meat interactions?"
Re: Sam's Office - Blinded by the Light
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2014 6:09 pm"Lately? Mostly MI-13. They've been rather interested in what Mister Stanton's team found."