revivalproject | Video [Not-Temba Information Sharing]

[Good evening Temba! Tommy's back from another day in Not-Temba and on this video looking tired but thoughtful.]

Hey, sorry to bug people, but hoping I could get someone who was on the Adventure to Save the Agrii who might have gone to Not-Temba to tell me I'm crazy. Just...

I spent a lot of time in the greenhouse cataloging food and there was this one plant in particular that was SUPER bothering me. Because I knew I'd eaten some of it before, but not here. Couldn't remember what or why for the longest time. It was this stalk, not unlike a really tall piece of celery or something, and when I bit into it, the stuff tasted like buttered corn. Finally figured out where I'd had it before.

Not just that either. I think there might be Boar-bunnies in the forest. Don't quote me on it, but after you spend time hauling one back to a village to trade for meat, you sorta get a LONG look at those hooves.

Those two things put together means something very specific to me. Guys, someone tell me I'm just imagining things? Or don't and explain it. Because the two things are something I only encountered in one place before: the Graq homeworld. And the Agrii CLEARLY didn't know the Graq and it seemed like the reverse was true. So how am I running into that shit here?

[Not that he likes the idea of the reverse. If he's going mad, if he's gotten that family quirk going on, he's going to have a whole other mess of issues. And that is its own form of stress. But if what he saw was real, he has no ideas and that's freaking him out.]

I guess, what the FUCK is going on here?

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Pray you never have to.

[Wait, what?]

You mean Beady, right? His little cool as droid scans?

...BD is cool, but no, I meant Cal.

Sometimes he sees bits of the past when he touches things.

Dude's Psychometric? Wow, that's fucking awesome.

New word for me, but hey, new words are always good.

I can sometimes pick up general moods associated with a place or an object - there's a room at the temple at feels...really happy, to all four of us? But Cal's gift is rarer.

He's psychometric, you're empathic, what's the others got under their robes?

[Space monks are apparently all forms of telepaths, who knew?]

There's lot of things we can do a little bit.

Like, yeah, empathy is probably my strongest gift, but most Force sensitives can pick up really strong emotions.

[Yeah, he really doesn't like all you Space Monks getting into his mind and emotions now that he knwos it. It makes him feel awkward.]

And you guys just do this whnever?

[Dryly, because he definitely remembers Tommy trying to tell Richie and Eddie what they were feeling at the town meeting, and very loudly-] Do you see us going around announcing what other people are feeling all the time?

I'm not trying to pick up anything off anyone most of the time, but that doesn't mean I can always help it, either.

[Dude, those guys NEEDED a push. Don't tell him they didn't. The whole get a roomyness of them was just insane.]

Maybe among yourselves. I don't know. Back home it's not unheard of.

[He shrugs.]

I'm not sure what you want me say.

There's a lot of us here with rare abilities that could do a lot of harm and as far as I can tell we're all generally trying not to hurt each other.

I just need you to say you try. Which you did. Doesn't mean I'm ever going to be comfortable with them.

[He's had a telepath in his head, shaping his feelings whether he wanted them or not. So yeah, never going to really be comfortable with that.]

Ok. Understood.

[Comparing that attitude to how defensive of Billy Tommy is, is...interesting. Well, he'd already had some idea that Tommy sense of self involved some pretty stark contradictions. He's not trying to judge.]

[Oh all the contradictions that made up Tommy. It was impressive. Someone should write a book.]

Thanks. Just, you know, dont' mention it.

[No Tommy, he does not know. But he's trying to be a good neighbor, so rather than signing off in confusion-]

Wait. What should I not mention?

What's going on in my emotions. If you pick up on them. Like... You can't help what you can do. And if you can help not actively prying, that's cool. Just don't, yanno, come up to me when I'm angry inside but smiling outside and ask why I'm angry or some shit?

Internal stuff has a right to stay internal. Sure, you can feel it, you can't help that you can feel it. But you can help not acting on some of it I think.

[Which of course is probably something Ezra would already do. But the reassurance is nice.]

Right. Sometimes I ask people if they're ok, because like, that opens the door to letting stuff out, if they want to do that.

But I can...not do that, if you want.

[Ezra, he doesn't like to talk to ANYONE when he's upset, especially not people he didn't actively approach. So it wasn't that out there for him to say that.]

I'd prefer that. I just don't like people in my head.

[He remembers having no one to talk to, and then refusing to talk to open up to any of the Spectres, at first. And then withdrawing again for a while when he was dabbling with the Darkside. It's not how he likes to be.

But he's not Tommy. He just nods.]

I'll keep that in mind. Thank you for telling me.

[Tommy and openness aren't really something that happens a lot. Not for anyone or anything when he can help it. So it's probably better not to assume anything from him.]

Yeah. Just how it goes.

Whatever works for you.

And hey, I'm glad you raised what was bothering you about what been found in the other city. I knew stuff felt weirdly different there.

It's definitely weirdly different. I was just worried that I was crazy.

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