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Scanner's Pillow Fort; 'No Wildcardz Allowed!'
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Topic Started: Jun 22 2013, 07:19 PM (350 Views)
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Jun 22 2013, 07:19 PM
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Post By: TextLikeAnEgyptian Post Date: XXXX-XX-XX at 4:47
So, joking thread titles aside? I actually have a question for them.
Seems there's a lot of scanner-types around, and I was wondering. How do you interpret all that data your other self feeds you?
For me? I get purely visual data. Like glowing 2D pixelated hieroglyphs, superimposed over what I'm looking at.
Somehow I just understand that 'HAWK-SNAKE-EYE-HAWK-GUY WITH ANKH-EYE-SNAKE' is the name of a Shadow, or something. In fact? That's why my username here is as it is. Results not typical, right?
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Jun 22 2013, 07:39 PM
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Post by: UncleLono Date: XXXX-XX-XX at 5:11
Not in my experience, no. I'm an almost pure scanner -- I don't really have many other skills outside of armored form -- and it isn't even text based for me. At least not primarily.
Honestly, my own experience is kind of hard to describe. My brain's only wired for the natural senses -- the dozen or so however many that science says we have, and I'm not talking about psychic powers -- but I've got about half as many more to work with and it gets confused.
I can always interpret what the sensations mean, but that doesn't mean the sensations themselves make any kind of sense. They just sort of plug through the senses I've got and kind of blindside me with meaning.
When I talk to someone, I know exactly how much change is in their pocket, and I can read off to them the dates printed on the coins. This comes to me like the smell of rotten cabbage. The presence of a hostile shadow approaching me from behind, off to the left and about twenty meters away comes into my mind like the sensation of touching a doorknob after you've built up a static charge. The fact that you can cast dia might come to me like the taste of charcoal or caramel or salt. It's not always consistent, but somehow it's always clear and obvious what it means, even if it's wildly different sensations.
Some things do make sense, though. I can see other people's personae if I squint a bit. They look like a shadow -- a literal shadow, not a monster shadow -- before the person wakes up. They have a resonance to them: each one seems to have an emotion that it evokes, and from this I can tell their arcanum. Magician is pride. Chariot is exhilaration. Hanged Man is that feeling you get when there's a word on the tip of your tongue and you can never think of what it is. Death is a mixture of nausea and catharsis.
Sometimes Shadows have this, too. The Reaper has always been the same thing: The feeling of intense -- almost painful -- hunger and intense depression, combined with a very low-pitched noise, so deep you can feel it in your molars.
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Jun 22 2013, 07:40 PM
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
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Post By: WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes Date: XX-XX-XXXX at 5:13
I can't really scan Shadows or Persona-users like all of you guys can (._. )
But I can... ...sense where Shadows and Persona-users are if they're close to me~!
I guess I think of them like blips on a radar? Sort of like a Soliton Radar, kinda. Good for getting the drop on monster things and not having the drop dropped on me~
Kind of wish I could do all the things you guys can, though. (¬、¬)
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Jun 22 2013, 07:45 PM
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Post By: MythosObserver Date: XXXX-XX-XX at 5:20
My Persona's scanning skill is based on the writings of Freud. Specifically, dream interpretation. I could give you some dreamy explanation about how it's all vague and not easy to understand, much like actual dreams, but I think I will give you the truth.
It's tits and asses. It's all a morse code of tits and asses. Sometimes it overlaps with penises and odd fragments about how I want to fuck my mother. It's all very confusing.
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Jun 22 2013, 08:09 PM
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From: TextLikeAnEgyptian Date: XXXX-XX-XX at 5:25
@ UncleLono - That sounds incredible, both for good and ill. If you can't just turn that 'off' that would just be beyond inconvenient.
@ WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes - Well, it's good for forewarning, but I guess you should be careful when you find what you're looking for, then.
@ MythosObserver - Huh, okay then I thought seeing a dead language was something. But old psychiatry terms that's…wow.
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Jun 22 2013, 08:16 PM
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
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From: ImALighthouse Date: XX-XX-XXXX at 5:27
@ MythosObserver
...I kind of almost wish my scanning power were that interesting. |−・;)
For my part, everything is very simple and clear-cut: information filters into my mind and reads like a card. Usually I see something like a Tarot card, with the Arcana written at the bottom and the name of the Persona or Shadow at the top, and somehow the image on the card communicates to me what their weaknesses or resistances are. I can't tell what abilities a Persona or Shadow actually has, though. Perhaps I shall gain that later, when I'm more powerful?
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Jun 22 2013, 08:19 PM
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Post by: UncleLono Date: XXXX-XX-XX at 5:31
It doesn't. Sometimes it filters into my dreams.
Before I ascended, it had an off switch. At the moment, I just have to use various techniques to manage the flow of information.
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Jun 23 2013, 08:48 AM
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Post By: LaPucelle Date: XX-XX-XXXX at 5:46
My Persona's scanning skill is a little plain, no fancy thing and no visual data. I just have to look at my target or focus my attention to my target, and all data required will appear straight into my head. But I do think that I can scan inanimate objects like machines or computer, and theoretically, I may be able to use it to hack a computer, but sadly my knowledge in computer is quite limited.
And I don't think my brain can psychically hack a computer without burning out first. I may even turn into a vegetable if I force myself to do that.
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Jan 10 2017, 05:29 PM
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Post By:Vespa Date: XX-XX-XXXX at 20:08
Huh, I guess it was a silly notion to presume that second sight would manifest the same for all users... I know it's bad-form to necro a thread, but this is the only thing of my awakening that I feel comfortable exploring with a reasonable degree of security.
So as not to break tradition: Scanning for me is weird and seems to involve stepping out of myself in order to experience the world albeit as someone who's suddenly developed synesthesia. I can 'touch' and hear things with my sight, and I can taste/smell what I touch -and no- I don't get to pick which senses get bundled up.
What I have learned is what the things in the ruins 'feel' like, suffice to say that by the time one of those creatures manifests, I've known them in more ways than one should ever feel comfortable doing in any reasonable lifetime.
I don't know what I'm hoping to accomplish but, if any of you guys are still monitoring this thread.... I need help; this may be pointless given how differently you each seem to experience your second sight, but if there are any sort of techniques to help handle the flow of information, I'd like to know. Else I'm afraid this is more a curious distraction that may get me killed the next time I decide to go down there.
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Jan 10 2017, 08:57 PM
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Post by: lunatsuki1993 Date: XX-04-2014 at 20:15
well wont you look at this first time I open this forum and the first thing I see is someone necroposting on a thread oh well, this is p convenient to me neways .w.
first time poster here and i guess i'm also a scanner??? I get all of this info on the shadows when i have my persona out and sometimes when she isnt out too theres stuff like weaknesses and resistances and names and all that good stuff but for me the info manifests in two ways
1st i can physically see stuff on people and shadows, sort of like a videogame if it makes sense??? like theres some clear menus n stuf and the menus have words written on them but the deal is that the squares of the text "boxes" arent really stable and seem to be constantly shifting, and also the text inside the boxes makes no sense at all??? its literally all gibberish. some of the symbols in there arent even letters BUT it still makes perfect sense to me. I dont even need to look at the actual squares 2 get the info, i just know its there, like it's sent to my mind automatically
and 2nd i can sorta... feel things. like i can sense the presence of other persona users and also shadows but they feel different and i cant really explain how they feel? weird shit. v useful tho
also @ dude above me: i dont rlly know if theres a way to control the info but i know it can feel overwhelming at first. it happened 2 me, had to sit down for a bit aftr awakening. i got used to it,maybe it will happen 2 u too, anyways im rooting for u!! ^w^
oh yea if any established scanners could come here nd say if the stuf we have is normal or not itd be rlly useful .w. thx!
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