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Asshole telepath protection racket

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Sender ID: 🖕nunya🖕 (Sidestep)
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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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Was that your choice or someone else's for you?

I could have gone to college.

(Plenty of schools that don't need high school degrees or even a GED out in the FEZ.

They're not actually answering the question, but it might be gathered that going to school as a kid wasn't an option.

...They were never a kid.)

Edited 2025-09-10 05:30 (UTC)

Did you just not want to? I couldn't have, but I don't know if I'd have wanted to. I've never been good with places like that.

Don't need to.

Because of your telepathy?

Because I can find work without it.

(As far as they're concerned, libraries and internet exist for actual learning, so why else would you need a degree?)

That's true. I don't think they have degrees in protecting people from telepathy.

Unless they do in your world.

Do they?

No, that's generally something people get trained on as part of their job.

What kind of jobs are those?

Corporate stuff? Or other jobs where you might be working with sensitive information.

(This is ...a lot of questions. Another telepath? Or curious about them for some other reason?)

Maybe they should just try wearing a tinfoil hat. That's what my friend Karl does to block it out.

(Somewhere they're laughing.)

Have you told Karl that's a dumb myth?

I think it works for him. But maybe if he shows up here you can tell him! His name is Karl

That sounds more like he has a power.

(Or like telepaths from this person's world specifically are blocked by tinfoil hats for some reason.)

You also a telepath?

Maybe! But I like to think it's the hat.

Maybe I'll make one here and try it out. Does tinfoil exist here?

Haven't seen any. Could ask someone if they can make some, I guess.

(Not answering. They'll note that as a "probably".)

If I make one I'll make one for you too!

Alright.

(They say because they're not sure how to respond to that.)

Don't worry, you'll love it!

I'll take your word for it.

(They're sure they won't. ~~It will end up stashed away with all the other comfort objects they refuse to let themself enjoy.~~)