[Sometimes, you are a sickly twink dying man, and then suddenly you are an abomination messiah. It's crazy.]
The failsafe was needed apparently. [He frowns mildly.] I spent a great deal of my life alone, but more recently... I was surrounded by many people whose thoughts were always in my mind. So I wasn't.
I suppose if you aren't all stepping on each other's toes. [ but oh. well. this actually isn't that weird. ]
A friend of mine connected with a magical forest back home. It meant he could communicate with the trees and act in their will, but he would feel what they felt and vice versa. It sounds a bit similar to that. Do you remain as one even after they're healed?
[That is because the hexcore made them behave....... partially.]
It is similar. Healing them makes them one with the rest. Healing brings them into the fold of the arcane collective, and that is the conditions I make them aware of at the beginning.
That's surprising then. [ she does not know of the hexcore.... the mindhive... ]
So as long as they know, they're still choosing for themselves. If they choose to leave the collective, does the healing become undone? [ a pause. ] Can they leave?
[He does not sound particularly upset about this - like it's a bad thing. That's his flock, is how he is seeing it. The ones he protects. Also, they cannot.]
Our connection in the collective sustains them. Without me, things will return to the way they had been.
But what if something were to happen to you permanently? [ i.e. literally what is happening because you're here? ] Does someone else take on the connection?
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[Sometimes, you are a sickly twink dying man, and then suddenly you are an abomination messiah. It's crazy.]
The failsafe was needed apparently. [He frowns mildly.] I spent a great deal of my life alone, but more recently... I was surrounded by many people whose thoughts were always in my mind. So I wasn't.
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Their thoughts were in your mind?
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Yes. We were a part of a single collective. The commune shared everything. Thoughts, emotions, sometimes dreams, bodies.
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on the other, this sounds a lot different than that. ]
That sounds... very noisy, actually. [ that's not what she wants to say, she's still just kind of going "how are you all connected?" ]
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It has an adjustment period at first, but we are respectful of each other's... spiritual space.
[But to answer her thoughts:]
I was transmuted with magical technology, and so we are connected through it via me. In order to heal them, we must become one.
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A friend of mine connected with a magical forest back home. It meant he could communicate with the trees and act in their will, but he would feel what they felt and vice versa. It sounds a bit similar to that. Do you remain as one even after they're healed?
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[That is because the hexcore made them behave....... partially.]
It is similar. Healing them makes them one with the rest. Healing brings them into the fold of the arcane collective, and that is the conditions I make them aware of at the beginning.
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So as long as they know, they're still choosing for themselves. If they choose to leave the collective, does the healing become undone? [ a pause. ] Can they leave?
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No.
[He does not sound particularly upset about this - like it's a bad thing. That's his flock, is how he is seeing it. The ones he protects. Also, they cannot.]
Our connection in the collective sustains them. Without me, things will return to the way they had been.
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I don't know. But the doctor was probably right, if what I felt when I died happened: without me, the commune will perish.
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There has to be a way to stabilize it in that sort of event.
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[No, let them connect (Toi voice).]
There may be, but I had not found it at the time.
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... and nothing has provided clarity in your time here?