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Whenever I saw well-dressed people going door-to-door in my neighborhood, I would wait by the door with a book from my library . . . . . . it is strange how they were always in a hurry to be someplace else.

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Ah, well… at least Alex has something by which to remember Cloud’s kindness. While at a recent wedding reception, I realized that we Humans have a similar custom to the Diral-Seii -- The Toast. Think about it … we consume small amounts of poison (ethyl alcohol) to ensure the good fortunes of the one...

What do you call a Loroi with three eyes?

Contamination? In “Perrein” natural spring water?

How could they tell?

(“Low tide”, indeed! “Foul” and “Sure toxic”, too!)

I envy you for your talent!

(. . . but shouldn't the two Mizol be sharing some "Perrien Sparkling Natural Spring Water"?)

 
I really hate to think that Cloud would have ended up as a brain-in-a-box just to support the Umiak war effort against her will.

GURPS Psionics has a chapter that leads off with a graphic description of the "boxing" process.

. . . Chemical rockets won't do the job, so shuttles will need some kind of nuclear/electric powered "cold plasma thrusters" to get most things into orbit. Some will be SSTO's, and others will use multiple stages. A lot of starship components will be manufactured on the ground and assembled in orbi...

Two more possibilities have come to mind: 1. In trying to develop pharma that will diminish the symptoms of jump sickness, the Umiak may have stumbled upon a chemical substance that temporarily prevents their minds from being telepathically detected (as a side-effect). 2. On a related matter, the Lo...

Page 19. Got it. Thanks!

@ARIOCH: ↑ Thank you. On another matter, the "Kinetic Force and Damage by Psychokinetic Power Rating" table on the  "Forum Digest: Psychokinesis"  page is discontinuous and seems to be otherwise non-linear, as well.  I have tried to plot out the data on a graph to determine how the values may have ...

 
@ARIOCH:

Q1. Is it possible for "Seers" to have telekinetic ability?

Q2. Are "Seers" able to send thoughts, or do they need a Mizol to relay their findings?

  @ARIOCH: You have said that the seii is " most often a wood or bone dagger "; but what if it is something else? Like, maybe a hand-made comb . . . does the comb that Cloud gave Alex have any signs of damage from heat or fire? Did Cloud pass this " seii " to Alex to " salvage the essence of her gro...

Merch!

So whatever the Klik-kliks have, it is either a sanzai-resistant species, some form of sanzai-resistant technology (likely Soia-Liron), or some blending thereof. In any case, it is likely something they do not fully understand.

@ARIOCH: Relatively speaking, how easy is for a Farseer to detect an Umiak Mind from several AU away? How adversely does post-jump disorientation experienced by the Umiak affect detection? Do the Umiak have mind-numbing drugs to help them mitigate jump sickness? Does close proximity to a white dwar...

Okay, I think we talked past each other there. Has Spiral always bee of the Tenoin caste?

My manually-scraped data seems to lend affirmation, but something you posted earlier seemed to imply otherwise.

@ARIOCH: Are you implying that Spiral was given a field promotion from Soroin Paset to Tenoin Narrat?  Would such a field promotion be any less legitimate than Alex's "field promotion" to Plenipotentiary Ambassador?  Am I even making sense here?

(. . . 3 hours sleep . . . no coffee . . .)

@ARIOCH: How old is Tenoin Narrat Nonnos (Spiral)?  There are few hints (such as Talon being older than average diral age at graduation).

I would like to draw attention to the caste thing going on in the background. Cloud has been treated as a nonperson for the entire story. . . [opinion=mine] I see it more as a "rank thing" than a caste thing.  Soroin pasets are at the bottom of the rank structure no matter which other caste is invo...