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[predestinarianism]

Hello, everyone. It looks like I'm not the only person just now becoming aware of this... forum, for lack of a better word. I've already read through the FAQ, but while I admire the dedication of those maintaining it, I still have a few questions:

• Is there any meaningful distinction between using "pulses" and "echoes" to describe the memories (or other things, I'm lead to believe) that we receive? Is one preferred over the other, or is it a matter of personal preference? Do they carry different connotations?
• I've seen numerous references to aliens in multiple recent posts that I haven't found explained in the FAQ. Could someone kindly summarize?
• It sounds like people who don't receive pulses/echoes can't access or sense this network. If I were to access it by writing on a piece of paper, say, and I left that paper lying around somewhere, what would my parents see? What if they look at my screen as I'm typing on it? I'd rather not take unnecessary risks, particularly as I'd like to keep my involvement as minimal as possible.

Thank you in advance.

Comments

[moarnomsplz]

[Alex is grateful she at least sugar-coated it a little, but more than that, he's relieved someone at school will know the truth.]

Yeah. The repeating-ing thing was, like, the second pulse I got.

Do you have anything inn, interesting so far?

[predestinarianism]

[and the first thing she thinks about is how terrible that would be, because it would interfere with school presentations and people probably wouldn't want to put up with listening to her; yes, Evelyn, this is obviously all about you]

I'm not positive yet, but I think I might've lived in a castle. I'm not sure what era, yet, I haven't had time to look into the architecture.

Do you have any idea why you'd start doing something like that? Related to your past life, or whatever it is?

[moarnomsplz]

[With anyone else, Alex would probably ask if she could really know the time period just from the castle architecture, but this is Evelyn. Of course she would know.]

I didn't at first, fur-stuh, but then I remembered other-me's real body--he was an alien. And he could turn human, but he wasn't used to having-ing a mouth.

Do you think you were, like, roy, royalty?

[predestinarianism]

[Well that's an... appropriately bizarre answer.]

So having a mouth for the first time made him start stuttering? Or is that just how his species communicates? The latter seems more reasonable to me.

[yes Evelyn please continue to tell people what their past lives should've been]

I don't want to make any assumptions. [aka yes]

[moarnomsplz]

They use something-ing like telepathy to talk. I got a pulse that I think was the first time he shape-shifted to human, and he was all surprised by how it felt to make sound-zuh to talk.

[predestinarianism]

Does that mean you'll be getting telepathy yourself?

I hope it waits until after the SATs. Please don't call the integrity of the test scores into question.

[moarnomsplz]

That's the first thing you're worried, ree-duh, about?

I can't do it yet, and anyway, I don't think it works like that. [He's tried, just to see if he could.] It was more like using walkie-talkies, kee-zuh, than like reading minds.

[predestinarianism]

Yes. I intend to go about my life as much as possible.

That's encouraging to know, though.

[moarnomsplz]

No offense, fenn-suh, intended, I was just surprised.

[In retrospect, though, it totally fits with what he knows about her.]

And school was, like, one of the last things, ing-zuh, I thought about when weird stuff started happening.

[predestinarianism]

In all fairness, your changes seem to be a lot more drastic than mine.

[this is meant to be encouraging! because clearly he must be down about not thinking about school and needs some cheering up]

[moarnomsplz]

It take-zuh time, too. The first pulse peep, people get always seems to give them their network number, and after that, it kind of depends on what you do. Investigating anything-ing weird has a pretty high chance of giving you a pulse. And I've been on the network for months now.

[predestinarianism]

Weird things? Like what, the earthquake? The little creatures the FAQ mentioned?

[moarnomsplz]

Yeah! Or the buzzing, zing-guh, at Tuning Towers, or those pink lights peep, people see in the sky sometimes.