guilty as charged, tuesday afternoon

[necroslacker]

Sam was doing inventory today. That meant hauling boxes of supplies out of the back room and dumping them in the aisles of the store so he could take them out, price them and put them on the shelves. He'd started working up a good sweat but it had to be done and he was gonna get it done today.

Stark Industries, Tuesday, July 17

[ultron_junior]

It had only been two weeks since Victor was in the shop, but somehow it felt much longer. He kept checking through the supplies to see what had changed.

Once he was relatively certain nothing much had, he tuned the store's sound system to a Spanish-language radio station that reminded him of home and started flicking through a couple camera instruction manuals online. It might come in handy if he ever got asked to repair one.

[OOC: Open and slightly boring repair shop is open and slightly boring!]

The Arms Hotel Lobby, Tuesday

[montecito-east.livejournal.com]

Even with the air conditioning going full blast, the lobby felt like the inside of a furnace. Mary had pulled her hair back, brought out a whole bunch of fans to put out at the front desk, and wore her skimpiest most air-conditioned outfit.

Welcome to the Arms Hotel
Today's Specials
Cold Sesame Noodles with Summer Vegetables
Chilled Mango and Cucumber Soup
Frozen Lemon Gingersnap Pie

[Open! The OCD has melted.]

Class: Psionics for the Headblind Herd, The Community Center, Tuesday Evening

[icecoldfrost]

"Telepathy," Emma began, "--is the supposed transmission of information from one person to another without using any of scientifically known sensory channels or physical interaction. The term was coined in 1882 by the classical scholar Frederic W. H. Myers, a founder of the Society for Psychical Research, and has remained more popular than the earlier expression thought-transference."

"According to Roger Luckhurst, the origin of the concept of telepathy in the Western civilization can be tracked to the late 19th century. As the physical sciences made significant advances, scientific concepts were applied to mental phenomena, with the hope that this would help understand paranormal phenomena. The modern concept of telepathy emerged in this historical context."

The notion of telepathy is not dissimilar to two psychological concepts: delusions of thought insertion/removal and psychological symbiosis. This similarity might explain how some people have come up with the idea of telepathy. Thought insertion/removal is a symptom of psychosis, particularly of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. Psychiatric patients who experience this symptom falsely believe that some of their thoughts are not their own and that others are putting thoughts into their minds. Some patients feel as if thoughts are being taken out of their minds or deleted. Along with other symptoms of psychosis, delusions of thought insertion may be reduced by anti-psychotic medication." Emma stopped talking for a moment to Look at the class. "First person to mention -- or think -- that I could use anti-psychotics gets to think they're a kiwi for a week."

"Within the field of parapsychology, telepathy is considered to be a form of extra-sensory perception, known as ESP, or anomalous cognition in which information is transferred through Psi. It is often categorized similarly to precognition and clairvoyance. Various experiments have been used to test for telepathic abilities. Among the most well known are the use of Zener cards and the Ganzfeld experiment."

"I am what is known as a mutant, thanks to a shift in my x-gene. My primary gift, as I mentioned earlier, is telepathy. It's a skill with a wide-range of uses, depending on how powerful you are. For instance, I have a near-photographic memory, can carry on multiple conversations at once telepathically, sort input, 'download' knowledge - such as languages - from someone's mind, act as a telepathic switchboard to keep non-telepaths in contact, occasional accidental dreamwalking, locate someone I know cross-country, make someone think they are someone or something they're not, and as I seem to have a particular affinity for the central nervous system - impulses sent from the brain, you know - I can cause pain or blunt it."

"So today, you get to test your own telepathic talents." Emma leaned over to turn on three CD players, creating a cacophony of sound. "This is what it sounds like in my head. Now, pair up, grab some zener cards, and see if you've got a drop of talent."

Caritas- Tuesday

[throughaphase]

One moment, Kitty had been a content little lion cub, playing with a cocktail straw she'd found on the ground of the bar, and the next...

Well, let's just say that a moment after that moment, there was a flash of mutant taking off towards the office and a stream of "Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god," before she disappeared through the closed door.

A few moments after that, Kitty emerged from the office, mortified but at least clothed (thank you, spare set of clothes for spill emergencies!) and trying to ignore the smirk on Tino's face.