Asshole telepath protection racket

[telepathicignorance]

Type: Text
Sender ID: 🖕nunya🖕 (Sidestep)
To: Public
Subject: Lessons
Warnings: Mind reading, swearing, mouthiness? Will warn if things get worse in individual threads.


I guess the cat's basically out of the bag at this point anyway: Does anyone want lessons on how to shield your mind from telepathic intrusion?

Free for people I like or have to work with regularly. 100 dubloons for everyone else.

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[telepathicignorance]

I'm not charging people I have to actually be around.

(This includes Kaveh under the category of coworker.

...He's not wrong that they're being a selfish ass but the services are legit and free to people who need protection from Chris specifically.)

And I'm not the only telepath here.

(Not that they'll rat the identities of any of the current telepaths.)

[empyrean_mirror]

[Kaveh is still under the impression Chris needs protection from other people, but he's not gonna just say that.]

...See, when you say that, I start to worry my Archon showed up and we didn't know about it.

[telepathicignorance]

(They would be so offended. He's so right.)

Not anyone from your world.

Is that who your husband was comparing me to? (Oh hey, note the lack of "stupid" in front of the word husband! That's a big change, even if Kaveh wouldn't necessarily have been around Chris enough to realize it.)

[empyrean_mirror]

Is that what happened...? Probably, yes. She'd have announced herself if she was here, though. Nahida's fascinated by technology.

[A pause, and Kaveh remembers Chris probably can't read his mind over the network, since, well, Kaveh's at home.]

She's a god. And as far as I'm aware, the Dendro Archon is the only person in Teyvat who can read minds.

[telepathicignorance]

He didn't believe me when I told him he thinks too loud to easily block out because he was comparing us in his mind.

I'm not a god.

(Does the offense and bitterness at that thought come through the text?)

[empyrean_mirror]

Of course not. Most people aren't. But she's the only other telepath either of us would know, and he works directly with her, of course he thought of her first.

I'm going to be mortified about what he was thinking so loudly, aren't I?

[telepathicignorance]

You should probably be mortified he assumed he knew everything from a sample size of one.

(...One of their friends at home was a mad scientist.)

Yeah I could do without knowing what you look like naked. (They want to phrase it in an even more embarrassing way, but they are now dying of their own embarrassment.

...Nevermind that wasn't what he was thinking about when the fight started. The sex thoughts were from earlier in the chess match.)

[empyrean_mirror]

I'm not responsible for his research methods and I'll not have this put on me.

[Well now he needs to die of mortification.]

Cool, is there any way to give you highly specific amnesia so neither of us need to know you know that?

[telepathicignorance]

I'm not letting anyone wipe me.

(The response is immediate. Fastest text they've sent. Not even taking the opportunity to call Alhaitham's research methods terrible.)

[empyrean_mirror]

Wipe? Unless that is what they call gin in your world, not the plan?

[telepathicignorance]

(Okay that's better, but...)

Haven't had alcohol in nearly a decade, actually.

[empyrean_mirror]

So maybe we start with something easier than hard liquor, then. Not that I think we have much, SOMEONE thinks I drink too much and keeps a tight grip on what we have in the house.

[Kaveh the last time you got drunk no one had to be telepathic to see way too much of Alhaitham.]

[telepathicignorance]

(Wait. When did this turn into drinking at his house? No.)

You really think allowing me near anything that would lessen my ability to control myself is a good idea?

(They know what happens when they sleep.)

[empyrean_mirror]

[It is not drinking at Kaveh's house. It is Kaveh bringing booze to the conservatory because like HELL he is taking Chris to a bar.]

...Well, no, I just hoped the way alcohol fogs the mind would muffle things. If it doesn't that's no good.

[telepathicignorance]

To be honest, I'm not sure. Things weren't this bad the last time I drank.