teasing nex #2

(3:00:38 PM) ID_Call: Well, Nex's roommates certainly proved to be something--something hard enough to make the poor boy collapse. Next thing the bearer of the manifestation of Zhodin psychic might knows, he's laying in an extremely comfortable bed, slowly coming back to conciousness--and there's something equal parts warm and *DANGER* right next to him...
(3:24:25 PM) Nex: The warmth is nice, but- Instincts not quite his own kick in, a burst of telekinetic force hurling him up and away from the bed, leaving him hanging in the air, eyes wide and heart pounding...
(3:26:07 PM) ID_Called_In: "GAH!" The blast of telekinesis causes a newly familiar voice as a figure is punted off the bed--the four-armed, strange legged hypercorporate heiress, Yekaterina. "Gah, okay, okay, maybe pranking the psychic was a bad idea, but I was expecting a yell, not a hammer!" She doesn't seem hurt--more amused, as she starts to untangle herself from the covers.
(3:26:49 PM) Nex: "What... What is Wrong with you?" He shivers, staring at her as he slowly lowers back down... Making sure he's still dressed, and the she didn't... Do anything.
(3:30:13 PM) ID_Called_In: They're both fully dressed--well, save for shoes. "... How do you mean?" She asks curiously, standing up and placing the covers back on the bed. "It was just a harmless prank, wasn't it? I didn't hurt you accidentally or something did I?"
(3:31:07 PM) Nex: "In your mind... Your soul." He shivers. "There's a wrongness there."
(3:33:36 PM) ID_Called_In: She blinks. "... I... don't know how you mean?" She sounds cautious though--and there's a pulse of paranoia from her, of covering something up. She may not entirely know, but Nex can tell she has an idea.
(3:34:36 PM) Nex: "...You know." His feet find the floor again, finally coming down... But his usually soft eyes harden. "...And my instincts tell me that you're dangerous."
(3:36:13 PM) ID_Called_In: "We're all dangerous," the extremely augmented girl states softly. "... You're not the first psychic I've met." Her face falls a bit.
(3:36:49 PM) Nex: "Well... I've never met anything that feels like That before." He frowns. "...If we're going to be living together, you should be honest with me... I don't know what I need to do, if I don't know what I'm dealing with..."
(3:37:53 PM) ID_Called_In: "Like I said, you're not the first psychic I've met," she replies. "Do they get a lot of galactic news, on Zhodin?"
(3:38:25 PM) Nex: "...A bit. We didn't have much time for it..." He frowns more deeply... A dark suspicion growing.
(3:40:18 PM) ID_Called_In: "Did you hear about the Hermetic Infection Front's terrorist attacks in Hypercorp space, about eight months back?" She asks, voice still quiet. She's not looking at Nex.
(3:41:16 PM) Nex: "..." A pause. "...Oh. Uh. I'm sorry..."
(3:42:35 PM) ID_Called_In: "Mmm. I was at the corpconvention they picked to be ground zero. My doctor told me I'm noninfectious and I haven't... noticed anything really wierd, so I assumed I escaped the worst of the attack, unlike a lot of people there."
(3:43:43 PM) Nex: "...I can sense enough of it that... You could probably draw power from it. Although you shouldn't. That sort of thing..." He shakes his head. "It's... Wrong."
(3:44:33 PM) ID_Called_In: "How do you mean?" She asks. "I know a lot of people go crazy, and i saw some... crazy things when the attack happened, but..."
(3:45:45 PM) Nex: "It's hard to explain to a- To, uh, non-psychics... We can feel it. It's... Twisted. Unnatural. Wrong." He shakes his head. "...And it's powerful. It might have integrated with any latent potential you had... That sort of thing is why..." He trails off, and looks away.
(3:48:06 PM) ID_Called_In: She frowns a bit, her natural arms crossing over her chest while the other pair fidgets softly, starting to make the bed along with her tail. "Why what? And... do I have a choice? If I've got this bug or whatever, will it start just... doing stuff without me trying?"
(3:49:04 PM) Nex: "N-nothing." He shakes his head. "And... Maybe not." He pauses, and then sighs. "I... I could try to help? If you actually understand it... You'll find it easier to control it, hold it back..."
(3:51:18 PM) ID_Called_In: "I guess?" She shrugs. "It can't hurt, right? I mean, no more than learning how to handle seven prehensile limbs at once. Right?"
(3:51:47 PM) Nex: "Uh... I wouldn't know?" he blushes. "...I don't know a lot of things."
(3:54:38 PM) ID_Called_In: "Can you read other people's memories?" She asks. "I mean, there's not a lot of psychics over in Hypercorporate space, and those that show up usually get snatched up real quick; Eisen-Fae's had a couple but they're always super busy putting out fires, so I don't actually know a lot about what you can and can't do with spooky space magic."
(3:56:09 PM) Nex: "In theory? It's really impolite to do so..."
(3:58:28 PM) ID_Called_In: "Huh, okay. I was going to say you could probably know if you could look at my memories, heh." The girl smirks a bit. "... Should I be really worried? Because... I do have no idea what's going on with it, like I said." She purses her lips. "I don't like the unknown that much."
(3:59:42 PM) Nex: "With memories, it's hard to just look at a particular few... Even if you narrow in the scope, well... You see Everything they thought and experienced. That's not something you should share with most people..." He pauses. "I... I guess you're better off than what I'm used to. Zhodin... We can't afford to take chances, if there's the potential for an outbreak..."
(4:00:11 PM) ID_Called_In: "Quarantine for life?" She guesses. "Probably off-world and airgapped?"
(4:00:30 PM) Nex: "...Uh. No." He looks down.
(4:00:40 PM) ID_Called_In: "... Damn," she says. "That's harsh."
(4:01:17 PM) Nex: "It's necessary... A few generations ago, there was an outbreak in one of the smaller palaces... The family tried to hush it up, but it ended up spreading... The amalgam had to cleanse the entire region."
(4:02:36 PM) ID_Called_In: She frowns. "What if they had come out about it instead of trying to hide it? Self-exiled themselves or something?"
(4:04:14 PM) Nex: "...You have to understand. We live on a world with a universal psychic network. It's Everywhere... And it's not possible to exclude someone from it. If an infected psychic exists, they can connect to the network, which links them to everyone nearby them... If the Amalgam hadn't the whole world might have been overcome. When we discover an infection, it's already too late to try and figure
(4:04:14 PM) Nex: out exactly how bad it is."
(4:06:27 PM) ID_Called_In: "I guess it's something like someone's implants getting a virus on the corporate intranet, except you can take out someone's implants," she murmurs.
(4:06:36 PM) ID_Called_In: "It's half a lobotomy most of the time, but you can do it."
(4:07:38 PM) Nex: "...I don't really understand that kind of thing. But that's what you have, right? Machines in your body?"
(4:10:59 PM) ID_Called_In: "Yeah," she says, holding up one of her lwoer arms. "Not every hypercorp goes into it, but at Eisen-Fae we believe in taking the sapient body to the next level. I can communicate wirelessly with any computer system that lets me, among other things, physical and mental. I've had to go back to baseline once in my life so far and it was *awful*, I don't see how baseliners--" one gets the feeling
(4:10:59 PM) ID_Called_In: that's a similar slur to blunt--"handle being so... deaf, dumb, blind, and weak. But they do, and some of them can even beat me, so I have to give them respect for that, huh?"
(4:21:22 PM) Nex: "I suppose so... We don't really worry about our bodies much. I mean, what's the use of having a strong arm when..." He gestures, and the entire bed raises off the floor.
(4:22:53 PM) ID_Called_In: "I can kinda see it, but what if something turns your powers off? I know our corp ops have shown a few other hypercorps have been working on anti-psy tech with some success in labs. And besides, most of my augs are mental."
(4:26:09 PM) Nex: "..." He pauses, and frowns. "...Sorry, it's just... It's hard to imagine that. Even Trying it on Zhodin... You'd be going up against the psychic power of the amalgam. What kind of machine could oppose that?"
(4:28:20 PM) ID_Called_In: She shrugs. "A big and powerful one, I'd guess. I dunno, I always try to have a backup plan for my backup plan. The world's hard and cutthroat and if you're not ready for it, you'll suffer for it."
(4:28:49 PM) Nex: "We are what we are... And so far, it's been enough."
(4:29:36 PM) ID_Called_In: "I guess it'll have to be, huh?" She muses. "I'll take you up on those lessons, I guess, if we end up having time for them. I mean, I probably will, I only sleep about two standard hours a night, but..."
(4:30:15 PM) Nex: "...That sucks. Sleep is great."
(4:31:46 PM) ID_Called_In: "It was always pretty nice until the attack, but you just get so much more done when you've got six extra hours in the day, if you ask me."
(4:32:54 PM) Nex: He pauses. "Ohh, right... Other planets aren't contributing their energy to the psychic network while they sleep... Well, for me, it's attuning and absorbing energy From it... You do it while you're awake, too, but when you sleep there's nothing else to do, so..."
(4:33:54 PM) ID_Called_In: "So it's sorta like basking in all the good karma from your people or something?"
(4:34:34 PM) Nex: "It's not... Quite that? It's more just..." He sighs. "It's hard to explain. I haven't been the amalgam for very long... And I think I'm the first one ever to start out as a human."
(4:35:14 PM) ID_Called_In: "What, do they sort of just coalesce out of nothing in a time of great need usually?"
(4:36:53 PM) Nex: "Not a time of great need... Every Amalgam eventually comes to an end. It's part of how they're meant to work. They're born from the people of that era, but while they change over time they do eventually become set in their ways... When an amalgam realises their time is near, they bring together all the power of the world to birth a new one. that happened a few years ago, and then... She
(4:36:53 PM) Nex: was lost..."
(4:37:22 PM) ID_Called_In: Yeka pauses for a moment. "... I'm sorry," she says. "I didn't mean to make light of it..."
(4:39:37 PM) Nex: He sighs. "I try to... I tell myself to just keep going, and be the vessel my people need me to be, to let the power guide me... But it hasn't, yet..."
(4:40:42 PM) ID_Called_In: She frowns. "What if you already are the 'vessel' you need to be? Like, you as the person you are?"
(4:40:55 PM) Nex: "...I'm just me... I was a nobody..."
(4:42:20 PM) ID_Called_In: "Nobody's a nobody," she says with emphasis. "Everyone is important, to someone, for some reason."
(4:43:08 PM) Nex: "Well... I'm not." He sighs. "My family were... Nothing. Not strong psychics, not high bloodlines... We actually had to work to maintain ourselves." ...The way he says that, he almost sounds ashamed of it.
(4:44:17 PM) ID_Called_In: She blinks. Twice. "... What's wrong with working?" she asks. "My parents *made* me work. We're one of the richest families in the galaxy and they made sure I understood I wasn't going to see a centicred of it unless I was willing to work to get it. They weren't about to have a lazy daughter."
(4:47:24 PM) Nex: "...On Zhodin, having to work just means you're lower status. The truly noble never have to lift a finger... Sometimes literally."
(4:49:04 PM) ID_Called_In: "They sound lazy," she says simply. "I mean, sure, having power is great. So is working hard. Doing both has a logarithmic effect on your output, though. Then again, that's a common thing--a lot of my girlfriends back in Hypercorporate space rely on their bodyguards and tutors to help them handle everything. Only a few corps really care to put work ethic in their upper management, and most
(4:49:04 PM) ID_Called_In: of those are mercenary."
(4:50:05 PM) Nex: "I'd... Never really thought about it like that..."
(4:52:04 PM) ID_Called_In: "It makes sense, though, right?" She says. "Think about how hard you work. Now think about how hard you work, and how much furthur that effort can go, with the power you now have."
(4:53:12 PM) Nex: "...I suppose it's just that doing work isn't really seen as a good thing. A necessity, but aside from poor families having to work to get by... All that matters is the Amalgam. If you contribute power to the amalgam, you're doing your part."
(4:54:32 PM) ID_Called_In: She lets out a breath, frowning. "And if something happens to the Amalgam, everything goes to hell," she says. "I dunno. I guess I shouldn't judge another culture, just seems... backwards to me, I dunno." Yeka shrugs. "Anyway, we should probably actually settle in, huh?"
(4:57:36 PM) Nex: "...How do you mean?"
(4:59:54 PM) ID_Called_In: "Well, if we're going to be living together we should get to trust each other, like you said~" She says with a wide grin, taking a step towards him, crossing all four arms under her chest--pulling her already skintight bodysuit tighter.
(5:00:40 PM) Nex: "U-um..." They flush, taking a step backwards... Finding a wall...
(5:03:07 PM) ID_Called_In: "And unfortunately only one of us here has the advantage of being able to *read* minds..." She takes another step, letting her arms drop--then wrapping them around Nex and pulling him into a four-armed hug against her warm body--and then her tail joins in the hug too, just for that extra bit of force. "So I just have to guess what's going in yours about me~"
(5:03:59 PM) Nex: The crimson flush spreads again, and... There it is. He'd been holding himself back from her up till now, containing his emotions, but all that close contact... She's treated to a snapshot of his apparently Very vivid imagination~
(5:04:11 PM) Nex: She feels something like hands stroking all over her body, caressing everywhere...
(5:05:31 PM) ID_Called_In: "Oooh, that's a neat trick, I'll have to learn that~" She says with a laugh--and then he feels the favor returned but with actual hands (plus one tail)... and one prehensile, hand-like foot as she balances on a single one. "Until then, though, it's only fair to return the favor--I wouldn't want to feel like I owe you~"
(5:06:32 PM) Nex: "I- Uh... Um..." His eyes go quite blank... And she can feel a tent forming in that robe, the full body caress continuing with increasing intensity.
(5:08:04 PM) ID_Called_In: "Naughty~" She says with a chuckle--kissign him on the cheek. "But... I should stop being mean like this, and I actually *do* have to unpack all my luggage~" She takes a step back, flushed herself and smiling cheekily.
(5:08:46 PM) Nex: He blushes, jaw flapping a few times... The tent still clearly visible, and implying quite the endowment he has~ "I, uh, I mean, um..."
(5:09:50 PM) ID_Called_In: "Have a good night, Nex~" She says with a laugh, blowing him a kiss and turning to leave with a sway in her hips, enhanced by the exotic gait forced by her prehensile feet and the attention drawn by her curling tail.
(5:10:35 PM) Nex: He groans a little... Rushing to close the door before anyone notices, before trying to sleep more... When Yeka goes to bed as well, she'll find herself having Very vivid dreams... An unintended psionic link giving her quite the show~
(5:13:13 PM) ID_Called_In: She's a clever girl--making use of that to send a few images back, perhaps on instinct, perhaps a fast study. Either way, Nex has to deal with his own issues~