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Talk with Illaron [7/10] Talky Dev

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  1. [10:19] Ardith asks, "I've got some questions pertaining to my research, if you've got a second?"
  2. [10:19] Illaron says, "Yes, well. That's to be expected."
  3. [10:20] Illaron says, "I do, ask away."
  4. [10:21] Ardith nods, striding on over. She takes out her handy-dandy notebook and flips through several pages of scrawls, scribbles, and rough diagrams. Who'd have thought the peasant might have budded into anything even passably resembling a scholar?
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  6. Not her, that's for sure.
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  8. "I was talking to Ark and picking his brain about demon communication- about the telepathy," she begins, settling on a particular page.
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  10. "He said they could use it because of what he called an 'occultic core' natural to all demons. Is that true? And if so is it, like...some kind of organ or something?"
  11. (Ardith)
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  14. [10:29] The Archons eyes glance over towards the notebook as Ardith approached. He never took her as the scholarly type, but all things considered it wasn't exactly shocking. His voice once more enters her mind, worming its way into her thoughts, as a cacophony of voices once more merges into a single one.
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  16. "An... Occultic core.." Illaron stares at Ardith with a confused expression. "I do not know this 'Ark', but his information seems wrong. But given that our kind come in different shapes and forms, his particular form of telepathy might just very well be that." The Demon states, eyes fixated upon Ardith.
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  18. "Mine however does not come from such an 'occultic core'. It is merely my mind reaching out to yours. Thoughts carried by the occult that lingers around me. All demons are capable of it, of course. Sentient ones, at least."
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  22. [10:32] Exposure to the voices swirling and merging into one is still so much less painful than it was. Maybe the key was exposure. She nods taps her paper once with a stick of charcoal, making a note in the margin before flipping to a clean page and laying down some scribbles. They're probably notes.
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  24. "Maybe. I've been told not all stages of demons can do it, but all of them understand it. He said most of the ones before Giga and Elemental evolutions can't do it. So is it something that sort of...happens in that stage? Where they get sentience?"
  25. (Ardith)
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  28. [10:38] "In that, he is correct." Illaron replies. He seems rather calm at the discussion, as if it was something he had spoken of before. "Those who have yet to evolve to what you outlanders classify as a 'Giga' can not use the telepathy. Their sentience is fleeting, akin to a childs. They see, they live, but they do not think much beyond basic instinct. More akin to wild animals, perhaps."
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  30. Which wasn't entirely wrong, given their feral actions.
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  32. "But once they reach Giga, let alone an elemental, their sentience awakens. They gain awareness, and while they are still rather feral, they can begin understanding. At which point, telepathy begins to form, as crude as it might be."
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  36. [10:38] Ardith asks, "Would you say then that...telepathy is something all demons are capable of, but that the smaller ones can't grasp it /because/ they have sentience? Or is it the other way around, you think?"
  37. [10:39] Illaron says, "We are all capable of it, yes."
  38. [10:40] Illaron says, "The lessers are unable to because they lack the sentience to do it."
  39. [10:41] Illaron says, "Their thoughts only go as far as their next meal."
  40. [10:44] A few more scrawled notes. That makes sense. And she's experienced herself that an overwhelming surplus of the occult gives some a little more...myopic tendencies.
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  42. "How do demons eventually achieve sentience? Is it random chance or something?"
  43. (Ardith)
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  46. [10:46] Illaron says, "Evolution."
  47. [10:46] Illaron says, "They either evolve and gain sentience, or devolve into a Daemon."
  48. [10:48] Ardith asks, "There's no trigger or something that makes it go one way or the other?"
  49. [10:49] Illaron says, "I'm told that in Valmasia, their so called 'Yokai' do so by consuming other Yokai."
  50. [10:50] Illaron says, "On Agartha, it happens naturally."
  51. [10:50] Illaron says, "Unfortunately, the spires have made that exceedingly rare."
  52. [10:50] Ardith says, "Huh. Right. The mutations. You mentioned that."
  53. [10:50] Ardith says, "I think I've got maybe one last question."
  54. [10:50] Illaron says, "Ask."
  55. [10:50] Ardith gestures vaguely down at herself before taking up the notebook and stick of charcoal again.
  56. (Ardith)
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  59. [10:51] Ardith asks, "Is this telepathy something that maybe your uh...'children' could be capable of?"
  60. [10:51] Ardith asks, "You think?"
  61. [10:52] Illaron says, "Given that the ring acts as an amplifier for your occult, and a direct link to me."
  62. [10:52] Illaron says, "Yes, potentially."
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