It's a good season if we don't have a near-apocalypse situation actually. Earth's prone to them. My Earth. And if you want a meddling god, you should meet Loki.
[And that's possible here.]
Oh, we enjoy it? I hadn't noticed. I'll be on the watch for the word now.
[He sips his own tea, the same brew, and has to chuckle at that reason for it.]
Well, I'm 'blessed' in multiple ways. First, I gain knowledge by touch. This falls into two different categories. Psychometry which lets me know the history of objects I touch. Doesn't work on living things, though it does work on formerly living things. I actually made a career of it, in the last world. I got talked into doing this show about the 'secret history of antiques' for television. People would contact my producers and tell us about this thing they owned or acquired, and we'd talk about the history from research, and then I'd handle it to tell them other things involved with it. Then the research team told them more based on what I found if they could. I could also give certificates that verified the history which often made things more valuable.
[As a demonstration he runs his fingers over the plate the scones are on. He's quiet for a moment, eyes closed as he sorts out what he's learning.]
This plate, for instance, has been used here for what I'd estimate is a year and a half. The most common food on it involves cinnamon, it remembers cinnamon, so I'm guessing their cinnamon rolls are very popular here.
[Then he pulls his fingers back and lays his hand on his own leg.]
I can also touch a person to learn things. That's psychomimetry. What happens is my mind makes a copy of their knowledge and skills. That's... easily abused. It's based on what I can do back home, but there I just pick up anything from the minds within a ten foot sphere of me. I don't get to keep the stuff here either. One minute per second, up to two hours. And I still have to organize it in my head. And I only know what they know, which means I don't know if it's right, or incomplete, or even useful. Anyone I touch, I get what they know, but not just what they learned. The things they know deeper than that. The things they know without thinking. The way they tie their shoes or sign their name. Any detail about their favorite show or play when they were a kid that they remember. Anything they memorized or studied.
[He even smiled then.]
How they like to be touched, or kissed, or their favorite meal. It's a form of telepathy. But it also lets me have their skills. Say you're a champion darts player, well, now I am too.
Back home this causes me to be known as 'the smartest man in the room'. I'm a doctor in multiple ways, I'm an engineer, I'm a ballet dancer, I'm a chef. There's so many things this has made me. I used to hate it actually. Because I hadn't earned any of it. I've learned, since, that I can take it all and blend it together and make things that people never consider.
[David was smiling softly down at his own hand. Over the years he'd learned to take pride in what he is.]
And those are the two knowing powers I have. Then there's the technopathy and the energy projection.
no subject
[And that's possible here.]
Oh, we enjoy it? I hadn't noticed. I'll be on the watch for the word now.
[He sips his own tea, the same brew, and has to chuckle at that reason for it.]
Well, I'm 'blessed' in multiple ways. First, I gain knowledge by touch. This falls into two different categories. Psychometry which lets me know the history of objects I touch. Doesn't work on living things, though it does work on formerly living things. I actually made a career of it, in the last world. I got talked into doing this show about the 'secret history of antiques' for television. People would contact my producers and tell us about this thing they owned or acquired, and we'd talk about the history from research, and then I'd handle it to tell them other things involved with it. Then the research team told them more based on what I found if they could. I could also give certificates that verified the history which often made things more valuable.
[As a demonstration he runs his fingers over the plate the scones are on. He's quiet for a moment, eyes closed as he sorts out what he's learning.]
This plate, for instance, has been used here for what I'd estimate is a year and a half. The most common food on it involves cinnamon, it remembers cinnamon, so I'm guessing their cinnamon rolls are very popular here.
[Then he pulls his fingers back and lays his hand on his own leg.]
I can also touch a person to learn things. That's psychomimetry. What happens is my mind makes a copy of their knowledge and skills. That's... easily abused. It's based on what I can do back home, but there I just pick up anything from the minds within a ten foot sphere of me. I don't get to keep the stuff here either. One minute per second, up to two hours. And I still have to organize it in my head. And I only know what they know, which means I don't know if it's right, or incomplete, or even useful. Anyone I touch, I get what they know, but not just what they learned. The things they know deeper than that. The things they know without thinking. The way they tie their shoes or sign their name. Any detail about their favorite show or play when they were a kid that they remember. Anything they memorized or studied.
[He even smiled then.]
How they like to be touched, or kissed, or their favorite meal. It's a form of telepathy. But it also lets me have their skills. Say you're a champion darts player, well, now I am too.
Back home this causes me to be known as 'the smartest man in the room'. I'm a doctor in multiple ways, I'm an engineer, I'm a ballet dancer, I'm a chef. There's so many things this has made me. I used to hate it actually. Because I hadn't earned any of it. I've learned, since, that I can take it all and blend it together and make things that people never consider.
[David was smiling softly down at his own hand. Over the years he'd learned to take pride in what he is.]
And those are the two knowing powers I have. Then there's the technopathy and the energy projection.